Warner Music Group is making its music available for US downloads from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection. Warner had been holding out against using the format because MP3 tracks are easier to share between users and may be freely burned onto CDs. Amazon.com’s download store is a major US competitor to Apple’s iTunes, [...]
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Google cofounder Sergey Brin told public radio’s Marketplace that around one percent of all Google searches go through the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Because the button takes users directly to the top search result, Google doesn’t get to show search ads on one percent of all its searches. That costs the company around $110 million [...]
‘Your move freeloaders, eh?’
By Chris Williams → More by this author
Published Friday 9th November 2007 11:36 GMT
Popular BitTorrent site Demonoid.com has been taken offline after legal threats to its webhost by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
A message on the Demonoid front page reads: “The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because [...]
EMI goes after Sideload
By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author
Published Monday 12th November 2007 16:23 GMT
MP3.com founder Michael Robertson is on the receiving end of another lawsuit - from EMI - this time against his MP3tunes.com and Sideload.com services.
Robertson told Reuters it was retaliation for a suit his Sideload.com service had filed against EMI in [...]
Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader has sold out despite scepticism about whether the device will prove popular. A notice on the Kindle pages on the Amazon web store said “heavy customer demand” for the device meant it would be out of stock until 3 December.
Since its launch on 19 November the device has been widely examined [...]