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 ...
| 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' ...
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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 ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| iTunes and Napster services blocked in Europe
CANNES, France (Liberation) - Apple and Roxio have both blamed record label bureaucracy for holding up the launches of iTunes Music Store and Napster in Europe. Eddy Cue, Apple's VP of Applications and Internet Services, and Chris Gorog, president & CEO of Roxio, which owns Napster, were speaking at ...
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The RIAA strikes again!
NEW YORK (RIAA & MP3 News Websites) - The Recording Industry Association of America has just filed 532 lawsuits against music file swappers who share an average of at least 800 songs with other online music fans. It is the largest single sweep of lawsuits the group has made since it launched its campaign ...
| mycokemusic.co.uk (Coca-Cola music site) fails on first day!
LONDON, UK (Evening Standard) - Coca-Cola's foray into the world of online music sales got off to a bad start when its website failed to launch. Users who visited mycokemusic.com expecting to access its 250,000 tracks were left disappointed. The site still carries the banner "mycokemusic.com goes live ...
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Coca-Cola music website offers download albums for £6.40!!!
LONDON, UK (MyCokeMusic.com / Coca Cola UK Website) - Drinks giant Coca-Cola is to offer albums for download on its new music website for as little as �6.40. Singles will cost from 80p on mycokemusic.com, which launches on Monday. The company says it will have the largest collection of legal downloads ...
| iTunes is one of the hottest web services
LOS ANGELES (Web Watch) - Innovation flowered online this year, some three years after dot-coms started dying in the wake of the Internet investment bubble bursting. Here is a short list of what Web Watch considered some of the hottest Internet services in 2003, along with their new or improved features: ...
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Americans are getting away from the internet for music
NEW YORK (PEW Internet & American Life Project Website) - A new report says the percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half. Fourteen percent of internet users surveyed said they sometimes download songs. That's according to the report by the PEW Internet and American Life ...
| Justice Dept. closes Net music antitrust scrutiny
NEW YORK (CNet) - After more than two years of quiet investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that it is closing its antitrust scrutiny of the major record labels' online activities, without filing charges. When originally revealed in mid-2001, the regulators' investigation was said ...
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Kazaa is legal!
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Kazaa press release) - The Supreme Court of the Netherlands yesterday reaffirmed that it is lawful to make the filesharing software KaZaA publicly available. This court is the first Supreme Court or other national high court ruling on the legality of peer-to-peer technologies ...
| Wal-Mart begins offering downloaded music
NEW YORK (Wal-Mart press release) - Wal-Mart has begun an offering of songs for downloading, for 88 cents per cut. There is no subscription fee for the service. But the price isn't the most competitive for singles on the web and also it can't hit the iTunes Store: this price of 88 cents is only for ...
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