An ulterior motive in the music biz's college fight?
Colleges report receiving lots of copyright infringement complaints aimed at students.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.05.06
Apple's iTunes beats Wal-Mart to become top U.S. music store
CD sales slip, digital sales skyrocket.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.04
Is Apple considering an all-you-can-eat iPod music plan?
Nobody knows, but such a plan has its merits.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.20
For Ashley Alexandra Dupre, selling music beats selling sex
In the last two days, Eliot Spitzer's escort may have made more than $1,000 an hour, and she didn't even have to take her clothes off.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.14
Nine Inch Nails puts CD online for free, for mash-ups
Another band follows the Radiohead model, and fans win.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.03
U2's crazy manager wants to go after tech firms
Apple, Microsoft and others have had their "snouts" in the trough for too long.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.29
QTrax's free music downloads: Not yet
Download any track you want as long as you look at some ads? Looks like a premature promise.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.28
What's that enchanting MacBook Air ad song?
Say hello to Yael Naim.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.25
It's official: Radiohead's experiment worked, kind of
The band's new CD debuts at No. 1 on the charts, despite the choose-your-own-price online sales model.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.09
DRM goes the way of the dodo: Now, Sony
The last of the major music labels decides to release its music without restrictions.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.04
Delicious rumor: Jay-Z and Apple to start a record label?
But it sounds too good to be true.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.03
Radiohead's Thom Yorke says people still need CDs
The group puts out a physical version of "In Rainbows."
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.02
The recording industry isn't attacking iPods. Yet
The music cops hate it when you make digital copies of your own CDs. But they're not going to court over that practice, for now.
Farhad Manjoo 2008.01.02
Prince wants to sue his fans, undo the Internet
The Artist threatens to take legal action against sites that celebrate him.
Farhad Manjoo 2007.11.07
A blockbuster for Radiohead's "In Rainbows"?
A British music site says the band has sold more than a million copies of its name-your-price album.
Farhad Manjoo 2007.10.11
Madonna is poised to ditch the recording industry
Does her lucrative deal with concert promoter Live Nation signal a new trend in the music business?
2007.10.11
Nine Inch Nails declare freedom from record labels
Another band jumps off the music biz's sinking ship.
Farhad Manjoo 2007.10.09
Jurors in the RIAA trial won't talk
How did a panel decide how much to fine a file-sharer? We may never know.
Farhad Manjoo 2007.10.09
Help pay the RIAA defendant's downloading fine
Jammie Thomas, who was forced to pay $222,000 for illegally downloading two dozen songs, sets up a defense fund.
Farhad Manjoo 2007.10.08
Universal decides to unlock its music (except on iTunes)
The world's largest music company will launch an experiment to sell digital music without copy-protection software
Farhad Manjoo 2007.08.10
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Farhad Manjoo is a Salon staff writer covering technology and tech culture. He lives in San Francisco.

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Farhad’s new book, “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society,” examines propaganda on the Web, cable news and talk radio.

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