Free (legal) P2P Music Downloads?  Told You So.  —  I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but in case you haven’t heard: The era of paid music downloads is coming to an end (despite the fact that online sales are growing).  —  Qtrax, which has signed all four major labels …

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Free (legal) P2P Music Downloads?  Told You So.  —  I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but in case you haven’t heard: The era of paid music downloads is coming to an end (despite the fact that online sales are growing).  —  Qtrax, which has signed all four major labels …

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Capillaries can carry compressed context  —  I’ve been playing around with FoxyTunes, installing it in Firefox, getting the TwittyTunes extension.  And it’s not just because I like music.  I think what’s happening here is very powerful.  —  Let’s start with Twitter, it looks harmless and gormless, what possible use could it have?

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Souljah Boy to TellMe: Search, Listen and Obey  —  Machine translation from voice to text promises to be the grail of local mobile search.  Michael Fitzgerald in The New York Times today highlights voice search and voice recognition software in gadgets that “Listen and Obey.”

Source:   Search Engine Watch Blog
Author:   Kevin Heisler
Link:   http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080127-104827

QTrax Announces Major Label P2P Music Sharing (Updated)  —  At the Midem conference in Cannes, France, QTrax announced deals with all four major labels that would make it the first free and legal ad-supported P2P service with major label music.  By allowing users to share DRM-protected files …

Source:   Wired: Listening Post
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Major Labels Allow P2P Music Sharing on Qtrax (Updated)  —  After years of fighting peer-to-peer file-sharing companies, the major record labels have decided that if they can’t beat them, they might as well join them — in one case, anyway (see update).  At the Midem conference in Cannes …

Source:   Wired: Listening Post
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Major Labels Allow P2P Music Sharing on QTrax  —  After years of fighting peer-to-peer file sharing companies, the major record labels have decided that if they can’t beat them, they might as well join them — in one case, anyway.  At the MIDEM conference in Cannes, QTrax announced deals …

Source:   Wired: Listening Post
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Amazon MP3 store to spread DRM-free love global in 2008  —  In perhaps the biggest threat to Apple’s global dominance of digital music, Amazon just announced the international rollout of Amazon MP3.  Right, the on-line storefront offering DRM-free music from all four major labels.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/27/amazon-mp3-store…

Thanks, Gutenberg - but we’re too pressed for time to read  —  The First Law of Technology says we invariably overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies while underestimating their longer-term effects.  The invention of printing in the 15th century had an extraordinary short-term impact …

Source:   Guardian
Author:   John Naughton
Link:   http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/27/internet…

The Pirate Bay Now Tracks 1 Million Torrents, 10 Million Peers  —  Last month we reported that The Pirate Bay had doubled the number of torrents and peers on their tracker in 2007.  Brokep, one of the co-founders of the popular BitTorrent tracker told us at the time that he expected the tracker …

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