Record industry targets 28 music up-loaders
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Legal action is being taken against 28 people in the UK for illegally swapping music over the internet, the British Phonographic Industry announced today.
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Sales of portable MP3 digital-audio players are booming and are set to generate US&#36;58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a new study from research firm IDC.
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THE international record industry has escalated its fight against music piracy, announcing it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups accused of illegally sharing music via the internet.
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Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is continuing its campaign against people who illegally download music through file-sharing sites.
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UK record companies today fired the opening salvo in their legal battle with music fans who illegally share tracks on the internet, winning a court order to obtain the names and addresses of 28 people alleged to have given away tens of thousands of tracks
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Two of the World&#39;s largest Record companies have formed an alliance on new digital products. EMI and Sony BMG, which between them control more than 30% of the global music market, said the ground-breaking
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Virgin has today launched a music download service that will go head to head with established players including iTunes and Napster.
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The international record industry escalated its fight against music piracy Thursday, announcing that it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups it accuses of illegally sharing music through the Internet.    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, representing record companies tired of losing millions of dollars in revenue, said its affiliates are filing 459 lawsuits in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Austria...
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Away from the headlines of job  losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music  industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales  and offset the decline in CDs.
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Music publishers and U.S. commercial radio station owners said on Monday they had agreed to a new &#36;1.7 billion deal to cover licensing rights for music played over radio airwaves or via radio station Web sites.
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A company that many expected never to make it to launch has opened up offering 770,000 songs.
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Say what you want about the recording industry's take-no-prisoners approach to combating online piracy.  At least when the music czars go after someone, they target persons suspected of trading hundreds or thousands of copyrighted songs over the Internet.
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A new service, supported by advertisements, will let consumers download a huge catalog of songs from the worldÂs largest record company for free.
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New music sharing network allows users to amass points by referring buyers.
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More than 200 million music tracks were downloaded legally in the United States and Europe in 2004, up from 20 million the year before, a music industry trade group said Wednesday.
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The web portal is reportedly in talks with major record labels to begin selling or even giving away unprotected music files.