Pew File-Sharing Survey Gives a Voice to Artists
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The battle over digital copyrights and illegal file sharing is often portrayed as a struggle between Internet scofflaws and greedy corporations.
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Macintosh owners are far more likely than PC owners to have recently paid for a music download.
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In the latest proof that the label is at least testing DRM-free music sales, consumers can buy gift cards from physical stores and redeem digital albums online. The bad news is that the music is also "anonymously watermarked."
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A Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project survey found that musicians are &quot;embracing the Web as a tool to improve how they make, market, and sell their creative works.
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Preliminary results of a study on peer-to-peer file sharing show that on the average, the technology still makes up anywhere between 50 and 90 percent of Internet traffic, with BitTorrent surging in popularity.
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We know what piracy debaters Lars Ulrich and Chuck D think of file sharing. But aside from the few who speak out publicly, musical artists typically sit out the rhetorical crossfire over copyright protection.
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A small peer-to-peer start-up has won rights from three of the four major record labels to distribute their music online. The deals with Peer Impact , a new division of online marketing company Wurld Media
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Consumers may not be getting what they think when they pay to download music. After years of resisting the inevitable, the music industry has responded to the music download phenomenon by offering music in digital formats through online stores.
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DENVER (Billboard) - Music fans have been slow to buy music  on their mobile phones. So several companies have responded  with services that let users access from their phones music  that is stored on their computers.
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Researchers aim to make file-sharing fairer by treating bandwidth like a currency.
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Industry groups are looking for a way around controversial copyright proposal.
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com. While recording and film industry interests have hammered away at the sharing of music and videos files over the Internet, the creative artists who actually produce the content welcome the Internet
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The CD will remain the most popular music format till the end of the decade, according to a new survey. The report also states that Europe will buy over Â£570m worth of digital downloads in 2009, but technology
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Three major record companies have signed on to a new service which will allow their music to be sold via file-swapping. The new project is an attempt to lure fans away from filesharing services which are technically
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Kazaa has had a bumpy ride in the last couple of years. While it is dropping down usersâ popularity ratings (because of the high rate of bad files), it is high on the âpotential list of companies to sueâ of big music companies.
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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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In its latest study of Americans&#39; online habits, the Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project found that a substantial chunk of internet users want to voice their opinions online.