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Pundits have warned that the major labels should adjust to a world where they aren’t so “major,” but Universal has just announced year-to-date growth of 5 percent. Thank digital downloads and a plethora of new options for grabbing tunes.

One consumer benefit to the music industry's tribulations has been an increase in opportunities to acquire music. The industry had to loosen the reins as is looked like the horses might bolt and leave the stagecoach stranded in the ditch….

Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. Pandora on the iPhone is one of the best applications for streaming music and finding new tunes. So, what will the service’s 1 million plus users do if Pandora pulls its own plug?

I hate to be the voice of dissent but they've been saying they're about to go under for at least a year. It's partly their own fault though. They refuse to consider any options apart from getting the record industry to see reason….

JapanFiles.com, an American based Japanese music distributor, is currently working with a popular LiveJournal music sharing community to stop members from illegally downloading their music. The LJ members aren’t exactly happy about it.

About Japanfiles.com:We want to inform your users that our staff works directly, face-to-face, with almost every label on our website. In some cases, we spend weeks with them on tour here in the USA. JapanFiles.com was formed and is…

Next time your favorite DJ tosses a promo CD from a UMG artist into the trash, he or she should be reminded that the music industry behemoth considers such disposal an “unauthorized distribution” that’s tantamount to piracy. … An EFF lawyer found this contention in UMG’s latest brief in an ongoing copyright case involving promo CDs on Ebay.

Yes, if UMG had actually treated these CDs as if they owned them, then the answer might be different. For example, everyone agrees that the first sale doctrine doesn't apply where a copy is rented. So if UMG wanted to enter into contracts with…

According to Universal, those promo CDs it sends out aren’t “given,” they are “licensed,” and the label gets to tell you if you’re even allowed to throw them in the trash. The EFF argues that the “first sale” doctrine means you can trash them at will… or sell them.

But the EFF's filing (PDF), made on Monday, argues that gifts have long been seen by courts to fall under the "first sale" rule. When a product is sent (unrequested) through the US Postal Service, case law…

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The term racket comes from the Italian word ricatto (blackmail) and is also used as a pejorative term for legitimate businesses. Typically, this usage is based on the example of the “protection racket” and indicates…

After threatening to withdraw from the IFPI, major label EMI has decided to hang around. The label’s support comes at a price for the IFPI, however, as EMI and the other labels will reduce their contributions to the trade group.

EMI was purchased last year by a private equity fund, and the label's new owners have been a bit more cost-conscious. The label's president, Jean-Francois Cecillion, confirmed that the new agreement will result in a lower…

Bands, Comedians, even record labels go to Pay-What-You-Want

Logan Comby of Dark Sundays from Austin, Texas opens the show. The band may someday have music available through the growing pay-what-you-want phenomenon through Meridian’s S2S Records, a small new label headed up by local musician…

The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision to stop distributors and ‘coked-up label reps’ from getting all the cash.

The thing RIAA is scared of is that their billion dollar backbone can no longer shelter people from exploring music themselves. Their business plan had evolved into telling the world what they will want to listen to and buy, and now they’ll…

Benn Jordan, aka the flashbulb, posted a lengthy article about the industry which surrounds him and how both online and offline music retailers totally rip them off.

If you can read this, then you’ve more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent.