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In clarifying what is legal for Canadian online music fans, the Canadian Copyright Board ruled that downloading music files from peer-to-peer networks is acceptable. However, the board declared that uploading music files is illegal and also approved a levy on digital music players based on their sto...
A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Universal Music Group and VeriSign. The group -- called the Content Reference For...
The Recording Industry Association of America pushed forward with its campaign to sue illegal music file-traders this week, piling on another 41 suits in the third wave of legal action aimed at those who share music files over peer-to-peer networks. The industry group that represents the world's maj...
IBM hopes to hit it big with its new Business Integration Game (BIG) technology, which is a software system designed to throw third-party e-commerce and communication into the latest online role-playing and multiplayer video games. The BIG framework, which uses open standards such as SOAP and J2EE, ...
While some PC makers talk a good consumer electronics strategy, Gateway is turning talk into products. That's what Gateway executive vice president Scott Edwards told TechNewsWorld in an exclusive interview following a New York City press conference where the computer maker with the bovine brand int...
Not to be ignored in the wake of several big online music announcements made over the course of the past few weeks, RealNetworks has announced a partnership with Intel that could help move RealNetworks' on-demand music service -- called Rhapsody -- from the office into the living room. While Apple's...
The original Napster software emerged and blossomed on university campuses, so it seems only appropriate that one of Roxio's first strategic steps with Napster 2.0 would be to return to the university -- this time with a legal system that will provide music to students and faculty at Penn State Univ...
Promoted as a way to foster digital television but derided as a halfhearted antipiracy measure that caters mainly to Hollywood, a new mechanism known as the "broadcast flag" has been adopted by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC will require the copy-control measure to be built into all ...
Intel lost its Xbox contract as Microsoft and IBM announced a collaborative technology agreement for the silicon of the next-generation gaming platform, making Big Blue the semiconductor provider for all three major gaming consoles, including Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's GameCube. Intel, howeve...
Napster has carried its famous name into the legitimate music download arena, officially launching Napster 2.0 and challenging a sea of Windows competitors, including Apple's sweet-sounding iTunes service that sold 1 million songs to Windows users in its first three days of operation. Yankee Group s...
Moving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services. Yet iTunes and other paid services, which differ only slightly in their rules for downloading, ...
Promising quality improvements and furthering the competition for media players and broadband subscribers, Microsoft's MSN is offering free streaming video in a beta version that will be available to all MSN subscribers in the United States this winter. The move comes as Microsoft seeks to broaden i...
The Napster song-swapping service has undergone a transformation from hotbed for piracy to legitimate peer-to-peer service in a large pack of formidable competitors. Napster 2.0, to be officially launched October 29th by Roxio, will provide legal dollar-per-song access to a catalogue of 500,000 titl...
A brand synonomous with music piracy is about to reemerge from the scaly bosom of bankruptcy. A beta version of Napster, brought to its knees by music industry litigation over copyright violations, will be launched next Thursday by its white knight, Santa Clara, California-based Roxio. Roxio, well k...
The list of legitimate alternatives to the music-trading networks that were used by nearly 60 million people last year grew larger this week with a new service from San Diego-based MusicMatch. Similar to Apple's successful iTunes, which claimed 10 million downloads earlier this month, MusicMatch wil...
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