Digital deals screwing the indie labels?
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Stick together, advises IODA chief Must the digital music revolution screw the little guy? Kevin Arnold, founder of major digital distributor IODA, thinks not. Arnold issued a warning for labels not to do direct deals with internet companies that can't or won't pay them - or only pay them peanuts.â¦
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Physical singles may be losing the war  against digital formats, but the UK market has found an  unlikely hero to lead the fight: good, old-fashioned, 7-inch  vinyl.
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Record labels are looking to digital sales as a first step on the road to the larger music marketplace after years of infighting over how to sell music online.
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While the major record companies continue to discount new releases, some labels are pushing tricked-out versions of big titles that carry their highest prices ever.
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Universal has signed a handful of artists to a digital-only record label. Starting Tuesday, it will release songs through online services like iTunes.
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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Buying digital music can be confusing. On one hand, you have an alphabet soup of acronyms, all referring to varying formats. On the other hand, you have a slew of online retailers, each furiously competing for your hard-earned music dollar. And in the middle, you have an avalanche of players, each of which offer different features and work with different formats.
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InfoWorld - Just because three major online music retailers bind their music stores to specific portable players doesn&#39;t make it acceptable, a Norwegian consumer group leading the charge against Apple&#39;s DRM (digital rights management) policy says.
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There is a reason people still buy CDs  more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several,  but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites  (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't  the only culprits.
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p2pnet.net News:- Any lingering doubts as to whether or not the record label cartel has embarked on an all-out, across the board war against former clients to bludgeon them into buying &#39;product&#39; have been dispelled.
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Deal masks interest in controversial digital distribution patents?
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Chris Gorog is convinced people won&#39;t continue to pay $1 a song for online music. By Evan Agostini, Getty Images. That is despite Apple&#39;s (AAPL) record string
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As new digital-distribution plans gain traction, an inevitable fight over publishing royalties breaks out. If songwriters lose, your ears will suffer. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!
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Deal masks an interest in controversial digital content distribution patents?
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p2pnet.net News:- Here&#39;s an interesting twist on the Big Music and Microsoft All Pals Together (maybe) story. We reported that the Big Four record labels have given Microsoft a Wish List of the kind of DRM
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Scads of music services are making a power play for your digital dollars. We shine a light into the murk and pick out the gems. By Mathew Honan from Wired Test.