Soribada, a Korean P2P developer, will convert to an authorized paid service on April 1. The settlement includes a $8.75 million fine. Soribada launched in 2000 with a server-based architecture like...
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Yahoo! Music VP and GM David Goldberg spoke on the need for innovative digital music marketing and the problems with DRM at the iHollywood Forum Music 2.0 conference. He compared digital music...
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by Marc on February 25, 2006
The MPAA continued its aggressive moves against file sharing services (Slyck, Ars Tecnica). In the past year the MPAA has targeted web sites and servers hosting unauthorized files or metadata files...
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by Marc on February 24, 2006
The good news: Research company Ipsos Insight reported that over half of US digital music downloaders have paid for the music. About 25 million downloaders have paid, 11 million in the past month....
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by Marc on February 24, 2006
RIAA and IFPI shut down the Razorback2 eDonkey server with the help of Belgian and Swiss police. While it may have been significant 5 years ago, such a closure today has no effect on the P2P world....
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by Marc on February 23, 2006
Apple licensed-music service itunes broke one billion songs sold three years after opening. Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan bought the billionth song and won a 20-inch iMac, 10 iPods,...
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by Marc on February 22, 2006
For an alternative viewpoint, listen to Tony Brummel, foudcer and CEO of indie label Victory Records. "Apple/iTunes do not care about independent labels or, for that matter, the record industry....
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SXSW is providing 3GB of free band music and film trailers though Bit Torrent P2P for the public to check out the acts and videos prior to the event. The content includes 83 film trailers and 713...
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Digital backups are now illegal ... Or so RIAA now claims. There appears to be no end to their monopolistic zeal to control how you can use the media you buy. And they have the lobbying power to...
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Yes, Virginia, there is legally free music you can download that is in the public domain. At least until Disney passes a new law that extends the copyright duration to 1,000 years. Wikipedia has a...
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by Marc on February 19, 2006
P2POD is another home entertainment center like LamaBox and MuViBOXX, previously reported here. P2POD is offered by AHT International BV in Stellendam, the Netherlands. The device outputs to both...
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by Marc on February 19, 2006
Tinkerer Nathan True shows how to build your own Wireless Music Player. This truly is for hardcore programmers only with lots of time on their hands. True writes: It's a problem many of us are...
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by Marc on February 16, 2006
This isn't P2P, so bear with me. It is interesting digital entertainment analysis that reminds us that half the world isn't online, which can present interesting opportunities. Robert X....
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by Marc on February 16, 2006
Here is more DiaRIAA. David Berlind, executive editor at ZDNet, calls music industry-mandated DRM (Digital Rights Management) CRAP in this video. CRAP stands for Content, Restriction, annulment, and...
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by Marc on February 15, 2006
The Content Reference Group, led by Microsoft and Universal Music Group, is touting a smart DRM solution, using what they call a reference file, an intentionally nebulous term. I assume it's a...
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by Marc on February 13, 2006
Save the Music Foundation is the newest program to protect consumers against the recording industry's P2P lawsuits. The program is an extension of Nettwerk's Music's support in the...
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by Marc on February 11, 2006
A Paris district court ruled P2P downloading and sharing to be legal as long as its for personal use. france has compulsory licensing in the form of a levy on blank CDs and tapes to pay copyright...
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The Fraunhofer Institute IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, developer of the MP3 format, has announced new watermarking technology. The technology includes a watermark maker, which would be embedded in...
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by Marc on February 07, 2006
RIAA said in November 2004 testimony before the Federal Trade Commission that most P2P users aren't aware that files are being shared. This runs counter to their PR campaign that P2P users are...
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by Marc on February 05, 2006
Marie Lindor, a home health aide, has never use a computer in her life. Nevertheless she was sued by RIAA for online copyright infringement. Lindor has filed for for summary judgment to dismiss the...
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by Marc on February 03, 2006
RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America, has changed law firms, from Kansas City, Missouri-based Shook Hardy & bacon to Denver, Colorado-based Holme Roberts & Owen. No explanation...
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