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Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
Talkback Wow - Now I can download All About Eve's "Scarlet and Other Stories" for £12.99, write it to cd myself, and listen to it forever wishing I had the artwork and sleeve to make it feel "purchased"! Fantastic!
[August 15, 2003, 11:02]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
Talkback Well, either it didn't debut or it's stuffed already.
[August 15, 2003, 0:13]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
News A new pay-by-the-song music service is launching in Western Europe, putting an iTunes-like digital download store inside Microsoft's Windows Media Player. Pressplay, recently purchased by Roxio and renamed Napster, already plans a pay-by-the-song...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
Scour Song-swapping Site To Close
News Music file-sharing service Scour announced Tuesday it is to close down its exchange site in the next two days. Earlier this month, music Web site Listen.com offered to buy the Scour's assets, which would not have made it responsible for Scour's...
[November 15, 2000, 15:41]
Napster Will Lose Its 'cool' Image
News It may have saved its bacon, but Napster's deal with Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) Tuesday will cost the song-swap site its credibility and its loyal user base, according to industry observers. The pair then plan to launch a subscription-based song...
[November 1, 2000, 12:52]
Half Online Youth Share Music - Report
News Nearly all the young Internet users questioned said they planned to return to a song-swapping site after having downloaded a music file. Finance is the key factor, as it's the cheapest way to do things for students with no disposable income," said...
[December 14, 2000, 14:53]
Rage: Sorry About The Napster Ban
News The band posted 15 song files and eight videos (all previously unreleased and many of them live recordings) to the site as evidence of its sincerity. Many fans of the band found themselves barred from Napster last week after the band's management...
[December 18, 2000, 8:44]
ALSong
Downloads The ALSong live music lyrics MP3 player lets you read live song lyrics synchronized to the music while you listen to your MP3 music. With over 1,000,000+ music lyrics available, you can easily search to find lyrics, or enter your own song lyrics.
[January 25, 2007, 11:46]
Buy.com Opens Online Music Shop
News The service is charging 79 cents (49p) per downloaded song, which is one of the lowest rates for digital downloaded music, and $7.95 per album. Apple, by contrast, soared in the first weeks after the iTunes launch in April, in what was widely seen...
[July 22, 2003, 14:44]
Amazon Turns Up Loudeye Volume
News In establishing the pay-per-song business model with iTunes, Apple appears to have found the right recipe for both consumers and the music industry, which is battling to have file-sharing sites shut down, based on copyright claims.
[December 19, 2003, 10:35]
RIAA Apologises For Penn State Copyright Warning
News The site also had a copy of an a capella song performed by astronomers about the Swift gamma ray satellite, which Penn State helped to design. The RIAA confirmed that its policy does not require its Internet copyright enforcers to listen to the...
[May 13, 2003, 8:36]
Oxfam Joins Music-download Business
News The latest entrant into the pay-per-song fray, however, is raising a few eyebrows. Charity Oxfam has announced that its own song-shop offering -- bignoisemusic.com -- will launch on 26 May. The site will offer music fans 300,000 tracks from 12,000...
[May 24, 2004, 16:25]
Windows Users: 'Don't Panic' Over Flaw
News The advisory, with the rest of the song's lyrics, is available from eEye's Web site. The company said the extended wait allowed it time to compose a lengthy song to accompany the release of the security advisory.
[February 11, 2004, 10:55]
File-swapping Network Told To Unplug Computers
News The vast majority of song-swappers have moved to Kazaa, Morpheus or other services, and Madster itself has declared bankruptcy. Aspen's order made it clear he wasn't initially sympathetic to Deep's argument, but he has scheduled a hearing on 19...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
Napster Marches Back To Court
News The RIAA sued Napster in December, claiming that its song-swapping service promotes copyright violations because it allows people to trade music for free. Wednesday's hearing comes just a week after Jupiter Communications, a major Internet research...
[July 25, 2000, 13:39]
Presidential Parody Draws Millions Of Viewers
News The political movie did manage to attract the attention of music publisher Ludlow Music, however, which owns the rights to Guthrie's original song. Ludlowmusic.com, unaffiliated with the song's owner, is currently hosting the JibJab movie.
[August 17, 2004, 9:55]
Judges Put End To Napster Appeal
News In February of this year, a panel of three appellate judges ruled that Patel's order had been "overbroad" but that some song blocking was necessary. In addition, Napster has said it will shut down its free song-swapping service this summer when it...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
Attack Downs Yahoo, Google And Microsoft
News During the outage, Song noticed that sites such as Google were still functional, but someone typing www.google.com couldn't get to that site, because the address would not translate into its numeric Internet Protocol code.
[June 16, 2004, 8:35]
Aussie ISP In Court Over Song-swapping
News It is legal when the song's copyright holder has granted permission to download and play the song. It's still legal if you encode the MP3 for personal use, however it is illegal to distribute or trade MP3s without permission from the song's...
[October 21, 2003, 15:25]
Microsoft Moves Into Music Downloads
News Microsoft has at last confirmed plans that it will launch its own music-download shop next year, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple Computer's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.
[November 18, 2003, 11:05]
