LimeWire to Open DRM-FREE Music Store
Will be a stand-alone website, offering DRM-free MP3s, which will also be accessible from links within the file-sharing software.
Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store to offer paid digital downloads and monthly streaming subscription plans.
To be [...]
European Youth on Illegal File-Sharing: ‘Music Artists Don’t Need My Money!’
European Commission’s “Safer Internet for Children” study details how children are aware of the risks of illegal file-sharing and how they justify it.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General Information Society and Media has commissioned a qualitative study on the subject of “Safer Internet for Children.”
This study covers 29 countries, the 27 Member States, as well as [...]
Universal to Offer DRM-Free Music
Takes its battle with iTunes to another level beginning August 21st.
It’s no secret that Universal Music Group and other record labels have long been chafing under the pricing reins that Steve Jobs has mandated in his Apple iTunes digital music download store, but now it seems the fight has evolved from a war of [...]
Pirate Party Officially Begins Forming in Utah
Starts taking steps to become an officially recognized political party.
The Pirate Party of the United States has announced that it is currently trying to register itself as an officially recognized party in the state of Utah.
The first step in the registration of the Pirate Party as a political body in the State [...]
iPhone Now Able to Run a NES Emulator
Apple iPhone hackers continue to try and get the most for their $600 gadget.
I must admit I’m a bit jealous when it comes to the iPhone. It looks so sleek and clean looking that it makes all other mobile phones pale in comparison.
Having said this, at $500 – $600 bucks a pop, I think [...]
Computer Security Expert Testifies that the RIAA Can’t Identify Users by IP Address
Points out that “Many computers can be connected to the Internet with identical IP addresses as long as they remain behind control points such as routers, firewalls, proxy servers, or similar technologies.”
For all the RIAA’s usual mischief, like recent attempts to subpoena a guys former employer, and also amazingly to try and [...]
NAB: ‘Satellite Radio’s Proposed ‘A La Carte’ Package is an ‘A La Sham”
Terrestrial Radio still trying to convince the FCC that increasing consumer choice is really a bad thing.
It used to be that a true monopoly in this country of ours was something everyone could easily point at and agree on. It had names like Standard Oil, or “Ma Bell, companies that ruled our lives with [...]
Judge Lets RIAA Subpoena a Defendant’s Former Employer
Also requires the defendant to provide the name and address of everyone who used his laptop over the last 3 years.
The RIAA was granted a huge file-sharing victory last week when Judge P. Kevin Castel allowed the RIAA to take almost any and all means necessary to snoop into Yuri Shutovsky’s life in search [...]
EMI CD Sales Decline by Almost 20% in Last 4 Months
Combined with the news that digital music sales are up 26%, the decision to offer DRM-free iTunes Plus downloads looks better and better.
The long, slow, and painful decline in physical CD sales has made some of the record labels take heed and embrace the future of music that it is digital distribution, and none have [...]
The Pirate Bay Set to Relaunch SuprNova.org
Old school favorite acquired by new school Swedes to take back the MPAA and RIAA’s biggest file-sharing victory to date.
For those of you who don’t remember, Suprnova.org was a Slovenia-based BitTorrent tracker site that was started in late 2002 by Slovenian teen Andrej Preston, aka Sloncek, and in its prime was widely considered to [...]
