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. ...
(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. ...
(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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