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Sony Ericsson to Launch Unlimited Music Service
Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets. Sony Ericsson's Play Now Plus, which will be available solely through telecoms operators, will provide subscribers access to millions of songs, and users can ...
White House Opposes Expanded DOJ Copyright Enforcement
Intellectual Property The Bush administration is opposing sweeping legislation granting it the ability to prosecute civil cases of copyright infringement. The legislation, backed by Hollywood, labor unions and manufacturers, sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee, 14-4, on Sept. 11. In a letter to Sens. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, who were among the ...
Songwriters Submit Agreement to Copyright Royalty Board
Songwriters, record labels, and webcasters have reached an agreement on mechanical royalties for songs played on web radio services. However, the “disastrous" performance royalty that threatens to drive Pandora and other webcasters out of business remains in effect. Webcasters will pay 10.5 percent of their revenue to songwriters and publishers minus any performance royalties already being ...
Add More Cowbell to Your MP3s at MoreCowbell.DJ
The History of “More Cowbell" “More cowbell" is an American pop culture catch phrase originally derived from an April 8, 2000 Saturday Night Live comedy sketch about the recording of the song “(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. The sketch featured guest host Christopher Walken as music producer Bruce Dickinson and Will Ferrell as ...
Kuwait Orders ISPs to Block Youtube
Kuwait has ordered local Internet service providers to block online video-sharing website YouTube over clips that could offend Muslims. “Since the website displays the Koran in the form of songs sung with the oud (stringed instrument) ... and displays disrespectful pictures of the Prophet Mohammad ... please proceed with immediate effect in blocking the website www.youtube.com," ...
Gogimon Launches Aggregated Web Search App
Israel-based Gogimon wants to change the way you search, with its new desktop app that combines results from all three major web-search engines—Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search. Since it's a locally installed program, the tool can learn your search habits and personalize results without requiring you to send your search history to the company's servers, ...
SanDisk Launches New Music Card Format
Can't find enough ways to access your music? SanDisk announced Monday that it will soon release a microSD card for phones, MP3 players, and computers that will come pre-loaded with DRM-free music. The slotMusic card will feature artists from EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music, SanDisk said. The format will debut later ...
Attorney General Pulls Immunity Trigger Denies 'Dragnet' Surveillance
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Saturday denied that the Bush administration -- in conjunction with the nation's telecommunication companies -- devised a “dragnet" electronic surveillance program that funneled Americans' communications to the National Security Agency without court warrants. But the attorney general also insisted that defending his claim in court would harm national security. Specific ...
Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices -- Bittorrent Targeted
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic -- maneuvers it has repeatedly denied. The cable concern said (.pdf) it indeed hit “particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic." The peer-to-peer protocols, Comcast said, include Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella -- vehicles used ...
Jazzwise Magazine Goes Digital
The UK’s biggest selling jazz publication Jazzwise magazine in partnership with leading digital subscription company Exact Editions, has launched a high quality monthly digital edition. Identical to the printed version the digital edition also benefits from fully searchable (and printable) PDF pages. While each new edition of the magazine will be available online each month from ...
