Engadget reports, in a “non-scientific sampling,” that Sony has disabled Zune’s song sharing feature for “popular artists by Zunerama and Zune Thoughts.” They go on: “it looks like it’s roughly 40-50 percent of artist that fall under this prohibited banner, and the worst news is that there’s no warning that a song might be unsharable […]
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iTunes Approaches 1 Billion Songs
As Apple approaches the sale of the 1-billionth song on its iTunes music store, it has launched a promotion — giving away Nanos and gift certificates to the lucky purchaser of each “100,000th” song. But the grand prize, for the 1billionth song: a 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes Music Card. $10,000 […]
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MP3s to get DRM?
According to cNet and MacCentral, a French firm – Thomson – has develop Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology for MP3s, perhaps the most ubiquitous form of music on the Net. Apple uses Fairplay technology; Microsoft has DRM built into its Windows Media Player software. Links: MacCentral (2 Mar); Baltimore Sun (from LA Times – 1 […]