Music Stories for 2010

A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred 88
German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs 291
DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence 235
Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers 633
Homemade Robotic Xylophone Plays Holiday Melodies 70
EMI Using Rapidshare To Market Music 81
Supreme Court Refuses P2P 'Innocent Sharing' Case 351
Fruit Company Plays Mozart to Bananas 4
Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site 376
RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble 367
MP3Tunes 'Safe Harbor' Court Challenge Approaching 94
Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? 520
Harry Potter Actor Sings the Elements Song 4
The Beatles On iTunes 551
Viacom To Sell Rock Band Creator Harmonix 112
LimeWire Lives Again 278
Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage 151
British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence 122
Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire 277
Sony Discontinues the Walkman 250
China's Official Newspaper Pans iPad — Too Locked Down 319
AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News 146
Japan's Latest Rockstar Is a 3D Hologram 305
Universal Sends DMCA Takedown On 1980 Report 189
French Government May Subsidize Music Downloads 187
CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music On Podcasts 148
Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264
Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website 240
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Caught Pirating Each Other 131
CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar 431
Supreme Court May Tune In To Music Download Case 339
Orchestra To Turn Copyright-Free Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music 327
Archbishop Bans Pop Music At Funerals 38
Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians 450
UK Music Industry Calls For Truce With Technology 209
Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD 103
Brazil Considering Legalizing File Sharing 233
Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products 390
Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? 271
Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime 164
Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV 579
Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die 101
Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists 282
Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities 827
Most US Students Think Beethoven Is a Dog 5
'u' — the First Authentic Klingon Opera On Earth 165
Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers 422
VideoLAN Announces libaacs 105
Why Recordings From World War I Aren't Public Domain 329
String Quartets On the Web? 228
Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers 319
ASCAP Refuses To Debate Lessig 183
Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study 167
The Chipophone — an 8-Bit Chiptune Organ 84
Don't Stop File-Sharing, Says Former Pink Floyd Manager 243
RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K 387
RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians 495
PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora 56
RIAA's Tenenbaum Verdict Cut From $675k To $67.5k 253
Open Source Music Fingerprinter Gets Patent Nastygram 487
Google's New Scheme To Avoid Unlicensed Music 213
AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' 371
Prince Says Internet Is Over 450
A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars 973
ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates 335
Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code 402
Creative Commons Responds To ASCAP Letter 161
ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF 483
Town Law Would Ban "Annoying" Singing 3
Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case 147
Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos 198
"Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers 94
LimeWire Sued Again, Publishers Seek $150,000 Per Song 168
Ozzy Osbourne To Be Genetically Decoded 256
Rock Band 3 To Include MIDI Keyboard 107
Theremin Guitar Hero 79
Frank Zappa's Influence On Linux and FOSS Development 195
Program Adds Some Swing To Any Song 1
Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs 234
"Innocent Infringement" Defense May Reach Supreme Court 213
Apple Facing New Antitrust Investigation 241
Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript 141
Toyota Robot Violinist Wows At Shanghai Expo 121
The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio 348
Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding? 146
Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 259
Most File Sharers Would Pay For Legal Downloads 370
The Virtual Choir Project 58
Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders 244
Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31 438
Why Making Money From Free Software Matters 224
EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? 124
Fighting Parkinson's Disease With Rap 6
File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life 288
Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future 394
Chinese Users Get Nokia Music Service Sans DRM 67
DIY 80GB iPod Touch 110
Songbird Drops Linux Support 356
Cthulhu the Musical, Tentacular, Tentacular! 33
Moog's MF-401 Auto De-tune Fixes Music 79
Rapidshare Trying To Convert Pirates Into Customers 227
Weird Al Yankovic Biopic 4
Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction? 411
Ben Folds's Tribute to the Chatroulette Piano Improv Guy *NSFW* 1
UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 362
MP3 Player Tax Proposed In Canada 281
Cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood 335
Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway 223
EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs 601
Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010 76
Holographic Human Heads Used By DJ In Live Show 0
Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control 721
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music 261
Appeals Court Knocks Out "Innocent Infringement" 232
Youtube Pulls Original "Rickroll" Video 97
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer 502
Microsoft RickRolls Wi-Fi Network Leechers 165
Overzealous Enforcement Means Even Legit Music Blogs Deleted 240
Is Plagiarism In Literature Just Sampling? 449
Warner To End Free Streaming of Its Content 278
Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal 220
RIAA Insists On 3rd Trial In Thomas Case 280
UMG v. Lindor Ends, No Fees, No Sanctions 113
Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas 57
Bach Launches Updated MP3 Format 279
Misa Digital Guitar Runs On Linux 125
Judge Lowers Jammie Thomas' Damages to $54,000 390
Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum 528
An Artist's View of the Modern Music Biz 210
Video Game Music Recognition Gets a Boost 112
THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player 397
Adding Up the Explanations For ACTA's "Shameful Secret" 165
In UK, Oink Admin Cleared of Fraud 156
Antitrust Case Against RIAA Reinstated 163
Constitutionality of RIAA Damages Challenged 360
Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls 569