Musicians Not Worried About P2P
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The music business has been aggressive in fighting peer-to-peer file sharing over the Internet, but most musicians do not think illegal file sharing hurts them, according to a recent survey.
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A second U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday that the recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify music downloaders under a disputed copyright law.
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Businesses that think their employees aren&#39;t using IM or some type of peer-to-peer file sharing application may be living in ignorant bliss.
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The Supreme Court declines to hear the music industry's appeal of a case that forbade it from trying to force phone and internet companies from turning over the names of people suspected of copyright infringement over peer-to-peer networks. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C.
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Objections to proposed open-access rules on parts of the 700MHz spectrum are of less concern.
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People who received MP3 players as holiday gifts may want to steer clear of some Web sites that claim to offer legal music but don&#39;t have licensing agreements with major music labels, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said.
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Skip those large music companies that don't care about your music. Doing it yourself is easier and more affordable than ever.
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Contrary to messages from the music industry, not all file sharing rips off artists. Weed, a peer-to-peer file sharing program, provides a way for people to share music and pay artists. By Katie Dean.
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The distributor of file-swapping giant Kazaa welcomed a U.S. court's ruling that two of its rivals are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works shared online by their users.
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The tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.
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Apple and EMI's agreement to offer DRM-free music tracks is unlikely to be threatened by the record label's changing ownership. In fact, say some analysts, the choice may have been a demonstration to potential investors of the company's forward-thinking ways.
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Apple declines to explain why its new DRM-free music files are watermarked with users' names and e-mail addresses.
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A new study finds that artists and musicians love the internet, using it to promote themselves and their work. But they are divided on whether illegal file sharing helps or hurts them. By Katie Dean.
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ISP Tele2 says it's not a weapon in the music industry's war against copyright violations.
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com. While recording and film industry interests have hammered away at the sharing of music and videos files over the Internet, the creative artists who actually produce the content welcome the Internet
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(InfoWorld) - The music industry claimed another legal victory in its battle against illegal file sharing in Europe on Friday, but the win may not last long. Seven servers that were part of theÂ eDonkey file-sharing networkÂ were shut down this week in Germany after a court granted injunctions, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a recording industry trade group. The servers in Germany were responsible for maintaining an index of shared files on people's computers using the eDonkeyÂ p-to-p (peer-to-peer) network. Although the servers do not store the actual files, the servers are integral for searching on the network. That action, as well as other recent shutdowns of eDonkey servers in the Netherlands and France, has disabled use of the network to one million users, about a third of the total number of users, IFPI claimed. But research analyst Jonathan Arber of Ovum said more servers are likely to pop up to replace shuttered ones. Legal actions against eDonkey users now are "kind of like shutting the gate a few years after the horse has bolted," he said. The bigger threat to eDonkey may be losing users toÂ BitTorrent, which is currently the most popular P-to-P service, Arber said. BitTorrent has risen in use over the last year and now comprises between 50 percent to 75 percent of all P-to-P traffic on the Internet, according to Ipoque, a company that specializes in traffic analysis and managment. Use of eDonkey varies from 5 percent to 50 percent of Internet traffic and varies by region. A 2006 survey by Ipoque showed the most traded content on P-to-P networks is movies, music, computer games, e-books, audio books, and pornography. Figures released last month by Forrester Research showed two-thirds of European consumers who download content don't pay for it. Additionally, downloading music and movies has strained ISPs (Internet service providers), who are stuck with higher costs for carrying more traffic but get little new revenue opportunity from it. "Music files are still the most popular category to download, and the attraction of 'free' content has clearly left its mark on consumer behavior when it comes to downloading movies, the biggest bandwidth hogs of all," the report said. Â
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - There was a time when the  phrase "peer-to-peer" (P2P) was practically a curse word in the  music industry.