Super Vinyl People hails free track download!
LONDON (Red91) – Red91 can confirm that its latest free track download offer was a great success. Super Vinyl People's popular track Semi Swinger was downloaded more than 600 times in the four weeks it was available for free. For a limited time only, anyone interested in sampling the delights ...
| Independent atists and record labels tap US audience through broadband jukeboxes
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Ecast Inc.) - Ecast, which owns, licenses and enables the proprietary technology on which thousands of broadband-enabled, commercial jukeboxes run, has secured the rights to sell plays of more than 10,000 songs from hundreds of independent bands ranging from rock and underground hip-hop ...
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Internet to gain Beatles' magic!
NEW YORK (CNET/Beatles Fans Website) - It seems that after years of refusing to authorise the sale of their songs online, The Beatles (what's left of them, anyway) are now talking with technology companies about doing that very thing. "According to sources familiar with the situation," negotiators for ...
| Apple iTunes will launch in Europe on June 15
LONDON, UK (Apple announcement) - After much anticipation and media speculation, Apple Computer Inc. will launch the European version of its iTunes Music Store on June 15, the company confirmed. Apple sent a press invitation on Monday to a news conference it is hosting in London on June 15, which the ...
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McDonald's, Sony link up on free song downloads
OAK BROOK, Ill. (McDonald's Press release/www.connect.com) - McDonald's marks another milestone in its leadership marketing efforts today with the announcement of a new marketing relationship with Sony Connect to launch an unprecedented multi-national restaurant promotion for customers. McDonald's Big ...
| Napster launches in Canada
TORONTO, Canada (Napster.ca press release) - Napster, a division of Roxio, Inc.), today announced that the award-winning Napster 2.0 legal online digital music service went live at https://www.napster.ca for millions of music fans across Canada. The world's most recognized brand in online music provides ...
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Napster 2.0 goes live in the UK
LONDON, UK (Napster.co.uk announcement) - Music fans across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can now access the UK's largest digital music catalogue by downloading Napster 2.0 (www.napster.co.uk). Roxio Inc. has announced that the highly anticipated Napster 2.0 legal online music service ...
| CNET Networks launches MP3.com
NEW YORK (CNET announcement) - CNET Networks, Inc., a premier global interactive content company, today launched the MP3.com Web site, a comprehensive, next-generation digital music discovery and content resource that caters to the way people learn about and listen to music today. Digital music and ...
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Sony launches online music service
NEW YORK (Sony announcement) - Sony launched its on-line music store on Tuesday, throwing its hat into a ring that has been dominated for a year by Apple Computer's iTunes. As a competitor with significant resources — and a long list of music devices with which it hopes to rival the iPod - Sony's ...
| CNET launches free music service
NEW YORK (CNET anouncement) - CNET Networks launched a legal music service Monday. The company said it has been encouraging artists to upload their songs for several weeks and has accumulated thousands of tracks which can be downloaded free. "We are the first large-scale provider to offer free music ...
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Heineken collaborates with Real Networks for free music 'downloads'
NEW YORK (Heineken press release) - The summer digital music season kicks off in May when Heineken USA and RealNetworks, Inc. team up to deliver free music downloads. Beginning May 1, every specially marked 12-pack of Heineken will include a unique code redeemable for two free music downloads from RealNetworks' ...
| Some iPod mini users report headphone problems
NEW YORK (iPodlounge Website) - There are reported problems with the headphone jacks of the iPod mini. Postings on the Internet suggest that users are experiencing screeching sounds and static. iPodlounge is reporting performance issues that are the result of a "fatal design flaw" in which the headphone ...
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The lowdown on downloads?
NORTH CAROLINA (Harvard Business Review) - The effect of illegal downloads on record sales is "indistinguishable from zero", according to a newly completed study by researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina. The researchers argue that the internet actually could have ...
| Recording Industry targets music file swappers and students in piracy fight
NEW YORK (Online internet news magazine) - The recording industry continued its legal assault against individuals accused of sharing copyright music, filing 532 more lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P-to-P) network users Tuesday, including 89 against individuals using university networks. The move follows ...
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McDonald's to serve music with Big Macs!
LOS ANGELES (LA Times/McDonalds announcement) - MCDONALD'S is planning to team up with the recording arm of Sony to give away free music downloads with its hamburgers in the US, a report said. "Hungry for a taste of the online music business, Sony Corp. is aiming to line up McDonald's Corp. to market ...
| iTunes' store 50 million downloads!
LOS ANGELES (Apple announcement) - Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 50 million songs from Apple's iTunes Music Store, not including songs redeemed from the currently-running Pepsi iTunes promotion. The 50 millionth song, purchased last Thursday afternoon, was ...
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Starbucks to offer digital music cds
NEW YORK (Mp3 magazine) - March 16th will see the unveiling of the coffee stop Starbucks' latest venture. Starbucks announced plans to introduce music sales in its U.S. stores, allowing customers to sit and listen to music while they drink their coffee, and then giving them the option to select a number ...
| Virgin to open online store
LONDON, UK (Mp3 News Website/Virgin Official Website) - Multi-industry household brand Virgin and its owner Richard Branson have plans to enter into the legal online music market later this year. A new subsdiary of Virgin Group, called Virgin Digital, plans to launch its digital "jukebox" application ...
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RIAA sues 531 more file-sharers
NEW YORK (RIAA) - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) targeted 531 more alleged music file swappers in legal actions Tuesday, bringing the total sued for copyright infringement over peer-to-peer (P2) networks since January to more than a thousand. Like the 532 RIAA lawsuits brought ...
| Sharman Networks raided!
NEW YORK (Cyptonomicon Website) - In a move that Sharman Networks is calling a "knee jerk reaction," recording industry representatives raided the Australian homes and offices of company executives searching for evidence of copyright violation. Sharman Networks is the owner of the popular Kazaa file ...
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