Major record labels in Australia have finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service Provider for alleged music piracy.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music label, has become the last of the top four majors to scuttle digital rights management (DRM) software on music downloads.
The legal counsel for the operator of the controversial Web site mp3s4free.net claimed last week there was no evidence of direct music copyright infringement involving the site.
The legality of hyperlinks is back under the spotlight again, and Australia will be watching for the decision of a US federal judge who is considering whether to issue an injunction to prevent a company issuing cease-and-desist letters in relation to hyperlinks.
The Internet company targeted by the music industry over alleged copyright breaches, ComCen, has denied it hosted any copyright-infringing MP3 files on its servers and claims the Web site cited in the civil action brought against it acted only as a search engine.
The weekend's Big Brother "sex scandal", during which the official site's live feed and forums were taken offline, highlights an issue that is provoking debate across the globe: to what extent are Web site administrators responsible for the conduct of their users?
You hear a lot about mashups in Web 2.0 -- where one data source is combined with another to produce a new application where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- but the musical version of the term is far more apposite to corporate uses of 2.0 techniques than anything which relies on Google Maps APIs.
Users who download and store MP3 collections on company equipment and network not only hog bandwidth but also are exposing your network to security breaches and your company to copyright infringement liability.
Michael Robertson started MP3.com and Linspire. Now he's taking on iTunes with BadApple.
M-Terra CTO Darrell Smith says that arguments in the peer-to-peer file-sharing space are still based on days gone by.
A group of technology heavyweights is expected to take the wraps off a secretive effort to secure music and video on wireless devices, according to sources familiar with the plans.
Former White House staffer Jonathan Greenblatt believes Hollywood can respond to the challenge of new media but that it must first must reconsider its audience. Otherwise, Tinseltown's future is sure to turn ugly.
One sure way to stop pirates is to make music free. Distributors could pick up the tab and get their investment back from marketers and advertisers.
Apple Computer has unveiled its latest line of digital music products, including a long-awaited Internet music store and ultrathin versions of its popular iPod portable MP3 player.
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The software giant digs its roots a little deeper into the music business as Macrovision agrees to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs.
SunnComm Technologies, one of several companies developing anti-CD copying products, has licensed a new technique that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files.
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