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Boston band Jim’s Big Ego is learning that it pays not to be stingy with its music
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff
A funny thing happened when music fans began illegally sharing songs by the Boston band Jim’s Big Ego on Napster several years ago. The band got bigger. So much bigger that when the record companies [...]
Korea: Talks in fail on MP3 mobile phones
By Kim Tong-hyung
The last-minute talks to resolve the prolonged dispute over free music on mobile phones broke down yesterday, paving the way for a possible legal battle between record producers and a telecom service provider.Representatives of the music industry, mobile service providers and electronics makers held the fifth and last round of negotiations at the [...]
Inside the Courtroom: The Music Industry Takes on the Uploaders
by Mary Bridges
While the Recording Industry of America’s (RIAA) crackdown on illegal file sharing has resulted in lawsuits against nearly 3000 individuals, a number of legal questions raised in the cases were under debate inside the John Joseph Moakley U. S. Courthouse in Boston yesterday. Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts [...]
ABC [ Yet Another Bittorrent Client ] 2.6.7
This release is a couple of days old but noone has noticed it here.# Now using BitTornado 0.2.0# Client ID reports as: ABC-2.6.7 (ABC 2.6.7 BitTornado 0.2.0 based)# Create Torrent fixed# Turning scrape on should work now# Build with non-unicode version of wxPython (Win98/ME should work now)# Uses better looking icon# About Box updated
Winny 2b66 – English Version
What is Winny? “Winny is a file sharing software aiming to accomplish high throughput and annonymity, with simple Bullitain Board System.”Winny2 enables mass-scale BBS in addition to the functions of Winny. Be aware that I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS raising while your beta testing. DO NOT USE THESE SOFTWARE FOR ILLEAGAL SHARING OF [...]
Heineken USA Begins ‘Downloads’ Promotion
The summer digital music season has officially kicked off with Heineken USA and RealNetworks teaming up to deliver free music downloads (where legal). Beginning May 1, every specially marked 12-pack of Heineken will include a unique code redeemable for two free music downloads from RealNetworks’ RealPlayer Music Store. The Heineken USA/RealNetworks relationship marks the first [...]
Morpheus 4.0.5
The new Morpheus 4.0.5 software includes:o No spyware or hijackware. [Editor's Note: Download.com says that third party software is installed with Morpheus]o Seamless and simultaneous searches of files shared by users of Morpheus, Gnutella, Kazaa, eDonkey, iMESH, Overnet, Grokster, LimeWire, G2 and other peer-to-peer networks.o Free VOIP VoiceChat-chat by voice in real time with other [...]
Italy approves ‘jail for P2P users’ law
Italy has made transferring content via the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder a criminal offence
The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised copyright material to and from the Net.
The move comes in direct response to the rise [...]
Single Mother Overwhelmed by the RIAA Suit
Single mom overwhelmed by recording industry suit
BY LESLIE BROOKS SUZUKAMOPioneer Press
Tammy Lafky has a computer at home but said she doesn’t use it. “I don’t know how,” the 41-year-old woman said, somewhat sheepishly.
But her 15-year-old daughter, Cassandra, does. And what Cassandra may have done, like millions of other teenagers and adults around the world, landed [...]
Legal music sites break 100 mark
Legal music sites break 100 mark
By Darren Waters BBC News Online entertainment staff
The number of legal online music services world-wide has broken through the 100 barrier.
The global music industry made the announcement as it celebrated the first anniversary of its downloading education website, pro-music.org.
The website features a directory of all the legal [...]
