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Student Joel Tenenbaum Fined $675,000 For Illegal KaZaA Downloads

PhD student Joel Tenenbaum was fined $675,000 after admitting to illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs using the file-sharing software KaZaA. Tenenbaum's attorney and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson stated that the figure was "bankrupting". Tenenbaum...

created by Annina Bergman | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
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Mos Def'sT-Shirt Record Sales Aren't Counted by Nielsen SoundScan

Mos Def's record sales for The Ecstatic are not record sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Here's the deal: fans can purchase a t-shirt depicting the album cover for Mos Def's new album, The Ecstatic, and each...

created by Jordan Yerman | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago
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Bono on Theft

People who don't produce books or music probably can't understand the impact of copyright infringement on those who dedicate their lives to their art. Most people assume that when an artist releases a CD, they will earn millions. Only the mega-stars, such as Bono, earn...

created by Maireid Sullivan | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago
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More taxation - Internet tax on downloads & sales

More junky tax thoughts - New York's governor is proposing a 4% tax on Internet downloads, a charge that would include music, software, books videos etc.

created by car1edb | 39 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago
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If Music Was Food, We Would Need 10 Refrigerators to Store It

Why Can't I Download Music from Rhapsody to Zune MP3 Player? I have been using Rhapsody for a couple of years now, do enjoy it even with the lack of Frank Zappa and King Crimson tunes. I just realized this Christmas though that upgrading to Rhapsody to Go did not amount to...

created by leconcierge | 47 wks ago
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Blockbuster Launches Internet Movie Downloads

Time to turn off those BitTorrent clients, kids, Blockbuster Video is now offering feature length movie downloads."To better compete with Netflix and others, Blockbuster video will debut a new service today that...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 51 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago
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Scouting For Girls

Scouting For Girls are the UKs bestselling band of 2008. The 'painfully normal' band have just embarked on their national tour of Britain airing their hit songs 'She's So Lovely', 'It's Not About You' and...

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created by LotusFlower | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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YouTubes play back tool keeps a check on inane commenters

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Music fans back legal downloads

" Music pirates can be deterred by warnings from their internet service provider (ISP), suggests a survey. Almost 75% of music pirates would stop if told to by their ISP, the survey of 1500 UK consumers...

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created by rahul | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Amazon.com Issues Free Gregory Issacs MP3's

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Six Free MP3's From Gregory Issacs & Amazon.com

REGGAE SINGER GREGORY ISAACS' great, charismatic and distinctive voice is gentle but not too smooth, seductive but not creepy and soulful without being bombastic.He's not known as the "Cool Ruler" for nothing.One...

created by reggaewire | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Courtney John "Miss U" For Limited Free Download

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Courtney John "Miss U" For Limited Download

Always a giving artist and one who consistently stays connected with his fans, Lover rock’s newest magic maker, Courtney John, has left fans a little gift while he is away on tour.His latest single “Miss...

created by reggaewire | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Coming soon: 'wallet phones' from Japan

"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday. ...

created by master_jim2008 | 1 year ago
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YouTorrent Relaunches with Legal Torrents

In a Napster-like rebirth (minus the downtime), YouTorrent is reinventing itself as an index of legal torrent files. Once the fastest-growing torrent site on the web, YouTorrent began to lose traction once it stopped indexing sites that linked to copyright-violating files...

created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago
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Nine Inch Nails Tracks Downloads of 'The Slip' via Google Earth

This is the first time I've seen this done. Pretty cool. Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they...

created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Why Would a Virus Look at Kiddie Porn?

Michael Fiola, a 53-year-old state employee was set free of child-pornography charges by a Massachusetts court, It was alleged that he had accessed the illegal material at work, but an extensive forensic investigation of his computer revealed that viruses and other malicious...

created by Obi-Akpere | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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My ICT Project -'You Wouldn't Steal a CD'

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France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes...

France has become the first country to implement the controversial new law that anyone who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access.So a country that has long led the...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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