Google now gives away legal downloads in China. And thus the official market catches up with the kids with 500GB USB drive parties. Meanwhile,
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C30, C60, C90, go!
Microsoft employees give up all hope.
It’s not just Microsoft’s DRMed music at twice the price, which will be as popular as a Zune running Vista. It’s the PR guy’s
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“DRM-free” as blatant lie.
Customers loathe and despise DRM. What’s a marketer to do? Advertise products as “DRM-free” when they’re nothing of the sort! After Sony and Nokia
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DRMed, limited “DRM-free unlimited” music services on mobile phones.
DAS BUNKER, British Phonographic Industry, Wednesday (NNGadget) — Sony-Ericsson has announced PlayNow Plus, a new plan for unlimited “DRM-free” music downloads on phones. “Pay,
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Metallica “welcome” album leak.
“That’s how things are done these days,” says drummer Lars Ulrich. “Also, there’s the novelty of anyone wanting to listen to a Metallica album.”
Read MoreRewired for sound.
Of course, the real alternative to the iPod is a cheap Chinese MP3 player labeled “MP4” (a blatant lie you wish the MPEG LA
Read MoreWelcome to the antisocial.
The Edsel of music players, its very name signifying miserable failure, has broken the heart of even its greatest fan.
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Fool me six times, shame on my parents.
Yahoo! Music is shutting down, and its DRM servers with it. All four of you who bought a track there are losing it shortly.
Read MoreJamendo is not a complete waste of your ears.
As slushpiles go, the stuff on Jamendo is surprisingly not an excretory avalanche of hopelessly stunted clueless ambition devoid of talent. In the bleepy
Read MoreThat’s it, the Internet’s over. You can all go home now.
There’s cultural preservation, and then there’s the K-Tel blog. “A place for those K-Tel style classics.”
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Slightly saner online music sales?
As reported in a few places (including The Register), Universal are making 43,000 tracks available for online purchase – US$0.99 a track, around US$10
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EMI: “Quit whining, pirate scum!”
Over at El Reg they’ve been running a few pieces lately about responses from record label “customer relations” departments to purchasers who’ve complained about
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Emperor Norton in shock music giveaway
This may not be the newest news around, but… For those who haven’t noticed, Emperor Norton Records have started putting some new albums, in
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Ogg Vorbis 1.0 hardware decoder released free
As it’s run its short commercial life, Xiph.org have freely released the integer decoder for Ogg Vorbis – that is, the version that will
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RIAA website hack: MP3s offered for download
After the third in a series of website hacks, the RIAA has fixed its website … except for this page. The page is presently
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The MP3 shakedown begins: US$2000 to put your songs up
It’s been long forecast, and is on at last: Fraunhofer and Thomson Multimedia have new rates for the use of MP3. Non-commercial decoders were
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Janis Ian Redux
posted by Anthony Horan Janis Ian has posted a follow-up to her much-read Internet Debacle feature, with a new reaction piece called Fallout. Is
Read MoreMp3 servers: missing in action?
posted by Kevin Mp3 servers…where are you? So, here’s the deal, I’ve spent the past year or two collecting records, ripping, downloading, and otherwise
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RIAA and NMPA nail Audiogalaxy.
After bringing suit in late May, the RIAA and NMPA have just obtained their dream settlement against Audiogalaxy: a strict opt-in system, where only
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Latest dispatches from the war against the consumer
As forecast in Suck two years ago, Interscope appear to have been using flooding p2p networks with 30-second loops of the new Eminem album
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Sony tweaks Key2Audio
According to CD Freaks (highly recommended to those following the copy-prevention wars), Sony has reportedly patched Key2Audio to get around the marker hack. Meanwhile,
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Original KaZaA BV crushed, Morpheus to follow, KaZaA network continues
The KaZaA network is alive and well, but the original KaZaA BV in Holland has collapsed under the financial pressure of the lawsuits being
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More Sony discs to wreck your Mac: boycott urged
Congratulations, Sony: your customers are now actually afraid to buy the legal product rather than download a free pirate copy. A report from the
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KaZaA adware defeated
KaZaAlite, a version of KaZaA minus the Brilliant Digital Altnet ad trojan, has been put together by a Russian programmer and made available at www.kazaalite.com.
Nicola Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks, has claimed that Sharman will “take action against parties engaged in misrepresenting our software,” despite KaZaAlite’s author being … in another country with differing laws.
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Record companies push unusable download service again.
The recording industry is yet again offering a downloadable music service consumers can’t use – no MP3s, songs not transferable to portable music players
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Breathtaking audacity: the RIAA tries to get the right to hack your computer
In the wake of September 11, the RIAA is trying to score the right to hack your PC in search of MP3s without legal consequence for damage.
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