Music Stories for 2011

Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo 38
Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound 53
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? 102
Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released 152
Nightingale Media Player Preview Released 79
At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet 287
Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors 255
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
Napster Being Shut Down 213
Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High 358
France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music 209
Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration 240
RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business 300
German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event 349
Workshops Begin In Australia On WikiLeaks Opera 45
Google Music Downloads To Go Ahead Without Sony Or Warner 220
Universal Buys EMI's Recorded Music Unit For $1.9 Billion 119
Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness 189
No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube 948
A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes 149
Mathematically Pattern-Free Music 234
1st Strikes Issued Under New Zealand Anti-Piracy Laws 123
They Might Be Giants Answers Your Questions 92
Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source 526
Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down 298
"World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed 239
Google Working To Launch Music Store Soon 66
Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead 181
Rhapsody To Acquire Napster 59
Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music 188
Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement 286
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day 3
Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict 388
EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years 536
Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars 379
Victory For Music Locker Services? 51
New RIM Streaming Music: $5 For 50 Songs? 149
Music Copyright War Looming 243
Walmart To Close Online Music Store 92
ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops 338
Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK 156
Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement 151
Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours 674
OK Go Goes HTML5 171
Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. 277
PayPal Joins London Police Effort 117
Google Music Adds Linux, Ogg Vorbis Support 111
The Loudness Wars May Be Ending 294
Spotify To Bait and Switch? 121
Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices 574
Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero 144
RIAA Math: Sell 1 Million Albums, Still Owe $500k 355
Spanish Copyright Society Raided For Embezzlement 80
Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording 105
Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player Legal? 226
Is There a Formula For a Hit Song? 243
Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand 114
Expense and Uncertainty Plague 'Fair Use' Defense 190
Weird Al Says "Twitter Saved My Album" 160
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? 758
Best Buy Releases Their Own Music Cloud 187
JavaScript Decoder Plays MP3s Without Flash 250
Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos 239
John Linnell of They Might Be Giants Talks Tech 111
Google Guitar Doodle Song Gallery 77
Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally 19
Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights 190
AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks 89
Embed a Video, Go To Jail? 314
MuseScore Makes Open Goldberg Variations Available 1
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled 99
Jonathan Coulton Answers Your Questions 55
FSF On How To Choose a License 210
Finnish Record Labels Want To Block Pirate Bay 144
Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes 201
Amazon Gags On Gaga 180
Ask Jonathan Coulton About the Transformation From Code Monkey to Internet Star 122
LimeWire Settles For $105 Million 167
Glove Emulates Musical Instruments 82
Consumer Device With Open CPU Out of Beta Soon 99
Google Launching Music Service Without Labels 406
CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads 206
Spotify Challenges iTunes With iPod Support, Playlist Synching 95
Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 180
Licensing Problem Silences Internet Radio Stations 100
Apple To Beat Google On Cloud Music 160
IMSLP Taken Down By UK Publishers Group 117
British ISPs Fail To Defeat Digital Economy Act 184
Guy Claims Copyright On "Da Da Da DA Da DA, Charge!" 2
Today Is Record Store Day 2011 108
Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry 472
Who Killed Spotify? 257
Couple Sends Record Player Wedding Invitations 64
NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes 220
Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC 166
Grammy Awards Finally Giving Games Some Respect 70
Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music 336
Pandora App Sends Private Data To Advertisers 198
Key Music Industry Lawyer Named EU Copyright Chief 74
Pandora Subpoenaed In Probe of Mobile-App Privacy 50
RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation 278
Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service 84
CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator 204
Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License 539
Amazon Releases Cloud-Based Music Service 222
Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? 246
SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio 337
Google Starts Testing Google Music Internally 119
P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low 369
Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit 370
Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion 545
Open-Source Bach; Copyright-Free Goldbergs 106
CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' 150
Ubisoft Announces Music Game For Real Guitars 172
Microsoft Reportedly Ends Zune Hardware Development 276
Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC 550
LimeWire Settles Copyright Infringement Case 47
What Pi Sounds Like 178
Piracy In Developing Countries Driven By High Prices 235
Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee 407
Apple Negotiates For Unlimited iTunes Downloads 133
Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming 375
Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads 450
Chess Games Translated To Music 87
Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video 538
Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees 218
Music Using Floppy Drives 6
Civ IV's Baba Yetu Wins First Grammy For Video Game 88
Activision Axes Guitar Hero 160
Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices 173
Viacom Closes MTV Games 27
RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards 174
Megadeth Saves Boy From Wolves 3
Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' 369
Music Really Is Intoxicating, After All 174
Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement 235
Atari Loses Copyright Suit Against RapidShare 198
Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads 409