A film industry group is set to remove some of the procedural hurdles that prevented the legal recording of movies onto blank DVDs in a further sign that Hollywood studios are preparing to expand what consumers can do with downloadable movies.
With little fanfare, Metallica ended their long holdout and made their catalog available on iTunes Tuesday.
I've been spending a lot of time listening to Pandora lately, and I like what I hear.
Pandora is the best new thing in internet radio, a service that, once configured properly, will deliver you a constant stream of music you will actually like. Since I've started using Pandora, commercial radio hasn't had a look-in and even my newly acquired iPod sits unused as Pandora plays.
There are thousands of internet radio stations that let you customise play lists. Most of them are free and provide music in very good audio quality. But none have the intelligence of Pandora.
Until now, the BPI has pursued individual uploaders. So far, it has taken action against 139 people, four of whom were prosecuted..
A British music industry group is asking Internet service providers to suspend 59 accounts used for file sharing, saying ISPs have failed to take efficient steps to stop illegal activity.
The BPI, which represents hundreds of record companies, as well as manufacturers and distributors, announced the request Monday. The group said the latest step in its three-year campaign against piracy would allow the record industry to act more efficiently.
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The BBC’s Freeview HD trial may well be being carried out under strict Ofcom guidelines, which prevent the corporation from showing the test transmissions (pictured above, complete with HD DOG) to anyone outside of its 550 strong test group, but that hasn’t stopped enthusiasts from hacking the feed.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have lashed out at a music pirate who leaked the funk-rock band's upcoming album onto the Internet, and urged fans not to download it illegally.
The band's spokeswoman said on Wednesday the offender was being tracked down. The group's highly anticipated first studio album in four years, "Stadium Arcadium," is still on track to go on sale on Tuesday via Warner Music Group Inc.'s Warner Bros. Records, she said.
Toshiba has fired a shot in the war between formats to have high definition on a disc. Their HD-A1 player hit the shelves earlier this week, and has been met with fairly good reviews overall. Being interested in the format, I decided to hunt around and find an available player to go and check out. After bringing one back to the office, I took a little look under the hood to see what goes into a high definition DVD player. I had heard it was really a standard PC in there, with an IDE drive playing back content. Sure enough, after poking around that's exactly what I found.
Computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a computer program which they claim can accurately forecast where a song will appear in the charts.
The Echo Nest software has been developed by Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan, who believe it will fundamentally change the way people choose the music they listen to.
Many DJs are still unwittingly breaking the law by playing unlicensed digital copies of tracks months after a new permit scheme began, the BBC has found.
The annual licences, costing £200 plus VAT, were introduced by royalty collection agency PPL in September.
DJs who copy tracks onto computers or MP3 players without one are breaking copyright law, the organisation says.
But Radio 1 DJ Fergie told Newsbeat he did not know about the licences and doubted many other DJs did either.
