- Is Baidu A Pirate?
- Digital Trends News - June 5, 2008
- Earlier in 2008 the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) filed a copyright lawsuit against Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, to the tune of $9 million.Now they’ve gone a step further, and along with the Music C...
- Oldest Recording Heard
- Digital Trends News - March 31, 2008
- We all know that Edison invented the phonograph, but did you know that he didn’t make the first sound recording? His breakthrough came in 1877, but last week the first known recording, a 10-second clip of a French folk song, “Au Clair De ...
- Sound recording predates Edison's phonograph
- CNET News - March 27, 2008
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- Record Labels Go After Baidu
- Digital Trends News - February 5, 2008
- Baidu.com is China's leading Internet search engine—and that, by sheer numbers, makes it one of the most-used search engines on the planet. Now, by way of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music labels Warner Mus...
- Music Sales Slipped by 10 Percent in 2007
- Digital Trends News - January 24, 2008
- Despite a market for digital music that is finally picking up steam, global music sales suffered a significant overall decline in 2007. According to John Kennedy, chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), sa...
- Yahoo China slammed again for piracy
- CNET News - December 21, 2007
- The International Federation of Phonographic Industries said Thursday that Yahoo China lost its appeal in a piracy lawsuit the group filed against the company.
- British Arrest In Music Piracy Case
- Digital Trends News - October 24, 2007
- You’ve heard of lawsuits to close illegal download sites. But in raids in England and Holland, police arrested the man believed to be behind the file-sharing site site OiNK and closed down its servers. Don’t be surprised if you haven...
- Internet Pirates Strike Back
- Digital Trends News - October 17, 2007
- In a gesture worthy of Captain Jack Sparrow, Internet pirates have fired a broadside against the establishment. The Swedish site Pirate Bay, which specializes in file sharing, evidently had had enough of the International Federation of the Phono...
- HP Licenses Cookie-Cutter Circuits
- Digital Trends News - May 2, 2007
- Hewlett-Packard has an unlikely idea for mass-producing semiconductors the same way CDs and phonograph records are made: stamping them out. The company’s patented nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process literally stamps out patterns of wires less...
- Digital Music Sales Doubled in 2006?
- Digital Trends News - January 17, 2007
- The London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) (basically the U.K.'s equivalent of the RIAA) has published a new report in which is estimates that digital music sales accounted for about $2 billion in overall revenue fo...
- New Onkyo Stereos Go for The Value
- Digital Trends News - November 2, 2006
- Electronics maker Onkyo has rolled out two new stereo receivers and a countertop stereo system which put the emphasis on packing needed, high-quality features into systems which don't strain customers' wallets.Onkyo's new TX-8222 receiver pushes 50 w...
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