Slams the Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, and its “free music” rhetoric, ISP’s for not busting file-sharers, and ties terrorism to bootleg CDs. Apparently somebody over at the IFPI is taking David Letterman’s Top 10 List to new extremes, releasing an Al Gore-esque list of the “Ten inconvenient truths about the music industry [...]

League of rural voters say that satellite radio gives rural listeners better content and coverage than corporate radio conglomerates. An interesting development in the fight over the Sirius & XM satellite radio merger occurred this morning, one that will surely make Howard Stern happy on his vacation this week, with the League of Rural Voters [...]

Wants to offset the fall in CD sales by cashing in on the popularity of online video to create new revenue. Warner Music International and Premium TV, a digital services provider, today announced an agreement to develop a series of ad-supported online TV sites that will let users watch music videos for free. WMI will [...]

Don’t go uploading them to Oink just yet, each embedded with your name and account e-mail. Amidst all the fanfare surrounding the launch of Apple’s iTunes Plus DRM-free music store, Erica over at Tuaw.com, an “Unofficial Apple Weblog,” is reporting that each .m4a music file purchased is then embedded with the users full name and [...]

Will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV. Apple continues to dominate the headlines today as Steve Jobs makes another announcement while attending the All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, CA, this time announcing that the new Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play [...]

DRM-free P2P music sharing network adds a 3rd label to it’s ever-growing catalog of artists. Grooveshark, the P2P music sharing network I’ve covered quite extensively here, has now signed an agreement with Magnatune, an independent, online record label and music catalog of over 200 independent recording artists, to begin offering their content to users of [...]

Features free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities. Apple’s iTunes continues to add content to its increasingly multi-faceted digital music and movies download store, today announcing it has created a dedicated area called iTunes U that will feature free content [...]

Touch screen can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. It’s a bit of a deviation from what I normally cover but, it’s so darn cool I felt it needed to be shared with others. Today Microsoft unwrapped a [...]

Rolls out EMI’s catalog in 256kbps AAC format. Yesterday I mentioned how PayPlay.FM was releasing 1.3 million DRM-free Indie tracks at 88 cents per song, well, today Apple officially launched its much anticipated iTunes Plus, a DRM-free addition to the regular iTunes store that will offer DRM-free tracks from EMI’s extensive music catalog at $1.29 [...]

Offers grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 USD to those with the most promising ideas that focus on areas like “promotion of the legal use of media and deterrence of piracy.” Looking for “A few good geeks,” Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc (“MovieLabs“), a nonprofit research and development organization based in Palo Alto and founded by [...]

Indie site now offers tunes from its 1,300,000-track catalog that’s fully compatible with iPod and any MP3 player, and also supports Windows, Mac, UNIX, all major browsers. In a continued march towards a world of DRM-free music, Payplay.FM is another site that now offers music in an unprotected MP3 format. Today the indie music site [...]

Mulls introducing a P2P caching solution that will deliver P2P data that has previously been retrieved by another customer directly from an Exetel “mirror” and only using external sources for data that isn’t available from the local disks. Exetel, the popular Australian ISP, has just completed a 6 month trial of of P2P traffic “management,” [...]

Using its Vuze video distribution platform, will act as the online submission portal for HD-DVD and TV pilot category entries, and allow users to vote on submissions. Azureus and the Independent Television Festival have announced today that that they will partner up to expand the competition to a global audience. Aspiring TV show creators will [...]

New study says that 51% of illegal file-sharers in Italy use eMule compared to about 3% who use BitTorrent. Italy’s Luigi Einaudi Foundation has published some new research about illegal file-sharing in Italy that offers up some interesting tidbits about their habits and preferences, the most interesting being that an amazing 3/4 of those surveyed [...]

Mainly cite fears of accidentally downloading a virus or spyware. The Business Software Alliance(BSA) have released the results of a new survey which claims that illegal downloading of copyrighted works by youth ages 8 to 18 has dropped by 40% in the last 3 years. In 2004 60% of youth reported illegally downloading copyrighted material, [...]

After a year of frustrated digging, Swedish law enforcement says it needs more time to look for "incriminating evidence." Now as may of you remember, the Pirate Bay’s servers along with 100 others unrelated to the site were confiscated over a year ago, and despite coming up empty handed they have asked for more time [...]

Wants to offer $4 dollar album downloads at a bitrate of your choice, and blames the record industry for its own problems by having ripped off customers for so many years. NIN seems to be leading the way for how the music industry of the future should be, taking on high priced CD albums and [...]

BT Etree is a BitTorrent tracker site that offers free, and apparently legal, live concert recording downloads from “trade friendly artists.” In the vein of other BitTorrent tracker sites like Ants Marching which offers live recordings of the Dave Matthews Band, bt.etree.org offers live concert recordings of similarly “altruistic” artists. As the site notes, “We [...]

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