Music industry clamps down on song-swapping
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London - The piracy-battered music industry said on Thursday it will sue British, French and Austrian music fans as it intensifies its legal crackdown on Internet song-swappers.
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Decision not expected to slow flood of lawsuits against file sharers by the music industry.
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The music industry is using alternative routes to get new music heard, such as music blogs and 'viral marketing.'
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US recording companies have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users in the latest round of legal action in the industryâs effort to stop unauthorised swapping of music online.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is continuing its campaign against people who illegally download music through file-sharing sites.
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Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phone without realising they can be breaking the law.
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Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Customers might not like the idea of technology that allows some uses of music (like copying iTunes downloads to their iPods) but forbids others (like copying the same song to another kind of music player). But until recently, it didn't seem to bother the executives behind these anti-piracy systems.
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The British music industry is to sue 28 internet users it says are illegally swapping music online. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says it is targeting &quot;major uploaders&quot; - those who make music available to share free with others.
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Media consolidation  doesn't play well here in Music City, USA as a roomful of  singers and songwriters, from the famous to the unknown,  gathered Monday to criticize government policy easing the rules  that say who can own what media outlet where.
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Microsoft's efforts to loosen up access to closely held music owned by record labels has an unintended consequence: It punishes artists who want to share. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The UK music industry is set to prosecute people who swap music illegally over the internet.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s office now shits their attention to the music industry, particularly its practices for influencing what songs are heard on the public airwaves.
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&quot;As more and more retailers try to cash in on the online music scene, things are becoming increasingly befuddling for consumers -- especially for consumers who stray from the Apple iPod fold.
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Technology is taking the middleman out of the music business, giving artists a bigger array of tools to get their songs in the MP3 players of potential fans around the world.