After being the last major label to drop DRM, announces plan to sell physical digital album cards for around $13 dollars that enable consumers to download full-length DRM-free albums online. In an unusual twist in the record industry’s battle for relevancy in an increasing digital marketplace, Sony BMG has announced that it will launch a [...]

Popular lightweight BitTorrent client for Mac and Linux users leaves Beta. Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. [...]

Last year, ZeroPaid reported on the German music industry saying it would sue 1000 file-sharers every month in the year of 2007. This crackdown on copyright infringement was an attempt to deter file-sharers, making it seem as though one couldn’t get away with it in Germany. A new report on Heise Online seems to show [...]

Earlier this week, ZeroPaid reported that a Nielson Soundscan report suggests that physical music sales were down 21% in the Christmas of 2007. Just north of the forty ninth parallel, Canada has much more relaxed copyright laws. If the copyright laws in the US are strict and music sales are down, would that suggest that [...]

Sites that allow visitors to stream, upload, or share video content must have a permit and be either state-owned or state-controlled. China continues to exert an almost Darth Vader-like grip on that country’s internet with a report that it has announced that only state-controlled video sharing sites will be allowed to exist. Under the new [...]

Blames Hewlett-Packard’s discontinuation of the software responsible for running the site. Wal-Mart, which currently holds some 40% of the physical DVD market, has announced that it’s pulling the plug on its online movie download service for the time being. The reason for the decision is that Hewlett-Packard Co., which provided the software running the site, [...]

The Travelstar 5K500, the largest HDD yet developed for notebooks, is due to begin shipping in February. Today Hitachi is expected to announce the debut of the Travelstar 5K500, a 500GB HDD for laptops. It is the highest capacity drive yet developed for portable PCs and is due to begin shipping in February. Hitachi has [...]

Will partner with LG Electronics to develop a set-top box for consumers to stream movies and other programming from the internet to HDTVs. Netflix Inc., the world’s largest online movie rental service with more than 7 million customers, and LG Electronics, a global consumer electronics leader, announced today that they are joining forces to develop [...]

The new year brings more bad news for traditional record labels as another music heavyweight jumps ship for the future of music distribution. There’s a “confirmed” rumor up on the Boy Genius Report blog that mega superstar rapper Jay-Z is going to team up with Apple to launch a new record label. Set to step [...]

Lets you grab the music streaming from a number of different music services like Myspace, Pandora, Last-fm, eSnips, MOG, iJigg, and IMEEM for FREE with the click of a button. Every so often a new program comes along that makes life so much easier and just a little bit cooler. In this case it’s a [...]

With news that the RIAA claims ripping MP3s from CDs is illegal is it any wonder people are turning to digital distribution? has the latest Chris tams season music sales figures from Nielsen Soundscan and it isn’t looking pretty for the music industry. From the week of Thanksgiving up through the day before Christmas Eve [...]

Scheduled to debut in mid-January, the famed early-90′s superstar behind “U Can’t Touch This” hopes to catch lighting in a bottle once again and create a hub for sharing and watching dance videos. MC Hammer, aka Stanley Kirk Burrell, is seeking out a new career these days in the high-tech hallways of Silicon Valley. After [...]