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Hackers broke into the RIAA site yesterday and committed mischief: The Recording Industry Association of America was the victim of a hack Wednesday, forcing network administrators to shut down the site and look for the hole in its Web server. ….But even if and when the organization does find out …

Brad King compares the current music biz crisis with that of 20+ years ago: The recording industry blames the rapid decline of album sales on a new technology that allows people to easily copy and transport music. It’s expected to cripple the major record labels. The year was 1979. Audio …

Per the Guardian: EMI’s eviction from the FTSE 100 at the quarterly reshuffle on September 10 was effectively decided yesterday when its share price dropped to its lowest level since 1987 amid fears of a profits warning and concern that it could be forced to pay out tens of millions …

Check out this freeware tool: mp3DirectCut mp3DirectCut is a small tool for editing MPEG audio directly. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to several new files. All without the need to decompress your MP3 into a PCM format. This saves work, encoding time and …

Stan Liebowitz interviewed in Salon: Does MP3 file trading hurt the music industry? It’s a question that has caused heated debate ever since Napster exploded on the scene in 1999. And as sales of recorded music have declined over the past two years, it’s a question that has taken on …

Declan McCullach interviews Sarah Deutsch, a vice president and associate general counsel at Verizon: The copyright wars on Capitol Hill have begun to drift into the political equivalent of trench warfare, with Hollywood and the music industry pitted against hardware makers, electronics manufacturers, and ragtag activists at nonprofit groups. Now …

Future of Music Newsletter #18 (August 27, 2002) “No longer will corporate media and big money frame the terms of the discussion as we draw together the strongest voices in the Internet and independent music community to reframe these questions with a clear-eyed focus on the interests of the artists.”

According to PW Daily Newsletter for Booksellers: As part of Barnes & Noble’s earnings release last week, the company announced that it has written off its $1 million investment in Book Magazine, the bimonthly consumer title in which it has a half interest. Book was initially distributed for free to …

US SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – 27th August 2002 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Awards Significant Personalization Patent to AgentArts, Inc. Patent Enhances AgentArts’ Position as Leader in Entertainment Personalization Technology Entertainment personalization provider AgentArts, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company U.S. Patent …

On 31 October – 2 November 2002 up to 400 delegates and 8,000 music lovers will participate in the UK’s New Music Convention and Festival. MusicWorks will provide a unique opportunity for the music industry to come together to explore future developments across associated sectors including video, film, TV, games …