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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]
Startup Spotlight: Wippit tries to beat the MP3 competition
News 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 membership fee and by carrying advertising.
[February 22, 2001, 13:46]
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]
UK site will be first for legal music swapping
News Wippit, the UK-based peer-to-peer music service that is on track to launch this autumn, is poised to announce important deals with at least two major record labels. The big five record labels -- Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann, Sony Music, Vivendi...
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
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 Monday's legal ruling against Napster has once again raised the specter of a court-ordered shutdown, adding new momentum to a direction the music-swapping service was already headed -- away from an unpaid and largely unsupervised network to a paid...
[February 13, 2001, 15:02]
File-swapping service shutters on DoJ concerns
News Napster is embroiled in a famous legal dispute brought by music companies that charge file-swapping company is aiding the theft of copyrighted materials. But some members began using it to trade illegally copied software and music files, eventually...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
Napster clones toe music industry line
News Late last week, members of the Israel-based iMesh service -- the largest pure file-swapping service left outside of Napster -- saw a new note as they logged on, telling them they'd soon have access to considerably less music.
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
Lawsuit targets biggest post-Napster network
News Music City's Morpheus and the Kazaa Media Desktop have been among the most popular downloads on the Internet in recent months, with more than 34 million versions of the program downloaded from CNET's Download.com, one of the most popular download...
[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. Napster developed its own subscription music service and at one time had planned...
[September 10, 2002, 9:02]
Ruckus Free Music Player
Downloads Ruckus is the free, ad-supported music & media download service built specifically for college students. To get started, download the Ruckus Music Player and sign up at the Web site by using your school-provided (.edu) e-mail address.
[February 9, 2008, 0:33]
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]
iMesh
Downloads Our service is endorsed by the key players in the Music Industry. With the power of the iMesh network you can listen to and download songs that are 100% legal. iMesh is a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that lets you find, download, share, and...
[August 5, 2009, 5:17]
NTL and Napster bundle up on broadband
News The Broadband Plus package will cost £9.95 a month with the music download service thrown in. With the biggest name in legal music downloading -- Apple's iTunes -- rumoured to be announcing its European launch date on Tuesday, rival service Napster...
[June 15, 2004, 13:40]
Amazon turns up Loudeye volume
News Meanwhile, retail giant Wal-Mart Stores announced that it has begun testing its own online discount music download service. Another company looking to capitalise on the trend and create competition for Apple's iTunes is massive chain retailer Wal...
[December 19, 2003, 10:35]
EMusic offers subscription service
News In a release, EMusic said the new subscription service offered a "legitimate alternative to Napster", the music site that has gained fame and legal scrutiny by helping users copy digital music from one another.
[July 24, 2000, 13:58]
AOL wary of legal Napster
News AOL Time Warner executives on Wednesday said German media giant Bertelsmann has yet to convince them that working with Napster to try to create a commercial music download service is worthwhile. With a legal sword hanging over Napster's head...
[February 1, 2001, 8:40]
Listen.com flirts with Napster links
News Even in the unauthorised, test version now on the site, it's the first time the gap has been closed between the sprawling Napster download service and the mainstream services serving as guides to the often bewildering maze of online music.
[April 17, 2001, 9:16]
US colleges may charge for songs
News Universities are considering ways to bring legal Internet jukeboxes to dorm rooms, including entering deals with commercial service providers that would see online music charges included alongside tuition fees or picked up by the schools themselves.
[August 4, 2003, 11:15]
