Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
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The old-school audiophile's format of choice is making a quiet comeback. Record sales are climbing as fans turn to vinyl for high-end home listening while continuing to buy MP3s for portability. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment will become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads.
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With Warner Music ditching DRM, Listening Post blogger Eliot Van Buskirk decides to do the same. But leaving Napster and Rhapsody isn't as easy is it should be.
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The old music industry is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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It has been my theory for a little while that sometime in the near future, we are going to see the downfall of physical discs for watching movies. Check out this and other original content on CNET's blog network.
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With the last remaining label of the big four to join the online retailer's new music store, it could be argued that DRM is essentially dead.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Physical singles may be losing the war  against digital formats, but the U.K. market has found an  unlikely hero to lead the fight: good, old-fashioned, 7-inch  vinyl.
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Reports of the death of CDs have been greatly exaggerated, according to research published yesterday which said legally downloaded music would represent only a fraction of sales in five years&#39; time.
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DENVER (Billboard) - There is a reason people still buy CDs  more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several,  but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites  (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't  the only culprits.
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HD DVD isn't the only optical disc format that's heading into decline right now. Audio-formatted CDs will find themselves one-upped by digital music by 2012, according to a Forrester report issued today.
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Don&#39;t you think it&#39;s time to retire that VCR? You probably have a DVD player or two, so you already know videocassettes are fast becoming obsolete.
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Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence.
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Sony Corp.'s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Metallica, which has already put out  a documentary feature, an EP and a book this year, is getting  ready to release a boxed set of albums on vinyl.
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Sony&#39;s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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Blog: The groundbreaking musician is seems to be acknowledging the demise of the old CD-focused business model by giving his new album away with a U.K. newspaper before releasing it to the rest of the world.