Congress Wants FTC to Launch Formal Investigation of P2P
Has lingering concerns that it makes unsuspecting users vulnerable to identity theft.
A number of Congressman have signed onto a proposal submitted to the FTC asking for it to “investigate promptly recent disclosures regarding inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and to take steps to ensure that potential risks posed by P2P networks are [...]
Will Usenet.com Find Safe Harbor From RIAA Lawsuit?
The DMCA’s Safe Harbor provision may protect it, that is if it can prove that it has legitmate uses as well.
Ars Technica has an interesting analysis of the RIAA’s lawsuit against Usenet.com. There’s reason to believe that Usenet.com — and most other Usenet providers — could qualify for protection under the DMCA’s Safe Harbor [...]
Rhapsody and TiVo Team Up to Deliver Music Directly to the Living Room
For $12.99 a month subscribers will get access to Rhapsody’s library of four million songs from the comfort of their sofa.
TiVo Inc. has recently announced that they will begin offering consumers digital music in the home by delivering instant access to Rhapsody, the music subscription service, through any broadband-connected TiVo box. [...]
RIAA Subpoenas 19 George Washington University Students
No rest for the wicked as the RIAA’s legal team demands the university gives up the identify of those it accuses of illegal file-sharing.
According to CNet.com, last Thursday US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a federal judge in Washington D.C., approved 19 subpoenas to identify the names of people listed as defendants in a campus [...]
iTunes ‘Plus’ DRM-Free Music Tracks Now Only 99 Cents
Is Apple trying to better compete with Universal’s recent DRM-free music strategy?.
Apple announced today that it has expanded iTunes Plus to begin offering over 2 million tracks, perhaps making it the largest DRM-free music catalog in the world outside P2P, and will also lower the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just [...]
RIAA Targets Usenet, Newsgroup Users Next to Feel its Wrath?
Begins targeting those who it accuses of being “facilitators” of copyright infringement, meaning we can expect a fresh new wave of lawsuits from its latest and greatest legal strategy.
It seems that newsgroup users will be the next target of the RIAA’s wrath with a new lawsuit filed on behalf major record labels against Usenet.com. It’s [...]
China Taking P2P to the Next Level?
With a relaxed regulatory environment unlike the US, Chinese developers have created file-sharing protocols that offer downloads 50 times faster than BitTorrent and real-time streaming of DVD quality video.
It’s no secret that China is emerging as an economic powerhouse in its own right, developing a burgeoning manufacturing industry that produces everything from cars to [...]
Legal Download Sales Rise 80% in the UK
Legal digital downloads of music and video in the UK rose by some 80.6% during the past year to 112 million pounds($227 million USD) researchers said last week.
The way that consumers acquire music and video content continues to change around the world and newly released figures show that the United Kingdom is a [...]
Universal’s ‘Total Music’ Plan Will Offer Free On-Demand Music
Will be supported by $5 a month tax on each media player that manufacturers make capable of using the service.
Universal Music Group’s chief Doug Morris has long been angry over Apple’s 29cents take of each 99cents music track sold on iTunes, going so far as to partner up with Rhapsody, Wal-Mart, Google, and Best [...]
RIAA Takes Another Hit as Madonna Prepares to Dump Record Label
Rumored to be leaving long-time home Warner Bros. and forging a deal with concert promoter Live Nation instead.
The air of death continues to swirl above the heads of the record industry as we know it with news that Madonna is planning to leave her long-time record label home of Warner Bros. in favor of [...]
