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Peter Gabriel’s ad-supported online music store, We7, has earned the support of Sony BMG. Sony has pledged to allow its entire back cat to be made available for free, streaming music on the website. This is great news for fans of free music.

It comes at the same time as 24-7 Entertainment is preparing to launch unlimited mobile music downloads for a Nordic provider. 24-7 Entertainment is also in talks with several UK phone providers.

To top all that, mobile provider 02 has announced a partnership with music download giant Napster, who are also in talks with Vodafone. The ways we get free, legal music are fast evolving and increasing in number.

Users of the 24-7 Entertainment service will be able to download unlimited legal music without paying an extra fee on top of their mobile bills. The DRM-protected tracks can be used on a customer’s phone or computer for as long as that customer remains signed up, although the tracks cannot be copied to CD or played on an MP3 player.

There is some concern that all this free music will affect the sales of legal music downloads. Whatever, this is fantastic for music fans around the world.

Over one million views of the video and over one hundred thousand iPhone downloads of the full file. No, not the latest Britney Spears/Child/Drugs/Hair/Craziness debacle but the announcement by Apple of a beta of the iPhone download and SDK (software development kit). This kit assists programmers who want to write code for the device.
Such was the demand of the free iPhone SDK with download that Apple’s servers simply couldn’t handle the bandwidth. If 404 errors are still cropping up then may we suggest the torrent file that is flitting around that contains the iPhone SDK download. Alternatively a short wait until the hyper active fans have their fill would be useful.When all this is in a downloadable format, the iPhone is selling like hot cake.
While this isn’t the official release of the full version the industry reaction to the free iPhone download SDK has been almost as enthusiastic as the fans’. PopCap and Capcom have plans for hit games like Pac-man, Galaga, Bejeweled, Zuma and Peggle. Expect these to be making Apple more money any time soon.

A point of interest for music fans around the world has been the ongoing wait for the back catalog of the Beatles to be made available as a legal music download on iTunes. Fans of the Beatles can, of course, get their free music downloads from filesharing programs, but the wait for the file to become available on iTunes is interesting because it’s weird that songs by the greatest band of all time aren’t available from the world’s biggest online music store.

Some have said that the legal music downloads will be available by the end of the year, but it’s anybody’s guess what the reality is. In February 2007, Apple settled a litigation with Apple Corps, who manage the Beatles’ back cat, over Apple’s use of its own brand name. Since then, the arrival of the back cat on iTunes has been “imminent”.

Despite press reports, the label involved, EMI/Capitol, has refused to comment, although Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and all involved are said to be eager to get the tunes available for fans to buy. With filesharing so rampant, it’s surprising that a deal hasn’t been worked out sooner.

We’ll have to wait and see.

The battle between BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple became a whole lot more interesting with the announcement that RIM is to start exploring the world of legal music downloads. Apple already makes billions with music downloads through iTunes — and now Puretracks, an online music store, will start selling legal music downloads to users of BlackBerry devices.

The wireless music download service is expected to be ready in April. As well as having one of the coolest gadgets on the market, BlackBerry users will now have a world of music downloads open to them.

Compressed DRM-free AAC/AAC+ file will be made available, although there has been no announcement as to how much these legal music downloads will cost users. The Puretracks Mobile music service has been developed specifically for BlackBerry.

Although the music downloads will be of a lower quality than those offered by iTunes, this is big news in the mobile download industry. The smaller files will be relatively fast to download.

Another one bit the dust recently as AllPeers, Firefox’s filesharing extension, shut down and ceased operations. The extension was popular for allowing users to create filesharing networks to share files with friends.

Although it was at one time considered an essential Firefox addon, the filesharing app was apparently not used very much. While it had something of a cult following, AllPeers failed to attract wider attention. It’s a bit of a sad loss for filesharing.

AllPeers didn’t achieve the kind of growth that its developers had hoped for and so they pulled the plug. They basically ran out of money and decided to call it a day, which is fair enough.

The good news is that the filesharing app was open source and will be available on a host in the near future. There is a slim chance then that another party may pick up the addon and bring it back to life. The AllPeers blog will carry on as usual.

Popular movie “The Secret” introduced millions of people to the possibilities offered by home based business. The major players in this market – names such as Lifepath Unlimited and Wealth Masters – are flourishing, but where have they appeared from? Read on.

The last 50 years has seen numerous revolutions in the home business industry; the major changed moved the industry from peripheral view to the mainstream. Amway led the way to start: customers purchased products at a reduced cost and made money on products purchased by people that you referred. Clearly this is Multi-Level Marketing at its simplest.

People started to make good money but it was not the easy goldmine that it was billed to be: for everyone making a decent wage were hundreds lacking the necessary drive and commitment that had fallen by the wayside.

In the 90’s the paradigm shifted to bring the direct sales model of network marketing into focus – this meant higher margins and no sharing of profits with those above you in the MLM tiers. Big money was possible and people were again making serious money.

In the 2000s Liberty League International and Wealth Masters International began capitalizing on the internet growth spurt. Now LifePath Unlimited leads the way in taking home based business mainstream by bringing it’s powerful line of personal development products to the home business arena.

Dependent label boss (that’s a label named Dependent, not a typo, all right?) Stefan Herwig has issued an open challenge to people who are pro-filesharing, inviting them to meet him face to face in a hotel lobby, restaurant or hotel room. No, it’s for not some sort of red-light rendezvous, but rather, Stefan wants filesharing folk to put forward their arguments as to why filesharing is OK.

Obiously a little agitated, Stefan said, “Real arguments here are rare, but a couple of attention whores seem to find it remarkably funny to show up with nicknames like ‘i stole ur muzak’, etc. Its all fun and games on a forum, but does anyone of you cool file sharing people really have some ‘real life’ arguments to backup your evil deeds and justify file sharing?”

Just for you, Stefan, here are some of our arguments to backup our “evil deeds”:

Firstly, why shouldn’t we be allowed to use filesharing programs like Limewire? We have been copying tapes, recording radio shows, burning each other’s CDs and much more for years. No-one came out and told us this was wrong or would bring down the music industry until the process of sharing music was fully integrated into modern society.

Likewise, for those people caught filesharing, where are the police raids searching for home-recorded tapes and CDs? Furthermore, tell us how you are going to regulate filesharing when so many people have been doing it for so long? Until some real solution can be put forward, there isn’t even an argument.

The music industry’s response to filesharing has been so slow and confusing that the general public no longer cares about whether it’s right or wrong — we just want music.

Also, Stefan Herwig, the arguments against filesharing are heavily based on appealing to people’s morals with regards to the wellbeing of large, corporate entities. The general public have no reason to care about whether businesses survive or not because all people want is music.

It’s unfair to expect the general public to think one way with regards to big businesses, when at the same time, it’s those big businesses who are selling us MP3 players, music software, ways to burn our own CDs, right back to tape-to-tape recording devices.

It was far too late into the game before the general public was told about why music copyright is important. Why would Sony make blank tapes and minidiscs unless they wanted us to copy music?

Even before filesharing came about, there were websites from which MP3s could be downloaded. I do not remember a fuss being made in the public eye about these websites. What do you expect the public to think if the arguments aren’t in the public eye until it is at the music industry’s convenience?

We’ve got a whole bunch more arguments about filesharing, so if you would like to meet us, Stefan Herwig, we’d be more than happy.

We like to give the RIAA a lot of stick for its stance on filesharing, so we’re always pleased to help share some negative press the music biz is receiving. Whoever said that the RIAA has artists’ best interests at heart needs to rethink that notion.

Apparently, there are scores of artists’ lawyers and managers trying to work out when some of the money procured by the RIAA in its war on filesharing will actually make its way to the artists themselves.

John Branca, a well-connected lawyer who has represented the Rolling Stones, among others, said that some artists may start filing lawsuits if they don’t get paid soon. Imagine the backlash if artists like the Rolling Stones started suing the RIAA after the RIAA has sued the world for filesharing. The order of the world would be forever sent into disarray.

Whatever happens and wherever the money has been going and will go, you can bet the lawyers will be the ones who really benefit — as always.