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The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that a ban on file-trading networks is urgently required, but agreed to work with tech companies concerned that devices like Apple Computer’s iPod would be imperiled.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said that he intended to move ahead with the highly controversial Induce Act despite objections from [...]

Hollywood studios and the National Football League are seeking to block the maker of the popular TiVo (news – web sites) television recorder from expanding its service so that users could watch copies of shows and movies on devices outside their homes.
In filings with the Federal Communications Commission (news – web sites), the organizations [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Gadget-loving music fans will buy more than 10 million digital music players in 2004, in one of the year’s biggest consumer buying crazes, a study showed on Wednesday.

The popularity of gadgets like Apple Computer’s iPod, which can store thousands of songs in a pocket-sized device, is propelling a spending spree in [...]

FileSharing Service Launches the Only 100% Adware and Spyware Free Peer to Peer Product
 
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 20, 2004–BearShare announces the release of a new product called BearShare Lite, the only commercial free of adware and spyware. Users can download it from one of the following distribution partners: 1. PC World
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“medium convergence” – that was one that magic word at times of the InterNet boom end of the 90’s. PC and slipper cinema should merge; the multimedia world in the living room should make Internetprovider and offerers of Entertainment contents equally rich. Some years and a collapse of the stock market it looks later like [...]

Apple Computer said Wednesday that it signed deals with three of the United Kingdom’s largest independent labels, partly ending a licensing spat that had kept many popular bands out of the company’s European iTunes service.
The deal, with the Beggars Group, Sanctuary Records Group and V2, means that artists such as the Pixies, The White Stripes [...]

To get a sense of how diverse people’s musical tastes are these days, take a look at iTunes. One of the more popular artists — in addition to the Britneys and Beyoncés — is a Hawaiian singer who weighed 1,000 pounds at the time of his death in 1997.
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s medley of “Somewhere Over [...]

iMesh, the pioneer of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, announced today that it has reached a resolution with leading record labels who filed a lawsuit in September 2003. The record labels alleged that the company contributed to digital copyright infringements taking place on the iMesh network.  
“Entering into this agreement with key players within the entertainment [...]

The European Commission on Monday night approved the 50-50 merger of Bertelsmann Music Group and Sony Music, creating the world’s second largest recorded music company, without concessions or structural remedies.

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Sony BMG, as the enlarged company will be known, is expected to control more than 22 per cent of the global music [...]

Kazaa Wireless provides mobile capable brains to your Kazaa Lite K++, or Kazaa Media Desktop application.  With Kazaa Wireless you can get direct access to Kazaa anytime, anywhere using any kind of mobile device.
Kazaa Wireless requires:
o Windows 2000/XP (or better)o IIS version 5 or higher (it’s already included with Windows 2000/XP)  (its the World Wide [...]