They're buying software to remove the DRM code from their songs, and certainly some are turning to music sharing services like LimeWire and Bittorrent. So music vendors, afraid that frustrated music buyers may revolt, have begun to offer DRM-free music. Here's a roundup of online music ...
Sweden has a dark past when it comes to digital music. The country has been home to some of the biggest illegal media sharing networks in the world, including Pirate Bay. A report compiled by Sweden’s Film and TV Industry Cooperation Committee suggested 280 million films or TV shows were ...
Faced with new piracy sites like Limewire and Gnutella, the labels chose Apple and iTunes. Coupled with the 2001 launch of the iPod, a portable MP3 player with room for (gasp!) 1,000 songs, the future had arrived. It's striking that the arguments around Napster are basically the same ...
Such practices may be easy and free, but there are consequences.Sandr a Dowd, a student of Central Michigan University, was fined US$7,500 for downloading 501 files from LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing programme. Sandr a claimed that she was unaware that her downloads were illegal...
Such practice s may be easy and free, but there are consequ ences Sandr a Dowd, a student of Central Michiqan University, was fined US7,500 fordownloading01 files from LimeWire.apeer-to-peer filesharing program. Sandraclaimedthatshewasunawarethath erdounloadswereillegaluntilshewascontactedby...
“You actually have to buy the music,” he said. “You can’t just rip it and put it on (file-sharing site) Limewire.” The addictive play-along games are a cross between karaoke and open-mike night. Players hear an approximation of a song and try to match colorful visual cues by...
This was the early 2000s, before YouTube and social media, but the cover started circulating via email and file-sharing sites like Napster and Limewire. Aftab says it was the first song to go viral online in Lahore, illuminating a pathway forward for women and independent musicians there. ...
Like Napster, LimeWire and Kazaa, GrooveShark's days may be numbered. Enjoy it while you can. Turntable.fm is more like a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game). You don’t browse lists of song titles; you “walk” through music “rooms” as a digital avatar that you create. In ...
Illegal file “sharing” really caught on here. (Sharing is in quotes, because it isn’t really sharing in the conventional sense. When I share something with someone, I tend to get to know them a little bit better.) Despite the closing of Napster and some other sites, illegal ...
anyone would waste their time with Bit Torrent sites & junk like Limewire. CBMatt Mod & Malware Specialist Prodigy Posts: 6,026 Sad and lonely...and loving every minute of it. Logged #3 August 14, 2008, 04:08:26 AM The link was removed because it goes against our forum's policy...