Tag: music sharing
Catching up with modern technology: UK copyright law faces overhaul
The changes are not final yet, but recommendations for new copyright rules include making it legal for people to transfer their own CDs onto their MP3 players. Did you know this was illegal? The fact that most people probably…
Virgin's P2P music service scrapped amidst labels' anti-piracy concerns
A new legal peer-to-peer music sharing service due to be launched by Virgin Media within the next couple of months has been put on hold indefinitely due to last minute whining by a few well-known record labels, according to a report in The Register.
“Virgin Music Unlimited” would have allowed Virgin Media’s broadband subscribers to share music and keep tracks while the company aimed to make money from these P2P users and presumably pass some of that revenue back to the record labels…
Police arrest former OiNK users
Six former OiNK users have been arrested by British Police over the past couple of weeks, all in connection with the up-loading of pre-release to the now defunct P2P music site.
CloudTrade launches beta music sharing service for smartphones
CloudTrade. the social network which allows people to share video and music content online and potentially rack up points for popular content and interacting with advertisers, has announced its beta music sharing service, currently offering around 250 music tracks from the two record labels it has signed up.
It’s another service offering free content in exchange for watching ads, and is being targeted at the younger generation who typically have a lot of time and interest in new music, but no money…
My name is Dan and This Is My jam, the new beatmatched mixtape service
I’m a sucker for music sites. There’s no two ways about it, and there’s something deliciously simple about This is my jam – a mixtape site that comes with your own private DJ…
Goombah music discovery community goes live today
A new community driven music discovery service called Goombah has come out of its beta testing phase today and is now live to sign up to. It's a free desktop application for both PC and Mac that analyses your iTunes…
