Chuck
D. vs. Lars PLUS new Metallica Cartoons
(5/12)Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and
Metallica's Lars Ulrich will go head-to-head on the
Napster.com controversy on The Charlie Rose Show on PBS
this Friday (May 12). Ulrich, anti-Napster, and Chuck D,
pro-Napster, will debate the different sides of this
issue. Should make for a pretty interesting interview.
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(1
comments)New
Player Offers Global Access to Music
(5/12)MP3.com, Inc., and Frontier Labs, maker of
the new NEX II portable MP3 player, today jointly
announced that the companies have entered into a
strategic MSP partnership. Under the agreement, Frontier
Labs will license MP3.com's MSP technology and its
“Co-Branded” My.MP3.com interface, giving users global
access to music. ...
(0
comments)Lower
CD Prices? FTC Puts Labels in Check
(5/11)The Federal Trade Commission put some
pressure on the major labels Wednesday to end a pricing
practice that discourages CD discounting by retailers.
The FTC is saying that the majors have illegally
inflated retail CD prices for the past five years by
denying cooperative advertising payments to retailers
that undercut minimum prices imposed by manufacturers.
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(3
comments)Napster
Outsmarts Metallica (5/11)Sure,
Napster complied with Metallica's request to ban over
300,000 of its users who the band says were trading
pirated Metallica tunes. What Napster realizes, and what
Metallica more than likely didn’t take into account, is
a little loophole for Napster in the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act. ...
(33
comments)Metallicster:
Metallica Media Sharing (5/11)Some
guys really got angry at Metallica for banning over
300'000 people from Napster and announced a soon release
of "Metallicster", which is, you guessed it, a Napster
clone only for Metallica songs. Joke: Yes or no? ...
(8
comments)Panasonic
Announces New MP3 Players
(5/10)Before this announcement, Panasonic had
not been pushing digital music players at all. But how
long would you expect a huge consumer electronics like
Panasonic to wait to release their products? Their
latest press release uncovers two new portable music
players... ...
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comments) 
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