There’s good news and there’s bad news. On the up, the music of the Beatles is finally available in digital format. On the downside though it’s not exactly going to be easy to obtain.
A limited edition of 30,000 apple shaped USB devices, containing their entire back catalogue, goes on sale in early Decemeber… with [...]

Big, clunky, expensive, and very little to listen to… being a musical early adopter can’t have been much fun when the first compact disc (CD) players first hit the market in October 1982:
The CDP-101 did not come cheap nor did it come svelte. Early adopters had to part ways with the equivalent of $2,200 in [...]

The recent, often violent, acts of piracy in international waters certainly make the term “digital piracy” seem inappropriate, and have a number of people asking whether another wording should be used instead.
It was a clever name, at least in the beginning. Hijacked movies, music, games, even books – yeah, it’s the outlaws taking from the [...]

It looks like the anti-piracy message still isn’t getting through if recent research, showing every iPod or digital music player owned by British teenagers contains an average of 842 illegally copied songs, is any indication.
Fergal Sharkey, former lead singer of the Undertones and now chief executive of British Music Rights, said: “I was one of [...]

Very long, but very absorbing, transcript of U2 manager Paul McGuiness’ keynote speech at the Music Matters conference in Hong Kong last week, during which he made it crystal clear that ISPs are responsible for curbing illegal music downloads.
And it’s been argued that the ISPs don’t have the means to help. I don’t believe that [...]