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Upside Download: Has File-Sharing Doomed the Music Business? DailyBreeze.com, October 14, 2005 P2P Activity Doubles in Two Years PCPro, October 11, 2005 Music Industry Turns to P2P for Psychographic Data PCPro, September 21, 2005 Court Cases Don't Scare Music File Swappers Away USA Today, September 6, 2005 Soundcheck: BigChampagne Tapping the Downloading Networks WNYC, New York, September 2, 2005 The Chumbawamba Factor Pitchfork Media, August 22, 2005 BigChampagne CEO Garland Talks Up the Digital Revolution TechNewsWorld, July 21, 2005 BigChampagne To Use Yahoo! Music Data In Charts Billboard Radio Monitor, June 20, 2005 File Size on P2P Nets Explodes Forbes, June 8, 2005 Billboard Radio Monitor to Publish BigChampagne Charts Billboard Radio Monitor, May 23, 2005 Nielsen, BigChampagne to Combine Airplay And P2P Data FMQB, May 4, 2005 Music Intelligence Comes of Age: Nielsen Entertainment and BigChampagne Partner Yahoo! Finance, May 4, 2005 BigChampagne Toasts Nielsen Deal Research Magazine, May 4, 2005 Music Fans Reach For The Stars USA TODAY, March 9, 2005 BigChampagne's Data from File Sharing Networks Influences Music Industry G4 TechTV's The Screen Savers, August 12, 2004 Online File Swapping Endures USA TODAY, July 12, 2004 Music Labels Use File-Sharing Data to Boost Sales The San Jose Mercury News, March 31, 2004 Disclosure: Download This! CBC News, March 9, 2004 (Requires Real Player) Music Pirates' Plundering Makes for Burgeoning Business The Boston Herald, February 18, 2004 Internet Piracy: A Discussion with Eric Garland, Chief Executive of BigChampagne (Transcript) The Washington Post, January 22, 2004 Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates? BusinessWeek, January 16, 2004 Music Labels Tap Downloading Networks Associated Press, November 17, 2003 Entertainment Firms Quietly Using Piracy Networks Reuters, November 3, 2003 An Ear on Peer-to-Peer Albuquerque Tribune, November 3, 2003 BigChampagne is Watching You WIRED Magazine, October 2003 RIAA Lawsuits Effect on Peer-to-Peer Volume Future Tense with Jon Gordon, MPR, September 15, 2003 The Goldmine of Consumer Info from File-Sharing Marketplace, NPR, August 4, 2003 BigChampagne, Tracking Song Swaps, Checks the Pulse of Online Pop Culture TechTV, May 7, 2003 Analyst: Internet File-Sharing Bigger Than Record Business USA Today, March 28, 2003 Clear Channel Will Offer Data On Internet Music The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2003 BigChampagne: Tracking the Download Revolution The Network, March 7, 2003 File Trading as CD Sales Predictor? BusinessWeek, February 20, 2003 Local Company Tracks Music Downloaded from Internet Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 29, 2003 The Silver Lining in Music Theft FORTUNE, December 18, 2002 Let Others Sue, Marketer BigChampagne Licks Chops over Rich Napster Data The Industry Standard, February 9, 2001 Press Releases For Immediate Release: BigChampagne Launches BCDash Site And Announces New Strategic Partnerships March 16, 2006 For Immediate Release: Word Of Mouth Marketing Goes Mainstream -- 200 Companies Join Word Of Mouth Marketing Association September 29, 2005 For Immediate Release: BigChampagne Integrates AOL Music and Video Data into Online Charts August 9, 2005 For Immediate Release: BigChampagne To Integrate Yahoo! Music Data into Online Charts June 20, 2005 For Immediate Release: Billboard Radio Monitor To Publish BigChampagne Charts May 24, 2005 For Immediate Release: Nielsen Entertainment and BigChampagne Partner to Integrate Airplay Monitoring & Peer to Peer Download Data May 4, 2005 For Immediate Release: OECD IT Outlook 2004 Reveals Strong Global Growth of P2P January 3, 2005 For Immediate Release: Altnet Determines That BigChampagne Does Not Infringe TrueNames Patented Technology December 15, 2003 For Immediate Release: Testimony Before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry March 27, 2003 For Immediate Release: Premiere Radio Networks Partners With BigChampagne March 14, 2003 In The News Industry Hopes Downloads Eventually Offset CD's Decline The Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2005 Country Downloads Rank Low on List Tennessean.com, October 3, 2005 June Supreme Court Ruling Taking Toll on Music Sharing The Washington Post, October 1, 2005 BitTorrent Gets $8.75M from Venture-Capital Firm USA Today, September 27, 2005 Squeeze Here -- And File Sharers Will Just Go There The San Jose Mercury News, September 23, 2005 Confusion, Tech Issues Delay Legit File-Sharing Sites USA Today, September 20, 2005 File-Sharing Services May Reform Themselves The Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2005 Can't Kill P2P The San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 31, 2005 To Hollywood's Dismay, Digital Piracy is the Big Ape in Film The New York Times, August 29, 2005 Foo Fighters Record the Most Swapped of the Week PCPro, August 11, 2005 The Same Old Song Newsweek, August 10, 2005 Radio Daze Forbes.com, August 9, 2005 Signals of Trouble for Radio Newsday, July 31, 2005 Digital Walls Vex Consumers The Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2005 Bricks-and-Mortar CD Stores Diversify to Compete with New Technology The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 24, 2005 Legal Music Downloads Triple, But No Change in Rhetoric Ars Technica, July 21, 2005 Do Game Publishers Ignore Piracy? Forbes.com, July 18, 2005 The Supremes Hit The Pirate Ships Newsweek, July 11, 2005 Dark Days at DreamWorks TheStreet.com, July 11, 2005 P2P Starts to Mature Red Nova News, July 10, 2005 On Judging ICT Red Nova News, July 7, 2005 Grokster Ruling Should Spark Evolution, Not Crackdown The San Jose Mercury News, July 5, 2005 The Imps of File Sharing May Lose in Court, But They Are Winning in the Marketplace The New York Times, July 4, 2005 Big Music Labels Have Digital Trust Issues The Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2005 Piracy Unpreventable. Plan B: Just Make the Music Free The San Jose Mercury News, July 1, 2005 Why File-Sharing Piracy Will Never Die TheStreet.com, June 30, 2005 RIAA Files More Lawsuits Red Herring, June 30, 2005 File-Sharing Beat Goes On USA TODAY, June 29, 2005 Yesterday's Ruling Won't Slow File Swapping Billboard PostPlay, June 28, 2005 No Pot of Gold in Court Ruling for the Studios The New York Times, June 28, 2005 Sharing Culture Likely to Pause but Not Wither The New York Times, June 28, 2005 Some Doubt Ruling Will Stop Downloading The Boston Globe, June 28, 2005 Music Row Hails File-Sharing Ruling Tennessean.com, June 28, 2005 Entertainment Firms Win File-Sharing Duel USA TODAY, June 28, 2005 Ruling Boosts Legal File Sharers San Jose Mercury News, June 28, 2005 Grokster, StreamCast Can Be Sued Over Online Piracy The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2005 Ruling Won't Slow File Swapping, Experts Say CNET News, June 27, 2005 Experts Handicap Grokster Red Herring, June 26, 2005 LimeWire, BitTorrent and BearShare...Oh My! Forbes, June 24, 2005 Music Still Strongest Note For Downloads MarketWatch, June 22, 2005 Supreme Court Expected To Rule on File Sharing This Week FMQB, June 20, 2005 What Is Downloaded Over P2P ZDNet IT Facts, June 20, 2005 Keeping Moviegoers Away From the Dark Side The New York Times, June 18, 2005 File Swappers Get Creative as Wheels of Justice Turn The New York Times, June 18, 2005 RIAA Will Keep On Suing Rolling Stone, June 10, 2005 Legal Download Sites Gaining Ground MTV News, June 9, 2005 Some See Benefits of File Sharing; Independent labels use networks as a way to reach consumers, not necessarily make money Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2005 Following The Trail Of Illegal 'Star Wars' Downloads TechWeb News, May 20, 2005 In Sweden, Paradise for the Movie Pirates International Herald Tribune, May 16, 2005 You've Got Lawsuit: Father Sued for Teen's Downloads Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 15, 2005 Reeling Them In The Washington Times, May 11, 2005 RealNetworks' Rhapsody Lures Customers with Freebies Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2005 Ringtones: Music To Music Moguls' Ears BusinessWeek, April 25, 2005 College Students Face Lawsuits for Super Speed File Sharing USA TODAY, April 20, 2005 The Fiona Apple Fiasco Slate, April 20, 2005 Music Battle Escalates The News & Observer, April 18, 2005 iPod in the Court! The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 17, 2005 Diverse Panelists Examine Filesharing at Debate Georgia Tech Technique, April 8, 2005 'Extraordinary' Response San Antonio Current April 7, 2005 Rent-a-Tune is Next Step in Digital Music Evolution Tennessean.com, April 6, 2005 Digital Summit To Give Nashville Glimpse of New Media's Coming Attractions Tennessean.com, April 4, 2005 Creative Work Makes for Slippery Private Property Online The Christian Science Monitor, March 31, 2005 Court Considers Future of File-Sharing ElectricNews.net, March 31 2005 File Sharing: The Sharing Goes On San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2005 Music File-Sharing Case Before High Court San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2005 The War over Downloading CNN Money, March 28, 2005 U.S. Court Ruling May Be 'Game Changer' for File Swapping The New York Times, March 28, 2005 100 Companies Join Word of Mouth Marketing Association in Just Five Months Internet Telephony Magazine, March 28, 2005 Who's Liable for Actions of People Who Share? USA TODAY, March 27, 2005 Harnessing BitTorrent's Storm Red Herring, February 21, 2005 Buyout Countdown List: BigChampagne PaidContent.org, March 23, 2005 Millions Keep Downloading Free Music CNN/Money, March 23, 2005 P2P: Music's Death Knell or Boon? Wired News, March 22, 2005 File-Sharing Battle Plays In High Court The Tennessean, March 21, 2005 Fiona Apple Is Cookin' on the Net Wired News, March 18, 2005 Ripped Off DIGIT, March 11, 2005 Morpheus Takes a Stand -- Again USA TODAY, March 10, 2005 First-Ever Word of Mouth Marketing Conference WOMMA, March 9, 2005 Download Dilemma: Web Lets TV and Movie Viewers See What They Want, But Not Always Legally The Argus Leader, March 8, 2005 Budget Music Download Site Runs Afoul of Russian Police NPR Morning Edition, February 28, 2005 Internet Downloads Revive the Concept of Hit Singles NPR Morning Edition, February 28, 2005 Downloading: The Next Generation The Washington Post, February 28, 2005 Hollywood Studio Suits Target Online File Sharing The Washington Times, February 25, 2005 50 Cent Moves Up "Massacre" E! Online, February 24, 2005 Whistling In The Dark AlwaysOn Network, February 17, 2005 Downloading Hollywood: Why Does This Man Have The Movie Industry Running Scared? TIME Magazine, February 14, 2005 (Subscription Required) Billboard Magazine Now Includes Downloads Associated Press, February 10, 2005 Doing It Without DRM Red Herring, February 9, 2005 DVD Ripping Flourishes PC World, February 9, 2005 Viewer Control: TV's Worst Nightmare The New York Times, February 9, 2005 A New Rival for iTunes The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2005 (Subscription Only) Supreme Court Ruling Nashville City Paper, February 2, 2005 The BitTorrent Effect WIRED, January 2005 Steal This Show The New York Times, January 30, 2005 The End User: P2P Revisits Music Roots International Herald Tribune, January 29, 2005 Famous Folk Among Those Filing Briefs On File-Sharing USA TODAY, January 26, 2005 Russian Sites Sell Song Downloads For Pennies, But Are They Legal? The Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2005 (Subscription Only) Net Music Piracy Goes To High Court USA TODAY, January 23, 2005 A Fleeting Victory For Hollywood: As Anti-Piracy War Shuts Down Top Web Sites, Others Quickly Fill The Void CNN/Money, January 7, 2005 OECD: U.S. Leads World In File Swapping IDG News Service, January 5, 2005 New Study Shows Global Growth of P2P Usage FMQB, January 4, 2005 Record Sales 'Down and Down and Down and Down' Providence Journal, January 2, 2005 (Free Registration Required) The Lowdown On Downloading Providence Journal, January 2, 2005 (Free Registration Required) Small Company Has Big Peer-to-Peer Dreams The Associated Press, December 22, 2004 Apple's iPod Leads the Way in the Fledgling Digital Music World Scripps Howard News Service, December 19, 2004 Record Industry Sues 754 for Internet Song Swaps Reuters, December 16, 2004 US Supreme Court to Decide Grokster Case Wired News, December 10, 2004 Hollywood's Nightmare Grows CNN/Money, December 10, 2004 Shawn Fanning's New Tune: Snocap BusinessWeek, December 8, 2004 It's Bad To Share DIGIT, December 3, 2004 Record Labels Cut Deals With File-Sharing Companies USA Today, December 3, 2004 P2P Is Here To Stay: Music Companies Must Get Real On Line Opinion, December 1, 2004 Hot Television: The New Wave Of Online Piracy Is All About TV -- And Hollywood Is Sending Lawyers Macleans, November 29, 2004 Talk Show BusinessWeek, November 22, 2004 (Subscription) Sirius Competition Press-Enterprise, November 21, 2004 (Registration Required) Motion Picture Association Sues Movie Downloaders The California Aggie Online, November 18, 2004 Hollywood Fires First Lawsuits at Pirates Washington Times, November 16, 2004 P2P Use Increases as Students Return to Campus Reuters, November 6, 2004 Threatening Lawsuits, Hollywood Launches War on Online Piracy The Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004 (Subscription Only) MPAA Chases Movie Pirates NewsFactor Network, November 5, 2004 Hollywood Shifts Focus on Pirates The Financial Times, November 5, 2004 (Subscription) Studios Launch Legal Offensive vs. Piracy The Associated Press, November 5, 2004 Movie Lawsuits On the Way Wired News, November 4, 2004 MPAA Plans Suits to Stop Film Piracy The Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2004 (Subscription) Song-Swap Networks Still Humming Wired News, October 25, 2004 American Firm To Crack Down On Irish Music Downloads The Sunday Times, Ireland, October 16, 2004 Congress vs. File-Sharing Rolling Stone, October 14, 2004 Sneaky Sharing PC World, October 14, 2004 U.S. Album Sales Up 5.8 Percent In First Nine Months Of 2004 Associated Press, October 6, 2004 Downloaded Music Gets Expensive Lexington Herald-Leader, October 4, 2004 The Song Remains The Same The New York Post, October 3, 2004 Music Sales Bounce Back -- At Least A Bit USA TODAY, September 30, 2004 'F' Is for File Sharing Washington Post, September 11, 2004 Universities Combat File-Swapping Music Theft Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 9, 2004 Music Pirates Turn Up Volume Washington Times, September 5, 2004 Sneaky Sharing PC World, September 2, 2004 What Downloading Market? TechNewsWorld, September 1, 2004 Local Universities Watch Out For Torrent Of Users Akron Beacon Journal, August 27, 2004 FBI Seizes File-Sharing Devices in Piracy Raid Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2004 Fed Raid Pounces on Equipment for Digital Piracy USA Today, August 25, 2004 Report: Universities Curtail Online Piracy The Associated Press, August 25, 2004 Colleges Offer Students Music Downloads The Washington Times, August 24, 2004 Students Score Music Perks as Colleges Fight Piracy USA Today, August 24, 2004 Green Light for Grokster The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2004 Online Music Providers Offering Sharing The Associated Press, July 27, 2004 Movie Piracy Takes Off Worldwide International Herald Tribune, July 9, 2004 Winwood: Roll With P2P, Baby Wired News, July 9, 2004 'Fahrenheit' Web Leaks Add Fuel to Controversy Hollywood Reporter, July 2, 2004 Does Kazaa Matter? CNET News, July 2, 2004 Time Warner, Disney, Viacom Lose $3.5 Billion to Film Pirates Bloomberg, June 30, 2004 Beatles Could Write Own Ticket to Ride the Internet Philadelphia Inquirer, June 22, 2004 Digital Music Protection Improves, But It's Still Not Perfect International Herald Tribune, June 21, 2004 RIAA Lawsuit Binge Continues NewsFactor Network, May 25, 2004 Record Industry Sues More Music Swappers Reuters, May 24, 2004 Record Labels Change Their Tune on Free Web Music The New York Times, May 23, 2004 Internet Offers Unfiltered Look into Iraq War Akron Beacon Journal, May 21, 2004 Filesharing is Not the Enemy Utne Reader, May 19, 2004 Christian Songs Are Popular Downloads The New York Times, May 1, 2004 Cublicle Pirates: Office Workers Rival Teens in Digital Download Frenzy The Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 2004 Illicit Music Swapping on the Decline? NewsFactor Network, April 27, 2004 Try Before You Buy Forbes, April 26, 2004 Labels Peer at Pirates for Insights Billboard, April 19, 2004 A Heretical View of File Sharing The New York Times, April 5, 2004 Research: File-Sharing Not Killing CD Sales NewsFactor, March 30, 2004 College Students Sued Over Music Downloads USA Today, March 24, 2004 Recording Industry Sues Over Sharing Seattle Times, March 24, 2004 Consumed: The Grey Album The New York Times Magazine, March 21, 2004 America's New Cubicle Pirates Find Their Loot Online The Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 2004 U.S. States Weigh Warning to File-Trading Networks Reuters, March 15, 2004 Napster Troubles Grow: Music site struggles to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody Rolling Stone, March 8, 2004 Music Industry Eyes P2P Model In Bid to Promote Legal Sharing The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2004 Suppressed Album Finds Voice on Web Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 2004 Web Sites Focus on Managing Consumers' Photos USA TODAY, March 1, 2004 Music Sales Rise, but Executives Fret International Herald Tribune, February 23, 2004 CD Sales Rise, but Industry Is Too Wary to Party The New York Times, February 23, 2004 Song Trading Still Popular, Despite Lawsuits The Associated Press, February 23, 2004 FBI Ratchets Up Fight Against Music Piracy NewsFactor Network, February 20, 2004 A Hit Record by Norah Jones Buoys Industry The New York Times, February 19, 2004 Microsoft Borrows from RIAA's Playbook NewsFactor, February 19, 2004 Microsoft Threatens Code Sharers with Lawsuits The Washington Post, February 18, 2004 See You on the Darknet: Why we don't really want Internet security Slate, January 28, 2004 Apple's iTunes Might Not Be Only Answer to Ending Piracy USA Today, January 21, 2004 Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With New Safeguards Eroded by File Sharing The New York Times, January 19, 2004 Hollywood Robbery Time, January 19, 2004 Sign On, Tune In, Download Sacramento Bee, January 18, 2004 Report: Illegal Music Downloading Began Climbing in October Associated Press, January 16, 2004 Is the War on File Sharing Over? Salon, January 15, 2004 (Subscription) Online Services Give Music Industry Hope Associated Press, January 12, 2004 Biz Skeptical About Reported Slide in File-Sharing Billboard, January 12, 2004 Songwriters Say Online Piracy Eats Into Their Pay The New York Times, January 5, 2004 In Survey, Fewer Are Sharing Files (or Admitting It) The New York Times, January 5, 2004 The Year in Technology Associated Press, December, 2003 Sympathy for a Devil Newsweek, Issues 2004, December 2003 In Chasing Movie Pirates, Hollywood Treads Lightly The New York Times, December 25, 2003 Music Industry Suits Hit Obstacles USA Today, December 22, 2003 Film Piracy Still Steals the Show Wired, December 22, 2003 Music Retailers Get Sales Bump, But Future Looks Grim The Charleston Post and Courier, December 16, 2003 Time to Face the Music Daily Variety, December 8, 2003 (Subscription)