A court in the US has ordered a woman to pay $222,000 (~£109,000) in damages for illegally sharing music files over the internet.
The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 32, from Minnesota, to pay for offering to share 24 specific songs online - a cost of $9,250 per song.
The fine could have actually been the […]

Posted on October 5th, 2007 by admin
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Controversial Russian music download site allofmp3.com has gone down.
The service, which sold songs at a fraction of the cost of other sites, claimed to be the second biggest seller of music downloads after Apples iTunes store.
It was the subject of countless lawsuits from British and American record labels that claimed it violated […]

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by admin
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Music giant EMI has announced that it is removing software protection locks from its digital music sold via download sites such as iTunes. The dubbed - “premium” versions of EMI tracks will lack the digital locks common to songs available via many similar online sites.
The move is momentous because most music download sites […]

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by admin
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The Beatles’ record label has quashed rumours that the band’s music is about to become available online.
The Beatles are one of the last major acts to withhold their back catalogue from online music stores such iTunes and Napster.
EMI is believed to be on the verge of releasing The Beatles’ back catalogue […]

Posted on March 14th, 2007 by admin
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Since word spread about the Beatles library being released for digital music download, certain rumours have spread.
Recently, the Beatles / Apple Corp. and Apple Computer reached an agreement over their long standing trademark dispute.
Seeing as they are now both playing ball, I was perhaps expecting some sort of announcement from Apple Computer regarding […]

Posted on February 15th, 2007 by admin
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Warner Music has rejected a proposal from Apple boss Steve Jobs that record companies should remove copy protection software from digital music downloads.
Boss of Warner Music, Edgar Bronfman, said Mr Job’s proposal was “without logic and merit”.
At present, most download sites, including Apple’s own iTunes store, use such software to limit the number […]

Posted on February 9th, 2007 by admin
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