News tagged with music industry


Would-be Pirate Bay buyer ousted from stock market

Technology / Business

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday.


UK says illegal downloaders may lose Web access

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created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(AP) -- People who repeatedly download copyrighted films and music could have their Internet connection cut off under proposed laws to tackle illegal file-sharing unveiled by the British government on Tuesday.





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Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay.


TV bombards children with commercials for high-fat and high-sugar foods

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role ...


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


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All wired up: Professor explains how technology really helps the economy

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Information technology is all around us — but how does it really change the way we do business? Erik Brynjolfsson, the Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, explores this question ...


A Dutch court ordered Sweden's The Pirate Bay filesharing website to remove links

Dutch court orders Pirate Bay to remove links

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Dutch court Thursday ordered Sweden's The Pirate Bay filesharing website to remove links to works of members of a Netherlands-based music and film copyright protection group.


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Microsoft launches Windows 7 (Update)

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Microsoft's much-heralded Windows 7 went on sale around the world Thursday as the US software giant seeks to reboot after the disappointment of its previous generation operating system Vista.


Google, MySpace, Facebook make music moves (AP)

Google, MySpace, Facebook make music moves (Update 2)

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.


EU: breakthrough on online music rights

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The EU's top antitrust official on Wednesday described a deal among Apple Inc.'s iTunes, music companies, distributors and online licensing groups as a "great breakthrough" that would roll out more Internet music ...


Barnes & Noble unveils new e-reader: the 'nook' (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. unveiled a new electronic-book reader Tuesday that will compete with Amazon.com's Kindle in a still-small arena where some see bookselling's future.


Video-game business still grappling with digital distribution

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Being able to buy and play high-end video games without leaving home may still be a way off, but the industry isn't waiting for its fate to be decided by outsiders.



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