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Malaysia trade talks could scupper disk pirates
Reuters   Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Reuters - Malaysia's free trade talks with the United States may be faltering, but they are already having an impact on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, where a vigorous crackdown on illegal music and movies has sent pirates scurrying.
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Sound Recognition Comes to Music Search
NewsFactor   Tuesday, 30 January 2007
NewsFactor - Melodis Corporation has launched new technology that might cause some users to reminisce about an old game show. In true "Name That Tune" style, the company's voice-activated search tool allows users to scour through two million digital tracks by singing, whistling, or humming a few bars of a song.
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Global music industry in trouble, looks to new horizons
AFP   Monday, 29 January 2007

People listen to music with headphones, 23 January 2007 in Cannes, French Riviera, at the 41st MIDEM, the world's biggest and most influential music trade fair.  Rampant online music piracy and plummeting CD sales over the past five years have rocked the global music industry to its core.(AFP/File/Valery Hache)AFP - Rampant online music piracy and plummeting CD sales over the past five years have rocked the global music industry to its core.


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Publishers strike wrong chord with musicians
InfoWorld   Thursday, 25 January 2007
InfoWorld - To both struggling and refined guitar players, OLGA was queen. OLGA, or the Online Guitar Archive, started in 1992 as a Usenet group, where mostly amateur guitar players would post their own by-ear transcriptions of songs. Use of the archives was free, and it was an important starting point for the nearly tone deaf like me to the more accomplished rocker.
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Music Industry Debates Downloading Dilemma
PC Magazine   Tuesday, 23 January 2007
PC Magazine - With global music sales down for a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop digital sales against competition from the dreaded F word—free.
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Spanish radio soothes the homesick in the heartland
Reuters   Tuesday, 23 January 2007

Radio host and general manager Simon Cipriano plays songs and talks to listeners of La Ley 1320 AM, the new Spanish-language radio station in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky in this photo taken January 20, 2007. Disc-jockey to the homesick, Cipriano surfs his bank of 15,000 Spanish songs in a bid to connect the Hispanic diaspora to a new community in the U.S. heartland. (Andrea Hopkins/Reuters)Reuters - Most people who phone Simon Cipriano are far from home and want to hear music from their childhoods. They dedicate sad songs to wives living far beyond the signal of northern Kentucky's fledgling Spanish radio station.


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Music industry divided over digital future
Reuters   Monday, 22 January 2007

A visitor looks at music CDs at the 41st MIDEM music market in Cannes, January 22, 2007. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Reuters - With global music sales down for a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop digital sales against competition from the dreaded F word -- free.


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Making a Ruckus in the Music Business
BusinessWeek Online   Monday, 22 January 2007
BusinessWeek Online - Mike Bebel has a plan for inducing young people to pay for downloaded music: Give them all the songs they want for free while they're still in college, then start charging them a fee when they're out of school and gainfully employed. Bebel, a veteran of Universal Music Group and Napster (NASDAQ:NAPS - News), is putting that plan to the test at Ruckus, a media download service he now runs.
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Online Music Sales Fail To Balance Drop In CD Sales
TechWeb   Thursday, 18 January 2007
TechWeb - Consumers still go for shrink wrapped disks but downloads are on the rise.
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Attack Of The Tech-Savvy Toddlers
TechWeb   Wednesday, 17 January 2007
TechWeb - Kids as young as 2 years old are downloading content to cell phones, computers, and portable digital music players, according to a report from NPD Group.
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U.S. Reintroduces Law Requiring DRM For Digital, Internet Radio
TechWeb   Wednesday, 17 January 2007
TechWeb - Opponents of the Perform Act, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others, say it restricts consumers from making lawful use of the music they've paid for.
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