Music

Magazine articles on trends in the music industry, general music, and instruments.

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PC World April 2003 Dylan F. Tweney	Now They're After You: Music Cops Target Users Recording industry expands focus and guns for file traders.
Wired February 2003 Todd Woody	The Race to Kill Kazaa The servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the Pacific. The 60 million users are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the plug.
Wired February 2003 Matt Bai	Hating Hilary Napster slayer. Corporate thug. Industry shill. Hilary Rosen has heard it all as the reviled frontwoman for the music biz. Sure, she knows file-sharing is the future. She's just fighting to give the dinosaurs one last gasp.
Wired February 2003 Charles C. Mann	The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please.
PC World January 21, 2003 Joris Evers	New Microsoft Tools Copy Protect CDs and DVDs Software will allow recording companies to restrict what you can do with CDs and DVDs on your computer.
PC World January 1, 2003 Michael Gowan	Make the Most of Your MP3 Player Follow our tips for easy ripping and keeping your player in shape. Plus: We point you to the best music sites.
Salon.com November 19, 2002 F. Timothy Martin	Jesse Helms: Web radio's hero Small Internet radio broadcasters on the brink of financial disaster have won some breathing room, thanks to the senator from North Carolina.
Knowledge@Wharton	Peer-to-Peer Music Trading: Good Publicity or Bad Precedent? Advance publicity is key to record albums' success, states Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader -- and by trying to stamp out peer-to-peer music trading, record companies are shooting themselves in the foot.
Salon.com August 23, 2002 Damien Cave	File sharing: Guilty as charged? New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.
Salon.com August 7, 2002 Eric Boehlert	The empire strikes back As the music industry's "pay-for-play" scandal deepens, the big five record labels try to crush the expanding power of the dreaded indie promoters.
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