The Secure Digital Music Initiative, announced in December, is an attempt by the recording industry associations of North America, Japan and Europe to create a standardized way to distribute songs and albums on the Internet.

To avoid the same problems from happening again, Farzad tried to come to some sort of understanding with blogs and pirate websites not to freely distribute songs from his next album directly after its release in stores.

The labels' complaint alleged that Thomas infringed copyright on February 21, 2005, downloading and distributing songs by such bands as Aerosmith, Green Day, and Guns N' Roses.

Tophit is a company which distributes new songs to the radio and compiles airplay charts.

Officers of several pension funds said yesterday they were also unsure what process they would use to determine which companies distribute objectionable songs and which do not.

In May 2009, "Whatever You Like" was retroactively dubbed the first track of Internet Leaks, an EP consisting of a series of digitally distributed songs by Yankovic.

Cornerband, in turn, charges artists to distribute songs in a technology wrapper, supplied by Microsoft, that can prompt users to pay for a track or buy a CD when they try to play the music after a preset time period.

Records to distribute songs and videos on the site Members are able to access chat forums, theme clubs, personal profiles, videos, photos, music, and upload user generated content.

It was only six months ago that Bob Dole and William Bennett grabbed headlines by decrying Time Warner for distributing songs with violent and misogynist lyrics.

Its new mechanism for distributing songs - both convenient and free - has proved its attractiveness, especially for the young people who are the most avid music consumers.