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Music is neck-deep into a new era in which convenience is paramount. Artists are creating music at increasingly lower costs in their own homes and distributing it over the Internet, while consumers are listening to that music anywhere, anytime on wireless portable devices.
 
Cell phones are no longer just cell phones, they are [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with two leading national class action law firms, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair the damage done by the First4Internet XCP and SunnComm MediaMax software it included on over 24 million music CDs.
EFF is pleased that Sony BMG has taken steps in acknowledging [...]

A Sydney court has given file-sharing network Kazaa until December 5 to either filter copyrighted music from its system or shut down, music industry officials say.
The imposition of the deadline follows a court ruling in September that Kazaa users were breaching copyright and that the network’s owners had to modify the software.
Other global peer-to-peer [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with Bram Cohen, the designer of peer-to-peer (P2P) software Bit Torrent, to remove links to video content owned by the seven member studios of the MPAA from Bittorrent.com.
Bit Torrent has reportedly been a popular source for downloading pirated movies [...]

The Apple-owned computer store made the top 10 US record sales list for the first time, said NPD, which tracks downloads and people’s buying habits.
 
NPD compared 12 iTunes separate song downloads to one album purchase at an ordinary retail store.
 
iTunes beat Tower Records, Borders, and Sam Goody, the survey said. [...]

According to the lawsuit filed in Travis County, several of the company’s music compact discs require customers to download Sony’s media players if they want to listen to the CDs on a computer.
 
Software included with that media player "remains hidden and active" after installation and makes users vulnerable to security risks and possible [...]

America’s 16 players won two gold medals and one silver to top the national rankings at the gaming event.
 
Coming in second was South Korea and third Brazil. Britain could only manage joint 18th position as players struggled to cope with the strength of skills on display.
 
UK pro-gaming clan Four-Kings had some [...]

Time to punch out. Another hard day at work.
 
Welcome to the basement lair of the 24-year-old Wendel, the man known and feared by aficionados of multiplayer games across the globe as "Fatal1ty."
 
If you deign to think of video games as simply a childish pastime, consider this professional game player. [...]

Labelled Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, the new installment of the Web browsing software claims many of the same types of improvements as the last several test versions of the application.
 
Those additions include faster navigation, with upgrades to back and forward button performance, as well as drag-and-drop reordering for browser tabs, and improvements [...]

Some experts "have recorded a startling increase in the quantity of viruses plaguing the p2p community," it says.
 

But, "What makes you think Sony BMG or its cohorts aren’t behind them, building distrust among users for p2p file sharing? "

 
A month ago, we would have brushed off the very idea as nuts. [...]