Another one of those boring and really rather pointless studies has been released todeay, telling us that suprise suprise, kids like to aquire music via the internet, and a percentage of them do it...
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The top European courts have today ruled once and for all that ISPs are not required to give up details of their subscribers in cases of a civil nature. This covers all cases where organizations...
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The IFPI has just released it's report for music sales through 2007, and it is showing massive gains for the sales of digital music, up a massive 40% on the last year. Countries like the US are...
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Filed in archive Legal
by Jordan Grodecki on January 28, 2008
We've always said that record labels don't understand the ways p2p could be used properly, for legal music purposes, yet they have never been quite this vocal in showing that they don't...
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The UK government is proposing plans to try and filter out the promotion of Radical Islam on the net in the same way it combats child pornography. "If we are ready and willing to take action to...
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Subscribers to US based DVD rental service Netflix have had the oppertunity to watch online, streamed content, such as TV shows and some movies, for a limited number of hours, generally corrosponding...
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The fantastic internet radio reccomendation player...thing, that is Pandora, has announced that it will be ceasing to operate in the United Kingdom due to the lack of a decent way of paying the...
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After the long running EU antitrust case against Apple, they have finally settled on reducing the price of downloadable tracks in the UK. Previously they were 79p each, yet have now been lowered to...
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Filed in archive DRM
by Jordan Grodecki on January 08, 2008
Sony BMG have finally fallen; their music is available in a format which is not strangled by digital rights management, meaning that all of the major labels have now moved away from the previous...
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In a statistic that is sure to please the RIAA, music sales over the previous Christmas are down a whopping 21% on last year. In the runup to Christmas, 83.9 million albums were sold this year, which...
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After the copyright cronies shut down TVLinks, a site that purely linked to material hosted on other servers, such as DivX's Stage6, many people were left lost, struggling to find a replacement...
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Happy new year everyone! It's 2008, and a couple of people have compiled some statistics for you if you happen to be interested in what was shared last year. Firstly Big Champagne, a media...
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