Music industry tries carrot after years of stick
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CANNES, France  - 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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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.
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Eliot Spitzer, scourge of corporate America, has turned his sights on to the music industry. The New York state attorney general is investigating the music industry&#39;s practices for influencing which songs are played on the radio.
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The old music industry is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
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Another year, another downward turn for the record business. So what will the industry do?
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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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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The music industry continues to build bridges between the digital and physical world.
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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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The expansion of the online marketplace, coupled with ever-worsening CD sales, is now all but forcing the music companies to tread on ground they once viewed as off limits.
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Music is still a big force in pop culture, but the music businessâs own comeback attempt is falling flat.
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The music industry's trying to use the current legal system to get around decisions made by legal systems past, says InfoWorld's Robert X. Cringeley. The upshot? We're all thieves -- yes, you too.
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The music channel is trying to make its way in a multidevice, multiplatform, multichannel world and has suffered a decline in ratings and cultural cachet.
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There was a time when the  phrase "peer-to-peer" (P2P) was practically a curse word in the  music industry.
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After a disappointing start, live online music is poised for success. With new technology and Web 2.0 networks in place to fuel the boom, record labels become the last remaining sticking point between you and some rockin' web shows. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Buying music used to be simple: You coughed up $14 or so for a CD, and as long as you didn&#39;t bootleg it or charge crowds of people to listen to it, the music was yours.
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A look back at this year's trends that defined the digital music business.
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DENVER (Billboard) - After 2006 -- a year when virtually no  one managed to launch a digital music service in competition  with Apple's dominant iTunes -- 2007 was a refreshing change of  pace.