Great news for pretty much everyone in Europe. The European Parliament has dismissed a move by the entertainment industry to make filesharing illegal. Copyright abusers will also live to fight another day, as a move to ban them from the Internet was rejected.
It was a close call though, with 314 MEPs voting to scrap the […]

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 […]

Apple is finally venturing into Europe with its enigmatic iPhone apps that can be downloaded gadget wizardry. It is also getting ready to launch its new iPod nano to download on an unsuspecting public, if pictures recently posted on the web are anything to go by.
And maybe they are, because Apple’s legal team quickly got […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Ares P2P filesharing software has been around for a relatively long time. First developed in 2002 and operating on the Gnutella network, Ares soon picked up enough momentum to start using its network and was able to utilize a fairly unique leaves and supernodes architecture making its network traffic more difficult to identify than […]

Nokia’s new ‘Comes With Music’ campaign was launched by the mobile phone giant in 2007. What this meant was music downloads from Universal. Now Nokia has mixed up the deal a little and the unlimited music downloads deal includes Sony BMG’s wares, too. This is another step forwards by Nokia and a welcome breath of […]

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 […]

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 […]