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2007
The RIAA is facing more and more problems
after too many law cases against innocent users. Now Tanya
Andersen from Oregon has started to demand compensation for
false accusations and illegal prosecution on behalf of the
RIAA.
Speculations about a forthcoming Music site by Google had
been heating up and the domain GoogleMusic.com
could enter the music download battle.
In the U.K. some P2P users were sentenced
to pay compensations as high as $22,000.
P2PNet estimates that the RIAA has sued up to 18.000
users including a nurse, who never had a PC in her
life.
With a new "elabel" Warner
Music wants to adjust as the first major company to the new
laws of the digital music market. Revolutionary is, that artists
will keep their publishing rights.
Over a period of 2 months the ips of eDonkey
users have been compiled by investigators. Some first
3.500 have already become subject to prosecution.
In Germany 130 private homes of P2P
users have been raided by the police. Also 3.500 eDonkey users
have become subject to legal prosecution and fines of up to
15.000 Euro are now expected. Meanwhile Emule has become the
currently most popular Software.
The infamous Russian MP3 site allofmp3.com
does no longer seem to function.
Nielsen reports, that visits @ Itunes
grew from December 2004 until 2005 from 6.1 million to 20.7
million.
110.000 citizens have forced the French
Parliament to legalize P2P file sharing for a monthly fee
of $8 payable to isps.
Motorola has high hopes with the it`s
iRadio for mobil phones where 70 hours of music will become
available for a monthly rate of $7.
In the U.S. the mother of 5 children was sentenced to pay
$25.000 to record labels for 30 MP3
files from KaZaa.
Record Industry & ITunes are looking
at flexible pricing for MP3 downloads like $1+ for prime new
tunes and less than $1 for old songs and emerging artists.
MTV, Viacom and Microsoft have teamed up to challenge
Itunes with their new download service "urge"
featuring 2 million songs and some radios for media player.
Package deals will be available as well as portable players
by Toshiba.
Illegal MP3 downloads are still on
the rise according to online researcher BigChampagne. Some
9.2 million users users were reported to be using P2P portals
in October compared to 6.3 million 12 months ago.
The unpopular Overpeer company has
given up it`s combat against P2P users after they had tried
to discourage from downloads with manipulated MP3 files that
had installed nagging ad screens.
Napster has launched a new monthly
flatrate of $15 for unlimited downloads from their 1,5 million
MP3 files.
RealNetworks has announced software improvements at it`s
Rhapsody music service which claims
now 1 million titles.
The RIAA took another 64 students
from 17 Universities to court for their MP3 filesharing activities.
Most likely they are expected to settle with payments between
$4,000 to 10,000 like in most previous cases.
ITunes was expected to raise the price
for MP3 downloads up to $1,49 since the major labels have
demanded more than only 70 out of the current 99 cent per
song. But then Steven Jobs has declined any such plans calling
record industry simply too greedy.
An MP3 download service with 1 million songs for $4.99 per
month has helped Yahoo to become more
popular again among music and video fans.
Grokster has closed it`s P2P file
sharing portal and will pay a $50m fine.
The U.S. Supreme Court had decided,
that producers of P2P software are liable for copyright violations
done by their clients.
Napster has gotten far in the legal download
battle with revenues worth $15 million for the last quarter
and 410.000 subscribers.
A new court decision could mean the end of
KaZaA.
A new and informative site on latest industry trends is billboard.blogs.com.
ITunes has sold over one million songs
within the first 4 days after the launch of the Japanese edition
at rates of up to $1,50. With a marketshare of 85% ITunes
remains fully on top in the race for legal mp3 downloads followed
by Napster, RealNetworks and ODP sites.
The British Phonographic Industry has launched the first
five cases against Filesharers, who had offered some
8.000 mp3 songs on their computers.
Apple & Microsoft have announced
to raise payments per downloaded song to Indie labels from
$0,60 to $0,70.
Legal music download sites are expanding
faster than ever with 154 million songs purchased over the
last 6 months. In particular Apple sounds pleased with meanwhile
500 million and a 70% market share in downloads since it`s
launch and the rapid rise of podcasts at Itunes. Also new
plans for videos @Itunes have been noticed.
With a very unconvincing website musicnet.com
has stepped into the race for download clients.
mp3tunes.com
is the latest music download offer with 88 cents per tune
from hundreds of upcoming artists. The site was launched by
MP3 founder Michael Robertson.
British music giant EMI was dissatisfied
with a 2004 profit worth $250 million.
In Norway a student was sentenced to a fine of $15.000
for having provided links to free MP3 download sites.
With daily sales of 1,25 million songs
Itunes stays on No.1 in the music download battle.
Up to 230 legal MP3 music download sites
have earned the industry $330 million during 2004 and it will
be doubled In 2005.
With unlimited Free MP3 hosting garageband
is on it`s way to grow into a prime destination for music
fans, who love to find new artists.
Funded with $10 million the free MP3 music download pioneer
and Napster founder Shawn Fanning offers
now Snocap,
where even Universal Music has invested in a new music sales
and distribution platform.
somusical.com
has emerged as a leading Music directory.
Cybersheriffs from Baytsp
and overpeer have converted the hunt for the fans of MP3 and
film downloads into revenues.
AOL & Burger King have teamed
up to benefit marketingwise from the growing demand for MP3
music download services.
Peter Gabriel reports a monthly growth
rate of 20% at his MP3 download service OD2,
which cooperates with Virgin, mtv and other marketleaders
in music.
P2P Filesharing is still expanding
with over 1 billion songs available as MP3 files. KaZaa is
now less popular for security reasons whilst Morpheus, eDonkey,
iMesh and Winmx are favored.
Sony failed to convince with the new
Connect MP3 download page. Users complain about incomplete
selections, nagging SonicStage software, pricing and other
inconveniences. A simple look at Itunes tells, what users
like. Surely not an additional Sony ATRAC-Format. - 500.000
MP3 Songs for $0,99 a piece at connect.com
A new free music site had been ampcast, where musicians were
offered a variety of distribution and marketing services like
MP3 downloads and music videos at highest quality level.
soundclick.com
presents videos from interesting unsigned bands and is now
the hottest follow up to MP3.com.
A promising offer in the MP3 download battle comes from musicrebellion.com,
where MP3 files cost as little as 10cent. Also Musicians can
sign up to sell their own tunes.
One of the fastest growing Music sites is sonicgarden
and also zeropaid.com
is a serious portal, that offers information for the file
sharing community.
The Free Download software streamripper
enables to record MP3 Radio streams to your disc and shoutcast.com
has emerged as fast growing free music site.
All these news about publishing rights, downloads and MP3
file swapping had found a forum at former pressplayster and
a large music community is dmusic.
At pro-music.org
all arguments against free MP3 file-sharing have been compiled.
Gilles Peterson from BBC 1 tells how insidaz feel about MP3
and P2P.
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