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August, 2008
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21 August 2008 by mike.
Sometimes you have to just be honest with yourself and give up. That’s what I had to admit to myself the other day when I had tried my hardest to download Ares software and, once it was downloaded, install it. My son had suggested that I use Ares Vista to go and get some [...]
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20 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
I am a realistic man; I know that good things cannot last forever. And so it is with my current version of the Ares filesharing software. Just like my previous favorite – Ares Galaxy – which was eventually superseded by any number of far superior alternatives, so my current choice will inevitably bested by some [...]
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18 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Sad news as it looks as if Pandora may have to shut down. Pandora is a great music service that lets search for music and then plays you music it thinks you might like. It’s a great way of finding new bands and artists and is one of the best Internet radio services around. Licensing [...]
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14 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Dream Pinball 3D. That name ring any bells? Sounds like a pretty average PC game. And yes, it is. However, it might just end up being the world’s most expensive pinball videogame for one UK woman, who has found herself in the middle of a filesharing debacle after being ordered to pay about $32,000 for [...]
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12 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
We actually had to look up exactly what “Hobe Sound” is. Call us ignorant, but it sure doesn’t sound like the name of a town. Regardless, a woman from Hobe Sound stands accused of distributing 419 copyrighted songs through filesharing networks.
Among the free music downloads on this music fan’s hard drive were N*SYNC and American [...]
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10 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
We were hoping and praying it wouldn’t happen, but it did. Keane’s experiment to offer one of the band’s tracks for free music download has proved to be a success. Hot on heels of Coldplay, who did the exact same thing and were hot on the heels of Nine Inch Nails, who were hot on [...]
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8 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Shifting the emphasis from students to universities, it’s come out that schools and unis in America could lose funding if they do not police their students in an attempt to crackdown on filesharing and downloading copyrighted material.
The US Senate and House of Representatives announced that funding will be cut to institutions that the entertainment industry [...]
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6 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
It seems that there is a lot of news regarding music downloads from China for some reason. While it has little impact on Western consumers, it is interesting to see how the Chinese are doing their thing, especially in the wake of all the Internet censorship that goes on there.
Google recently launched a new search [...]
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4 August 2008 by Iownmymusic.
There has been a tonne of pressure put on UK ISPs recently with regards to filesharing and cracking down on illegal music downloads. As if all the negative publicity wasn’t enough, it has now been revealed that the top three ISPs in the UK are responsible for 65% of the UK’s filesharing.
There are about six [...]
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