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Legal MP3 Download Service Due Within Weeks
News Wippit is a peer to peer file-swapping service like Napster, but unlike Napster, which fell foul of the US courts for copyright infringement earlier this year, Wippit will only allow people who have paid the fee to download music.
[August 23, 2001, 13:08]
Freeserve Launches Legal Service On Net
News Users will be able to download legal letters, wills, trusts, employment agreements, guarantees, terms and conditions and property agreements from the Freeserve site. Richard Cohen, partner at London law firm Landau & Cohen believes the service will...
[April 26, 1999, 11:52]
Startup Spotlight: Wippit Tries To Beat The MP3 Competition
News What it does: It's about to launch a legal MP3-download service Like Napster, it will let users download MP3 files from the Internet, but its business model involves paying royalties to music publishers -- which it will fund by charging an annual...
[February 22, 2001, 13:46]
UK Site Will Be First For Legal Music Swapping
News Users may not be impressed if they can't download songs from their favourite band because its record label has decided not to make a deal. They won't get a fixed fee per download. But it will make it harder for the company to make deals with record...
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
Spanish Site To Offer All-you-can-eat Music Downloads
News A new all-you-can-eat music download service that claims to take advantage of a loophole in Spanish copyright law will launch on Tuesday and piggyback on a popular file-swapping network for distribution.
[May 20, 2003, 7:32]
File-swapping Service Shutters On DoJ Concerns
News FreeDrive's Public Share utility allowed subscribers to publicly post files of all types -- both illegal and legal -- for anyone to download. Once they found the file name located on the FreeDrive storage system, they could join FreeDrive and...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
ITunes Sales Hit 25 Million
News This really underscores the pace at which people are accepting legitimate online music distribution," said Phil Leigh, senior analyst at Inside Digital Media.iTunes customers download an average of 1.5 million songs from the service per week, said...
[December 16, 2003, 9:35]
Napster's Subscription Holy Grail Fading
News It's somewhat unfortunate that once [US district judge Marilyn Hall Patel] retools her injunction, Napster will likely be shut down before it has an opportunity to migrate millions of users from the free, illegal service to the paid, legitimate...
[February 13, 2001, 15:02]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
Talkback By Service I mean 24 hr Connection and the Ability to login download Etc Without Cut off. MB Download speeds my furry swingers ! When Canceling Your Service Pay Nothing for the Month in Which they messed with you service.pay only for whole 24/7...
[September 9, 2006, 17:11]
RIAA Site Defaced Again
News This weekend's electronic vandalism, which is a federal crime, included a faked apology for being overly litigious and a statement saying: "With the legal file-sharing service Kazaa still online, the Recording Industry Association of America today...
[September 4, 2002, 7:50]
Concern Grows About Bulldog's Broadband Service
Talkback By Service I mean 24 hr Connection and the Ability to login download Etc Without Cut off. MB Download speeds my furry swingers ! When Canceling Your Service Pay Nothing for the Month in Which they messed with you service.pay only for whole 24/7...
[May 21, 2006, 21:00]
Napster Clones Toe Music Industry Line
News Those files will appear in the search results list with a © sign, and their download will not be possible. According to CNET Download.com, a software download site maintained by ZDNet owner CNET Networks, nearly seven million people have downloaded...
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
Patch Service Shuts After Microsoft Request
News AutoPatcher and its network of download "mirror" sites have been operating for four years, and the project's frequently-asked-questions page describes it as legal. Today we received an email from Microsoft, requesting the immediate takedown of the...
[August 30, 2007, 8:15]
Still The Waverley Council Site Not Quite Telling The Truth.
Talkback However the EC site is only available on wmv so you are in the legal grey area of a download of the codec from a site in Hungary (well Hungary is an EU member) maybe not legal in the States but legal here in Canada.
[March 5, 2007, 16:49]
Lawsuit Targets Biggest Post-Napster Network
News Napster, Scour and others like them allowed people to swap files by connecting into central servers that created a constantly updated index of files available for download on people's hard drives. Music City's Morpheus and the Kazaa Media Desktop...
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
Napster Puts Europe In Its Sights
News It sells individual music tracks for 99 cents, and albums for $9.99 (roughly 55p and £5.50 respectively), on top of a free service that lets users view music videos and download short audio clips, and a premium service for $9.99 per month.
[January 16, 2004, 11:45]
Audiogalaxy Moves To Legal Downloads
News One-time file-swapping powerhouse Audiogalaxy, hobbled by a legal settlement with record labels, has launched a legal music offer in place of its old download service. The Rhapsody service offers streaming access to a huge number of albums for...
[September 10, 2002, 9:02]
Going For A Song: More Than 200,000 Licensed Tracks
White Papers Businesses that want to sell music over the internet to boost their brands and revenues can now turn to Cable & Wireless Music Download Service for a flexible and legal packaged solution. More than 200,000 tracks of music are already available...
[April 14, 2005, 0:00]
Media Center Will Succeed, Just Not Yet
Talkback Napster shut down after a legal battle over illegal downloads.but it relaunched with the same name as a pay service for download music.therefore the music isn't illegal. I suspect you haven't kept up with the times.
[November 1, 2004, 9:33]
EMusic Offers Subscription Service
News EMusic.com is launching a subscription service Monday that will allow consumers to download an unlimited number of songs from the Internet for a monthly fee. EMusic already offers a pay-per-download service.
[July 24, 2000, 13:58]
