Online Music Piracy On The Way Out According To survey

A survey published by Entertainment Media Research highlights a new reality in the fight against online music piracy - more and more users are now turning to legal downloading services rather than getting their music fix from illegal sources (P2P or otherwise)

MON 13 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Play.com Removes DRM From Tracks, Goes Against iTunes and Amazon

EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music, Universal Music and a number of other independent labels have now all signed with Online Etailer Play.com to offer their tracks without any Digital Rights Management "protection"

THU 09 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Five Reasons Why Nokia, Vodafone and Other Unlimited Music Schemes Will Not Last Long

From "Comes with Music" to Musicstation, handset manufacturers and mobile network providers are going bonkers about bundling music with their products AND services in a bid to stem the annual migration of existing customers at the end of their contracts

FRI 03 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Myspace Takes On Apple's iTunes With Free Online Music Service

Myspace is partnering with Amazon to offer millions of songs for free online supported by advertising as part of a complete relift of its music service

THU 25 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

SonyEricsson's Playnow Plus Offers Unlimited Music Through Omnifone Partnership

Playnow Plus is just another repackaged Omnifone music service after all... We were expecting something extra from the embattled mobile phone manufacturer but apart from the fact that SonyEricsson has a more complete roster, there's not much to differentiate its offer from the competition

WED 24 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Will Sandisk microSD SlotMusic Format Be Another Expensive Failure for the Music Industry?

So Sandisk has just announced that it has partnered with a number of music giants like Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner to launch another physical music format called the Slotmusic which in essence is a microSD memory card with some content on it

MON 22 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

7Digital Offers 4 Million Tracks Without DRM, Plans Developers' API as Well

In a bold move, 7digital has announced that all four big major music labels have allowed the small Uk online music shop - which is second only to iTunes - to flog their entire catalog of songs as high quality DRM-free MP3 files

TUE 16 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Is Hollywood's New Film Download Technology Doomed To Fail Already?

UK punters should brace themselves for the release of Hollywood-backed Digital Copy, a scheme that cinema studios hope will convince people not to copy movie DVDs to their hard drives and share them with peer to peer partners over the web

MON 15 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Nokia "Comes with Music" Launched in UK Through Carphone Warehouse

Nokia wants a share of Apple's iTunes market and has launched its new venture called "Comes with Music" through Carphone Warehouse which incidentally is the iPhone's sole independent seller

TUE 02 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Google Unveils Free Legal Music Service In China

Chinese don't like to pay for content that they can seamlessly copy and that's a ruthless factoid that Google has sneakily adopted to launch its brand new music search engine, exclusively in China

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News