Music Stories for 2009

UK Consumers To Pay For Online Piracy 300
Hulu and Warner Music Sign Deal For Music Content 29
Music By Natural Selection 164
Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts 362
ASCAP Seeks Licensing Fees For Guitar Hero Arcade 146
EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players 360
MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid 124
Google and Microsoft Sued By Mini Music Label 105
Music While Programming? 1019
MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem 165
Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales 405
Student Orchestra Performs Music With iPhones 65
Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music 378
Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra 86
Musical Tesla Coils Perform Zelda 82
The Technology Behind Last.fm 125
Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? 849
Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off 402
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright 84
Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? 438
EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net 358
Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists 174
Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project 208
The Golden Age of Infinite Music 294
"Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain 294
Music Rights Holders Sue YouTube Again 145
MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music 76
Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties 645
Google To Take On iTunes? 277
Overclocked ReMix Releases Xenogears Tribute Album 3
1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps 567
Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs? 306
100 Years of Copyright Hysteria 280
When Composers & Fans Meet — Deus Ex ReMix 7
Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music 423
Carl Sagan Sings 183
UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule 229
Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App 196
ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples 463
Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin 210
Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest 189
Spotify Retreats To Invite-Only In UK 130
Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano 521
iPod Fee Proposed For Canada 414
How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers 313
Musicians Oppose Anti-Piracy Measures In the UK 150
The Design Failures That Led To Rock Band 177
Will You Stream Or Download Your Mobile Music? 175
Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" 319
Spotify Wins iPhone App Store Approval 114
US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft 451
Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA 371
While My Guitar Gently Beeps 140
Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 227
Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format 250
Opera Being Composed On Twitter 99
Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu 513
The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large 554
RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial 492
RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" 749
EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On 334
Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing 174
Music Game Genre On the Decline 225
OC ReMix Releases Final Fantasy 4 Tribute Album 52
RIAA Spokesman Says DRM Is Dead 154
Kazaa To Return As a Legal Subscription Service 133
Rock Band To Allow Independent Artists To Add Their Own Songs 57
Court Appoints Pro Bono Counsel For RIAA Defendant 123
Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify 216
Pandora Wants Radio Stations To Pay For Music, Too 253
RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret 130
Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio 270
Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free 268
Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel 523
Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict 204
RIAA Victory Over Usenet.com In Copyright Case 289
13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week 354
Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US 248
35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found 139
Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus 311
How RIAA Case Should Have Played Out 296
Analysis of MediaSentry Wins Music-Download Suit 51
In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 793
Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error 283
Virgin-Universal Deal Offers Unlimited Music, Goes After File Sharers 254
RIAA Case, Capitol vs. Thomas #2, Starts Monday 166
World Copyright Summit and the Lies of the Copyright Industry 423
Game, DVD Sales Hurting Music Industry More Than Downloads 223
UK Gang Caught After $750K Online Music Fraud Scam 101
Camara Goes On Offense Against the RIAA 316
MS Details Last.fm on Xbox Live, Marketplace Changes 82
RIAA Wants To Bar Jammie From Making Objections 306
Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads 254
Last.fm Strongly Denies Sharing Data With RIAA 122
Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument 136
Rates Lowered For Streamed Music In the UK 94
RIAA MediaSentry, Dead In US, Is Alive In Australia 305
Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman 291
RIAA Victim Jammie Thomas Gets a New Lawyer 241
Do We Want ISPs Penalizing Music Fans? 263
Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI 296
Jammie Thomas May Face RIAA Trial Alone 143
Guitar Hero 5 To Allow Duplicate Instruments, Easy Switching 43
ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA 272
Lala Invents Network DRM 212
Apple Reconsiders, Approves NIN iPhone App 146
Court Sets Rules For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection 470
Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone App 397
Parrots Can Dance 104
Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897 177
Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin 190
Papers Sealed In Class Action Against RIAA 215
Researchers Make Paper Speakers For LCD TVs 83
Music Copyright In EU Extended To 70 Years 395
LEGO Rock Band Confirmed 98
Analyzing YouTube's Audio Fingerprinter 116
Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware 137
Reflections On the Less-Cool Effects of Filesharing 458
Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library 96
Sweden Sees Boom In Legal Downloading 121
YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall 69
Copyright Scholar Challenges RIAA/DOJ Position 168
EFF Lawyer Calls YouTube ContentID Worse Than DMCA 219
Apple Shifts iTunes Pricing; $0.69 Tracks MIA 429
MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) 141
New Entrant In the Race For Wafer-Thin Speakers 93
Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay 348
Alpine Legend Revolutionizes Music Game Genre 45
PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses 305
AT&T Won't Terminate User Service For RIAA Without a Court Order 165
YouTube Music Content Takedown Continued 291
Canadian Songwriters' Collective Licensing Bid Goes Voluntary 93
Last.fm To Start Charging International Users 329
New Lossless MP3 Format Explained 346
FSF Files Amicus Brief In RIAA Case 73
17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 375
TechDirt's Masnick Responds To Warner's Jim Griffin On Choruss 81
Choruss Pitching Bait and Switch On P2P Music Tax 119
How $1,500 Headphones Are Made 353
Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader 590
iPod Shuffle Finds Its Voice 379
RIAA Argument About Streaming To Be Streamed 92
So Amazing, So Illegal 492
Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format 743
YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK 161
New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian Law 269
Old Computers Resurrected As Instruments At Bletchley Park 109
Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009 120
Beatles Rock Band Game Coming In September 55
Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album 672
Warner Music Playing Hardball With Rock Band 86
DNA-Radio, Tune In To Your Chromosomes 77
Detecting Click Tracks 329
French President Busted For Copyright Violation 317
RIAA Santangelo Case 'Settled In Principle' 94
Doctorow Suggests Simple EULA Solution 158
Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores 290
Music Industry Conflicted On Guitar Hero, Rock Band 140
Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak 93
Bands Bypass iTunes With iPhone Apps 155
Ruckus Closes Down 125
The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune 437
RIAA Drops Enforcement Case To "Sort Out" Inaccuracies 69
Financial Crisis Soundtrack 31
Behind the Scenes In Apple Vs. the Record Labels 146
Will the New RIAA Tactic Boost P2P File Sharing? 309
Associated Press Wants RIAA Case Webcast 103
DJ Hero Planned For Later This Year 54
Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released 82
Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note 659
Microsoft To Exit the Zune Business? 361
Pandora Trying Out Invasive Commercial Breaks 244
RIAA Tries To Appeal Order Allowing Internet TV Court Broadcast 209
YouTube Muting, Removing Videos Involving Warner Music 202
Report Claims 95% of Music Downloads Are Illegal 331
Guitar Hero III the First Game to $1 Billion In Sales 106
iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info 693
Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour 434
Player Piano Roll Production Ceases 117
WSJ Confirms RIAA Fired MediaSentry 158
The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown 465
Microsoft Issues Workaround For Zune Freeze 277