Europeans preffers EDonkey P2P client which is overtaking KaZaA!
GENEVA, Switzerland (Sandvine website) - While FastTrack-based file sharing applications like KaZaA continue to dominate in North America, Europeans are evincing their own unique patterns and preferences, both in terms of their favorite peer-to-peer (P2P) clients and the types of content they choose ...
| Apple partners with AOL - Amazon future?
NEW YORK (Macworld Website) - "Apple is clearly the leader in online music today - but what else should we be doin?" asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs last night. "Partnership", he answered, announcing Apple's alliance with AOL in the US - under which AOL subscribers will be able to access the iTunes Music ...
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Apple to start iTunes for Windows OS this week
NEW YORK (Apple iTunes/Napster/Top40 Charts) - Apple Computer is expected to announce the launch of iTunes for Windows on Thursday. In a cryptic yet obvious invitation to the press, the Cupertino, Ca. company invited reporter to a press conference on Thursday with a classic Jobs like pronouncement, ...
| RIAA settles suits
LOS ANGELES (RIAA) - The RIAA has announced settlements with 52 of the 261 Internet users it sued this month over allegations they illegally downloaded music from their computers using popular file-sharing software like Kazaa. As previously reported, the accused included a 12 year old girl and a 71 ...
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Kazaa set lawsuit against RIAA!
LOS ANGELES (Sharman Networks newsletter) - Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit Monday, accusing the movie studios and the Recording Industry of America of using "Kazaa Lite," a replica of its software without advertising, to get onto the network. ...
| BuyMusic.com's began its legal download service
ALISO VIEJO, California (BuyMusic Press release) - BuyMusic.com, the legal music download store for PC users, today announced a major jump in traffic, which grew 30 percent from September 6 to September 13. BuyMusic.com attributes recent action taken by the Recording Industry Association of America ...
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David Draiman (Disturbed) debases RIAA lawsuits
SAN FRANCISCO (San Francisco Chronicle) - David Draiman - frontman and Disturbed lead singer - thinks that the music industry should figure out how to distribute music on the Internet, instead of suing people who download songs non-legally. Draiman told the San Francisco Chronicle, "This is not rocket ...
| Piracy lawsuits launched
NEW YORK (RIAA) - Earlier today, the Recording Industry Association of America launched its long-threatened legal assault on downloaders. The American recording industry group filed 261 federal lawsuits against individual Internet-users accused of illegal downloading and file-sharing. The RIAA says ...
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Rolling Stones put back catalogue on the internet
LONDON, UK (Media Guardian) - The Rolling Stones have agreed to make their 40-year back catalogue available legally for downloading from the internet. More than 500 tracks will be available at around 35c each on the website Listen.com, reports the Media Guardian. David Munns, chairman of EMI Music North ...
| Download battle reaches Europe
LONDON, UK (MSN Music Club) - Microsoft has launched a music download service in Europe after the success of a similar service run by rival Apple in the United States. Microsoft's MSN Music Club allows fans in the UK, France and Germany to buy single songs from 75p, or 0.99 euros. It is being billed ...
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Virgin Radio is the top commercial Internet broadcast station
NEW YORK (Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings) - Virgin Radio was ranked the number one commercial Internet Broadcast Station with 269,166 hours of Total Time Spent Listening (TTSL) for the week of July 21, according to Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings. Musicmatch Artist Match was the top non-commercial ...
| File-swapping dips after threats
NEW YORK (CNET/Mp3 Online news) - The number of people using several music-swapping sites dropped the week after the music industry threatened to sue them. Kazaa and Morpheus - two of the most popular file-swapping services - said they had 15% fewer users the week beginning 6 July. This was the week ...
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File swappers 'buy more music'
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Music fans who download songs from the internet go on to buy more albums, a survey has suggested. The survey's findings oppose the music industry's long-standing argument that internet downloading is responsible for a slump in CD sales, with album sales falling 5% in the last year. ...
| Metallica says no
NEW YORK (Metallica Fans Forums) - The boys in Metallica have always been strong opponents of downloading music and they won't be stopping now. In an attempt to battle the financial blow to the industry, companies including Apple have started opening online music stores where downloaders can pay by ...
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RIAA gets tough
LOS ANGELES (RIAA) - The American music industry's organization, the Recording Industry Association of America, has announced its most aggressive plans to fight downloading yet. The RIAA says that they will be pursuing legal action against computer-users who have made "substantial" collections of mp3 ...
| Apple iTunes update irritates fans
NEW YORK (Apple Website) - Apple is clamping down on piracy by imposing restrictions on the way that music downloaded from its iTunes service can be shared. Changes to the service stop people listening across the internet to playlists of songs created by others. The change was included in an iTunes ...
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RIAA sends 'informational' notes to thousands of file swappers
LOS ANGELES (RIAA) - The recording industry - utilizing the chat functions housed in popular file-swapping software like Kazaa and Grokster - says it has sent hundreds of thousands of warnings to people it claims are offering copyrighted materials online. "When you offer music on these systems, you ...
| Madonna.com hacked?
NEW YORK (Madonna Official & Fans Websites) - Over the weekend the official Madonna site madonna.com was designed to look like it was hacked and the entire new 'American Life' album offered for a free download. Every song from the Madonna album was available to save as MP3 just as the album was shipping ...
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Europe offered free digital downloads
CANNES, France (BBC/MIDEM Website) - Music producers in Europe have announced a second digital download day in a bid to promote legal music on the internet. The campaign - Digital Download Day Europe - will allow music fans to download five euros' (�3.40) worth of music for free from sites that pay ...
| Bad news for Kazaa
NEW YORK (CNet) - It looks like file-sharing service Kazaa may soon suffer the fate of Napster before it. On Friday a US federal judge gave record companies and movie studios permission to sue Kazaa's parent company, Sharman Networks Ltd.. A request to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit due to ...
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