It's been a few years since there's been much evidence of the Britannia Music Club advertising in British magazines; now, it's American counterpart, the BMG music service, is closing. This is one of those 'buy one full price, get a squillion CDs free' deals that used the offer to lure you in, before...

TotalMusic, the joint attempt by Sony BMG and Universal Music Group to sorta-mirror the "pay for the device, get the music bundled with it" model that Nokia's Comes With Music service is currently experimenting with in Europe, is apparently totally dunzo, and it's taken down with it the on-campus do...

TotalMusic has taken a fall into nothingness. The service had been put out by Universal Music and Sony BMG in order to alter music streaming on the web. The shutdown follows another one we reported earlier; the music service for college students, Ruckus. I guess the situation isn’t really suit...

The Record Industry’s TotalMusic Experiment Is Sinking Fast: "TotalMusic, the digital music distribution initiative created by Sony BMG and Universal Music Group, appears to be on life support - or worse." And so it goes. And, so do I. I know what you are thinking... "Hey Herskowitz, you were only...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "After the lower court adjourned the hearing assigned to be televised in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in order to give the appeals court time to limit the RIAA's supplication for a writ of 'mandamus or prohibition', the appeals court set a briefing schedule. ostensively w...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The entire transcript of the RIAA's 'perfect storm', its first and only trial, which resulted in a $222,000 verdict in a case involving 24 MP3's having a retail value of $23.76, is now receptive online. After over a year of trying, we have finally obtained the transcript...

The record industry's attempts to throw spaghetti at the wall and see if it stuck, no matter how rancid the pasta or listeria-laced the meat sauce, resulted in guttersniping blogger Perez Hilton getting courted for an A & R by major labels who were confused about that maxim regarding all press being...

Gordon has a tale to bring a tear to the eye: Sony have screwed up the release of Leona Lewis' cover of Snow Patrol, robbing her: LEONA LEWIS has been robbed of a No1 single by a blunder which has left the singer’s team and fans furious. The superstar was due to release her version of Run for down...

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When record labels tell you that file-sharing is undermining their business, you might want to wonder how Bertelsmann can therefore be valuing their 50% of Sony-BMG at $1.5billion. Either times are so hard it requires criminal prosecution of their wayward foes, or a major label is worth three billio...