Universal Music Group jumped past rival EMI and juggernaut Apple to sell digital music without DRM (Digital Rights Management) to consumers. The files will be in open MP3 format that can be used on...

This post is part of a series on the us house of representatives hearing on P2P. 1. U.S. Witch Hunt 2. Who Stole My P2P Cheese 3. What the Feds Say 4. The Industry Talks 5. Clark Wants Gov.......

This post is part of a series on the US House of Representatives hearing on P2P. 1. U.S. Witch Hunt 2. Who Stole My P2P Cheese 3. What the Feds Say 4. The Industry Talks 5. Clark Wants Gov.......

ISPs used to protect their subscribers. No more. When they start selling entertainment and get in bed with Hollywood, you the consumer are back to sleeping on the floor with the dogs. AT&T, the...

MediaDefender, which provides anti-piracy technology and services, set up a web site at MiiVi.com to entice web visitors and P2P users to commit copyright infringement. The company has stepped up...

London-based online music store 7digital now sells DRM-free tunes from major label EMI, similar to an offering from Passalong Networks. While pricing is similar to iTunes (7digital has songs at $1.08...

Warner Music torpedoed digital media innovation and canceled a deal with Anywhere CD, which had sold bundled CDs and MP3s. Anywhere CD will be able to continue to sell Warner CDs by themselves. I...

A recent controversy over Microsoft Windows Media Center has highlighted the perils of DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM uses secured formats that can cause incompatibilities with other hardware...

ROYALTYSHARE ADDS MUSICALC san diego-based digital media tracker RoyaltyShare acquired UK-based Musicalc. Musicalc provides royalty accounting services and software and enables RoyaltyShare to expand...

Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat, which develop and distribute software that blocks unauthorized streaming media recording, have served cease and desist letters to Apple, RealNetworks,...

The recording industry lawsuit against limewire has been postponed until March 2008 when the summary judgment motion will be fully briefed and pretrial discovery finished. Justice is slow for the...

Web site Bolt.com was one a few holdouts against the entertainment industry's legal assault on web-based video sharing. No more. The company has settled with Universal Music Group. The settlement...

How big is YouTube? It is far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, according to Hitwise, an Internet Audience Measurement company. Google's acquisition and site promotion hiked...

RealNetworks has released a closed beta of realplayer 11. It's billed, as the first major media player that enables video downloads from sites like YouTube. Video will be downloaded in its native...

THE NIELSEN COMPANY BOUGHT TELEPHIA MEDIA RESEARCH Nielsen bought Telephia, a media research company focused on the mobile industry for an undisclosed amount. Telephia serves both mobile data and...

I admire the folks at project playlist. They've developed a service that carefully navigates copyright infringement, at least how the recording industry plays that game today. I'll ignore...

Not to be outdone by Apple and EMI's scam (see The Apple iTunes Scam), LaLa and Warner are upping the ante on your personal surveillance even further. Forget claiming that some third-world hacker...

apple itunes Plus is here. I recommend that you run away. Fast. It was announced with a big bang and the promise of free and open music. See Open Format Files Rate a 30% Premium. It went downhill...

The Amazon Slingbox pioneered place-shifting, changing the location at which you watched a broadcast. The Slingbox lost a fan in Major League Baseball, which claims that it's not legal to...