U.S. Judge Sides With the Selling of Pre-owned Digital Music By Douglas Perry A U.S. District Court has denied motion for a preliminary injunction to shutdown digital music marketplace ReDigi.
File Sharing After Megaupload: 8 Alternatives By Paul Escallier Megaupload is gone, so what will you do to find illegal Mp3s? Just kidding, we know you don't do that. But you do share files. Should you use Megaupload competitors, or cloud-based services?
Neil Young Says MP3 Isn't Good Enough; Neither Are CDs By Douglas Perry Neil Young believes that it is time that we finally demand a much higher audio quality in digital music.
House Judiciary Committee Opts to Delay SOPA Vote By Ross A. Lincoln Is this the sound of a bullet being dodged?
Google Dives Into Music Business With Google Music By Kevin Parrish Consumers can now purchase music on the Android Market and store their songs in the Google Music virtual locker.
Pandora Launches HTML5 Player, Removes Limit By Kevin Parrish Pandora has launched a slick new HTML5 interface that includes a button for sharing stations on Twitter and Facebook, and unlimited music streaming.
Resurrected Kazaa Now Available on iPhone, iPad By Kevin Parrish The Kazaa music subscription service can now be accessed on iOS devices through an official app.
Walmart Killing Off MP3 Download Service By Kevin Parrish After eight years of service, the Walmart Music Downloads Store is shutting its doors on August 29.
Labels: Apple is Better Than Google, Amazon By Kevin Parrish Apple's cloud service will be better because the company acquired licenses from the four record labels.
LimeWire Sued for $7.5 Trillion, Judge Denies By Kevin Parrish The music industry wants more from LimeWire than what the United States owes to Americans and other countries across the globe.
VSU Ratting Out Students Using P2P Clients By Kevin Parrish The University System of Georgia is cracking down hard on students using P2P clients.
Mozilla: 10-minute ''Private Browsing'' Spikes Common Occurrence At Lunchtimes By Jane McEntegart What time of day do Firefox users switch to "porn mode"?
Obama Contemplating Three-Strikes Piracy Law By Jane McEntegart President Obama is reportedly considering a three strikes law similar to what's already in effect in France.
Cartman, Lady GaGa Sing Pokerface in Rock Band By Jane McEntegart Harmonix and MTV today announced that Lady GaGa will be making her Rock Band debut next week. Nice and all but Lady GaGa+RockBand doesn't exactly equal breaking news. So what would make her debut breaking news? Oh, just Cartman.
Singer Stalks Google Car to Get Photographed By Jane McEntegart Living life as a struggling musician can be hard. Chances are most of us know someone who was in an actually-pretty-decent band that just didn't get the recognition it deserved no matter how hard the members tried.
Hulu Video Downloader Saves Files Offline By Marcus Yam Take your Hulu videos with you for offline viewing.
AT&T Closes its Remaining Usenet Access By Kevin Parrish AT&T is the latest ISP to pull the plug on Usenet access thanks to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
YouTube Gets Movie, TV Shows Sections By Jane McEntegart Google yesterday unveiled the product of an agreement with the likes of Crackle, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate and Starz and others: A Shows tab on the YouTube that brings with it thousands of television episodes and hundreds of movies.
Why No One Can Stop Torrents By Devin Connors Torrenting has its good days and its bad. On the same day that we learn Linuxtracker is distributing over 180 Terabytes of data a year, hackers shut down an anti-piracy site.
Virus Found in Pirated Copies of iWork'09 By Amos Ngai Pirated copies of Apple's new iWork '09 software suite has been found to contain Trojan Virus. Intego, the security firm that develops VirusBarrier for OSX has confirmed over 20,000 have downloaded the infected software.
Shocking: 95 Percent Music Downloads Still Illegal By Marcus Yam It’s no at all shocking that the majority of music downloaded today are illegal, but numbers released by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) are somewhat worrying.
Apple Unveils iTunes 8, Touts Genius Feature By Marcus Yam The first bit of new Apple product that Steve Jobs chose to unveil during his presentation on Tuesday was iTunes 8.