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  • UPDATE: Telstra dives into online music

    Warner Music Australia has signed an 'in-principle' deal with Telstra to provide content to the BigPond Internet music service, but the partners are staying cagey about the pricing arrangements.

  • MP3 site just a search engine: AU ISP

    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.

  • AU music industry slams prosecutor, magistrate, copyright law

    The Australian music industry has criticised the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecution's (CDPP) handline of charges brought against three students charged with copyright infringements.

  • MIPI boss Speck takes stand in piracy trial

    General manager of Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), Michael Speck, took the witness stand today, to give evidence in the case against retired police officer turned music download Web site owner Stephen Cooper.

  • Music hack spurs legal threats

    A music industry group is seeking to block publication of research that describes anti-piracy technology known as watermarking, saying a report stemming from an industry-backed hacking challenge violates digital copyright law.

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  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Big Brother's user generated troubles

    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?

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  • How to curb digital piracy

    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.

  • Blu-ray burns for interactive content

    The next generation in DVD technology will let consumers carry the equivalent of a hard drive on a disc, but what are they supposed to do with all that capacity? Interact, supporters say.

  • Tech giants lock down wireless content

    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.

Reviews (17)

  • Microsoft CD copy protection advances

    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.

  • Iomega Dual DVD Drive

    Iomega's latest DVD burner covers the format bases well and at an attractive price point. Read our Australian review.

  • DVD to the rescue?

    Commentary: This radical proposal could save the music business and give consumers what they want.

  • 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?

  • Developer to revive iTunes file-sharing

    The developer of a peer-to-peer file-sharing plug-in for Apple Computer's iTunes music application has decided to give the software a new lease on life, after it was put out of commission by the computer maker's lawyers earlier this month.

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