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Hefty fines have been handed to people who download music using file sharing programs. Does the punishment fit the crime?
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Two companies, Universal and Virgin, have made an agreement to let people who use Virgin's Internet access to download as much music as they want to every month. It is hoped this might also help the battle against Internet piracy.
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Google has announced that it will offer free music downloads of licensed songs to people living in China. This is partly because of the use of unlicensed sites.
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Pioneering online ad-supported digital music service, Spiral Frog, fails to make its debt payments and goes under. The company's demise is a blow to the free music download model.
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The RIAA has come up with a way of dealing with file sharing, opting for an approach called throttling, which restricts user access. It's possible this might work, mainly because for once it's targeting the right people.
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Movie rental behemoth Netflix is finally joining forces with TiVo to allow subscribers to get access to more movies and TV episodes. The partnership has been a long time coming, and will take effect in early December in the U.S.
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Netflix has always been an innovator when it comes to movie rentals, but this one takes the cake: Free movies when you buy a $100 set-top box. With the download revolution just on the horizon, Netflix's move should really, really scare Apple.
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This isn’t in the script, as far as the record companies are concerned. Australian musician Lindsay McDougall (guitarist, Frenzal Rhomb) says he was in a film about surviving as a musician which was turned into an anti piracy crusade.
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The Firefox Internet browser reached a golden target of 500 million downloads today, and their parent organization Mozilla is celebrating by raising money to deliver 500 million grains of rice for the UN World Food Program.
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The Hideous Hydra of the music industry hasn’t gone all soft and cuddly, well, not yet, anyway. Warners and other music labels have now stated publicly they haven’t authorized Qtrax. Greed Inc. isn’t exactly famous for freebies.
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Streaming and downloading music is up this year.
Apple announced that 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store.
BBC director general Mark Thompson announces proposals to allow viewers to permanently download copies of archived programmes.
Angry Birds Space reached 10 million downloads in its first three days of release says its developer.
Ofcom reports a lopsided rise in the UK's broadband download speeds, noting that many subscribers could do better without paying much more.
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