Archive for January, 2006

Canada sues Sony

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Three lawsuits were launched in Canada. Recently, there were complaints from Ontario and British Columbia. All the moves are aimed at Sony BMG’s rootkit technology as well as the MediaMax “spyware”.
The lawsuits raise a number of issues concerning the DRM in the CD’s. Complaints include: violation of the Canadian Privacy Act (since MediaMax gathers […]

Are you still asleep? (Onslow)

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

The ideal soundtrack for a trip to the 72 nd floor… that’s right, in the elevator

Microsoft going after iTunes

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Last night at the CES, Bill Gates announced Microsoft and MTV plan to jointly develop a digital music service, Urge, for users of the next-generation Windows Media Player. The service will offer downloads of MTV programmes, original content, online radio and over two million songs from top labels. There will be 2 pricing schemes, […]

Dance-Industries

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Dance-Industries. Probably the best source for copyleft and free download of non copyright dance and trance tracks tracks. Just love them!

Push me (Emanuele Di Sante)

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I’m about 100% sure I will here this one in Ibiza this year or in a dark club in London. Brilliant tune!

Do people associate DRM with bad?

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

It seems that people start to dislike the DRM all together, fans are loosing faith in bands (Colplay and their DRM) but now even Apple gets dissed for their DRM. Brad King wrote down his view on the Apple DRM for Technology Review. Some quotes …

It’s fairly well publicized that if you have music […]

Coldplay and DRM

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

The newest Colplay CD, “X&Y,” comes with so many restrictions on its usage as to be, in one irate fan’s words, “virtually unplayable.” Coldplay’s label, Capitol Records, has installed extremely restrictive digital rights management (DRM) on the CD. Coldplay’s latest CD “X&Y” comes with an insert that discloses all the rules enforced by the DRM […]

The Girl With Tears (synCro)

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Nice trance track free to download…

150% increase in music transactions

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

According to Nielsen SoundScan sales of digital copyright tracks through services like iTunes have risen 150%, to well over 320 mln songs in 2005.

Blessed (Xerxes)

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Ambient/Newage style track influenced by Vangelis and Mike Oldfield. Brilliant!