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RSS downloads songNapster looking to enter movie downloads
News In other news, Napster has announced it will be opening a German song shop within the year. Nevertheless, analysts are predicting legal film downloads could be a winner. Since the advent of broadband... [24 Jan 2005]
Leader: Still lots to learn from online music pirates
Leader Now, with 'significant revenues' coming from online, the record labels are tearing each others' arms off to license their catalogues to the ever-increasing number of online song sellers - up from 50 in 2003 to 230 in... [20 Jan 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Digital music and DRM
News The granddaddy of the online song world, Napster, made like a juvenile offender, put on its best smart suit and re-emerged in the public eye, having gone straight. Fanning also announced this year he'd be launching... [17 Dec 2004]
Napster founder turns middleman
News Labels then provide Snocap with a set of rules to be associated with each fingerprint - for example, a song might only be allowed to be traded if it is wrapped in Windows Media digital rights management, which can be... [03 Dec 2004]
Get ready to rent your digital music
News While renting entertainment is more often associated with going down to the video shop, if online song sellers have their way, we could all be paying to rent our digital music - and 'give it back' when we get bored of... [02 Dec 2004]
Digital music boom: Thank the pirates?
News Online music will be worth billions by 2010 and, while the evolution may kill off some of the song shops, it's unlikely to kill off piracy - that's the verdict of a new report into the market. Revenues from the online... [01 Dec 2004]
Music, games, porn - Vodafone launches 3G
News Unlike Vodafone's 3G business data card offering, data won't be sold by size - users will pay per song, per game and so on, or for a download bundle. portal has also been overhauled and over 100 content providers - from... [10 Nov 2004]
Leader: Is Tesco off its trolley to compete with iTunes?
Leader When rival song seller Real slashed its prices, for instance, it found its downloads started going like the proverbial hot cakes. Price has yet to become a serious competitor factor but could - iTunes... [08 Nov 2004]
Tesco aims for iTunes with song-shop launch
News The site itself, tescodownloads.com, gives a hint at its future direction, according to Higgins - with the generically-named Tesco offshoot aiming to move into offering music videos and eventually full-length feature film... [08 Nov 2004]
Are MP3s going the way of the dodo?
News A separate study, by Net-monitoring company CacheLogic, early this month showed that MP3 still dominates song trading on file-swapping networks. People tend to think that downloads are more disposable... [18 Oct 2004]
Starbucks serves burnt CDs with its coffee
News Each additional song costs 99 cents. Starbucks and Wi-Fi partner T-Mobile USA offer music downloads over a wireless network. Starbucks is expanding its digital music service to coffee shops in Seattle... [18 Oct 2004]
Microsoft snubs UK for Japan music launch
News With the paint barely dry on Microsoft's US download service, Redmond has announced it's to open the doors to another song shop - but it won't be in the UK. Microsoft hopes to boost that to 100,000 by the end of the year... [14 Oct 2004]
Leader: File-sharing suits out of tune with music market
Leader But when those same record labels are reportedly creaming off a huge proportion of the profits from legal online music and leaving song-shops with a paltry four per cent, it does look a little like shooting yourself in... [07 Oct 2004]
How do you sell more smart phones? Turn them into iPods
News The seeds of such a music-via-mobile revolution are already there - Apple recently inked a deal with Motorola to allow users to put iTunes tracks on their phones while rival song seller Loudeye is working with Nokia to... [05 Oct 2004]
Virgin goes digital with online song shop
News With an entry 18 months after Apple first launched its iTunes song store, Virgin is starting well behind its biggest rivals. They saw the rise of Napster and other file-swapping services as a threat to their core CD... [27 Sep 2004]
