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Mobile music downloads may seem like the next big thing, but according to a recent survey, most people don’t really care about mobile MP3 downloads.

The Jupiter research study found that disinterest and unnecessary hurdles have led to people being less than excited about mobile music downloads. Of 1800 people surveyed, 66% said that there was nothing phone carriers could do to make them want to download music to their cellphones.

Just 28% said they were interested in ringtone downloads and only 14% said they wanted to download music to their phones. This obviously won’t stop phone carriers and record labels from pushing ahead with the sale of mobile music downloads, but it makes for interesting reading to think that people might not care.

The price of mobile downloads was cited as the main reason for shunning the technology. Other problems included how difficult it is to download music to a phone.

A home based business is the answer to many peoples’ problems; setting your own hours and being your own boss can help with many of life’s problems. So when Matt and Stacy’s home based business needed employees they decided to employ them on this basis: all staff work from home and are part time. While this kind of setup requires close monitoring and strong communication, the Williams think that their happy staff and more motivated and harder working than would otherwise be the case.

While a home based business may not be to everyone’s tastes – you need to be highly motivated and strong enough to resist the many distractions that will no doubt present themselves – it can be a wonderful chance to spend more time at home and with family. This togetherness is what has pleased Matt and Stacy most about their home based business: “We’ve discovered that, in a lot of ways, we’re very ‘yin/yang’ — where one of us is weak, the other is strong. So we balance each other out well.”

The world’s biggest online retailer of indie music, and the second-largest online retailer behind only iTunes, has announced that sales have surpassed the 200 million mark.

eMusic established its current subscription model in 2003. These 200 million music downloads were sold in the US and the EU. eMusic sells up to about seven million legal music downloads a month.

“Fiery Crash” by Andrew Bird was the 200-millionth music download on eMusic. We have no idea who Andrew Bird is.

eMusic continues to do a good job of satisfying its customers and is one of the more reputable download services out there. The company has sold 100 million music downloads since December 2006 — and the numbers look set to keep on increasing. Indie labels are given a place to sell their music and reach a massive audience that they would other find more difficult to reach.

Social networking website imeem recently bought Snocap Inc, a firm that digitally tracks content and was founded by Napster guru Shawn Fanning.

No reports about how much imeem paid for Snocap have been revealed. Snocap pioneered a system of digital fingerprinting, which provides technology to find unauthorized music that has been uploaded to any website that utilizes the service.

MySpace, which recently launched an all-new service for music downloads, among other things, already uses the service to allow its users to legally sell music downloads through MySpace web pages.

The Snocap technology that powers MySpace’s digital tracking will continue to be run be imeem. This news shouldn’t have any real impact on music downloads on the consumer side as it is really just a business deal.

Snocap was founded in 2002 and has been used by MySpace since 2006. In 2007, imeem annouced a partnership with Snocap.

A proposed Internet tax put forward by Sacramento, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon would cover music downloads from the likes of iTunes and other music-download websites, as well as pornography downloads, a report has revealed.

The move would raise the price of downloads from iTunes to help cover the state government’s $8 billion shortfall. Apparently we should all be taxed for music downloads, videos and and so on.

As expected, users of iTunes and other download sites are strongly against the idea, citing that the $0.99 iTunes charges now is already enough. With filesharing being outlawed, it makes little sense for the government to go out of its way to turn people away from legitimate sources of legal music downloads.

The tax wouldn’t directly affect music downloads, but rather, it would update a 75-year-old law that allows sales-tax collections on tangible personal property, which at the moment doesn’t include music downloads.

Music downloads on iTunes would shoot up to about $1.08.

While Sony BMG has been very vocal in the legalities of filesharing, the music giant may have slipped up in another area. PointDev has come out accused Sony of using pirated software. PointDev caught Sony out when it found a pirated product key. Then, to make matters worse, Business Software Alliance carried out a raid and found that 47% of Sony’s software is pirated.

Business Software Alliance is now suing Sony for about $500,000. So much for taking the moral high ground when it comes to copyright. Sony has been at it for years.

It makes you wonder how Sony can be so staunchly against filesharing when its own operations break copyright laws on a daily basis. In 2005, Sony was accused of distributing discs containing spyware. Hypocrisy and irony are two words that spring to mind. Next time you have doubts as to whether or not you should be filesharing, look to the pillars of the community for inspiration.

Thanks, Sony.

The RIAA’s heavy-headed approach to suing students accused of filesharing is once again under scrutiny. Three recent court cases have thrown the “making available” argument under the spotlight.

The “making legal” argument has been one of the main weapons used by the RIAA in its clampdown on students accused of filesharing on campus. These recent cases have asked whether or not it is enough that students made tracks available for filesharing and whether the RIAA must prove that tracks were copied and downloaded onto computers.

Don’t hold your breath, because filesharing legend Jammie Thomas still ended up being convicted despite the same issues being raised.

The three court cases each came to slightly different conclusion, leaving the door open for more revisions to come in the future.

If the RIAA were forced to prove that tracks were downloaded and copied, then the ball games changes completely and we may start to see some changes in the way students are sued left, right and center.

More interesting news about those Swedish artists who were surveyed recently. Not only do 38% of them want filesharing to be legalized, but, get this, 59% of them admitted to using filesharing programs in the past to get ares free music downloads.

It’s not only us regular folks who get music downloads with Limewire, Ares and so on. Musicians, who you would have expected to be dead set against filesharing, actually use the technology to download MP3s.

Where does this leave the rest of us? Could musicians be prosecuted and sued for downloading their own songs or their friends’ songs? It’s a difficult situation to work out.

What would be really interesting would be a survey of American artists. Then perhaps the RIAA would start to see things differently. If those artists whom the RIAA is trying to protect actually use filesharing programs, what does this mean for the music industry as a whole?

The computer is such an integral part of almost any home business these days that it beggars belief to hear of people trying to do without or trying to ‘make do’ with an inferior piece of equipment. While it is clear that many a home business, especially when first starting, is under the cosh of a very limited budget, this is no excuse for not starting out right. Good computers are available for a few hundred dollars and this expenditure should be weighed against the almost instant increase in productivity that will be enjoyed for the benefit of your home business.

Likewise a telephone. While it may seem like an unnecessary expense, just losing one potential client due to miscommunication resulting from a poor phone is completely unacceptable. A hundred dollars or so is not a lot in the grand scheme of things and if you don’t lose that client then it has paid for itself very quickly. Investing in your home business is an important and crucial thing to do.