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    Vivendi Universal, owner of the largest record company, has reportedly agreed to buy the online music-sharing site MP3.com for about US$372 million in cash and stock.

  • Publishers trounce Universal in license fight

    Music publishers yesterday won an important legal ruling against the world's largest record label in a case that could set rules for streaming copyrighted songs over the Internet.

  • US court issues injunction against Huawei

    A Texas district court has issued an injunction against Huawei Technologies on Friday evening in a lawsuit filed against them by Cisco over alleged copyright infringement.

  • Tensions between music industry and Telstra rising: Analyst

    Tensions are mounting between music companies and Telstra over the carrier's apparent prioritising of its broadband Internet business over the interests of the music industry, a leading industry analyst claims

  • The next digital battle--ring tones

    The same forces that took on file-swapping companies Napster and MP3.com are quietly setting their sights on what some regard as the next digital copyright battle: selling ring tones for mobile phones.

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  • MP3.com Announces Subscription System

    MP3.com Chairman and CEO Michael Robertson announced a new subscription system that would allow artists and labels to control the price of subscriptions -- and raise or lower the charge.

  • Keeping it virtually private: 5 Firewall/VPN cards tested

    Want to put a VPN or firewall on your network card? A new class of product handles all the processing, keeping your server free to do the hard work.

  • Digital Audio Formats Demystified

    Without a doubt, one of the biggest stories of 2000 was the rise of Napster and the continuing saga of MP3. But, MP3 is just one of several digital audio formats widely used today.

  • Will AAC kill the MP3 star?

    A new digital storage format called Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is finding its way into consumer products, and it is demonstrably superior to MP3 in a number of ways. Is the format that enabled the rise of online music trading already obsolete?

  • The Aural Challenge

    Do you think you can tell the difference between an MP3 file encoded at 128KB and a WMA file at 96KB? Are you curious about how digital compression works? What bit rate should you use when encoding files? Take the aural challenge and see if you can hear the difference between a variety of formats!

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