It looks like the music industry has figured out a new way to piss off fans.
Suretone Records, a label distributed by the Universal Music Group, plans to start distributing video files featuring popular acts like Weezer and new bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous on file-sharing networks.
The music videos will not be wrapped in protective software [...]

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the RIAA and other music industry organizations.
The study, The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis, by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf, [...]

Monster Cable, a leading provider of cables for audio and video and a company known for its aggressively litigious approach to its own trademark, says it wants the music industry to dump DRM.
“Monster Cable shares Mr. Jobs’ vision of breaking constraints for legal music downloads,” explained Noel Lee, the company’s Head Monster. “We’ve always believed [...]

It looks like Ford wants to be the MTV of the Internet. The company has launched a new video podcast, Edge Music Videocast, that features music videos from Cat Power, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother and Gomez (sample below).
The video podcast is basically a collection of four music videos, with short “Ford Edge” branding [...]

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GetData Software has introduced Recover My iPod, a Windows application designed to recover iPod music and video files that you don’t have backups for.
Mac users will have to settle on just resyncing their iPods.
According to GetData, the program works on all iPod models and can recover a range of files, even after the Reset or Restore [...]