MUMBAI: Urgent action is needed to translate the role of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in protecting music on the internet into reality, according to the IFPI Digital Music Report 2008. ISP co-operation, via systematic disconnection of infringer ...

Posted By: RnM Team 02 Sep 08 18:37 IST

MUMBAI: International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the global music agency, has come out with some depressing numbers for worldwide music sales for 2007. According to a report in Timesonline, the worldwide music sales have tumbled to ...

Posted By: RnM Team 31 Jul 08 17:08 IST

MUMBAI: Multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band LINKIN PARK has announced a November 25th release date for ROAD TO REVOLUTION (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros. Records), an action-packed CD/DVD combo featuring 17 of the group’s biggest hi ...

Posted By: RnM Team 15 Oct 08 18:54 IST

T he spectre of piracy continues to haunt the music industry, draining its revenues and crippling new initiatives. The Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), the licensing arm of the Indian Music Industry, is striving hard to license the use of musi ...

Posted By: Anita Iyer 18 Sep 08 16:39 IST

Mobile music has emerged as the most prominent segment in the digital music industry and is a major money making business. Today, the definite buzzword with Indians is `mobile`. Everyone realizes how quickly the world is going digital and how import ...

Posted By: Aaishwari Chauhan 09 Sep 08 19:05 IST

MUMBAI: Seven servers on eDonkey were shut down this week after court injunctions in Germany, as part of the series of actions against peer to peer servers connecting illegal file sharers. This follows on from similar eDonkey server closures in Net ...

Posted By: RnM Team 23 Sep 07 00:24 IST

MUMBAI:British and Dutch police shut down what they say is one the world`s biggest online sources of pirated music and arrested the website`s 24-year-old suspected operator.The invitation-only OiNK website specialised in distributing albums leaked befor ...

Posted By: RnM Team 24 Oct 07 22:38 IST

MUMBAI: A Ukrainian court has upheld a judgment against the copyright infringing music website mp3.ua, and has asked it to pay over US$70,000 in damages to music company HonestMusic.The Kiev Court of Appeal rejected Internet Media File`s objections to a ...

Posted By: RnM Team 31 Oct 07 16:24 IST