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The Amazon MP3 service launched in the United States just four months ago, and it currently offers music from all of the "big four"...

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We recently reported on a rumor that Yahoo plans to lay off hundreds of its staff as part of a restructuring endeavor. This restructuring...

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This year may be an unfavorable one for Americans who partake in peer-to-peer file sharing. Comcast recently began hampering connections on some file-sharing protocols...

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The transition didn't take long. Three days ago, Sony BMG announced plans to make part of its music catalog available in digital rights management-free...

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The time is right for Internet service providers to start filtering traffic in an effort to thwart illegal file sharing. As the New York...

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The last major record company to hold out against legal MP3 music downloads without digital rights management protection has buckled. As the Associated Press reports,...

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The combined effect of an upcoming Pepsi promotion, an ultimatum by Wal-Mart, and declining CD sales could be the tipping point that pushes the...

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As the RIAA and MPAA lobby for the U.S. government to cut federal aid to students in universities without anti-file sharing systems in place,...

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As record labels are slowly lured into releasing music without any digital rights management protection, Radiohead has drawn quite a lot of attention with the...

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Late last month, thousands of Internet file sharers cried out in terror as popular music sharing site OiNK was shut down by British and...

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It's a bad time to be illegally sharing music online. As the Recording Industry Association of America begins to take notice of Usenet newsgroups...

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Radiohead rocked the music world a couple of weeks ago by announcing that it would allow fans to name their own price for the band's...

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After suing the likes of Kazaa and Napster as well as individual users, the Recording Industry Association of America has gone after a more old-school...

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In the face of competition from Amazon and soon Microsoft, Apple has reduced the price of its digital rights management-free music library. As CNet reports,...

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The copyrighted content identification and screening system YouTube promised last year has finally gone online, according to an Associated Press report quoted by...

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As major record labels begin to untie online music from digital rights management software in an effort to spur demand, Universal—the world's largest record label—is...

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In the wake of EMI's decision to make its music catalog available without digital rights management protection earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to...

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Barely three months have passed since the first batch of songs free of digital rights management protection appeared on the iTunes Store. Now Apple...

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