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YouTube copyright battle hots up
News The Federation Francaise de Tennis and Ligue de Football Professionnel, as well as New York-based Cherry Lane Music Publishing, have joined a class-action lawsuit that accuses YouTube and parent company Google of copyright violations, according to... [06 Jun 2007]
Data breach fears over iTunes songs
News Apple is in trouble with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for embedding customer information within iTunes music. But some observers have speculated the Mac maker is adding watermarks to music files. [04 Jun 2007]
Mobile telly to hit the big time in five years?
News But it found a significant number of occasional consumers of mobile content - such as music and video clips - exist. Chris Khouri, associate media and broadcasting analyst at Datamonitor, told silicon.com the European mobile telly landscape is set... [31 May 2007]
Apple to lecture iPod lovers
News In other Mac-related news, Apple has also launched its DRM-free iTunes Plus service so customers can download tracks from music label EMI's track listings without any restrictions on the type of music player or number of computers purchased songs... [31 May 2007]
Terabyte storage heading for consumer market
News Other enterprise storage vendors are eyeing up the lucrative consumer mass-market, which is being fuelled by the vast growth in personal technology and user-generated digital data, music, images and information. [22 May 2007]
Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store
News Amazon.com plans to launch a digital music store later this year, featuring music downloads without copyright restrictions. In making the announcement, Amazon also noted it has teamed up with EMI Music to offer songs from its digital catalogue. [16 May 2007]
Downloads sound the end of cassettes
News Digital music, however, continues to grow. Analyst Berg Insight predicts music sold on digital formats will outsell physical by 2011. According to the electronics retailer, the growth of music downloads has sounded the death knell for the cassette. [08 May 2007]
Web 2.0 still a minority pursuit for the wired world
News More than a fourth of US adults have downloaded music files, and 19 per cent have shared photos, stories, artwork or videos. About 55 per cent of US adults own a digital camera, and a fifth have a digital-media player such as the iPod. [08 May 2007]
Media gurus see user content as top threat
News In an Accenture sponsored survey, 110 senior executives across the US and Europe expressed their views on how the growth of user-generated content, such as amateur digital videos, podcasts, wikis and blogs, will impact on the film, advertising... [17 Apr 2007]
CIO Essentials: iTunes, Glastonbury tickets and Bluetooth ads
News This story gives me some hope there is a future for the legitimate digital music industry. The only solace I take from Will's experiences is the fact it demonstrates how passionate people still are about music. [10 Apr 2007]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
News Apple and EMI have announced they have taken the first steps towards DRM-free digital music - but only for those who are prepared to pay extra. Simon Dyson, analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, told silicon.com Apple has made a wise move as the... [02 Apr 2007]
Microsoft to issue fix for Zune glitch
News Reindorp said the Zune held its number two spot in hard drive-based digital music players in January, citing NPD numbers that give Microsoft 9.9 per cent of the market. Microsoft is planning to issue a firmware update next month designed to fix a... [01 Mar 2007]
Hollywood gives blessing to BitTorrent store
News TV shows and music videos are "download to own" and cost $1.99 each. BitTorrent is using its software to launch a download site - called the BitTorrent Entertainment Network - that will distribute more than 5,000 titles from digital movies, TV... [26 Feb 2007]
All eyes: Universal added to BT Vision roster
News BT has struck a deal with Universal Music Group for music videos to be made available on demand via the BT Vision television service. Individual music videos will be available for £0.29 while on-demand concerts will cost £2.99. [15 Feb 2007]
Cisco taps into social-networking trend
News The head of the group, Dan Scheinman, has said the next step for it is to work more closely with the companies that are creating the movies, TV shows, music and other multimedia content that ends up in consumers' homes. [09 Feb 2007]
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