Music Stories for 2012

YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts? 86
Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? 330
Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade 295
Vendors Sue Dutch Government Over Media Levies 55
Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over 247
One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics 227
Ask Slashdot: Which International Online Music Stores Are Legit? 166
Brain Scans of Rappers and Jazz Musicians Shed Light On Creativity 92
Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music 37
Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' 183
Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) 163
Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' 252
NBC Erases SNL Sketch From Digital Archive For Fear of Copyright Lawsuit 128
Crowdsourcing Concerts — the Future of Live Music? 58
Jonathan Coulton Re-records 'Code Monkey' For Us 62
Dotcom's New Site "Megabox" Almost Ready 101
Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures 152
Google Stops Offering Free Music Service In China 67
Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio 361
A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond 132
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden 95
8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case 285
Ask Slashdot: Hackable Portable Music Player For Helicopters? 158
Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service 95
Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection 570
Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes 173
Will Your Books and Music Die With You? 248
Radio Royalty Legislation Described As 'RIAA Bailout' 272
Music Memories Stored In Different Part of Brain Than Other Memories 94
Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed 290
Amarok 2.6 Music Player Released 100
Amazon Matches iTunes Match With New 'Audio Upgrade' Feature 157
RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy 153
Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same 576
IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians 177
Leaked IFPI Report Details Anti-Piracy Strategy 88
Canadian Supreme Court Entrenches Tech Neutrality In Copyright Law 54
Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission 220
RMS Responds To NPR File-Sharer's Blog 634
Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent 67
Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Copyright Fees On Music, Video 58
No, You Can't Claim 'Negligence' In a Copyright Case 108
YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google 141
VLC 's Beta For Android Is Ready — Unless You're North American 118
Is the Google Nexus Q Subtraction by Subtraction? 128
Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? 212
Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software 192
Quiet Victories Won In the Loudness Wars 251
Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? 298
DarwinTunes Iterates, Mixes And Culls To Create Listenable Music From Noise 53
Another YouTube Conversion Site Clipped 94
Capitalists Who Fear Change 297
David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy 713
Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s 177
Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning 390
Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case 225
Chords To 1300 Songs Analyzed Statistically For Patterns 132
Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones? 448
Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales 179
Canadian Copyright Board To Charge For Music At Weddings, Parades 349
MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music As Pro Tools Files 83
Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? 405
"Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online 110
New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss 567
SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal 420
Tenenbaum To SCOTUS: Let's Get This Debate Rolling 114
Online Music Storage Firm MP3tunes Files For Bankruptcy 41
Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin 89
Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' 176
What Various Studies Really Reveal About File-Sharing 285
Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof 172
Ask Slashdot: Overhauling an Amusement Park's Multi-Zone Audio Player? 120
Cybercriminals Exploit Björk's Biophilia App To Compromise Androids 75
Video: Paul "Froggy" Schneider's Hard-Won Wisdom For Conference Organizers 35
Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site 215
Hanging Out at Sun Studio, Where Rock and Roll Was Born (Video) 102
Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use 169
Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists 124
RIP, Electric Amplifier Inventor Jim Marshall, 'Father of Loud' 166
Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline 272
Two Florida Judges Quash Copyright Fishing Lawsuits 17
Kim Dotcom Alleges Studios Wanted to Work With Megaupload 139
Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable 183
The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math 311
Mastering Engineer Explains Types of Compression, Effects On Today's Music 382
Google Unifies Media, Apps Into Google Play 146
Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless 841
Spider Silk Spun Into Violin Strings 49
Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony 192
Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music 312
Suggestions For Music Hosting? 225
Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death 507
Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Grammy 176
UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs 310
Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime 353
Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes 257
Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers 468
Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America 281
Capitol Records Motion To Enjoin ReDigi Denied 103
Google Asks Court Not To Enjoin ReDigi 185
Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song 452
Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed 181
ReDigi Defends Used Digital Music Market 111
Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike 267
Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy 1005
iTunes Match Expands To Latin America, Netherlands, Baltics 47