Big Four

Amazon's digital music catalogue is all set to go global, and although a launch date has not yet been settled, it…

We have long thought the acronym P2P was the very antonym of the word legal, but Qtrax, a new P2P music sharing…

Okay, so DRM is dead dead dead. Hurray, right? Well, Wired says it's simply being swapped out for digital…

The media-sharing/social networking site Imeem has inked a deal with Universal Music, making it the first site of…

This webcomic's almost more like a webtragedy. Why? Its depiction of Wired's conversation with the confused CEO of…

As much we like to joke about the new music economy stripping rappers of their fourth Bentley and downgrading their…

If you picture music industry CEOs as cranky old white men who are completely out of touch with technology and mad…

Talking to suits at the GSMA Mobile Congress this week, Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. admitted the music…

EMI's efforts to ride Radiohead's wave of rainbow-y vibes didn't stop with their cute but obscenely priced USB drive…

In addition to the trio of new handsets they intro'd today, Sony Ericsson also announced plans for an upgraded…

After basking in adulation from music lovers and RIAA haters for being enlightened poster children of the new way of…

Click to viewUniversal Music's decision to deliver DRM-free tracks to pretty much everybody but iTunes in its…

Ty Roberts, CTO of Gracenote—the company that runs CDDB, among other endeavors—said at a conference on DRM this week…

According to Reuters, it's Apple that's going to be pressuring the Big Four for concessions as contract renewals…

Click to viewThe Big Four's contracts with Apple are either up for negotiation or are coming due, and MarketWatch is…

This week, an imprint of Universal, one of the "Big Four," is going to start dropping DRM-free videos with acts like…