Yesterday the great Peter Kafka reported in All Things Digital that Android head Andy Rubin said the upcoming Google Music Store will have a “twist”. The latest rumor is that the “twist” may actually be a limited form of music sharing. According to a digital media source, “it will probably be limited to a...
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About a year ago a couple of start-ups announced their intentions to take the US by storm with a completely new take on ad-supported free mp3 downloads. Free All Music of Atlanta, Ga. claimed that they were going to give users free MP3’s by just viewing a little 15 second commercial before each download....
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Last week there was a lot of news concerning Spotify resulting from some bogus information that was fed to the industry press. I guess some people in the business don’t want to make things easy for them to launch in the US. But why? Rumours have abounded that one of the major labels is pushing...
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The Brits released the results of a new study yesterday claiming that 7 million people in the UK are illegally file sharing, costing the economy billions of pounds. Consequently the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) says it may be hard to change attitudes. Duh. You think? This is news? Give me a...
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We’re coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the launch of the original Napster. And it has surely been a long and winding road to the current incarnation of the once dominate p2p software. To get the full story you should pick up Steve Knopper’s “Appetite For Self-Destruction” or Joe Menn’s “All The...
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