Middle East record labels are using the same technologies that threaten to put them out of business to win back music fans who have been seduced by piracy.

After the calls to leave had been issued, armed security guards finally escorted the bulldozer toward its target, a metal shack that easily crumpled. Moments before, it had been home to Abdul-Karim Hamad Tarabin, his parents and 16 siblings.
 
“We knew it would be destroyed but didn’t know exactly when,” says 18-year-old Abdul-Karim about the [...]

It is situated in the lower income Arab town of Umm al-Fahm (Mother of Coal) in northern Israel. Umm al-Fahm is often known for the devoutness of its residents, and in political terms it is the bastion of the Islamic Movement, whose radical wing seeks Israel’s replacement by an Islamic [...]