Buzzin Music Blog

Recent reports that Coldplay are set to quit UK music label EMI have been dismissed by the recording giant.
Stories have been rife that Coldplay’s latest album, provisionally known as Prospekt will be their last studio recording with EMI.  It has been widely rumoured that a Greatest Hits would follow to fulfill the bands contractual obligations, [...]

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All is not well at the UK’s only major record label EMI. Since the purchase of the label by private equity group Terra Firma last year, the company has managed to lose two of its major assets. Firstly Radiohead severed links with EMI by making their album In Rainbows available as a download, [...]

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Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who was recently fined $220,000 for illegal file sharing, is to appeal against her loss.
Interestingly, the woman was convicted for allowing access via Kazaa to shared music files on her PC and not for illegally downloading said music files.
In Spain in the last year or so a precedent was set [...]

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A 30 year-old American woman, Jammie Thomas has become the first person to be taken to court and prosecuted for illegally downloading music via a PC. She has been fined $220,000 (£110,000).
Since 2003 various record companies have filed 26,000 lawsuits over file-sharing, which the music industry has led to a decline in sales. But [...]

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For the past decade the music industry has been concerned with free distribution and downloading of MP3 files on the internet, especially on peer-to-peer sites that share folders among its members. The first many heard of this was when Metallica took Napster to court in 2000 when they discovered that a demo of their [...]

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