Nokia’s bundled “Comes With Music” music download service is another example of DRM killing a product. Ever since the service’s launch back in 2008, adoption has been pathetic at best. With that said, a total of 27 countries will see the included and free Comes With Music service discontinued. Current users will still be able to make use of said service until their subscription runs its course. Meanwhile, Comes With Music will continue to live on...
In news that should make every music label and movie publishing company ecstatic, BitTorrent announced today via an official press release that they have now climbed above 100 million active monthly users spanning across 220 countries. If we drill down to the daily level, it works out to roughly 20 million users swapping some 400,000+ files — impressive numbers indeed. Everything from desktops to rooted Android phones are sucking down torrents at increasing rates....
In my younger years, Limewire was “the next Napster”. It was easily one of the top P2P file-sharing services next to the likes of Morpheus and ShareBear to name a few (ah, the memories). But this past October, those childhood memories came to an end when major music labels finally brought down Limewire’s p2p business. Though in all honestly, over the last half a decade, Limewire had become less of a serious place to find music and more of a one-stop...
Today is not a good day for the founding members of popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay. The three amigos, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström, have had their previous guilty verdicts upheld in a Swedish Cout of Appeals. While their overall sentences for jail time were reduced, the trio will end up having to pay back more monetarily — 40 million kronor vs. 46 million kronor (~6.5 million USD). As for the prison terms, Neij, Sunde, and Lundström will be...
I’ve been accused of being too cynical at times. “I don’t give a particular person, company, or business model a chance” — They say. But what else can you call Hollywood’s latest attempt to “save themselves” from the evils of the internet and constantly declining DVD sales. Specifically, the new business model is at first seemingly noble — they want to release digital downloads of movies months in advance of hard copy...
