Twenty-eight states file suit against the big record labels and two music retailers, accusing them of conspiring to fix CD prices. By Oscar S. Cisneros.

Record labels say CD sales have plummeted as a result of copies--and copies of copies. Now the labels are testing technology that would limit the number of times a CD, or its copy, could be burned.

Big Labels Accused Of Fixing CD Prices. States Also Name Record Chains. August 8, 2000. By Christopher Stern.

Label executives may gnash their teeth about the razor-thin profit margins they derive from the $5 CD, but they like the sales bump that this year’s new popular consumer item is giving the ...

Robertson believes that if the labels had embraced his user-friendly approach in 1999, it could have slowed the decline of the CD. "This was a phenomenal idea that could have had an amazing impact ...

Judging by the way the major record labels have been acting lately, you'd think the compact disc was the biggest mistake they ever made. Never mind that the CD format has been outselling ...

As a host of Florida bands celebrate the sudden flurry of major-label product on tap by home-grown talent, Rob Keith has a slightly different perspective. Search Subscribe ...

Record labels and Microsoft are in discussions about ways that the next generation of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, can support copy-protected CD technology. The music labels ...

Record labels say CD sales have plummeted as a result of copies--and copies of copies. Now the labels are testing technology that would limit the number of times a CD, or its copy, could be burned ...