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Digital music focuses on fight over keys
News The content owners "want to have freedom and flexibility to swap out rights management systems", said Ben Rotholtz, RealNetworks' general manager of products and services. That would permit a company such as Time Warner Music to build its music...
[June 25, 2001, 12:49]
MP3.com to offer wireless sync
News Song-swap site MP3.com will launch a service Monday to let users download a song and automatically share it with their mobile phone or handheld computer. Whenever a user downloads a song from MP3.com, fusionOne's synchronisation software which can...
[November 6, 2000, 15:38]
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]
Universal throws Napster a lifeline
News Napster got a rare taste of good news yesterday as Vivendi, owner of Universal Music, announced that it might still be willing to work with the song-swap service if it survives its court battles. The service -- called Duet -- will let music lovers...
[March 6, 2001, 8:48]
Napster plays the Betamax card
News A federal appeal court session will hear opening arguments in the case between the digital song swap service and the giants of the recording industry beginning October 2. In the lawsuit companies including Sony, EMI and Universal allege that, by...
[September 14, 2000, 8:37]
Roundup: The Napster struggle
News Thu, 27th Jul 2000 US district judge Marilyn Hall Patel showed little sympathy for the popular song-swap site, saying it was encouraging piracy by millions of users Mon, 31st Jul 2000 A federal appeals panel gives Napster until 18 August to explain...
[July 28, 2000, 15:50]
Swap a file, go to jail?
News The RIAA thus far has focused its legal endeavors primarily on suing the peer-to-peer services that let people swap files. In addition to suing peer-to-peer companies, the RIAA has threatened suits against companies that allow their employees to...
[July 16, 2002, 8:00]
Apple stops iTunes swapping
News Apple imposed a similar restriction earlier, after some people used the music-sharing feature to swap files over the Internet. An Apple representative on Wednesday confirmed that with the new version of iTunes, the company has "strengthened" the...
[April 29, 2004, 9:10]
UK site will be first for legal music swapping
News Although Wippit will allow users to swap files between each other, there will be strict limits on what can be exchanged. If a song does not appear on Wippit's "White list", then the search request will not be successful.
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
Employers crack down on MP3s
News Stash those headphones and trash that file-swapping software: companies are cracking down on employees who use streaming media and swap MP3s at work. People are more likely to use their work computers than home computers to swap media files or...
[June 27, 2002, 14:23]
Napster crackdown drives away fans
News The leading swapping sites are still attracting millions of people a day, but their roles are changing, beginning to look more like the underground's long-running digital swap meets than like the venture-funded Napsters and Scours of the last two...
[May 9, 2001, 8:02]
Napster order: Patrol yourself
News Although the Napster dispute is focused on music, the arguments behind it may affect all copyrighted, digital material that is transmitted through the so-called peer-to-peer networks used to swap files -- especially those working with central...
[February 14, 2001, 8:32]
Wednesday
Blog Ah, you go to the Winners Enclosure to swap your enormous pile of woodpulp winnings for actual goods. There's even a song about it. Wednesday 20/2/03 If you've never been here, San Jose might seem like a romantic, exciting destination.
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
Napster signs Euro indie labels
News The service is expected to be much like the original Napster, with members able to swap music at will. The deal, which took four months to agree, gives the song-swapping site the rights to offer music from 150 independent labels, and artists such...
[June 26, 2001, 13:27]
Creative Labs Jukebox 3 review
Reviews The Jukebox 3 comes with decent-sounding wraparound headphones, but more discerning listeners will want to swap in a new pair. We had a few gripes (song titles don't scroll as tunes play, and the Lock Buttons feature must be activated via the...
[April 26, 2002, 16:09]
News Burst: Napster injunction partly upheld
News Judges at the Court of Appeals in San Francisco will issue its ruling Monday on the recording industry's request that Napster be ordered to stop allowing users to swap songs for free. According to early reports from America, a US court has partly...
[February 12, 2001, 17:33]
EMI and Roxio team up in music CD burning deal
News In a separate development on Tuesday, Napster was thought to be close to making a deal with EMI, Warner Music and Bertelsmann that could save the song-swap site from closure. UK music label EMI has teamed up with Roxio in a deal that will let...
[June 5, 2001, 13:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's the spirit of sharing, which Zune encourages by letting Zunies swap music over a built-in wireless network. You'll have three days in which to listen to each song three times, at which point it is summoned back to the great server in the sky.
[September 15, 2006, 18:55]
Vivendi presses play on music site
News The record labels have been in a long-standing legal battle against a flurry of Internet services such as Napster, MusicCity, Gnutella and Kazaa that allow people to swap songs for free. After that, pricing will be based on the number of song...
[December 19, 2001, 16:39]
Kazaa forced to block search terms
News The court has ordered Sharman to release a new version of Kazaa by 5 December that includes a non-optional keyword filter, restricting users' ability to illegally access and swap copyright music. Justice Murray Wilcox has ordered the owner of Kazaa...
[November 25, 2005, 8:35]
