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Complex licensing hamstrings EU music market
Big players insist on regime change Fragmented and complex publishing arrangements are hindering the growth of a European online music market and must be replaced with more open and transparent agreements, music industry groups and the European Commission have agreed.… ?
Continue reading »Internet Archive uncloaks open ebook dream machine
Will Google play? The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open architecture for selling and lending digital books online, an effort to consolidate the fledgling market for net texts – and give Google a little food for thought.…
Continue reading »Lawsuit: Copyright Filtering Technology Infringes
Copyright filtering technology is a form of copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit against document service Scribd. The lawsuit, lodged in a Texas federal court Friday, broaches a novel legal theory in which the U.S. courts have never squarely decided.
Continue reading »NPD Group Study Shows Increase in Online Download Sales
When it comes to the ratio between physical album sales and digital download sales, digital download sales have increased at the expense of physical CD sales. That’s not to say that CD sales are falling out of existence, but there seems to be a trend where sales are gradually going online even though most sales are physical CD sales. All this is according to a recently released NPD Group study.
Continue reading »uTorrent Still on Top, BitComet’s Market Share Plummets
BitTorrent has been the leading file-sharing technology for several years already, and we at TorrentFreak decided that it would be a good idea to track the changes in popularity of the various clients. Every two months we therefore publish an updated overview of the market share of BitTorrent clients. Today we present our second report based on data from over 165,000 unique users in more than 400 public BitTorrent swarms.
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