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eBay to sell music downloads online - cautiously
News Online auction giant eBay has decided that as well as selling music on traditional physical formats, there's room for it to sell digital downloads too. The decision to allow the sale of digital music is a turnaround for... [16 Jul 2004]
The weekly Round-Up: 18.06.04
Comment Take its softly, softly approach to dealing with the illegal downloads issue if proof were required. The company proved that legal music downloads could work. Without copy protections, music fans could... [18 Jun 2004]
Leader: Sort out your IT policy - how hard can it be?
Leader Another employee who downloads 1,000 copyrighted tracks from Kazaa and lands his employer in hot water with the copyright owners is similarly blameless if such applications or uses haven't been outlawed. [30 Apr 2004]
Intuitive tech listens to and blocks illegal music
News A new political battle is brewing over net music swapping, focusing on a company that claims to be able to automatically identify copyrighted songs on networks like Kazaa and block illegal downloads. The group says... [04 Mar 2004]
Kazaa HQ, Oz universities raided in piracy crackdown
News Kazaa operators know the difference and make the decision as to whether they facilitate legitimate or illegitimate downloads," said Speck. MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order - which allows a copyright... [06 Feb 2004]
Leader: 'Grey import' row smacks of desperation
Leader And while we don't condone or support the abuse of any artist's copyright, the fact is file-sharing has become so popular because of both the high prices charged for CDs with two singles and 10 filler tracks and the... [09 Jan 2004]
Nokia: N-Gage has been hacked, crack down begins
News But Knuff said Nokia's own investigation concluded that "some of the copyright protection mechanisms of some game titles have been disabled and the games made available for downloads". The crackdown... [13 Nov 2003]
Punishing UK downloaders 'will alienate customers'
News They are regular shoppers in record stores today, and they are very likely to buy song downloads in the future, the researchers said. In Europe, industry trade bodies and the major music labels have tried a gentler... [18 Sep 2003]
RIAA leads education offensive on file-swapping
News But the file-trading companies themselves, and other independent statistics, show that downloads of the software remain high. Outside of the courts, students at schools such as the University of California at Berkeley... [10 Sep 2003]
P2P networks are illegal porn haven, claims RIAA
News Sherman said a paedophile could send "an instant message to the unwitting young person who downloads an Olsen twins or Pokemon file from the paedophile's share folder on Kazaa. The subtext of Tuesday's hearing was the... [10 Sep 2003]
File-sharing takes off in West Bank refugee camp
Comment Indeed, the company is confident enough in its territorial immunity that it even streams and offers downloads of full albums and first-run movies like Terminator 3 and Tomb Raider directly from its own servers, an... [14 Aug 2003]
Music industry will come after corporates in file-sharing war
News But she admitted illegal pornography on corporate networks is currently far more of a concern for companies than music downloads. The warning follows moves by the Recording Industry Association of America to sue hundreds... [30 Jul 2003]
RIAA sues non-existent Spanish website
News The Recording Industry Association of America said on Wednesday it has sued the parent company of Puretunes, a Spanish site that briefly offered inexpensive music downloads. The trade group is seeking damages for... [10 Jul 2003]
Harry Potter free online
News I think that just like MP3s, popular books will become popular downloads as more devices allow people to read with the ease of carrying the real thing," said Wayne Chang, a student at the University of Massachusetts at... [26 Jun 2003]
RIAA gets personal over music downloads
News The Recording Industry Association of America has sent 'cease-and-desist' letters to five people who it suspects of illegally offering massive amounts of copyrighted music through peer-to-peer networks. [20 Jun 2003]
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