Archive for
December, 2007
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30 December 2007 by mike.
Omemo has been launched for a couple of weeks now and already the new filesharing service has attracted a lot of media attention. The system is currently in Beta, but is worth downloading to see what all the filesharing fuss is about.
Omemo is easy to use – you share files by uploading them to the [...]
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30 December 2007 by mike.
Amazon and Warner Music have teamed up to offer music downloads that come without copy protection, meaning that the files can be played on almost any digital audio device. Amazon MP3 will launch sales of these music downloads next week.
The price of the music downloads is still yet to be announced, although at the moment, [...]
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25 December 2007 by mike.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has compiled a list of 30 websites that claim to offer legit music downloads, which are, in fact, not licensed distributors of the music they peddle.
These music download sites don’t offer legal music or any type of reliable service – they’re just there to take your money, like everyone [...]
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25 December 2007 by mike.
It seems like everyone is talking about the new filesharing service called Omemo. Although it’s a long way from displacing BitTorrent, Limewire and other such filesharing service from the top of the stack, Omemo, in its Beta stage, offers limited access to free music downloads.
After testing out Omemo, the number of music files available for [...]
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23 December 2007 by mike.
A new filesharing program called Omemo was launched this week. Omemo works by users downloading the software and then allocating a small section of their hard drives to be used in the Omemo network. This creates a huge virtual hard drive for of material that people can then share.
This latest filesharing service is similar to [...]
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22 December 2007 by mike.
Filesharing fans were give something new to chew on this week with the launch of Omemo, a brand new filesharing service that will reportedly create the world’s largest hard drive. This “virtual” hard drive is the combination of all Omemo users dedicating a small percentage of their hard drives for the entire Omemo network.
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22 December 2007 by mike.
It seems that every week there are American students in trouble for filesharing, but it looks like European students may also be taking some of the rap. Czech police raided a student dorm in the Prague-Strahov area recently and confiscated hordes of pirate material. Seven students were arrested and detained by police for their filesharing [...]
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19 December 2007 by mike.
Take this news for what it’s worth, but a recent study by the NPD Group has revealed that 50% of Mac users pay for their music downloads, compared to just 16% of PC users. Mac users pay for music downloads from services such as iTunes. Mac users also came out as more likely to buy [...]
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17 December 2007 by mike.
So there is a god. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), who we love dearly, finally saw sense and dropped its lawsuit against the granny who had suffered enormously at the hands of Hurricane Rita. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Christmas spirit that made the RIAA see sense in this latest filesharing lawsuit.
Granny Crain had previously [...]
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16 December 2007 by mike.
Yet more students have fallen foul of the RIAA’s move to outlaw filesharing. Students at Mississippi State University are the latest to be hit with the RIAA’s dreaded pre-litigation letters. The university now has “many” students who are being sued for using P2P filesharing services like Morpheus and Limewire.
The students have been given until January [...]
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