Sony Music Sued for Breaching US Privacy Laws – Fined $1 Million
It could negatively affect web developers this time.
There’s an interesting report on Wired’s Threat Level which details Sony getting sued by the FTC for $1 million. While a previous lawsuit against the company proved to be hilarious over the hypocrisy of being sued for software piracy, this lawsuit may be of interest to many [...]
RIAA Sued for Price Fixing – 6 Years Later
It has been a little over 6 years since the Recording Industry Association of America settled a case where they were accused for price fixing. The 2002 case probably felt like a victory for consumers, but six years later, the problem of seemingly unfair pricing schemes still seems to exist today
Six years is [...]
ZeroPaid Interviews FilesTube – a Web Search Tool for Files
There’s a website currently growing in popularity that might be able to find that song you are looking for without installing a p2p client. This website is called FilesTube.
As many are aware, there are places one can use to search for a file hosted on sites like Rapidshare and MegaUpload. There are also [...]
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ a Rip Off of Beatmania?
Guitar Hero has become a successful product in North America for quite some time. While the basic ideas about the game isn’t entirely new, apparently, this was lost on someone since a company is attempting to produce a Guitar Hero for Djs that seems practically identical to Konami’s “Beatmania”.
The year was 1997 and a [...]
Nokia Thinks a DRM Based Online Music Business Model Will Work
In light of major music stores selling DRM encoded music collapsing, Nokia apparently thinks that they can somehow reverse the trend and make a successful business model out of it. Clearly a large responsible company that knows technology would know how to bring this kind of model to success where tiny little not-too-bright upstart [...]
German GEMA Copyright Protest Posted on YouTube
We noted a very interesting case in Germany where an artist sent 70,200 forms to GEMA in a truck – the whole thing is currently available on YouTube.
When we first reported on the story, we had only the information on what had happened. Now it seems as though videos of what had transpired is [...]
Google Launches Free Music Service in China
The focus in China from the world may be on the Olympics in Beijing, but Google currently has plans that has less to do with sports and more to do with free music.
Reuters is reporting on Google’s newly launched free music service. The service will be available through Top100.cn (Google translation)
From the report:
Google said [...]
Large Private BitTorrent Site Deep Bass Nine Back Online
After about a week of being offline, one of the largest Drum N’ Bass private BitTorrent websites is finally back online. The news comes as relief to many fans of the music genre who use the site.
The week started off as any other typical week for the members of Deep Bass Nine, hanging out [...]
