Sharing on Napster-alternatives rose in October - Webnoize
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Users swapped 1.81 billion media files on Napster-alternative services like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster, which have seen usage rise since Napster shut down in July to legal pressures, a research firm said Monday. Web research firm Webnoize said these services' October levels ...
| Jackson posts album online
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Michael Jackson fans will be getting a sneak preview of his long-awaited album as it is made available online for just 24 hours. And to celebrate the release, the popstar will also be logging on for an exclusive webchat. Invincible is in the shops from Monday but Jackson is posting ...
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Apple cell phone-sized player holds 1,000 songs
CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled Tuesday a portable music player that can hold an entire music collection and takes Apple outside its core computer business for the first time in eight years. Apple's "iPod" is the size and shape of a deck of cards, with a small LCD screen and ...
| Pressplay in licence deals with 6 record labels
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pressplay, an online music venture between Universal Music and Sony Music, said Thursday it signed licensing deals with six independent record labels that offer music by a wide variety of acts, from rappers 2 Live Crew to country singer Kenny Rogers to jazz legends Charlie Parker ...
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Madonna Does Microsoft!
NEW YORK (AP) - Some boys kiss her, some boys hug her, some boys romance, some boys slow dance, some boys lie and some boys try--but we're guessing all Bill Gates did was just open up his checkbook to get Madonna to fork over the rights to "Ray of Light" as the soundtrack to Microsoft's new Windows ...
| Web users still swapping files
NEW YORK (Variety) - Napster may be under the thumb of the California District Court, but that doesn't appear to have dampened Netizens' appetites for swapping music and other media files, according to new data released by research firm Jupiter Media Metrix. The number of unique users for the newest ...
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Napster wins reprieve
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Online music-swapping service Napster has won a breathing space in its long-running battle with US record companies. A San Francisco court ruled that a summary judgment, bringing the two-year-old copyright case to a rapid end, would be premature. This spares Napster at least temporarily ...
| Napster, labels head back to court Wednesday
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Major recording giants head to federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday to request a summary judgment against Napster in their long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against the song-swap company, lawyers for the companies said Sunday. "We will argue in front of Judge ...
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Record Industry Sues Morpheus And Other Decentralized File-Sharing Services
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking another blow in its fight against unauthorized music downloads, the record industry on Tuesday sued Morpheus, Kazaa and Grokster, three of the services music fans have used to trade files over the Web since the shutdown of Napster. "We cannot sit idly by while these services ...
| EMI licenses songs to online service owned by rival
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - EMI Group Plc. Tuesday became the first music label to join two Web music services being launched by major recording companies by licensing songs to Pressplay, a service owned by Sony Corp. and Vivendi Universal. The EMI deal comes as U.S. antitrust authorities continue to scrutinize ...
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Copyright lobby seeks to kill online music bill
WASHINGTON (Variety) - A broad coalition of entertainment companies, advertisers and sports leagues will descend on Capitol Hill Monday, seeking to strike down legislation requiring music labels to offer the same licensing deal at the same price to all online music ventures. "That measure would create ...
| Universal to unveil CDs with anti-piracy software
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vivendi Universal said on Tuesday its Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, plans to start issuing CDs in October with software that prevents music from being digitally copied into computer files. Following a lengthy legal battle with song swapping software ...
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Napster Strikes Historic $26 Million Deal With National Music Publishers' Association
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Down but not out file-swapping service Napster reached a preliminary deal with the National Music Publishers' Association on Monday (Sept. 24) worth $26 million which would effectively settle a pending class-action lawsuit against the company in federal court. While still subject ...
| Napster Hires Ex-Netscape Exec.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Napster Inc. has hired a former Netscape executive to oversee membership initiatives as the song-swap company prepares to launch its subscription online music service. Claire Hough will serve as Napster's vice president of engineering, a newly created position, the company ...
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Top Acts Offer Names For Fans' E-Mail Addresses
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sugar Ray, Korn, Dr. Dre, Metallica, Eminem, and matchbox twenty are among the more than 30 artists that are teaming with Hollywood, Calif.-based XingMail Inc. to offer their fans artist-branded E-mail addresses, Billboard Bulletin reports. Other artists offering the service via ...
| Napster Seeks To Deny RIAA Ruling
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Music file sharing service Napster has filed papers seeking to deny the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and music publishers' request for a ruling that would hold it legally responsible for allowing copyright infringement, Billboard Bulletin reports. The action, ...
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MusicNet says to roll out platform in coming weeks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - MusicNet, the online music venture between RealNetworks Inc. and three major record labels, said Friday it plans to deliver its technology platform to distribution partners within weeks, the first step toward a full-launch of the new service for subscribers. "Within a couple ...
| Napster Eclipsed by Newcomers!...
NEW YORK (WIRED) - Months after shutting down its file-trading service, Napster has finally been displaced by four new applications that allow users to trade music, movies and software, a new study concludes. Four new file-sharing systems -- FastTrack, Audiogalaxy, iMesh and Gnutella -- were used to ...
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Stealth war against CD piracy
LONDON, UK (BBC) - More than one million CDs with anti-piracy devices have been slipped onto racks in record shops across Europe. The discs form part of an experiment by major labels to find out how well their digital security systems work when trying to stop tracks being copied onto blank CDs or swapped ...
| Online download site to launch
LONDON, UK (BBC) - The latest online service to move into the legitimate music download market has promised big name bands when the service launches in October. Wippit, a UK-based service, will charge users �50 for one year's access to music on its site, which is set to include tracks from artists on ...
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