Cautiously, Big Labels Confront the Mixtape
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Less than a year after he was busted on racketeering charges for illegal mix tapes, DJ Drama is back with an official mix tape.
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As consumers become accustomed to putting music on portable players and other locations they find convenient, most major label CDs now carry an FBI warning against piracy.
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Simply announcing that you've got major-label music on your pretty new P2P service doesn't make it so. Listening Post looks at Qtrax's just-launched service, with a few questions about what went wrong.
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Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry's war on music piracy. This has given the music industry a new problem to worry about.
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Faced with a protracted sales  slump, record labels are now tapping into the tween scene,  after Walt Disney Co. has become the unlikely hitmaker of the  year with chart toppers like &quot;Hannah Montana&quot; and &quot;High School  Musical.&quot;
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Bowie to godfather new offspring When content services find themselves unable, or unwilling, to sign deals with the big labels then they traditionally label themselves "indie" and try to turn failure in to feature by claiming to highlight new talent and promote new producers. Such a faÃ§ade generally lasts until some big labels are signed up, or the business quietly goes away.â¦
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Keep an eye on Shuffle Master, but don't ante up just yet.
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When Warner Music Group created a   record label with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs last year, industry   insiders said the company was taking a big risk with a star who   may have lost his hit-making touch.
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A resurgence of punk fashion might be underway, but Hot Topic's still got challenges.
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With readers' help, Listening Post ferrets out a new digital-music project ramping up in San Diego. It's still under wraps but vets from iRiver, Rio and Musicmatch are involved. In Listening Post.
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For do-it-yourself Internet disc jockeys, the prospects for staying on the air may be up in the air.
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Record labels need the digital  music market to take off. So why aren't they helping it any?
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Mediabase has taken an unconventional approach to raise its own visibility as it confronts a shake-up in the world of music industry magazines.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - As the recording industry wakes up  from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will  motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major  labels are getting ready to launch the "ringle," which combines  the mostly defunct single format with ringtones.
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Paris Hilton is no stranger to self-promotion. But when she asked DJs to play songs from her upcoming debut album, "Paris," last spring, she wasn't so confident.
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted MP3 file format.