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CacheLogic, the market leader in peer-to-peer (P2P) caching solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and BitTorrent, developer of the world's leading peer-assisted file distribution platform, announced a key strategic partnership to further enable the widespread adoption of P2P technology as a distribution network for commercial video and other rich digital content. (15/08)
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Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ...
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Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ...
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Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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DRM (Digital Rights Management) added to music is a really bad idea and you should never buy DRM-protected files, unless you have more money than sense ...
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After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ...
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The popular Russian digital music retailer MP3sparks.com has scored a own goal by doing business with a web host that has been linked to an infamous cybercrime ...
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At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ...
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A major battle is erupting between some digital media companies and major music publishers, which may lead to federal litigation, Billboard.biz has learned. ...
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The mainstream music industry is coming to recognize a price for digital songs that might be good enough to compete with the underground exchange of tunes ...
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Warner Music Group today unveiled a 58 per cent slump in fourth-quarter profits, with increased digital revenues failing to offset a collapse in sales ...
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In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection ...
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UK digital retailer 7Digital is pushing aggressive pricing as well as new features and alliances designed to challenge iTunes and other retailers. The ...
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The last few years in the history of digital content are littered with examples of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions that have been accused of ...
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Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ...
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I was saddened to hear of the death the other day of the colourful Green Party (and former Liberal) peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley. Tim Beaumont was a tireless ...
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The music industry woke to a potential revolution today with the first downloads of Radiohead's In Rainbows album being eagerly copied to MP3 players. ...
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Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks ...
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The chairman of the House's investigating committee Tuesday criticized the popular peer-to-peer program LimeWire for failing to take steps to ensure that ...
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The DRM-free songs Universal will sell as part of its recently-announced plan will contain a watermark that can be used to track the files down on peer-to-peer ...
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Rod Stewart knows about it. So does Elton John. And Barry Manilow. Tony Bennett, to his joy and surprise, is just finding out about it. And next year Earth, ...
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Here are some predictions for 2007: Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 ...
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RawFlow and Tiscali Nacamar commences their partnership by deploying Peer-To-Peer streaming technology for Energy Sachsen, enabling them to offer listeners ...
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A few years ago the music industry was worried about Napster and the other peer-to-peer file-sharing services that allowed people to illegally post and ...
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The music publishing industry has reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement. Publishers ...
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Despite legal victories by record labels and trade associations, the growth of peer-to-peer networks continues unabated. BitTorrent and versions of eDonkey ...
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