Jun 17, 2002 | audio, file_sharing
AudioGalaxy decided to sell its soul. It settled with the recording industry and agreed to start making a serious effort to filter out copyrighted songs. This permits it to avoid being crushed by the recording industry’s army of lawyers. Instead, of course, it will...
Jun 14, 2002 | audio, business, file_sharing
The recording industry continues its relentless campaign to prevent us from actually hearing any of its products played out loud. The latest is the proposal floated in a cover story in Billboard magazine last week for federal legislation requiring royalties to be paid...
Jun 13, 2002 | audio, file_sharing
For those of you that want a refresher, here’s a perfectly nice short article about Napster’s rise and fall, the record industry’s horrible online offerings to date, and the status of the current file-sharing programs. No surprises, but worth reading if you haven’t...
Jun 6, 2002 | audio, file_sharing
If you’re using Kazaa, Morpheus, AudioGalaxy, or any of the other file sharing programs, make sure you’re not sharing more than you intend. A study released today concluded that the settings in Kazaa for sharing folders are difficult for many people to understand, so...
May 24, 2002 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law
More developments in the recording industry’s relentless war to make sure we can’t actually hear any music. Yesterday KaZaA, the Dutch software and products company which founded KaZaA.com, announced that it intends to shut down because it can’t...
May 20, 2002 | DRM, file_sharing
The recording industry is going to elaborate lengths to create music CDs that are copy-protected – to prevent you from copying, or “burning,” music onto recordable CDs, onto a computer hard drive, or onto a portable music player. Last week Apple...
