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The grave new threat we face from music: Binaural beats pumped into your headphones can cause you to experience sex- and drug-like ecstasy.; Evan Ratliff 2008.08.15
Apple's iTunes sells 5 billion songs, but you don't own them: Meanwhile, Microsoft keeps its DRM servers alive.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.06.19
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

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Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist who regularly reports for National Public Radio, PRI's The World, The Economist and others. His forthcoming book is "The Internet of Elsewhere."