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Music industry's war on piracy

Music traders in Australia are angry about the illegal downloading of music over the internet. This is cutting the profits of the music trade across the globe, and it is the same in Australia. Stephen Peach, of the Australian Music Industry group, is one of those deeply concerned about illegal downloading. He wants to see new measures to combat illegal downloading. Peach argues that ISPs should supply information about illegal downloading of music to officials. Legal digital downloading of music is becoming a global growth industry

Digital Music Downloading for Purists

Digital music downloading…without compromise. Bloomberg Boot Camp, a report on today’s technology. Music that’s downloaded onto portable music players usually sounds pretty good. But to audiophiles…pretty good…isn’t nearly good enough. Musician David Chesky has been catering to that market for years ….with Chesky Records…a partnership with his brother. They are purists…when it comes to sound….and they have won fans around the world for their label. Now they have created a downloading service….with the same philosophy….

Firefox Throttle

The problem with downloading via a web browser is that it will saturate all current bandwidth, unless throttled. You can do achieve this by downloading through a download manager or using a download tool such as a torrent client, which can control both the upload and download ratio. For most users, they simply grab Internet Explorer and start downloading.

HookUp enables streaming, downloading of music, movies through iTunes interface

imageHookUp is a new, free tool that enables streaming and downloading of music and movies directly through the iTunes interface, allowing a user to play and download from every computer running iTunes in a remote network as well as the local network.

Apple Bans Teens From Stores for Downloading iPhone Game

Applestory Apple store employees caught four teenagers doing the unthinkable -- downloading a third-party application onto a demo iPhone -- which prompted their immediate banishment from Apple stores "for life."

Judge rules W & M must name 20 music-downloading students: A university spokesman says the school will release the information when it receives a...

Judge rules W & M must name 20 music-downloading students: A university spokesman says the school will release the information when it receives a...

Canada tables copyright bill on downloading

TORONTO (AP) -- The Canadian government introduced new legislation Thursday to make it easier to prosecute people who are caught downloading copyrighted material from the Internet.

Tories propose $500 fine for illegal downloading

The federal government tabled legislation on Thursday that will see individuals fined a maximum of $500 if they are caught downloading copyrighted files.

Videos For Coaches aboard with Amazon.com's Unbox movie downloading program.

The Youth Sports Club and Marty Schupak have entered the digital downloading world with their sports instructional videos and have agreed to submit all their programs to Amazon's Unbox program.

UBC Media closes loss-making Cliq mobile phone music downloading service

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - UBC Media Group Plc. said it has closed its loss-making Cliq mobile phone music downloading service, and that it will instead concentrate on providing a business-to-business solution to makers of connected devices, including Wi-Fi digital radios.

Scientist Says Texting is More Expensive Than Downloading From Hubble

Does your cell phone bill ever reach astronomical proportions? Maybe you're doing too much texting. One space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester looked at the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble and compared it with the cost of sending a text. His calculations? “The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that."

Canada introduces a bill to facilitate copyright prosecution for Internet downloading

TORONTO-The Canadian government introduced new legislation Thursday to make it easier to prosecute people who are caught downloading copyrighted material from the Internet.

3 Fired at 2 North Carolina Colleges for Illegal Downloading

DURHAM, N.C. — According to The Business Journal, two employees at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and one at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have been fired for illegally downloading music, movies, pornography and software using the universities’ networks.

Kid Rock Lashes Out Against iTunes, Endorses Illegal Downloading

In an interesting interview with the BBC, Kid Rock explained why most of his music isn’t available on iTunes. “The internet was an opportunity for everyone to be treated fairly, for the consumer to get a fair price, for the artist to be paid fairly, for the record companies to make some money,” Rock said. “[But iTunes is] an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don’t give it to the artists.” Rock went on to explain that he doesn’t mind people downloading his albums illegally as long as they buy tickets to his concerts. “I was telling kids: download it illegally, I don’t care. I want you to hear my music so I can play live. But I think they should steal everything. You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive of

Texting Costs In UK Are 'Out Of This World' -- More Expensive Than Downloading Data From Hubble Space Telescope

A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones in the United Kingdom works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Napster to expand reach to 6 million AT&T customers

Napster, the pioneer in online music downloading, said its subscription service will become available to between 5 million and 6 million AT&T mobile phone customers in June. "When AT&T turns this on, we will have access to 5 million subscribers virtually overnight," Napster Chief Executive Officer Christopher Gorog said Thursday in an interview. AT&T will inform subscribers about the Napster service in "a couple of weeks," he said. Los Angeles-based Napster, is focusing on increasing subscribers through deals with mobile carriers such as AT&T in the United States and NTT DoCoMo in Japan. Although AT&T announced it would offer Napster service last October, Gorog said few mobile phones capable of downloading music were in use at the time.

Downloading music is 'illegal', says judge

Every Dutch national who downloads protected music, films or software is apparently breaking the law thanks to a new court ruling, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Friday.

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11SpiralFrog homepage: service offers free and legal music and music videos for download.

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- SpiralFrog(TM) (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and easier

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11

NEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- SpiralFrog(TM) (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and easier access to SpiralFrog's huge library of free songs.

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11

(www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and easier access to SpiralFrog

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11

NEW YORK - SpiralFrog™ (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11

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SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11

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Campaign promotes legal downloading

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Missouri college fights music downloading with copyright quiz

ROLLA, Mo. - A tech-savvy university near the Missouri Ozarks is resorting to an old standby to reduce illegal music downloads by students: the pop quiz.


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