Directory: ECommerce 00-07-00-CACM-ConceptualInvestigationOfECommerceIndustry.txt 00-09-ACMInteractions-DesigningECommerceApplicationsInInternetTime.txt 00-12-00-ACMNetWorker-DataCollectionAndConsumerPrivacy.txt 00-12-00-CACM-BarriersToBuildingTrustInECommerce.txt 00-12-00-CACM-TrustRequirementsInECommerce.txt 01-02-00-CACM-SecurityAndPrivacyIssuesInMobileECommerce.txt 01-10-26-USACM-UCITA-FL.txt 01-11-08-Wired-SalesTax.txt 01-11-09-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Opp.txt 01-11-14-Kaner-UCITAReview.txt 01-11-15-SJMerc-InetTaxBan.txt 01-11-19-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt 01-11-19-SJMerc-Inet-Shop-Complaints.txt 01-11-26-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt 01-11-28-SJMerc-InternetSalesTax.txt 01-12-00-CACM-NewHorizonsInEffectiveemailAdvertising.txt 01-12-21-Kaner-17thUCITAMeeting.txt 01-12-24-InfoWeek-RRubinUCITA.txt 02-01-07-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt 02-01-14-eWeek-SWLiability.txt 02-02-04-ComputerWorld-ABA-UCITA.txt 02-02-10-SJMerc-DG-NetSalesTaxes.txt 02-02-28-PhillyInquirer-ShrinkWrap-ClickOnAgreements.txt 02-03-01-InfoWorld-NYStateCensorshipLawsuit.txt 02-03-05-ComputerWorld-UCITATransferability.txt 02-03-18-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Virginia.txt 02-04-00-CACM-StrategiesForAccelerationgAdoptionOfECommerce.txt 02-04-00-TechReview-Simson-National-IDs.txt 02-04-03-ACMUbiquity-UCITA-Bad.txt 02-04-10-NYT-Markoff-MS-ShelvesPersonaSvc.txt 02-04-11-Reuters-NetReducesCorpProfits.txt 02-05-07-SJMerc-EU-VAT-USCompanies.txt 02-06-03-ComputerWorld-UCITA-BackersTryAgain.txt 02-06-27-SJMerc-SpainPassesECommerceLaw.txt 02-06-27-WSJ-CourtRulesSoftwareSold.txt 02-06-28-SJMerc-Nader-FTC-SearchEnginesAdPlacement.txt 02-07-05-SJMerc-EU-AntitrustChiefMarioMonti.txt 02-07-06-SJMerc-CA-OnLinePrivacyPush.txt 02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt 02-07-15-LibertyAlliance-1.0Spec.txt 02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-UCITA-StillBad.txt 02-08-06-ALA-NCCUSL-PassesUCITAAmmendments.txt 02-08-06-Gartner-MusicIndustryNeedsBusinessModelsNotP2PHacking.txt 02-08-06-WashPost-NCCUSLApprovesUCITAChanges.txt 02-08-07-SJMerc-DG-MicrosoftEULAsGetWorse.txt 02-09-02-SJMerc-SubscriptionMusicSitesNotSuccessful.txt 02-09-16-NYT-UCITA-Battles.txt 02-09-24-SJMerc-InternetFilmDistributorIntertainerSuesMovieStudios.txt 02-09-25-Yahoo-KPMGStudyFaultsMediaOnPiracy.txt 02-10-00-CACM-CulturalDifferencesInTheOnlineBehaviorOfConsumers.txt 02-10-08-Fortune-MediaCompaniesTuningOutTheCustomer.txt 02-10-25-ALA-UCITARidesAgainIn2003.txt 02-11-03-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt 02-11-04-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt 02-11-10-CNETNews--MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt 02-11-11-SJMerc-MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt 02-11-11-Slate-MovielinkOnlyAPRPloyByStudios.txt 02-11-13-SJMerc-EMITakesLeadInOnlineMusicSales.txt 02-11-15-SJMerc-DecoysFloodFileSharingSites.txt 02-11-19-SJMerc-UniversalStartsOnlineMusicSales.txt 02-11-21-USSenate-McCain'sCommerceCommAgenda.txt 02-12-00-CACM-EmergingIntermediariesInECommerce.txt 02-12-02-SJMerc-FeeBasedOnlineMusicServicesNotPopular.txt 02-12-04-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzToOfferMoviesOnline.txt 02-12-09-ComputerWorld-ABAToVoteOnUCITANextYear.txt 02-12-26-SJMerc-TaxOnInternetSalesCouldHelpStates.txt 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt 03-01-00-CACM-MakingMoneySellingContentOthersAreGivingAway.txt 03-01-00-CommACM-MakingMoneySellingContentThatOthersGiveAway.txt 03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt 03-01-18-NYT-NYCourtRulesAgainstSoftwareReviewPolicy.txt 03-01-27-ACMUbiquity-IPRightsOfMultimediaWebsites.txt 03-01-27-CNETNews-RetailersFormConsortiumToSellMusicOnLine.txt 03-01-27-NYPost-MusicStoresFormSchoToSellDigtialMusic.txt 03-01-27-Yahoo-InternetGainingSomeRulesAndLaws.txt 03-01-30-ACM-USACM-UCITALetter.txt 03-01-30-SJMerc-GovDavisMayBackInternetSalesTaxPlan.txt 03-02-06-SJMerc-CalifControllerBacksInternetSalesAndAccessTaxes.txt 03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVideoOnDemand.txt 03-02-10-SJMErc-WomanSuesSWMakersOverInabilityToSeeLicenseTermsBeforeBuying.txt 03-02-11-ALA-UCITAFailsToReceiveABAApproval.txt 03-02-11-NWFusion-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA.txt 03-02-11-SJMerc-CCIAFIlesComplaintAgainstMSWithEU.txt 03-02-12-SJMerc-DG-SomeMerchantsCollectingInternetSalesTaxes.txt 03-02-13-PCWorld-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA-NCCUSLVowsToContinueDrive.txt 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt 03-02-17-PCMag-Dvorak-UCITA-StillBadNews.txt 03-02-24-PCMag-Dvorak-SalesTaxesOnInternetPurchasesUnconstitutional.txt 03-02-27-SJMerc-ML-OnlineMusicServiceOfferingsGreatlyImproved.txt 03-03-05-SJMerc-OnlineRetailersFightingUphillBattleAgainstSalesTaxes.txt 03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetworks.txt 03-03-27-SJMerc-CAJoinsStreamlinedTaxProject.txt 03-03-31-Wyden-SupportsS52-PermanentBanOnInternetTaxes.txt 03-04-00-CACM-UsingTheWebToLearnAboutConsumerBehaviorAndOnlinePrivacy.txt 03-04-01-SJMerc-PayPalGamblingCollectionsViolateUSAPatriotAct.txt 03-04-04-SJMerc-GoogleToProvidePaidSearchingToAmazon.txt 03-04-08-SJMerc-ATTPlansPrepaidWebEcommerceCards.txt 03-04-09-SJMerc-FBI-InternetFraudComplaintsTripleIn2002.txt 03-04-16-InternetSeeks-Dow-JonesonesTestsIMForPremiumContent.txt 03-04-16-SJMerc-DG-Apple-UniversalRecordsDealWouldConstrainOptions.txt 03-04-21-MotleyFool-AppleShouldBuyUniversalMusic.txt 03-04-28-WSJ-VaryingLawsInhibitInternationalECommerce.txt 03-04-29-SJMerc-AppleiTunesOffers99CentMusicDownloads.txt 03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt 03-05-01-SJMerc-AppleiTunesGoodAndBad.txt 03-05-01-SJMerc-FTC-StatesCrackdownOnInternetAuctionFraud.txt 03-05-01-SJMerc-OnlineAuctionFraud-FTCTakesAction.txt 03-05-01-TheRegister-AppleiTunesProvidesDRM.txt 03-05-01-Wired-CurrentMusicDownloadPricesTooHigh.txt 03-05-14-Apple-iTunesTopsTwoMillionDownloads.txt 03-05-19-TheRegister-RoxioBuysPressplayToRelaunchNapster.txt 03-05-20-SJMerc-PressplayDealToLetNapsterOperateAgain.txt 03-05-27-CNETNews-RealNetworksOffersRhapsodyMusicService.txt 03-05-27-CNETNews-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt 03-05-28-SeattlePI-OnlineMusicServices.txt 03-05-28-SeattlePI-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt 03-05-30-ALA-VirginiaEnactsProtectionFromUCITA.txt 03-06-02-GoogleOverDropInRank-JudgeDismisesLawsuit.txt 03-06-04-ComputerWorld-MassMayAdoptAntiUCITALaw.txt 03-06-05-MSNBC-PearlJamLeavesRecordCoForInternet.txt 03-06-14-FreeToTinker-StatusOfStateSuperDMCALaws.txt 03-06-19-BNA-CalCourt-LimitedDisclosureOfForumNotOK.txt 03-06-25-Herald-FloridaEnactsSuperDMCALaw.txt 03-06-26-InternetNews-NapsterPlansReturn.txt 03-07-14-RethinkResch-SoundtrackOnlyOnITunes.txt 03-07-16-BusWeek-ChiliPeppersOptOutOfITunes.txt 03-07-22-SJMerc-BuyMusicDebutsWithDRM.txt 03-07-28-AtNewYork-RoxioToBundleNapster2WithCDWritingSoftware.txt 03-07-28-LATimes-NapsterPlansReturnAsPayService.txt 03-07-28-MacCentral-OnlineMusicToGrowToOver3B.txt 03-07-28-MSNBC-NapsterPlansReturnAsPayService.txt 03-07-28-SJMerc-NapsterPlansReturnAsPayService.txt 03-07-29-SJMerc-Border'sFounderLaunchesDigitalNewsstand.txt 03-07-30-SJMerc-OnlineMusicSalesGrowing.txt 03-07-31-SJMerc-BuyMusicOKButNeedsWork.txt 03-07-31-SJMerc-InternetGamblingBill-LoopholeClosed.txt 03-08-01-CompWorld-NCCUSLPullsUCITA.txt 03-08-05-ALA-NCCUSLAbandonsUCITA.txt 03-08-08-LATimes-DisneyMayDoDigitalDistributionAnyway.txt 03-08-11-ComputerWorld-UCITAStillAThreat.txt 03-08-26-CNETNews-EULAs-SoftwareLiability.txt 03-08-31-USACM-UCITAEffortLosingMomentum.txt 03-09-00-ACMInteractions-HumanComputerInteractionAndTheScienceOfWebShopping.txt 03-09-00-Discover-NewWebAppsFeatureBuiltInSelling.txt 03-09-02CNETNews-PhysicalMediaSalesDeclining.txt 03-09-08-CNETNews-Apple-ResellingITunesMusicImpractical.txt 03-09-11-SJMerc-RecordingStudioBusinessModelAnalysis.txt 03-09-11-SJMerc-SelfDestructingDVDsEnterTest.txt 03-09-23-UPenn-ReseachersDevelopProgrammableSmartCard.txt 03-09-29-AtNewYork-MusicMatchCompetesWithAppleITumes.txt 03-09-29-EComTimes-MusicMatchCompetesWithAppleITumes.txt 03-09-30-SJMerc-RoxioPreparesTestOfNapster2.txt 03-10-01-MagnaTune-BusinessModelForOnlineMusicSales.txt 03-10-02-MacWorld-RoxioPreparesTestOfNapster2.txt 03-10-08-PacCavc-MusicLabelsResistOnlineDistribution.txt 03-10-09-SJMerc-NapsterReturnsAsOnlineMusicStore.txt 03-10-10-SJMerc-DG-EMusicChangesToSubscriptionService.txt 03-10-13-SciAmer-UCITASuffersMajorDefeat.txt 03-10-15-MS-ChoosingADigitalMusicServiceForWindows.txt 03-10-16-ZDNet-ITunesSupportsAppleMusicBusiness.txt 03-10-20-MacWorld-AnalystSaysITunesCouldBeNetMusicKing.txt 03-10-20-SJMerc-USWarnsMSOnBundlingOnlineMusicAccess.txt 03-10-29-SJMerc-NapsterReturnsAsMusicService.txt 03-10-30-Economist-OnlineMusicSalesMayReducePiracy.txt 03-11-02-SJMerc-DG-MicropaymentSchemesAreBack.txt 03-11-06-SJMerc-RebornNapsterFacesToughCompetition.txt 03-11-07-Reuters-AppleClaimsVictoryOverNapster.txt 03-11-07-SJMerc-PennStateOffersNewNapster.txt 03-11-07-TheReg-NapsterAdmitsNoProfitFromITunes.txt 03-11-10-NYPost-ComcastUsesRealNetworksToSellOnlineMusic.txt 03-11-10-SJMerc-Comcast-BestButOfferOnlineMusicSales.txt 03-11-14-SJMerc-KazaaAsksUsersToDemandOnlineAccess.txt 03-11-14-SJMerc-MusicLabelsMonitorDownloadsForMarketingData.txt 03-11-16-USAToday-FingerprintsMayBeCrediCardReplacement.txt 03-11-17-SJMerc-MSToEnterOnlineMusicMarket.txt 03-11-17-SmartMoney-MSToEnterOnlineMusicMarket.txt 03-11-21-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndATTTeamToOfferAudioVideoContent.txt 03-11-23-NYT-FreeNetInfoComesWithCostsLikeSpyware.txt 03-11-25-Felten-EULAsNeedRatingsAndTools.txt 03-11-26-TheReg-10MAmericansPayForMusicDownloadsInQ2.txt 03-12-00-CACM-CustomerCenteredRulesForDesighOfECommerceWebSites.txt 03-12-00-CACM-DoPrivacySealsInEcommerceReallyWork.txt 03-12-00-CACM-MobileECommerceOpportunitiesAndChallenges.txt 03-12-00-CACM-WhatComesNextInECommerce.txt 03-12-00-TechRev-MicropaymentSystemsAreBack.txt 03-12-02-CNETNews-HPSetToJoinOnlineMusicMarket.txt 03-12-03-FT-HPSetToJoinOnlineMusicMarket.txt 03-12-15-Apple-ITunesSells25MillionSongs.txt 03-12-16-LATimes-ITunesSells25MillionSongs.txt 03-12-17-PCWorld-InternetTaxIssues.txt 03-12-19-SJMerc-WalMartBeginsOnLineMusicSales.txt 03-12-26-EMIExecBridgingGapWithOnlineWorld.txt 04-01-04-SJMerc-DG-P2PUsedLegallyToDistributeSoftwareAndData.txt 04-01-06-MacObserver-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt 04-01-07-CNETNews-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt 04-01-07-NYT-MicropaymentSystemsAreBack.txt 04-01-07-SeaTImes-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt 04-01-07-SJMerc-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt 04-01-08-SJMerc-SonyToLaunchOnlineMusicStore.txt 04-01-21-ACMUbiquity-ChangingWaysWeUseTheInternet.txt 04-01-22-NYT-MusiciansSellConcertRecordingsOnline.txt 04-02-02-SJMerc-SomeMusicCompaniesToUseWippitP2PSite.txt 04-02-03-CNETNews-YahooPlanningMusicDownloadService.txt 04-02-19-SJMerc-NapsterWoes.txt 04-02-24-FutureOfMusic-ConferenceAnnouncement.txt 04-02-24-TheReg-NapsterSalesHit5MSongs.txt 04-02-25-NYPost-MSLinesUpWithNapsterToPromoteWMA.txt 04-02-26-EFF-EFFProposesDownloadingLicense.txt 04-02-26-SJMerc-EFFProposesDownloadingLicense.txt 04-03-01-NYT-CEDReportCallsForRethinkingIPProblem.txt 04-03-03-SJMerc-GeorgiaMayTryOnlineLotterySales.txt 04-03-03-SJMerc-StatesPutUseTaxLinesOnIncomeTaxForms.txt 04-03-08-BBC-GeorgeMichaelToGiveAwayHisMusicOnTheNet.txt 04-03-08-NYPost-VirginToOpenOnlineStore.txt 04-03-08-SJMerc-VirginToOpenOnlineStore.txt 04-03-08-Stereophile-USMusicShipmentsDropAgain.txt 04-03-15-SJMerc-AppleSells50MillionSongsViaITunesStore.txt 04-03-15-SJMerc-NapsterRevenueAboveForecast.txt 04-03-15-SJMerc-StudiosOfferMovieTeasersOnWeb.txt 04-03-15-USAToday-StarbucksToOfferCustomDigitalMusicDownloads.txt 04-03-16-SeattlePI-StarbucksToOfferCustomDigitalMusicDownloads.txt 04-03-16-SJMerc-AppleITunesSells50MillionthSong.txt 04-03-16-SJMerc-StarbucksToOfferCustomDigitalMusicDownloads.txt 04-03-18-SJMerc-MusicIndustryAdoptsChanges.txt 04-03-23-CNETNews-RealNetsGlaserTellsAppleToOpenIPodITunesFormats.txt 04-03-24-CNETNews-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt 04-03-24-EInk-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt 04-03-24-ExtremeTech-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt 04-04-00-CACM-OnlineBusinessesShouldCultivateVisitorsTrustingViews.txt 04-04-02-HarvardCyberLaw-iTunesCaseStudy.txt 04-04-03-JupiterRes-EconomicsOfSelling99CentTunes.txt 04-04-07-WSJ-PricesOfOnlineMusicToRise.txt 04-04-09-SJMerc-MusicSalesIncrease.txt 04-04-15-CNETNews-AppleLeaksRealNetworksOfferAndSaysNoThanks.txt 04-04-15-CNETNews-AppleRebuffsRealNetworksCompatibilityOffer.txt 04-04-15-OReilly-RealNetworksSeeksMusicalAllianceWithApple.txt 04-04-15-SJMerc-ATTWirelessOffersSongRecognitionService.txt 04-04-16-SJMerc-AppleRebuffsRealNetworksCompatibilityOffer.txt 04-04-25-NYT-AppleMusicBusinessOutshinesComputerBusiness.txt 04-04-26-ZDNet-iTunesSuccessChallengesCompetitors.txt 04-04-28-LATimes-OnlineMusicAvailabilityHasChangedTheBusiness.txt 04-04-28-SJMerc-iTunesWildlySuccessfulDespiteRestrictions.txt 04-04-29-SJMerc-AppleAddsFeaturesToiTunes.txt 04-04-29-SJMerc-TinyMP3RecorderProvidesConcertRecord.txt 04-05-00-RollingStone-ClearChannelLimitsConcertCDSales.txt 04-05-05-LATimes-SonyOnlineMusicStoreEntersCrowdedField.txt 04-05-05-SJMerc-MiniDiscShapesNewSonyMusicDowloadService.txt 04-05-07-NYPost-ApplesiTunesMayRaiseFees.txt 04-06-03-PCWorld-InternetTaxIssues.txt 04-06-08-CNETNews-BeatlesMusicToGoOnline.txt 04-06-09-FinTimes-BeatlesMusicToGoOnline.txt 04-06-14-LATimes-RealNetworksAndStarzOfferMovieDownloads.txt 04-06-14-NYT-RealNetworksAndStarzOfferMovieDownloads.txt 04-06-14-RockyMtnNews-StarzOffersMovieDownloads.txt 04-06-14-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzOfferMovieDownloads.txt 04-06-15-Apple-AppleOpensMusicStoreInEurope.txt 04-06-15-Guardian-EuropeanITunesLacksImportantIndependentArtists.txt 04-06-15-IntlHeraldTtrib-AppleOpensMusicStoreInEurope.txt 04-06-15-MacWorld-Jobs-iTunesOnlyRealCompetitionIsPiracy.txt 04-06-25-SJMerc-IndependentsUseP2PToPromteThemselves.txt 04-06-28-SJMerc-DownloadingMoviesMovesCloserToReality.txt 04-07-16-ShoreWalker-BooDotCom-HowToProvideABadShoppingSite.txt 04-07-26-SeattlePI-RealNetworksMusicStoreSongsNowPlayOnIPods.txt 04-07-27-BusWeek-AppleShouldTakeActionAgainstRealNetworks.txt 04-08-05-MacWorld-VirginMegaComplainsAppleNoLicenseFairPlayInFrance.txt 04-08-06-TheReg-VirginMegaDemandsAppleLicenseFairPlay.txt 04-08-07-SJMerc-CreativeTakesOnIPodWithNewMP3Players.txt 04-08-09-SJMerc-InstancesOfOnlineCreditCardTheft.txt 04-08-16-SJMerc-EntertainmentWorldStillWaryOfMS.txt 04-08-23-MediaPost-MostConsumersUnawareThatIPodFormatProprietary.txt 04-08-23-SJMerc-MSAnnouncesMusicStoreAndPlayer.txt 04-08-24-RealNetworks-RealAnnounces1MSongsSold.txt 04-08-27-CNETNews-EBooksMoveToMultifunctionDevicesButDRMStillAProblem.txt 04-08-28-SJMerc-HPVersionOfIPodHasSameFeaturesAndPriceAsApples.txt 04-09-00-IEEESpectrum-AdvancesInDigitalMusicTechAndDistribution.txt 04-09-00-Wikipedia-SonyAdaptiveTransformAcousticCoding-ATRAC-LikelyObsolete.txt 04-09-01-JupiterRes-MSEntersOnlineMusicMarketWithMSNMusic.txt 04-09-02-SJMerc-MSEntersOnlineMusicMarketWithMSNMusic.txt 04-09-02-WSJ-MSEntersOnlineMusicMarketWithMSNMusic.txt 04-09-07-SJMerc-NetflixAndTiVoWorkingTogetherOnInternetMoviesOnDemand.txt 04-09-09-RealNetWorks-3MillionSongsSoldDuringThreeWeekPromo.txt 04-09-12-SAPVentures-NetflixAndTiVoWorkingTogetherOnInternetMoviesOnDemand.txt 04-09-13-Newsweek-NetflixAndTiVoWorkingTogetherOnInternetMoviesOnDemand.txt 04-09-16-RevolutionMag-MostPreferCDsToDownloads.txt 04-09-17-TheReg-MostPreferCDsToDownloads.txt 04-09-20-PCWorld-BillsOnInternetTaxBanandIP.txt 04-09-22-SFChron-SalesOfPortableDigitalMusicPlayersBoom.txt 04-09-22-SJMerc-SonyAnnouncesSupportForMP3InAdditionToATRAC.txt 04-09-23-VNUNet-MP3PopularityTHreatensIPOD.txt 04-10-06-SJMerc-OnlineSalesHelpMusicSalesToAlmost6PercentIncreaseIn2004.txt 04-10-21-Wired-INDUCEActTalksFail-LegalP2PLikely.txt 04-10-30-SJMerc-SonyReadyToJoinMusicFIleSharingSales.txt 04-11-00-BlogMav-WhenWillMusicIndustryDoItRight.txt 04-11-10-SJMerc-WTOSaysUSShouldAllowOffshoreInternetGambling.txt 04-11-16-SJMerc-UniversalLicnesesSnocapToSellDigitalMusic.txt 04-11-24-SJMerc-ThreeRecordLabelsLicenseSongsForP2P.txt 04-11-27-SJMerc-ExpertsAdviseVigilanceAtECommerceWebsites.txt 04-11-29-SJMerc-OnlineRetailersUseBetterMarketingToIncreaseSales.txt 04-12-01-SJMerc-ComcastToOfferMusicVideosOverCableBroadbandInternet.txt 04-12-03-LATimes-NapsterFounderStartsSnocapToDistributeMusicLegally.txt 04-12-03-SJMerc-NapsterFounderStartsSnocapToDistributeMusicLegally.txt 04-12-03-TheReg-NapsterFounderStartsSnocapToDistributeMusicLegally.txt 04-12-04-SJMerc-DG-SupremeCourtToHearOnlineWineSalesCase.txt 04-12-10-SJMerc-LegalDownloadsWillNotStopPiracy.txt 04-12-14-SJMerc-GoogleLibraryProjectCouldLeadToCommercialization.txt 05-01-05-Yahoo-LawsuitClaimsIPodViolatesAntiTrustLaws.txt 05-01-06-ArdTech-LawsuitClaimsIPodViolatesAntiTrustLaws.txt 05-01-21-SJMerc-ChinaArrestsAlmost600InInternetGamblingCase.txt 05-02-03-SJMerc-MP3beamerServiceSellsUnrestrictedMP3Music.txt 05-02-03-SJMerc-NewDRMBoostsSubscriptionMusicViability.txt 05-02-09-CNETNews-MP3comFounderToStartMP3TunesLegalMusicService.txt 05-02-09-TechRev-MP3comFounderToStartMP3TunesLegalMusicService.txt 05-02-10-SJMerc-AlmostHalfOfNetUsesHaveTriedOnlineBanking.txt 05-02-14-SJMerc-CellPhoneMakersIncorporatingMusicPlayers.txt 05-03-00-CACM-DoConsumersUnderstandTheRoleOfPrivacySealsInEcommerce.txt 05-03-09-GlobeAndMail-LowCostMusicWouldIncreaseProfits.txt 05-03-10-ITWorld-SenateRepublicansSetTechPoicyGoals.txt 05-03-10-SJMerc-PeerflixUsesP2PToFacilitateDVDSwapping.txt 05-03-14-AFFECT-PrinciplesForFairCommerceInDigitalProducts.txt 05-03-14-SJMerc-NapsterToGoOffersPortableDownloads.txt 05-03-31-ZDNet-SonyTryingToDevelopeITunesForMovies.txt 05-04-00-CACM-PrivacyInEcommerce-StatedPreferencesVsActualBehavior.txt 05-04-06-InetNews-HousePanelRulesOutDigitalMusicCompatibilityStandards.txt 05-04-07-MktWatch-HousePanelRulesOutDigitalMusicCompatibilityStandards.txt 05-04-08-SJMerc-BritainSetsUpCommissionToRegulateInternetGambling.txt 05-04-13-SJMerc-Murdoch-NewspapersMustEmbraceInternet.txt 05-04-15-CNETNews-VintCerf-HollywoodInterestedInBitTorrent.txt 05-04-25-SJMerc-GoogleChangesAdStyleAndPrice.txt 05-04-25-SJMerc-InternetSweepstakesRaisesQuestionAboutGambling.txt 05-04-26-NYPost-TealNetworksLaunchesMusicLicensingServiceForPortableDevices.txt 05-04-26-RealNet-RealLaunchesRhapsodyMusicLicensingService.txt 05-04-30-CNN-CerfSaysHollywoodShouldEmbraceBitTorrent.txt 05-05-00-HuffingtonPost-SteveJobsShouldOpenIPodToOtherMusicSources.txt 05-05-09-HuffPost-WhenWillAppleLetMeBuyMusicFromNonITumesSites.txt 05-05-09-SJMerc-RhapsodyOffersLimitedFreeOnlineMusicOnDemand.txt 05-05-11-SJMerc-YahooOffersSpecialPricingOnOnlineMusicDownloads.txt 05-05-13-SJMerc-LimitedOnlineMusicCatalogsEncouragesPiracy.txt 05-05-13-Yahoo-YahooOffersSpecialPricingOnOnlineMusicDownloads.txt 05-05-20-SJMerc-InternetRetailSalesSurgeFromYearAgo.txt 05-06-07-Reuters-LegalOnlineMusicStoresGainOnIllegalServices.txt 05-06-09-CNETNews-MSPlanningSubscriptionMusicService.txt 05-06-15-SJMerc-CalifRequiresBordersToCollectOnlineSalesTaxes.txt 05-06-17-KelseyGrp-ReportSaysSmallBusinessesShouldUseMoreOnlineMarketing.txt 05-07-11-CompWorld-SoftwareUsersDraftFairLicensingTerms.txt 05-07-18-CNETNews-iTunesDownloadsPass500Million.txt 05-07-21-SJMerc-RatingChangeForGameCouldSignalCrackdown.txt 05-07-23-NewSci-HardCashNotBeingReplacesByElectronicPaymentSystems.txt 05-07-25-SJMerc-NetflixToTestInternetMovieDownloads.txt 05-07-27-BBC-IllegalMusicDownloadersBigSpendersOnLegalDownloads.txt 05-07-27-Guardian-IllegalMusicDownloadersBigSpendersOnLegalDownloads.txt 05-08-06-SJMerc-AmazonPreparesToLaunchDigitalMusicDownloadSales.txt 05-08-06-SJMerc-GameSpotLaunchesOnlineSubscriptionGamePlayingService.txt 05-08-08-AmazonMayBeGettingReadyToDoDVDRentals.txt 05-08-08-Wired-AmazonComtemplatesDVDRentals.txt 05-08-12-SJMerc-TiVoTestsInternetDownloadServiceForTV.txt 05-08-20-SJMerc-AmazonStartsShortStoryDownloadsFor49Cents.txt 05-08-22-AppleInsider-MotorolaUserManualDetailsiTunesMobile.txt 05-08-22-CNETNews-WarnerReadiesNoCDMusicLabel.txt 05-08-22-MacNCell-MotorolaUserManualDetailsiTunesMobile.txt 05-08-27-NYT-AppleAndRecordIndustryDisageeOverPricing.txt 05-08-28-SJMerc-WarnerReadiesNoCDMusicLabel.txt 05-09-20-SJMerc-JobsResistsMusicCompanieGreedyDemandsForiTunesPriceHike.txt 05-09-23-SJMerc-MusicDownloadsBigBusinessForCellPhoneCompanies.txt 05-10-03-IFPI-DigitalDownloadsNearlyOffsetPhysicalMediaSales.txt 05-10-03-TheReg-DigitalMusicRevenuesSoar.txt 05-10-06-IFPI-LegitimateDigitalDownloadsGrowing.txt 05-10-08-SJMerc-CalifBansSalesAndRentalsOfViolentVideoGamesToMinors.txt 05-10-18-SeaTimes-PeerflixFacilitatesDVDExchanges.txt 05-10-25-ZDNet-iTunesMusicStoreLaunchedInAustralia.txt 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00-07-00-CACM-ConceptualInvestigationOfECommerceIndustry.txt========== A conceptual investigation of the e-commerce industry Veda C. Storey, Detmar W. Straub, Kathy A. Stewart, Richard J. Welke July 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 7 Electronic commerce, or activities that directly support commerce by means of electronic (networked) connections, is redefining the very foundations of competitiveness in terms of information content and information delivery mechanisms. Flows of information over international networks have created an electronic marketspace [8] of firms that are learning to exploit business ==========> 00-09-ACMInteractions-DesigningECommerceApplicationsInInternetTime.txt========== Business: designing with users in Internet time Jared Braiterman, Sasha Verhage, Randall Choo September 2000 interactions, Volume 7 Issue 5 You have three weeks to design an e-commerce application. Or three months to launch a "next-generation" website for a top video game publisher, with a new identity system, an architecture that integrates dozens of new acquisitions, and immersive lowband interactions. How can you design with users when facing intense time constraints that require simultaneous discovery user research and ==========> 00-12-00-ACMNetWorker-DataCollectionAndConsumerPrivacy.txt========== Putting it together: data collection and consumer privacy Win Treese December 2000 netWorker, Volume 4 Issue 4 In 1985, I heard a presentation from someone at Procter & Gamble about how the company was gathering data from bar code scanners at supermarket checkout counters. Eventually it planned to use those data to create individual profiles of purchasing behavior so it could sell more effectively to consumers. Today, Procter & Gamble is doing just that, and a whole lot more, but we don't hear ==========> 00-12-00-CACM-BarriersToBuildingTrustInECommerce.txt========== Building firm trust online Detlef Schoder, Pai-Ling Yin December 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 12 Exploring the barriers to efficient e-commerce and the critical role of government. The recent proliferation of e-commerce has led to a great deal of analysis probing the who, what, where, when, and why's of new opportunities for ==========> 00-12-00-CACM-TrustRequirementsInECommerce.txt========== Trust requirements in e-business Sara Jones, Marc Wilikens, Philip Morris, Marcelo Masera December 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 12 A conceptual framework for understanding the needs and concerns of different stakeholders. Trust in information services and technologies has become an increasingly important issue. The development of trust between businesses, consumers, and ==========> 01-02-00-CACM-SecurityAndPrivacyIssuesInMobileECommerce.txt========== Software security and privacy risks in mobile e-commerce Anup K. Ghosh, Tara M. Swaminatha February 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 2 Examining the risks in wireless computing that will likely influence the emerging m-commerce market. Most current e-commerce transactions are conducted by users in fixed locations using workstations and personal computers. Soon, we expect a significant ==========> 01-10-26-USACM-UCITA-FL.txt========== FYI - Last week, the Executive Committee of USACM approved the attached letter to the Florida State Legislature which registers USACM's concerns regarding the proposed UCITA legislation. The letter was delivered on Friday, October 26. Regards - Jeff Grove, ACM Policy Office October 26, 2001 State Representative Chris Hart IV Chairman, Florida House Committee on Information Technology 404 South Monroe Street ==========> 01-11-08-Wired-SalesTax.txt========== Senate Net Tax Vote Looms By Declan McCullagh 9:40 a.m. Nov. 8, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- The Senate may vote as early as Tuesday on a plan that would permit states to collect Internet sales taxes. The bill, championed by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), abandons Capitol Hill's hands-off approach to online ==========> 01-11-09-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Opp.txt========== UCITA opposition turns up heat By Lee Copeland and Patrick Thibodeau (Nov. 09, 2001) WASHINGTON -- Opponents of the vendor-backed UCITA software licensing law will meet here next week to seek major changes, including a prohibition of "self-help," which lets a vendor shut down a user's system remotely. Although UCITA's backers have signaled a willingness to delete the shutoff provision, critics say that alone isn't enough. ==========> 01-11-14-Kaner-UCITAReview.txt========== UCITA (the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) is being reviewed at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in DC this Fri/Sat/Sunday. The meeting is ostensibly to consider amendments to UCITA that might increase support for the bill. The meeting includes the UCITA Drafting Committee, members of a task force on UCITA formed by the American Bar Association, representatives of the leading publishers, representatives of the user communities, and a few representatives of software development professionals (e.g. Don Gotterbarn, Phil Koopman (an expert on embedded software, from CMU), Sharon Roberts (representing Independent Computer Consultants Assoc), Fred von Lohmann (from EFF) and me.) The motivation for the review is a decision by the American Bar Association to ==========> 01-11-15-SJMerc-InetTaxBan.txt========== Europe waffles on spam; holds the cookies By Paul Meller (IDG) -- A Europe-wide measure on direct marketing via e-mail appeared less likely than ever to win approval Tuesday, as the European Parliament failed to agree whether marketers should be allowed to send unsolicited messages to potential customers. "Neither side won this argument. A political ==========> 01-11-19-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt========== Bar association hears debate over UCITA By Patrick Thibodeau (Nov. 19, 2001) WASHINGTON -- In an unusual forum that ended yesterday, a special committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) heard two-and-a-half days of arguments over the proposed software licensing law known as UCITA as part of its attempt to determine whether it should back the measure. The ABA's position is seen as critical to the law's ultimate fate. ==========> 01-11-19-SJMerc-Inet-Shop-Complaints.txt========== Posted at 2:07 p.m. PST Monday, Nov. 19, 2001 Complaints about Internet shopping and services on the rise WASHINGTON (AP) -- Internet shopping and services have become a leading source of consumer complaints, joining grievances about auto repair and telemarketing, a survey finds. Problems with auto sales and household goods shared the top spot in the annual list of consumer complaints released Monday by the National ==========> 01-11-26-WashPost-EUCyberCrime.txt========== Thirty Nations Sign Global Cybercrime Treaty By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 26 Nov 2001, 10:04 AM CST The United States and 29 other nations signed a treaty last Friday establishing common tools and rules for fighting Internet crime. On Nov. 23, foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Japan and South Africa joined their counterparts in 26 other countries in signing the Council ==========> 01-11-28-SJMerc-InternetSalesTax.txt========== Posted at 6:30 p.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 Bush's signature extends Net tax moratorium for two years WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shoppers who surf the Web can count on continued tax-free Internet access now that President Bush has signed into law a two-year extension of the ban on Internet-related taxes. Bush, who had wanted Congress to send him a longer tax moratorium, signed the legislation Wednesday to ``ensure that the growth of the Internet is not ==========> 01-12-00-CACM-NewHorizonsInEffectiveemailAdvertising.txt========== Admediation: New Horizons in Effective Email Advertising Ram D. Gopal, Zhiping Walter, Arvind K. Tripathi December 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 12 Using incentive-based approaches to match interested buyers and sellers. The number of people connected to the Internet has been increasing very rapidly. According to some estimates, there are now more than 500 million users with Internet access, almost all of whom have access to email services [4]. ==========> 01-12-21-Kaner-17thUCITAMeeting.txt========== A few weeks ago, Professor Phil Koopman, Sharon Roberts, Professor Don Gotterbarn and I went to the 17th meeting of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act drafting committee (I've attended 16 of these meetings). The drafting committee is under intense pressure to work a political compromise, because, after passing in Virginia and Maryland, UCITA has been rejected in every state that has considered it and three states have passed "bomb shelter" laws designed to keep UCITA-governed contract rules out of their states. Additionally, the National Association of Attorneys General ==========> 01-12-24-InfoWeek-RRubinUCITA.txt========== Industry Comment: The Necessary Demise Of UCITA Dec. 24, 2001 Information Week Oh say can UCITA? Industry observer Robert Rubin floodlights pending state legislation that may severely impact your rights when buying software. ==========> 02-01-07-ComputerWorld-UCITA.txt========== UCITA Changes Fail to Appease But opponents welcome ban on remote disabling By Patrick Thibodeau (Jan. 07, 2002) Washington The drafters of the controversial UCITA software licensing law have done an about-face on some of its key provisions, including recommending a ban on remote system shut-offs by software vendors. But the changes don't appear to go far enough to win support from businesses fighting state-by-state adoption ==========> 02-01-14-eWeek-SWLiability.txt========== January 14, 2002 Software Liability Gaining Attention By Dennis Fisher Hacker attacks that exploit flaws in commercial software have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage in the past year. The Code Red worm alone is estimated to have cost enterprise users more than $2 billion. Software companies have hidden behind user agreements that protect vendors from liability for such damages, and few victims have taken their fight to ==========> 02-02-04-ComputerWorld-ABA-UCITA.txt========== ABA: UCITA law confusing, susceptible to litigation By Patrick Thibodeau (Feb. 04, 2002) WASHINGTON -- An American Bar Association committee examining UCITA, the software licensing law, has released a report (download PDF) calling the controversial measure "extremely difficult to understand" and warning that if it isn't redrafted, the result will be "considerable controversy and litigation over what its various 'rules' really mean." ==========> 02-02-10-SJMerc-DG-NetSalesTaxes.txt========== Posted on Sun, Feb. 10, 2002 Tax policies give an unfair advantage to online merchants By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Oh, the irony, proclaimed some commentators on Jan. 22. That was the day Amazon, the online retailer, announced its first actual quarterly profit. It was also the day that Kmart, a traditional retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ==========> 02-02-28-PhillyInquirer-ShrinkWrap-ClickOnAgreements.txt========== http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2002/02/28/living/health_science/2762184.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2002 Courts starting to recognize software and Web fine print By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press Read the fine print, and you'll discover you can't use Microsoft's logos and cartoons to belittle the software giant. Nor should you use Opera's Web browser to pilot an aircraft or a nuclear facility. ==========> 02-03-01-InfoWorld-NYStateCensorshipLawsuit.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/04/020304opfoster.xml March 1, 2002 01:01 PM PST A censorship test case Ed Foster COULD FREEDOM of speech and freedom of the press be lost to the fine print? Don't dismiss the possibility. We may have already lost more than any of us realize. ==========> 02-03-05-ComputerWorld-UCITATransferability.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68815,00.html Premier 100: UCITA software transferability rights raise concerns By Thomas Hoffman (Mar. 05, 2002) Palm Desert, Calif. -- Under Virginia's UCITA-type law, companies aren't allowed to assign the rights to software licenses they inherit from a merger or acquisition with another company, according to H. Jameson Holcombe, CIO at Cambrian Communications LLC in Fairfax, Va. ==========> 02-03-18-ComputerWorld-UCITA-Virginia.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69198,00.html Virginia to nix key UCITA provision Merging firms could be kept from transferring their software licenses By Patrick Thibodeau (Mar. 18, 2002) The state of Virginia is on the verge of backpedaling on a provision in its UCITA law that blocks vendors from holding up software license transfers between users involved in mergers or acquisitions. ==========> 02-04-00-CACM-StrategiesForAccelerationgAdoptionOfECommerce.txt========== Virtual extension: Strategies for accelerating the worldwide adoption of e-commerce Christos J. Georgiou, Petros S. Stefaneas April 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 4 ABSTRACT In recent years, many organizations have recognized the potential of e-commerce to improve profitability by increasing productivity and market penetration ==========> 02-04-00-TechReview-Simson-National-IDs.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0402.asp Identity Card Delusions Technology Review, April 2002 By Simson Garfinkel Mandatory national ID cards might cut down on underage drinking, but they wouldn't have stopped Richard Reid. More than 200 million Americans carry driver’s licenses with them every day. ==========> 02-04-03-ACMUbiquity-UCITA-Bad.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_8.html UCITA: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing By M. E. Kabay Proposed legislation to protect vendors has potentially high costs for software users. The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was developed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform ==========> 02-04-10-NYT-Markoff-MS-ShelvesPersonaSvc.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/ebusiness/11NET.html April 11, 2002 Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 — Microsoft (news/quote) has quietly shelved a consumer information service that was once ==========> 02-04-11-Reuters-NetReducesCorpProfits.txt========== http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=50899&pub=tt&categoryid=626 Net brings consumer savings not corporate profits says academic By Reuters staff 11 April 2002 Suggests Net and comms devices responsible for shrivelled profits. Is the Internet, with all of its bargains and discounts, short-circuiting America's ==========> 02-05-07-SJMerc-EU-VAT-USCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3214367.htm Posted on Tue, May. 07, 2002 EU to levy taxes on U.S., non-European e-commerce BRUSSELS, May 7 (Reuters) - The European Union approved on Tuesday rules that will require U.S. and other non-EU firms to levy value-added tax (VAT) on products such as computer games and software they sell on the Internet to private customers in the 15-nation bloc. ==========> 02-06-03-ComputerWorld-UCITA-BackersTryAgain.txt========== Computerworld, June 3, 2002 UCITA backers try again By PATRICK THIBODEAU WASHINGTON -- UCITA wasn't adopted in any state legislative session this year, but the controversial software licensing law, while bruised, is far from dead. Indeed, the group that drafted the Uniform Computer Information ==========> 02-06-27-SJMerc-SpainPassesECommerceLaw.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3556967.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002 Spain passes law to regulate Internet content MADRID, June 27 (Reuters) - Spain's parliament on Thursday passed a law regulating electronic commerce which makes Internet service providers more responsible for content on their pages and requires them to store data on clients for at least a year. The legislation, designed to bring Spain into line with European Union guidelines, is expected to take effect after the summer. It ==========> 02-06-27-WSJ-CourtRulesSoftwareSold.txt========== "Software is Often Sold, Not Licensed, Despite What License Agreements Say" Wall Street Journal Online (06/27/02) Hart, Jon; Blumenthal, Steve To control their intellectual property, software vendors are requiring customers and distributors to sign licensing agreements that limit buyers' rights to do what they please with the products, yet this runs counter to the basic fact that customers are purchasing copies of the software. A court recently ruled that Los Angeles-based Softman Products had the right to unbundle and resell a ==========> 02-06-28-SJMerc-Nader-FTC-SearchEnginesAdPlacement.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3565718.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 28, 2002 FTC says search engines should disclose paid listings more clearly WASHINGTON (AP) - Internet search engines that take money from Web sites in exchange for prominent placement should make that practice clearer to Web users, federal regulators said Friday. Many search engine Web sites, including AltaVista, LookSmart and AOL Search, ==========> 02-07-05-SJMerc-EU-AntitrustChiefMarioMonti.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3604337.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 05, 2002 Q&A: EU competition chief talks antitrust policy By Kristi Heim Mercury News BRUSSELS, Belgium - Mario Monti, who has been called the most powerful man in Europe, is competition chief for the European Union and the most formidable of its 20 commissioners. He sat down recently with Mercury News reporter Kristi ==========> 02-07-06-SJMerc-CA-OnLinePrivacyPush.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3612624.htm Posted on Sat, Jul. 06, 2002 Group pushing for online privacy By Laura Kurtzman Mercury News Privacy advocates plan to launch an initiative effort this week with a $1 million contribution from an E-Loan executive to pressure lawmakers into giving consumers more control over their personal financial data. ==========> 02-07-11-SJMerc-ISPsOfferDigitalMusic.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3641813.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 11, 2002 EarthLink hopes to boost broadband demand with digital music service By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Internet providers have finally recognized the true lesson of Napster: that online music will drive broadband adoption faster than you can say, ``Stop, thief!'' ==========> 02-07-15-LibertyAlliance-1.0Spec.txt========== http://www.projectliberty.org/press/releases/2002-07-15-1.html LIBERTY ALLIANCE LAUNCHES FIRST SPECIFICATIONS GIVING USERS SIMPLIFIED SIGN-ON FOR ANY PLATFORM AND DEVICE Alliance's Version 1.0 Specifications and Member Implementations Create Foundation for Federated Network Identification and Authorization San Francisco, Calif. (Burton Group Catalyst Conference) - July 15, 2002 - The Liberty Alliance Project today announced the public availability of its version ==========> 02-08-03-SJMerc-DG-UCITA-StillBad.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3792640.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 03, 2002 UCITA By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist STILL A SWINE: Putting a tuxedo or gown on a pig doesn't make it elegant. And a few amendments to a proposed law governing software and online transactions haven't made UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act, ==========> 02-08-06-ALA-NCCUSL-PassesUCITAAmmendments.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 11, Number 63 August 6, 2002 In This Issue: UCITA amendments pass at NCCUSL Annual Conference amidst much controversy The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) made a wobbly leap over another hurdle on its way back to state legislatures last week at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State ==========> 02-08-06-Gartner-MusicIndustryNeedsBusinessModelsNotP2PHacking.txt========== http://www4.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=108873 Note Number: FT-17-7138 Proposed Law Will Hurt, Not Help the Online Music Industry 06 August 2002 Robert Batchelder A bill before the U.S. Congress would let companies hack peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to stop the illegal distribution of copyrighted music. But the music industry ==========> 02-08-06-WashPost-NCCUSLApprovesUCITAChanges.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48570-2002Aug6.html Group OKs Changes for Net Commerce By Ted Bridis Associated Press Writer Tuesday, August 6, 2002; 2:13 AM WASHINGTON –– An organization of states' lawyers has approved changes to a package of rules governing Internet commerce, including new limits on the ability of technology companies to remotely disable their software on a ==========> 02-08-07-SJMerc-DG-MicrosoftEULAsGetWorse.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3814833.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 07, 2002 End user licenses keep getting more intrusive By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist When you download and start to install the latest bug fixes and security patches for Windows XP and Windows 2000, you're confronted with one of those lengthy masterpieces of legalese called an ``End User License Agreement,'' or ==========> 02-09-02-SJMerc-SubscriptionMusicSitesNotSuccessful.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3988260.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 02, 2002 Subscription online music sites face uphill road SIMON AVERY AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES - Online subscription music sites have finally arrived. But there's been little fanfare, and so far almost no one is buying. ==========> 02-09-16-NYT-UCITA-Battles.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16NECO.html?ex=1033184723&ei=1&en=2 0a0b7927cab3a21 September 16, 2002 A Battle Over Software Licensing By LAURIE J. FLYNN A proposed law intended to standardize software licensing from state to state has ignited a battle between its supporters — most notably, the business software industry — and the many forces who have joined to defeat it. ==========> 02-09-24-SJMerc-InternetFilmDistributorIntertainerSuesMovieStudios.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4144596. htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 24, 2002 Net film provider sues studios By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News An Internet video-on-demand service has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Sony Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., alleging the movie studios ==========> 02-09-25-Yahoo-KPMGStudyFaultsMediaOnPiracy.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid=581&u=/nm/20020925/ tc_nm/media_kpmg_dc Study Faults Media Focus on Copyright Piracy Wed Sep 25,12:04 AM ET By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Media companies must put less emphasis on protecting digital content and instead find ways to make money from digital music and movies if they hope to beat back copyright pirates who threaten their ==========> 02-10-00-CACM-CulturalDifferencesInTheOnlineBehaviorOfConsumers.txt========== Cultural differences in the online behavior of consumers Patrick Y. K. Chau, Melissa Cole, Anne P. Massey, Mitzi Montoya-Weiss, Robert M. O'Keefe October 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 10 Understanding how different cultures use the Net—as well as perceive the same Web sites—can translate to truly global e-commerce. Do consumers in different countries with different ethnic origins use the ==========> 02-10-08-Fortune-MediaCompaniesTuningOutTheCustomer.txt========== FAST FORWARD: Tuning Out the Customer FORTUNE.COM Tuesday, October 8, 2002 By David Kirkpatrick Something has gone terribly wrong in the relationship between media companies and their customers. The use and enjoyment of music and video appears to be rising, as a multitude of new methods of digitally receiving and using it emerge. But rather than welcome the opportunity ==========> 02-10-25-ALA-UCITARidesAgainIn2003.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 11, Number 85 October 25, 2002 In This Issue: UCITA WILL RIDE AGAIN IN 2003 [1] NCCUSL approves new amendments In August 2002, The National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) approved 38 amendments to UCITA. The changes attempt to ==========> 02-11-03-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4439006.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 03, 2002 Plunge in online music sales blamed on file sharing By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Online sales of music CDs are plummeting three times as fast as traditional retail CD sales, another sign of the corrosive impact of file-sharing services on record sales, a New York research group reports today. ==========> 02-11-04-SJMerc-StudySaysP2PCutsOnlineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4441090.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 04, 2002 Growing popularity of CD burning, illegal song-swapping cuts into online music sales SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The growing popularity of CD burning and illegal song-swapping over the Internet has cut into online music sales, sending them tumbling 25 percent this year, according to a survey released Monday. ==========> 02-11-10-CNETNews--MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965194.html?tag=fd_top Movielink ready to roll By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 10, 2002, 6:19 PM PT After nearly two years in production, Hollywood-backed Movielink is giving the green light to its online movie rental service. ==========> 02-11-11-SJMerc-MajorStudiosLauncMovieLink.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4492236.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 11, 2002 Major studios to launch Net movie rentals By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Five major motion picture studios today plan to launch an Internet movie rental service that positions Hollywood for the day when computers emerge as the hub of digital home entertainment. ==========> 02-11-11-Slate-MovielinkOnlyAPRPloyByStudios.txt========== http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073743&device= HudsonHawk.com Movielink will be another Internet flop. By Ben Fritz Posted Monday, November 11, 2002, at 10:06 AM PT On Nov. 11, five major studios—Universal, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros., and MGM—unveil Movielink, a joint venture that, for the first time, allows customers to download a large assortment of studio films. ==========> 02-11-13-SJMerc-EMITakesLeadInOnlineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4513677.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 13, 2002 EMI takes lead, jumps into online music sales LABEL OKS DIGITAL SALES OF JUST-RELEASED SINGLES By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Record labels are suddenly embracing online music services with a fervor that can be traced to the rapid erosion of its traditional business -- sales of ==========> 02-11-15-SJMerc-DecoysFloodFileSharingSites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4529298.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002 Robbie Williams CD hits Net, but is it a plant? LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Songs from Robbie Williams's CD ``Escapology'' are appearing on free file-sharing Web sites days before the release hits the stores. But there's a catch -- many of the tracks, which Reuters heard on popular ==========> 02-11-19-SJMerc-UniversalStartsOnlineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4559936.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 19, 2002 Universal Music kicks off digital download plan LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new front in the marketing of digital music. ==========> 02-11-21-USSenate-McCain'sCommerceCommAgenda.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4559936.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 19, 2002 Universal Music kicks off digital download plan LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new front in the marketing of digital music. ==========> 02-12-00-CACM-EmergingIntermediariesInECommerce.txt========== Emergent patterns of integration in electronic channel systems Christoph Schlueter-Langdon, Michael J. Shaw December 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 12 What should producers and consumers alike make of the emerging class of middlemen and intermediaries in electronic channels? This research is exploratory, looking to identify emergent patterns of structural change in channel systems in electronic markets. The insights we've ==========> 02-12-02-SJMerc-FeeBasedOnlineMusicServicesNotPopular.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4647117.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 02, 2002 Fee-based online music services sing the blues By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News On his way to MusicNet headquarters in New York, Alan McGlade, chief executive of one of the record labels' newest online ventures, passes a humbling sight: the largest McDonald's restaurant in the ==========> 02-12-04-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzToOfferMoviesOnline.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4661484.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 04, 2002 RealNetworks, Starz to Offer Online Film HELEN JUNG Associated Press SEATTLE - RealNetworks Inc. and cable movie channel company Starz Encore Group are teaming up to offer movie subscriptions over the Internet. ==========> 02-12-09-ComputerWorld-ABAToVoteOnUCITANextYear.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,76494,00.html ABA to Vote on UCITA Next Year By PATRICK THIBODEAU DECEMBER 09, 2002 WASHINGTON—The American Bar Association is expected to vote early next year on whether the controversial UCITA software licensing law is fit for state adoption, an action that may help determine the law's fate. ==========> 02-12-26-SJMerc-TaxOnInternetSalesCouldHelpStates.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4817424.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 26, 2002 Sales tax on Internet may help states JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As states across the country struggle with deficits well into the billions, many officials are beginning to eye sales taxes on online shopping - which may seem like chump change but ==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt========== Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues By TechNews.com Staff Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes ==========> 03-01-00-CACM-MakingMoneySellingContentOthersAreGivingAway.txt========== Making money selling content that others are giving away Communications of the ACM archive Volume 46 , Issue 1 (January 2003) table of contents Alan H. Karp Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA The owners of digital content are claiming they will go out of business unless legal and technical means are imposed to prevent what they call "rampant piracy." The Napster case provides the most visible example, and one where the effects of the legal system are most apparent. However, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [1] has far more long-term and widespread impact. More ==========> 03-01-00-CommACM-MakingMoneySellingContentThatOthersGiveAway.txt========== Viewpoint: Making money selling content that others are giving away Alan H. Karp January 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 1 Attempts to protect existing business models will only serve to delay, or even prevent, the arrival of new content-delivery approaches. The owners of digital content are claiming they will go out of business unless legal and technical means are imposed to prevent what they call "rampant ==========> 03-01-06-SJMerc-MoreEUUsersWillingToPayForContent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4884503.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 06, 2003 Net users shake off stingy ways, pay for content LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Internet's reputation as a haven for freeloaders is beginning to lose some meaning as research released on Monday suggested the majority of Western European online users are willing to pay for digital content. ==========> 03-01-18-NYT-NYCourtRulesAgainstSoftwareReviewPolicy.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/18/business/18SOFT.html?ex=1043914789&ei=1&en=ff4 d9301bb3d6409 Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy New York Times January 18, 2003 By MATT RICHTEL A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy ==========> 03-01-27-ACMUbiquity-IPRightsOfMultimediaWebsites.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_2.html Intellectual Property Rights of Multimedia Enriched Websites By Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun Can original print and music survive the multimedia technology hoax? Generally speaking, over the past two centuries copyright has survived numerous technological advances such as the player piano, phonograph recordings, motion pictures, television, radio, cassettes and compact discs. Often, these new technologies have posed challenges to copyright law's applicability. Although ==========> 03-01-27-CNETNews-RetailersFormConsortiumToSellMusicOnLine.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982170.html?tag=fd_top Retailers in concert on digital music By Margaret Kane Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 27, 2003, 5:41 AM PT A group of music retailers has formed a consortium to sell digital music. Best Buy, Hastings Entertainment, Tower Records, Trans World Entertainment, ==========> 03-01-27-NYPost-MusicStoresFormSchoToSellDigtialMusic.txt========== http://www.nypost.com/technology/67468.htm MUSIC STORES BAND TOGETHER TO LAUNCH DIGITAL ECHO SERVICE By BEN SILVERMAN January 27, 2003 -- A consortium of music retailers will today announce the launch of a new company aimed at gaining a foothold in the burgeoning digital music space. The formation of Echo - created with investments from ==========> 03-01-27-Yahoo-InternetGainingSomeRulesAndLaws.txt========== http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030127/72/36uix.html Monday January 27, 11:10 AM E-Commerce Report: Taming The Frontier -- The Internet Was Going To Be A Place Without Rules, Without Borders; Well, Guess What? By Michael Totty DON'T LOOK NOW, but the freewheeling days of the Internet are coming to an end. Since its infancy, the Net has been seen as a place independent of the ==========> 03-01-30-ACM-USACM-UCITALetter.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/Letters/ucitaABA.htm January 30, 2003 H. Thomas ("Tommy") Wells, Jr., Chairman, House of Delegates ==========> 03-01-30-SJMerc-GovDavisMayBackInternetSalesTaxPlan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5064128.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003 Davis may back Internet tax plan By Ann E. Marimow Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - After years of adamantly rejecting an Internet tax plan that he said would slow the growth of the dot-com economy, Gov. Gray Davis is now willing to consider a proposal that would force many ==========> 03-02-06-SJMerc-CalifControllerBacksInternetSalesAndAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5125967.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 06, 2003 California controller backs Net tax By Mary Anne Ostrom and Dan Reed Mercury News State Controller Steve Westly said Thursday that he has been asked by Gov. Gray Davis to develop new Internet tax policies. ==========> 03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVideoOnDemand.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5147312.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003 Video on demand presents chicken-and-egg dilemma NEW YORK (AP) - Fed up with driving to the video store in the cold of winter, Beverly Boyarsky thought she had found the perfect solution: video on demand. For about $80 a month, the Huntington Station, N.Y., woman could order ==========> 03-02-10-SJMErc-WomanSuesSWMakersOverInabilityToSeeLicenseTermsBeforeBuying.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/silico Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003 Woman sues software makers over licensing terms By Kristi Heim Mercury News With most products on the market, consumers expect to read terms of the deal before agreeing to buy. Should software be any different? ==========> 03-02-11-ALA-UCITAFailsToReceiveABAApproval.txt========== Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:05:39 -0500 From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" To: ALA Washington Office Newsline Subject: [ALA-WO:794] INFO/UCITA: UCITA Fails to Receive ABA Approval ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 12, Number 14 February 11, 2003 In This Issue: UCITA fails to receive American Bar Association ==========> 03-02-11-NWFusion-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0212ucitahits.html Software licensing act hits snag with lawyer group By Grant Gross IDG News Service, 02/11/03 The future of a proposed law that would standardize software licensing agreements across the U.S. appeared to be in doubt after the American Bar Association (ABA) failed to approve it at its national meeting last week. ==========> 03-02-11-SJMerc-CCIAFIlesComplaintAgainstMSWithEU.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5154851.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 11, 2003 EU coalition fires new antitrust blast at Microsoft BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A coalition of computer, telephone and Internet companies announced a new offensive in their battle against Microsoft Corp., accusing it of violating European antitrust law with its Windows XP operating system. ==========> 03-02-12-SJMerc-DG-SomeMerchantsCollectingInternetSalesTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5163515.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 12, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Taxing Issues By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): ==========> 03-02-13-PCWorld-ABAFailsToApproveUCITA-NCCUSLVowsToContinueDrive.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109349,00.asp Drive Resumes for Standard Software License Commissioners, endorsed by some vendors, will keep campaigning without American Bar Association backing. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Thursday, February 13, 2003 WASHINGTON -- The authors of a prototype software-licensing law intend to keep ==========> 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt========== http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html Congress Preps Tech Agenda Monday, February 17, 2003 By Liza Porteus WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy, privacy and security, among other issues. ==========> 03-02-17-PCMag-Dvorak-UCITA-StillBadNews.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,892275,00.asp February 17, 2003 Crummy UCITA Legislation is Back By John C. Dvorak There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the American Bar Association refused to endorse the horrible Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA), which is designed to standardize the total legality of rigid ==========> 03-02-24-PCMag-Dvorak-SalesTaxesOnInternetPurchasesUnconstitutional.txt========== http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,901631,00.asp February 24, 2003 Illegal Internet Sales Tax Looms By John C. Dvorak No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. No preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. —Article 1, section 9 of the ==========> 03-02-27-SJMerc-ML-OnlineMusicServiceOfferingsGreatlyImproved.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/5275544.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 27, 2003 Bigger selection helps AOL's MusicNet, other pay services By Mike Langberg Mercury News Attention, all you ``honest'' music pirates: It's time to pay up or shut up. ==========> 03-03-05-SJMerc-OnlineRetailersFightingUphillBattleAgainstSalesTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5321190.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 05, 2003 Miguel Helft: E-tailers are fighting an uphill battle against Internet tax By Miguel Helft The debate over Internet taxes is hot again. Government officials everywhere are scrambling for more revenue, and with the Internet industry far weaker than a few years ago, proposing a ==========> 03-03-15-SeattlePI-NewYahooStreamingMediaMayImpactRealNetworks.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/112665_yahoo15.shtml Saturday, March 15, 2003 Yahoo! streaming media service will compete with RealNetworks By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will introduce Platinum, a streaming-media subscription service that will challenge the well-entrenched leadership of Seattle's RealNetworks Inc. ==========> 03-03-27-SJMerc-CAJoinsStreamlinedTaxProject.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5494930.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 27, 2003 California officials step up effort to tax online sales By the Mercury News California officials stepped up their efforts Wednesday to collect taxes on Internet sales. The Board of Equalization voted 3-2 to become more actively ==========> 03-03-31-Wyden-SupportsS52-PermanentBanOnInternetTaxes.txt========== http://wyden.senate.gov/media/2003/03312003_internet.htm EBAY, Direct Marketing Association (DMA), Federated Department Stores, More Letters... Senators Highlight Growing Support For Permanant Ban on Unfair Internet Taxes Message of "equality for E-commerce" gains support on, off Capitol Hill March 31, 2003 Washington, DC -- U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) today joined ==========> 03-04-00-CACM-UsingTheWebToLearnAboutConsumerBehaviorAndOnlinePrivacy.txt========== Innovative web use to learn about consumer behavior and online privacy Julia B. Earp, David Baumer April 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 4 Consumers are more protective of their personal data than most e-marketers probably ever expected. Indeed, any willingness by consumers to provide certain information online greatly depends on who's doing the asking. There is little legal protection of consumer information acquired online—either ==========> 03-04-01-SJMerc-PayPalGamblingCollectionsViolateUSAPatriotAct.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5532248.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 01, 2003 PayPal violated law, says filing By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News A federal prosecutor in Missouri is claiming that PayPal, eBay's online payments subsidiary, violated the USA Patriot Act by processing Internet gambling transactions, ==========> 03-04-04-SJMerc-GoogleToProvidePaidSearchingToAmazon.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5558456.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 04, 2003 Google to provide paid listings to Amazon DEAL IS `NEXT STEP' IN CONNECTING CONSUMERS WITH CONTENT By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News Continuing the rapid expansion of its search and advertising network, Google said Thursday that it will provide paid listings and search features ==========> 03-04-08-SJMerc-ATTPlansPrepaidWebEcommerceCards.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5587463.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 08, 2003 AT&T debuts Prepaid Web Cents cards NEW YORK (AP) - They'll soon be hanging from hooks at checkout counters across the country, most likely near the bubble gum and breath mints. Convenience store novelties, ==========> 03-04-09-SJMerc-FBI-InternetFraudComplaintsTripleIn2002.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5595492.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 09, 2003 FBI reports Internet fraud complaints tripled in 2002 WASHINGTON (AP) - Fraud on the Internet rose sharply in 2002, with the FBI reporting more than 48,000 complaints referred to prosecutors -- triple the number of the year before. By far the most common complaint was auction fraud, followed by ==========> 03-04-16-InternetSeeks-Dow-JonesonesTestsIMForPremiumContent.txt========== http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8800174 Dow Jones Tests IM For Premium Content Delivery By Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek Instant messaging continues its march toward becoming a widely accepted information medium. In the latest expansion of business uses for IM, Dow Jones & Co. is experimenting with the technology as an emerging channel for delivering ==========> 03-04-16-SJMerc-DG-Apple-UniversalRecordsDealWouldConstrainOptions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5646059.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 16, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Honeypot snares raise ethical and legal issues By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): ==========> 03-04-21-MotleyFool-AppleShouldBuyUniversalMusic.txt========== http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2003/commentary030421ram.htm American Idle The music industry is having problems with volume control. Apple is draped in cobwebs. So, when rumors began to make the rounds earlier this month that Apple was interested in buying Vivendi's Universal Music Group, it may have brought images of one odd couple. However, Rick Munarriz thinks that opposites can attract. The music industry needs Apple. ==========> 03-04-28-WSJ-VaryingLawsInhibitInternationalECommerce.txt========== "So Many Countries, So Many Laws" Wall Street Journal (04/28/03) P. R8; Newman, Matthew E-commerce was supposed to support border-free online trade, but an international e-commerce architecture that shields the rights of retailers or shoppers and deters digital piracy has not been established, despite years of negotiations. As a result, e-tailers are canceling or refusing international ==========> 03-04-29-SJMerc-AppleiTunesOffers99CentMusicDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5742674.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 29, 2003 Apple launches online music store 200,000 SONGS AVAILABLE FOR 99-CENT DOWNLOADS By Jon Fortt Mercury News Apple Computer began offering 99-cent song downloads from all five major recording companies Monday, prompting competitors to ==========> 03-04-30-NYT-VirginiaPassesSpamFraudLaw.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/technology/30SPAM.html "Sending of Spam With Fraud Is Now Felony in Virginia" New York Times (04/30/03) P. A1; Hansell, Saul Growing public anger toward unsolicited commercial email and the deceptive methods that spammers use is causing Congress and U.S. states to consider tough solutions, and one of the harshest anti-spam measures was passed into ==========> 03-05-01-SJMerc-AppleiTunesGoodAndBad.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5760390.htm Posted on Thu, May. 01, 2003 Apple hits a high note with music store By Mike Langberg Mercury News I've just yanked myself out of the infamous Steve Jobs reality distortion field, so I can try to give a rational evaluation of Apple Computer's new iTunes ==========> 03-05-01-SJMerc-FTC-StatesCrackdownOnInternetAuctionFraud.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5760311.htm Posted on Thu, May. 01, 2003 Fake Internet auctions bilked buyers, FTC says By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News In the biggest crackdown yet on Internet auction fraud, federal and State authorities, said they have taken legal action in 57 cases that Bilked thousands of consumers nationwide. ==========> 03-05-01-SJMerc-OnlineAuctionFraud-FTCTakesAction.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5760311.htm Posted on Thu, May. 01, 2003 Fake Internet auctions bilked buyers, FTC says By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News In the biggest crackdown yet on Internet auction fraud, federal and state authorities, said they have taken legal action in 57 cases that bilked thousands of consumers nationwide. ==========> 03-05-01-TheRegister-AppleiTunesProvidesDRM.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30521.html Sugared water Apple censors Miles Davis By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 01/05/2003 at 21:51 GMT The dismal little online music shop that Steve Jobs opened on Monday has already received its share of lukewarm reviews. One reader, describing the paucity of music available, compared it to "an ==========> 03-05-01-Wired-CurrentMusicDownloadPricesTooHigh.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58684,00.html Dollar Songs: Bargain or Rip-Off? By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM May. 01, 2003 PT SAN FRANCISCO -- When CEO Steve Jobs unveiled Apple Computer's new music-download service here this week, he touted the introductory price of 99 cents per song as "pretty doggone close" to free. ==========> 03-05-14-Apple-iTunesTopsTwoMillionDownloads.txt========== http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/may/14musicstore.html iTunes Music Store Tops Two Million Song Downloads CUPERTINO, California—May 14, 2003—Apple® today announced that over two million songs have been purchased and downloaded from its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store since its debut 16 days ago. Continuing the trend set during the first week, over half of the songs purchased to date ==========> 03-05-19-TheRegister-RoxioBuysPressplayToRelaunchNapster.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30762.html Napster reborn! Roxio buys PressPlay By Drew Cullen Posted: 19/05/2003 at 13:23 GMT Roxio is to relaunch Napster, on the back of today's $39m cash and stock acquisition of PressPlay, the download music service, from Sony and Universal Music. ==========> 03-05-20-SJMerc-PressplayDealToLetNapsterOperateAgain.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5902707.htm Posted on Tue, May. 20, 2003 Pressplay deal would let Napster operate again By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Two record companies that helped sue Napster into oblivion announced a deal Monday that would let their one-time nemesis rise again. ==========> 03-05-27-CNETNews-RealNetworksOffersRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1010558.html?tag=fd_top Real pushes lower-cost Rhapsody By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 27, 2003, 9:00 PM PT RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service MusicNet in favor of one from Listen.com's Rhapsody, which also plans to charge ==========> 03-05-27-CNETNews-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1010558.html?tag=fd_top Real pushes lower-cost Rhapsody By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 27, 2003, 9:00 PM PT RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service MusicNet in favor of one from Listen.com's Rhapsody, which also plans to charge a new low of 79 cents per track to rip CDs. ==========> 03-05-28-SeattlePI-OnlineMusicServices.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/123890_onlinemusic28.html Wednesday, May 28, 2003 RealNetworks tunes into online music sales By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Interested in creating a custom-made CD, with a wide choice of artists, for under $10? RealNetworks Inc. hopes so. ==========> 03-05-28-SeattlePI-RealOneOffersOnlineTunesWithRestrictions.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/123890_onlinemusic28.html Wednesday, May 28, 2003 RealNetworks tunes into online music sales By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Interested in creating a custom-made CD, with a wide choice of artists, for under $10? RealNetworks Inc. hopes so. ==========> 03-05-30-ALA-VirginiaEnactsProtectionFromUCITA.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 12, Number 47 May 30, 2003 In This Issue: Good news regarding UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act)! The Governor of Vermont yesterday (May 29) signed HO 148 (UETA, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) into law. This bill included a ==========> 03-06-02-GoogleOverDropInRank-JudgeDismisesLawsuit.txt========== http://news.com.com/Judge+dismisses+suit+against+Google/2100-1032_3-1011740.html Judge dismisses suit against Google By Stefanie Olsen CNET Networks Story last modified Mon Jun 02 07:39:13 PDT 2003 CNET Networks A federal judge this week granted Google's motion to dismiss a suit that alleged the company manipulated search results in its powerful Web index. ==========> 03-06-04-ComputerWorld-MassMayAdoptAntiUCITALaw.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,81812,00.html Mass. could be fifth state to adopt anti-UCITA law No action was taken, though, after a legislative hearing this week By PATRICK THIBODEAU JUNE 04, 2003 A Massachusetts legislative committee held a hearing this week on an anti-UCITA bill, and the state could become the fifth to enact a law whose sole purpose is to protect its residents and businesses ==========> 03-06-05-MSNBC-PearlJamLeavesRecordCoForInternet.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/921872.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1 The music biz in a Pearl Jam Internet road to independence: Will the band’s exit from Epic stampede the dinosaur labels? COMMENTARY By Eric Olsen SPECIAL TO MSNBC.COM June 5 — Bands come and go from record labels in a revolving door of euphoria and dejection, so ==========> 03-06-14-FreeToTinker-StatusOfStateSuperDMCALaws.txt========== http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html Freedom to Tinker ... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own. State Super-DMCA Bills and Laws Links: EFF's Super-DMCA page Short explanation of bills' drawbacks, suitable for non-experts (applies to original version of bills): Word format; PDF Analysis of the Texas bill John Palfrey's Massachusetts testimony Michael Taylor's Massachusetts ==========> 03-06-19-BNA-CalCourt-LimitedDisclosureOfForumNotOK.txt========== BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 06/19/2003 COURT RULES NO UNFAIRNESS IN DISCLOSING FORUM CHOICE BY LINK BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports on Net2Phone v. Los Angeles County Superior Court, a decision in which a California state appeals court ruled that a consumer contract containing a forum selection clause is not unenforceable merely by reason of the fact that the forum selection clause is disclosed to consumers via a hyperlink. ==========> 03-06-25-Herald-FloridaEnactsSuperDMCALaw.txt========== BY ERIKA BOLSTAD ebolstad@herald.com TALLAHASSEE -Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law a low-profile measure Tuesday that electronics manufacturers and consumer advocates warn could keep people from recording television programs on their VCRs and from using TiVo-like devices. The law revises Florida's cable laws to include theft of any communication service, such as broadband Internet access, and to increase criminal ==========> 03-06-26-InternetNews-NapsterPlansReturn.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/2228481 June 26, 2003 Napster Plans Ad Push for Comeback By Brian Morrissey Napster, the deceased file-sharing network, announced on Thursday that it hired ad agency Venables, Bell & Partners to design a promotional campaign for its re-launch set for sometime in the next eight to 10 months. ==========> 03-07-14-RethinkResch-SoundtrackOnlyOnITunes.txt========== http://www.rethinkresearch.biz/free_page_view.asp?crypt=%B3%9C%C2%97%8B%80%86%AF %BC%C2%88%97rxv Tuesday 15 July, 2003 Look! No CD - Landmark deal for Apple iTunes Published: Monday 14 July, 2003 Something this week slipped by as a snippet in most news coffers but strikes Faultline as a huge landmark in web delivered content. Apple iTunes will take a piece of music, as it happens it is the rights for the soundtrack ==========> 03-07-16-BusWeek-ChiliPeppersOptOutOfITunes.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2003/tc20030715_6812_tc056.htm JULY 16, 2003 By Charles Haddad Charles Haddad is an Atlanta-based correspondent for BusinessWeek BYTE OF THE APPLE By Charles Haddad The Chili Peppers' Sour Grapes Over iTunes This rock group's refusal to be included on Apple's popular new music-download ==========> 03-07-22-SJMerc-BuyMusicDebutsWithDRM.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/6357699.htm Posted on Tue, Jul. 22, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Buy.com founder launches music download site LOS ANGELES (AP) - PC owners got a new Internet music download site Tuesday, one boasting the cheapest per-song rates but carrying many of the restrictions that have stymied rival music services. Although online retailer BuyMusic.com will offer more than 300,000 songs from ==========> 03-07-28-AtNewYork-RoxioToBundleNapster2WithCDWritingSoftware.txt========== http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2240801 July 28, 2003 Roxio to Bundle Napster with CD-Burning Tools By Ryan Naraine NEW YORK -- Digital media software firm Roxio (Quote, Chart) plans to bundle the reborn Napster 2.0 service with its popular CD/DVD burning tools and roll out what it calls the first online music play offering unlimited a la carte downloads alongside a subscription option. ==========> 03-07-28-LATimes-NapsterPlansReturnAsPayService.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-napster28jul28.story July 28, 2003 Napster Service to Be Revived by Year-End New owner Roxio aims to provide a familiar experience, minus the free file sharing, at a controversial time for the music industry. By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer Software maker Roxio Inc. plans to reincarnate the Napster online music service much sooner than expected, launching a legitimate form of the once-dominant ==========> 03-07-28-MacCentral-OnlineMusicToGrowToOver3B.txt========== http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/28/onlinemusic/ Survey: Online music market headed to US$3.3B by 2008 By Peter Cohen pcohen@maccentral.com July 28, 2003 8:05 am ET Apple's iTunes Music Store could by vying for a piece of a US$3.3 billion pie by 2008, if market research firm Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., is correct. The company predicts that by that date, buying music over the Internet will account for 26 percent of U.S. music spending. ==========> 03-07-28-MSNBC-NapsterPlansReturnAsPayService.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/944951.asp?cp1=1 Napster to make a comeback New online music venture could be out by end of year ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES, July 28 — Napster may be long dead, but the name and the “kitty” logo of the pioneer online music-swapping program could return to cyberspace before the year is out. ‘Consumer choice is really the biggest value that we have been able to carry ==========> 03-07-28-SJMerc-NapsterPlansReturnAsPayService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6401799.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 28, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Napster re-launch due by Christmas By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Napster, the renegade file-swapping service that birthed the online music revolution, expects to re-launch before Christmas as a paid service offering a mixture of downloadable songs, original programming and the largest legal ==========> 03-07-29-SJMerc-Border'sFounderLaunchesDigitalNewsstand.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6401799.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 28, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Napster re-launch due by Christmas By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Napster, the renegade file-swapping service that birthed the online music revolution, expects to re-launch before Christmas as a paid service offering a mixture of downloadable songs, original programming and the largest legal ==========> 03-07-30-SJMerc-OnlineMusicSalesGrowing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6416753.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 30, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Industry key to growth of online music, exec says By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News NEW YORK - The Plug.IN digital music conference offered tongue-in-cheek homage Tuesday to Musicbank, MusicBuddha, Mongo Music and 57 other dearly departed digital music services. ==========> 03-07-31-SJMerc-BuyMusicOKButNeedsWork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6428586.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 31, 2003 story:PUB_DESC BuyMusic not perfect but has bargains By Mike Langberg Mercury News BuyMusic.com, the new legal music download service, is somewhat like a ratty discount store with clueless salespeople: You can occasionally find bargains on things you want, but you wouldn't hang around just for the ambience. ==========> 03-07-31-SJMerc-InternetGamblingBill-LoopholeClosed.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6430012.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 31, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Senate committee closes loophole in Internet gambling bill WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee approved legislation Thursday that would ban illegal gambling on the Internet and closed a potential loophole that the Justice Department has said could actually legalize gambling in states where it is now prohibited. ==========> 03-08-01-CompWorld-NCCUSLPullsUCITA.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,108 01,83676,00.html Sponsor pulls support for controversial UCITA law By PATRICK THIBODEAU AUGUST 01, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Citing widespread political opposition to UCITA, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) has pulled its support for the controversial software licensing law and won't seek its ==========> 03-08-05-ALA-NCCUSLAbandonsUCITA.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 12, Number 73 August 5, 2003 In This Issue: [1] NCCUSL ANNOUNCES DECISION ABOUT UCITA [2]AFFECT PRESS RELEASE [1] NCCUSL announces decision about UCITA At the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) currently in progress in Washington, D. C., ==========> 03-08-08-LATimes-DisneyMayDoDigitalDistributionAnyway.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5585187.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 08, 2003 Eisner: Disney is shifting its anti-piracy stance Los Angeles Times LAS VEGAS - Walt Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Eisner said Monday that his company won't let the threat of piracy keep it from aggressively pursuing business strategies based on new digital technologies, even if that means rethinking its current ==========> 03-08-11-ComputerWorld-UCITAStillAThreat.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legislation/story/0,108 01,83870,00.html Sponsor's surrender won't end UCITA battle By Patrick Thibodeau AUGUST 11, 2003 WASHINGTON -- UCITA is far from dead in David Lewis' world. The CIO of Deseret Mutual Benefits Administrators in Salt Lake City continues to see the act's provisions -- including a vendor's right to remotely disable users' ==========> 03-08-26-CNETNews-EULAs-SoftwareLiability.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067873.html A legal fix for software flaws? By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 26, 2003, 4:00 AM PT Thomas Leavitt, a system administrator and veteran of three Silicon Valley start-ups, has dealt with computer worms and viruses before. ==========> 03-08-31-USACM-UCITAEffortLosingMomentum.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/update/update78.htm ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ August 31, 2003 Vol. 7.8 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= USACM Prepares FY2003 Report of Activities and Achievements ==========> 03-09-00-ACMInteractions-HumanComputerInteractionAndTheScienceOfWebShopping.txt========== HCI and the Web: Books and mortar: the science of Web shopping William Hudson September 2003 interactions, Volume 10 Issue 5 One of the Web's best-known booksellers appears to have become bored with the idea of selling books. The trickle of products other than books has burgeoned into a torrent flooding from its pages. In the early days, paddling among CDs and DVDs when trying to find books was not a particular problem. Few categories overlapped, so by searching for a few words in the title, you could usually ==========> 03-09-00-Discover-NewWebAppsFeatureBuiltInSelling.txt========== http://www.discover.com/sep_03/feattech.html # Built-In Spam" Discover (09/03) Vol. 24, No. 9, P. 28; Johnson, Steven The Internet has become a beehive of commercial advertising with the rampant proliferation of spam, pop-ups, and promotional content, while normal software applications are an ad-free center of tranquility in comparison. However, applications have started to emerge that feature embedded commercial transactions and sales pitches, one of the most well-known being Apple's iTunes ==========> 03-09-02CNETNews-PhysicalMediaSalesDeclining.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5070177.html Study: CDs may soon be as final as vinyl By CNET News.com Staff September 2, 2003, 8:24 AM PT Forrester Research on Tuesday predicted a steep fall in CD sales, as audio and video file sharing over the Internet continues to emerge as a preferred option among consumers. ==========> 03-09-08-CNETNews-Apple-ResellingITunesMusicImpractical.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5072842.html Apple: Reselling iTunes songs 'impractical' Last modified: September 8, 2003, 2:54 PM PDT By Ina Fried and Evan Hansen Staff Writer, CNET News.com An Apple Computer executive on Monday downplayed recent questions over the download resale policy of the company's iTunes Music Store, saying technical if not legal barriers would largely prevent such transfers from taking place. ==========> 03-09-11-SJMerc-RecordingStudioBusinessModelAnalysis.txt========== SJ Mercury 9/11/03 The Great Recording Industry Business Model Contest: Among the many recording industry business models crossing my desk yesterday was this one from Paul Chwelos. It's quite long, but it's one of the best summations I've read so far. I think you'll find it worth reading. As a business school professor who specializes in information technology (more specifically, the economic impacts of IT), I've been thinking about the impact ==========> 03-09-11-SJMerc-SelfDestructingDVDsEnterTest.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6744523.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 11, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Disposable DVDs enter 4 test markets Knight Ridder Forget about rushing to return a rented DVD hours, days and even -- for the chronically tardy movie renter -- weeks late, and facing the fabled overdue fees. ==========> 03-09-23-UPenn-ReseachersDevelopProgrammableSmartCard.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/uop-rda092303.php Public release date: 23-Sep-2003 Contact: Steve Bradt bradt@pobox.upenn.edu 215-573-6604 University of Pennsylvania Researchers develop a 'smart' payment card that can easily be programmed to restrict spending ==========> 03-09-29-AtNewYork-MusicMatchCompetesWithAppleITumes.txt========== http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3084721 September 29, 2003 Can MusicMatch Trump iTunes for Windows? By Ryan Naraine Digital music software firm MusicMatch on Monday hopped aboard the paid music download train, rolling out a music store for PC users with relaxed usage rules. The San Diego-based MusicMatch, which already markets a popular music player, ==========> 03-09-29-EComTimes-MusicMatchCompetesWithAppleITumes.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31697.html E-BUSINESS SECTION Windows-Based MusicMatch Hopes To Match Apple iTunes By Jefferson Graham September 29, 2003 MusicMatch is the first Windows-based service to obtain looser licensing terms from record labels. "We held off launching until we could get these rules," CEO Dennis Mudd said. "If you make it too hard on users, they'll just go to Kazaa." ==========> 03-09-30-SJMerc-RoxioPreparesTestOfNapster2.txt========== http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3085701 September 30, 2003 Napster Re-Launch Gets Media Center Help By Ryan Naraine NEW YORK -- In a coup for Roxio (Quote, Chart), the soon-to-be-relaunched Napster 2.0 has found a home on the upgraded WindowsXP Media Center Edition 2004, putting the paid download music service before a potentially large audience. ==========> 03-10-01-MagnaTune-BusinessModelForOnlineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.magnatune.com/info/model The Business Model: how we (and our artists) pay the rent. Our target audience: * People who listen to music in the background while they do other work (i.e. office workers [or any traditional "radio" market]). * Fans of music that gets little radio airplay or major record distribution, but has a fairly large audience. ==========> 03-10-02-MacWorld-RoxioPreparesTestOfNapster2.txt========== http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6998 Macworld Daily News Thursday - October 02, 2003 Napster 2.0 coming October 9 By Jonny Evans Roxio is preparing a test launch for its Napster 2.0 digital music distribution service. ==========> 03-10-08-PacCavc-MusicLabelsResistOnlineDistribution.txt========== http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2003/10/08.html#a387 Via The Prof 1:41:51 PM Tower Records vs. IBM: The Death (and Rebirth) of Online Distribution Guest blogger Kevin Laws, former music industry consultant and current venture capitalist, returns with another installment of his industry analysis: a tale of channel conflict. ==========> 03-10-09-SJMerc-NapsterReturnsAsOnlineMusicStore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6970031.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 09, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Napster returns as online music store COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO STILL USE FREE SERVICES TAKE THE NEWS WITH A SHRUG By Jon Fortt Mercury News Raquel Hernandez doesn't really care that Napster, the name that first put the fear of the Internet into the music industry, is being reborn today as an ==========> 03-10-10-SJMerc-DG-EMusicChangesToSubscriptionService.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001408.shtml#001408 October 10, 2003 Why I've Cancelled my EMusic Subscription • posted by Dan Gillmor 09:11 AM • permanent link to this item I was becoming a fan of EMusic, the MP3 download service that a) treated people like non-thieves and b) had a sensible business approach. But the company has gone through a merger and just drastically revised the terms of service to ==========> 03-10-13-SciAmer-UCITASuffersMajorDefeat.txt========== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AFFF8-B887-1F80-B57583414B7F0103&c atID=2 Scientific American October 13, 2003 Shrink-Wrapping the World A law that would crimp the rights of software buyers suffers a major defeat By Gary Stix "You accept the terms of this agreement." In the eyes of a software vendor, the ==========> 03-10-15-MS-ChoosingADigitalMusicServiceForWindows.txt========== http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/oct03/10-15MusicServices.asp Q&A: Choosing a Digital Music Service for Windows Users Dave Fester, General Manager, Windows Digital Media Division. Click image for high-res version. REDMOND, Wash., October 15, 2003 -- With the recent launch of several new digital music services for the Microsoft Windows operating system -- including Napster 2.0, BuyMusic.com, MusicNow, and Musicmatch -- and a growing list of new services queuing up to launch by year's end, the digital music landscape is ==========> 03-10-16-ZDNet-ITunesSupportsAppleMusicBusiness.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5092559.html Will iTunes make Apple shine? By Ina Fried CNET News.com October 16, 2003, 2:59 PM PT Apple Computer launched its iTunes Music Store for Windows amid much fanfare, but the company said it doesn't have any illusions that it can make great profits from selling songs over the Internet. ==========> 03-10-20-MacWorld-AnalystSaysITunesCouldBeNetMusicKing.txt========== http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6619 iTunes 'will become Net-songs king' By Jonny Evans Apple's iTunes Music Store could capture 20 per cent of the US paid-music download market, claims Needham's analyst Charles Wolf in a report this week. Wolf believes Apple could generate annual revenues of $600 million through its store, and that this figure could increase. He describes the Store as ==========> 03-10-20-SJMerc-USWarnsMSOnBundlingOnlineMusicAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7060791.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 20, 2003 U.S., Microsoft Fight Over Online Music TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON - Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. agreed to end its anticompetitive conduct, the government is raising concerns the world's largest software maker is trying to use its dominant Windows operating system to ==========> 03-10-29-SJMerc-NapsterReturnsAsMusicService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7131506.htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 29, 2003 story:PUB_DESC A former outlaw, Napster goes legit By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Napster's back -- but it's not the Napster you might remember. The Napster brand and kitty logo now adorn an online music service the record ==========> 03-10-30-Economist-OnlineMusicSalesMayReducePiracy.txt========== http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2177244 Upbeat Oct 30th 2003 Is the threat of online piracy receding? PEOPLE in the music industry are feeling more optimistic than they have for years. Apple's digital music-download service, iTunes, has won customers in far greater numbers than once seemed possible. This week saw the launch of Napster 2.0, a paying version of the service shut down by big music and the courts in ==========> 03-11-02-SJMerc-DG-MicropaymentSchemesAreBack.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7164159.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 02, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Small-amount purchases online may finally happen By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Apple Computer's online music store has won attention for its stylish ease of use, and deservedly so. Yet one of its most interesting features has drawn little notice -- the ability to buy something online that costs less than a ==========> 03-11-06-SJMerc-RebornNapsterFacesToughCompetition.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7196297.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Reborn Napster faces some strong competition Mike Langberg Mercury News Napster 2.0, the legitimate reincarnation of the outlaw music service shut down by the recording industry two years ago, tries to do so many things at once that it doesn't quite succeed at any of them. ==========> 03-11-07-Reuters-AppleClaimsVictoryOverNapster.txt========== http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3774011&sec tion=news Apple claims downloads victory over Napster Fri 7 November, 2003 04:47 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple says that its iTunes online music store sold five times more songs than rival Napster's service in its first week of operation. ==========> 03-11-07-SJMerc-PennStateOffersNewNapster.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7206846.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC College pact a fresh start for Napster By Dawn Chmielewski Mercury News The Napster service that Pennsylvania State University once banned for enticing students to steal music is back -- with a twist. ==========> 03-11-07-TheReg-NapsterAdmitsNoProfitFromITunes.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33850.html Your 99c belong to the RIAA - Steve Jobs By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 07/11/2003 at 11:20 GMT Wasn't the Internet, this weightless kingdom of bits and bytes, supposed to make distribution costs just vanish? Apparently not. At an Apple financial analyst conference on Wednesday CEO Steve Jobs admitted ==========> 03-11-10-NYPost-ComcastUsesRealNetworksToSellOnlineMusic.txt========== http://www.nypost.com/business/10368.htm November 10, 2003 -- REALNETWORKS will strike a blow in the hyper-competitive digital music space today when it announces a partnership with Comcast, the nation's biggest high-speed Internet access provider. The deal comes just days after Napster parent Roxio announced a pact to provide Penn State University students with free access to their service. ==========> 03-11-10-SJMerc-Comcast-BestButOfferOnlineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7226059.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 10, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Comcast, Best Buy go online with tunes NET-BASED MUSIC VENUES TAKE OFF By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The nation's leading cable company and a major consumer electronics chain today will each launch online music services, reflecting the rapid expansion of the ==========> 03-11-14-SJMerc-KazaaAsksUsersToDemandOnlineAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7260502.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 14, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Kazaa `pumps up the volume' USE OUR SERVICE, CAMPAIGN URGES By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Nikki Hemming, the reclusive chief of Kazaa, the wildly popular source of pirated music and movies, came in from the cold Thursday to urge the U.S. ==========> 03-11-14-SJMerc-MusicLabelsMonitorDownloadsForMarketingData.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7265146.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 14, 2003 Music Labels Tap Downloading Networks ALEX VEIGA Associated Press LOS ANGELES - The recording industry, it seems, doesn't hate absolutely everything about illicit music downloading. ==========> 03-11-16-USAToday-FingerprintsMayBeCrediCardReplacement.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-11-17-bonus-cover_x.htm Posted 11/16/2003 10:53 PM Updated 11/18/2003 9:29 AM Will that be cash, fingerprint or cell phone? By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY "Credit cards are just a physical variant of identity, so any way you can identify someone can be a way to pay for things." — John Gage, Sun Microsystems ==========> 03-11-17-SJMerc-MSToEnterOnlineMusicMarket.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7286382.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 17, 2003 Microsoft to Enter Online Music Market Associated Press The marketplace for legal online music services is about to get more crowded with tech behemoth Microsoft Corp. entering the fray. Microsoft plans to introduce a song-downloading service next year that will ==========> 03-11-17-SmartMoney-MSToEnterOnlineMusicMarket.txt========== http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20031117-000033-0035 Microsoft to Sell Web Music November 17, 2003 In a move likely to send waves through the growing online music market, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) plans to introduce a song-downloading service next year that will compete with similar offerings from Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL), Roxio Inc.'s (ROXI) Napster and others, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. ==========> 03-11-21-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndATTTeamToOfferAudioVideoContent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7318516.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003 Real Networks, AT&T Wireless team to offer audio, video content SEATTLE (AP) - RealNetworks Inc. has stepped up its efforts to spread its Internet audio and video technology to wireless phone users, announcing on Thursday a new service offered through AT&T Wireless. For $4.95 a month plus usage fees, AT&T Wireless customers who subscribe to the ==========> 03-11-23-NYT-FreeNetInfoComesWithCostsLikeSpyware.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/business/yourmoney/23free.html November 23, 2003 When Free Isn't Really Free By JOHN SCHWARTZ Is there any sweeter word? Its promise of something for nothing, and its underlying connotation of liberation, put a spring in the step and make the world seem a better place. ==========> 03-11-25-Felten-EULAsNeedRatingsAndTools.txt========== http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000478.html Freedom to Tinker ... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own. « California to Require Open-Source in Voting Software? | Main | Diebold to Stop Supressing Memos » November 25, 2003 Taming EULAs ==========> 03-11-26-TheReg-10MAmericansPayForMusicDownloadsInQ2.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34206.html 10m Americans pay for music downloads in Q2 By Tony Smith Posted: 26/11/2003 at 13:32 GMT Ten million Americans paid to download music during the second quarter, according to the latest statistics from market research company Ipsos-Insight. That equates to 16 per cent of the total number of US-based users who download ==========> 03-12-00-CACM-CustomerCenteredRulesForDesighOfECommerceWebSites.txt========== Virtual extension: Customer-centered rules for design of e-commerce Web sites Xiaowen Fang, Gavriel Salvendy December 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 12 It is well known that customer experience is one of the critical factors for the success of e-commerce. In the e-commerce industry, quite a few reports discussed design guidelines for Web site design. In a series of reports about e-commerce user experience, Nielsen, Farrell, Snyder, and Molich [8] identified a set of design rules related to the category pages, checkout and registration ==========> 03-12-00-CACM-DoPrivacySealsInEcommerceReallyWork.txt========== Virtual extension: Do privacy seals in e-commerce really work? Trevor T. Moores, Gurpreet Dhillon December 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 12 While e-commerce has not changed the basic nature of the commercial transaction, a trust gap has developed in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce transactions. This trust gap centers primarily on the privacy of personally identifiable information, such as name, address, and so forth, that is an essential element of B2C transactions. A Forrester research survey suggests ==========> 03-12-00-CACM-MobileECommerceOpportunitiesAndChallenges.txt========== Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges: Understanding usability in mobile commerce Viswanath Venkatesh, V. Ramesh, Anne P. Massey December 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 12 "The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument." —Alexander Graham Bell, 1878 ==========> 03-12-00-CACM-WhatComesNextInECommerce.txt========== Virtual extension: Commerce, e-commerce, and m-commerce: what comes next? Zakaria Maamar December 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 12 In ancient times, people exchanged their goods and services to obtain what they needed (such as clothes and tools) from other people. This system of bartering compensated for the lack of currency. People offered goods/services and received in kind other goods/services. Now, despite the existence of multiple currencies and the progress of humanity from the Stone Age to the Byte Age, ==========> 03-12-00-TechRev-MicropaymentSystemsAreBack.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/huang1203.asp The Web’s New Currency A new generation of e-payment companies makes it easy to “pay as you go” for inexpensive Web content, portending big profits for online businesses. By Gregory T. Huang December 2003/January 2004 Ask Ron Rivest if he’s ever been whisked away by the CIA in the middle of the night, and he laughs—but he doesn’t say no. At Peppercoin, a two-year-old MIT ==========> 03-12-02-CNETNews-HPSetToJoinOnlineMusicMarket.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5112840.html HP to turn on music service, flat-panel TVs By Ina Fried CNET News.com December 2, 2003, 2:46 PM PT Hewlett-Packard plans to offer flat-panel televisions and its own digital music service early next year, according to a source close to the company. ==========> 03-12-03-FT-HPSetToJoinOnlineMusicMarket.txt========== http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=Sto ryFT&cid=1069493676868 HP set to join fray in internet music market By Scott Morrison in San Francisco Published: December 3 2003 1:04 | Last Updated: December 3 2003 1:04 Hewlett-Packard is poised to join the online music frenzy by launching a branded internet music store and a portable digital music player that would compete against offerings from rivals such as Apple Computer and Dell. ==========> 03-12-15-Apple-ITunesSells25MillionSongs.txt========== http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/dec/15itunes.html iTunes Music Store Downloads Top 25 Million Songs Over $1 Million of iTunes Gift Certificates and Allowances Purchased CUPERTINO, California—December 15, 2003—Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 25 million songs from Apple’s iTunes® Music Store since it launched in April 2003. The 25 millionth song, purchased last Friday afternoon, was “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” by Frank Sinatra. ==========> 03-12-16-LATimes-ITunesSells25MillionSongs.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-apple16dec16,1,5163532.story?coll=la-hea dlines-technology Apple's Online Music Store Sells 25 Million Downloads The iTunes results are encouraging to those seeking to wean fans from free file sharing. By Jon Healey Times Staff Writer December 16, 2003 ==========> 03-12-17-PCWorld-InternetTaxIssues.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113867,00.asp Tech.gov: A Taxing Tale Death and taxes--the only certainties in life. But the debate raging in Congress shows that although taxes may be certain, what gets taxed isn't. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Wednesday, December 17, 2003 I may grumble, but as a confirmed Internet addict, I always pay my monthly tithe to my ISP. It's of some small comfort to me that this bill doesn't ==========> 03-12-19-SJMerc-WalMartBeginsOnLineMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7531857.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 19, 2003 Wal-Mart gets in on Web music RETAIL GIANT MAKES DEBUT WITH 88-CENT DOWNLOADS By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Wal-Mart brought its everyday low prices to the Internet music business Thursday, unveiling an online store that sells songs for 88 cents -- ==========> 03-12-26-EMIExecBridgingGapWithOnlineWorld.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7573850.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 26, 2003 Hitting a high-tech note RECORD-LABEL EXEC BRIDGING GAP WITH ONLINE WORLD By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News In show-who-you-know Los Angeles, your office wall is your résumé. ==========> 04-01-04-SJMerc-DG-P2PUsedLegallyToDistributeSoftwareAndData.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7870990.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 04, 2004 Preserving peer-to-peer networks is essential By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 04-01-06-MacObserver-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/01/06.17.shtml January 6th, 2004 [10:00 PM CST] TMO Scoop - New Real Player To Play iTunes Downloads; Set To Cause Controversy by Brad Gibson Real Networks will announce Wednesday a new RealPlayer for Windows that will play back music bought through the iTunes Music Store, despite the company not having licensed Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology. ==========> 04-01-07-CNETNews-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5136275.html?tag=nefd_lede Real offers new tech, song store Last modified: January 7, 2004, 5:52 AM PST By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com update Net multimedia company RealNetworks announced a sweeping overhaul of its digital audio and video software Wednesday, along with a digital song store aimed to compete with Apple Computer's leading iTunes service. ==========> 04-01-07-NYT-MicropaymentSystemsAreBack.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/technology/circuits/08next.html January 7, 2004 WHAT'S NEXT A Virtual Cash Register Rings Up Tiny Transactions By ANNE EISENBERG THE early days of Internet commerce offered many promises, none of them brighter than the chance for people to set up Web sites and sell inexpensive digital goods like songs, articles and photos. ==========> 04-01-07-SeaTImes-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001831182_real07.html Music key to new RealNetworks strategy By Kim Peterson Seattle Times technology reporter AP RealNetworks' new media player is expected to boost the Rhapsody music service. RealNetworks has given its online media player a makeover, upgrading the ==========> 04-01-07-SJMerc-RealNetworksUpgradesRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7651351.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 07, 2004 Universal media player unveiled LATEST REALPLAYER IS FIRST TO SUPPORT ALL MAJOR FORMATS By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News RealNetworks today unveils the Switzerland of media players -- a RealPlayer 10 that supports all major media types, including those from rivals Microsoft and ==========> 04-01-08-SJMerc-SonyToLaunchOnlineMusicStore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7661296.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 08, 2004 Sony to launch online music store By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News LAS VEGAS - Sony will launch a new online music store this spring with an exclusive United Airlines promotion that allows those who fly the friendly skies to trade frequent-flier miles for free songs. ==========> 04-01-21-ACMUbiquity-ChangingWaysWeUseTheInternet.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i46_downes.html 2004: The Turning Point An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet By Stephen Downes Jan. 21, 2004 I am usually hesitant to write predictions of the future, not because I think it's risky (I have a great deal of confidence in what follows) but because it's hackneyed. Especially at this time of the year, everybody is making ==========> 04-01-22-NYT-MusiciansSellConcertRecordingsOnline.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22band.html January 22, 2004 Seeing Payday, Not Piracy, Musicians Put Concerts on the Web By SETH SCHIESEL SHORTLY after Phish, the improvisational rock band, finished its New Year's Eve concert at American Airlines Arena in Miami, perhaps a couple of hundred people remained at play in the private suites that lined the hall. Brad G. Serling, as big a Phish fan as they come, joined them briefly but soon had to depart for ==========> 04-02-02-SJMerc-SomeMusicCompaniesToUseWippitP2PSite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7857010.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 02, 2004 Turning P2P music file-swapping into a legitimate business CANNES, France (AP) - The music industry is giving all it's got to the fight against unauthorized file-sharing. But if you can't kill the beast, why not tame it? Some Internet companies are turning peer-to-peer file-sharing into a legitimate ==========> 04-02-03-CNETNews-YahooPlanningMusicDownloadService.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5152860.html?tag=nefd_lede Yahoo composing music download plan By Jim Hu and John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified February 3, 2004, 1:37 PM PST Yahoo, rethinking earlier plans, is quietly exploring ways to develop a music download service as archrivals Microsoft and America Online place bigger bets on digital song sales. ==========> 04-02-19-SJMerc-NapsterWoes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7988684.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 19, 2004 Smiles fade at Napster MUSIC SERVICE IS LOSING MONEY AND EXECUTIVES By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News It was a breakthrough deal that would have put the Napster kitty on millions of Hewlett-Packard computers. ==========> 04-02-24-FutureOfMusic-ConferenceAnnouncement.txt========== http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/hastings04/index.cfm Future of Music presented by Hastings Association of Communications, Sports and Entertainment Law Comm/Ent, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal Hastings Intellectual Property Organization Future of Music Coalition and Noise Pop SCHEDULE | ONLINE REGISTRATION | MCLE REGISTRATION | DIRECTIONS | HOTELS ==========> 04-02-24-TheReg-NapsterSalesHit5MSongs.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35777.html Napster song sales hit 5m By Tony Smith Posted: 24/02/2004 at 12:41 GMT The Register Mobile: Find out what the fuss is about. Take the two week trial today. Napster has sold over five million songs since the once infamous file sharing software company was relaunched as a digital music store last October, it said ==========> 04-02-25-NYPost-MSLinesUpWithNapsterToPromoteWMA.txt========== http://www.nypost.com/business/18914.htm M'SOFT LINES UP WITH NAPSTER TO FIGHT OFF ITUNES By STEPHEN LYNCH February 25, 2004 -- In the battle over digital music, Microsoft may be forced to play kingmaker - or else be reduced to a pawn. There are dozens of online music stores that back Microsoft's digital format, but they may be too fragmented to successfully dent the lead of Apple's iTunes ==========> 04-02-26-EFF-EFFProposesDownloadingLicense.txt========== http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing "Let the Music Play" White Paper The current battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels continue to face lackluster sales, while the tens of millions of American file sharers -- American music fans -- are made to feel like criminals. Every day the collateral damage mounts -- ==========> 04-02-26-SJMerc-EFFProposesDownloadingLicense.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8046492.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 26, 2004 License to allow music downloading proposed By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News A leading Internet advocacy group Wednesday proposed legalizing online file-sharing through a voluntary music license that would compensate artists -- and decriminalize the actions of millions of music fans. ==========> 04-03-01-NYT-CEDReportCallsForRethinkingIPProblem.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/technology/01rights.html March 1, 2004 Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy By JOHN SCHWARTZ he entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy, according to a report being released today by the Committee for Economic Development, a Washington policy group that has its roots in the business world. ==========> 04-03-03-SJMerc-GeorgiaMayTryOnlineLotterySales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8097046.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 03, 2004 Georgia could be first state to try online lottery sales ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are considering creating a first-in-the-nation online lottery that would allow people to buy a ticket without having to stop in at a convenience store or a gas station. ``We're trying to target a market that may not be part of the lottery now -- ==========> 04-03-03-SJMerc-StatesPutUseTaxLinesOnIncomeTaxForms.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8097484.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 03, 2004 States bent on collecting tax on Internet purchases ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Remember all those gifts you bought online during the holidays? Now it's time to pay sales tax on them, at least so say the income tax forms of 20 states. The latest to outstretch that revenue-seeking hand are New York and California, ==========> 04-03-08-BBC-GeorgeMichaelToGiveAwayHisMusicOnTheNet.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3499534.stm George Michael shuns music industry George Michael courted controversy with his single Shoot the Dog Pop star George Michael is abandoning the music business to release his songs online for free instead. The multi-millionaire singer said he will never make another album for sale in record shops because he does not need the cash and does not enjoy fame. ==========> 04-03-08-NYPost-VirginToOpenOnlineStore.txt========== http://www.nypost.com/business/20123.htm VIRGIN GROUP PARTNERS WITH MUSICNET By STEPHEN LYNCH March 8, 2004 -- Virgin Group is set to announce a partnership with Internet developer MusicNet today to build the retailer's online music store. The Virgin site, which will launch in late summer, will try to differentiate itself from the myriad of other stores by offering a monthly subscription plan ==========> 04-03-08-SJMerc-VirginToOpenOnlineStore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8133354.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 08, 2004 Virgin to open online store SERVICE TO OFFER 700,000 SONGS By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Virgin, a brand long associated with music, will announce today that it is entering the increasingly crowded world of online music. ==========> 04-03-08-Stereophile-USMusicShipmentsDropAgain.txt========== http://www.stereophile.com/news/030804riaa/ US Music Shipments Drop Again By Barry Willis March 08, 2004 — Recorded music as a packaged-goods commodity continues to decline, according to figures released March 4 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Shipments to retailers from record labels in 2003 dropped 7.2% from the ==========> 04-03-15-SJMerc-AppleSells50MillionSongsViaITunesStore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8192890.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 15, 2004 Apple sells 50 million songs through iTunes store San Jose Mercury-News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. said Monday it has sold more than 50 million songs through its online iTunes Music Store. Apple's latest tally falls short of its one-year anniversary target of 100 ==========> 04-03-15-SJMerc-NapsterRevenueAboveForecast.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8192876.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 15, 2004 Napster revenue above forecast, boosting stock San Jose Mercury-News NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- Shares of Roxio Inc. jumped Monday, after the company said sales at its Napster online music service were above forecasts. The stock of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Roxio was at $5.15 Monday afternoon, up ==========> 04-03-15-SJMerc-StudiosOfferMovieTeasersOnWeb.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8172962.htm?noCache=1085087851983 Posted on Mon, Mar. 15, 2004 Movie teasers take to smaller screens By MARIA ELENA FERNANDEZ Los Angeles Times In the never-ending quest for a box-office splash, movie marketers are testing a new variation of an old concept -- the "sneak preview." ==========> 04-03-15-USAToday-StarbucksToOfferCustomDigitalMusicDownloads.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-03-15-starbucks_x.htm Posted 3/15/2004 12:37 AM Starbucks to put digital music on its menus By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — How about a mocha, a muffin and a tune? Starbucks (SBUX) is adding digital music to its menu this week, offering consumers the opportunity to order both beverages and custom-made CD compilations, with music from major labels. ==========> 04-03-16-SeattlePI-StarbucksToOfferCustomDigitalMusicDownloads.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/164928_starbucks16.html Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Decaf and custom CD to go as Starbucks starts selling downloads By CHRISTINE FREY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Want some Cream with your coffee? Starbucks introduces today a new program that lets customers listen to music ==========> 04-03-16-SJMerc-AppleITunesSells50MillionthSong.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8197598.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 16, 2004 50 millionth song marks a milestone for iTunes APPLE MAKES SLIM PROFIT ON MUSIC, CLEANS UP ON IPODS By Jon Fortt Mercury News Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store has notched its 50 millionth song that customers paid to download from the Internet, opening distance between the ==========> 04-03-16-SJMerc-StarbucksToOfferCustomDigitalMusicDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8198718.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 16, 2004 Starbucks stores to offer custom digital music CDs LOS ANGELES (AP) - Starbucks' latest brew is a custom blend of digital music. The coffee retailing giant said Monday it will begin selling digital music downloads on CDs to customers at 10 of its stores in Seattle later this spring and to 2,500 of about 5,400 U.S. stores in the next couple years. ==========> 04-03-18-SJMerc-MusicIndustryAdoptsChanges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8227184.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 19, 2004 Music industry surfs the tide of change AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Music industry insiders don't hesitate to throw around weighty phrases like ``paradigm shift'' and ``irrevocable change'' when they discuss the current state of affairs in the American music business. Industry representatives met Thursday to hash out the latest developments and ==========> 04-03-23-CNETNews-RealNetsGlaserTellsAppleToOpenIPodITunesFormats.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5177914.html?tag=nefd_top Real's Glaser exhorts Apple to open iPod By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 23, 2004, 10:47 AM PST SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has a message for Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs: Open iPod or shrivel. ==========> 04-03-24-CNETNews-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1041-5178854.html Sony e-book to be written in electronic ink By Richard Shim Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 24, 2004, 4:33 PM PST Consumer electronics giant Sony is using electronic ink in its new e-book, marking one of the first consumer applications of the next-generation display technology. ==========> 04-03-24-EInk-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt========== http://www.eink.com/news/releases/pr70.html PRESS RELEASE FIRST-GENERATION ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY FROM PHILIPS, SONY AND E INK TO BE USED IN NEW ELECTRONIC READING DEVICE Sony LIBRIé e-Book Reader utilizing Philips Electronic Paper Display featuring E Ink's electronic ink technology Tokyo, Japan , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Cambridge, MA, USA, March 24, 2004 - ==========> 04-03-24-ExtremeTech-SonyLibriEBookUsesPhillipsEInkTech.txt========== http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1553471,00.asp Sony To Market Electronic Ink March 24, 2004 By: Mark Hachman Extreme Tech Sony Electronics said late Tuesday night that it plans to offer an e-book for sale in Japan this April, utilizing a display that approximates the style of newsprint. ==========> 04-04-00-CACM-OnlineBusinessesShouldCultivateVisitorsTrustingViews.txt========== Viewpoint: Trust online, trust offline Eric M. Uslaner April 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 4 Online businesses would do well to cultivate their visitors' adventurous, trusting, optimistic, risk-taking world views. Commercial Web sites have been making concerted efforts to reassure their customers that their transactions and personal information are safe. This site ==========> 04-04-02-HarvardCyberLaw-iTunesCaseStudy.txt========== http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/itunes Digital Media Project A research initiative of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School iTunes Case Study Overview In recent months, iTunes, Apple's Online Music Store, has become the pacesetter ==========> 04-04-03-JupiterRes-EconomicsOfSelling99CentTunes.txt========== http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/002426.html March 03, 2004 Waiting on Janus...and Rethinking Royalties Jupiter Research My panel at Billboard's Digital Music Forum was about selling digital music, but lacked a true retailer. It had a good representation of music services, however. All claimed they could make money on 99-cent singles, but most were really trying to convert singles buyers to subscribers. (My calculations ==========> 04-04-07-WSJ-PricesOfOnlineMusicToRise.txt========== http://www.nj.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0037_ BC_WSJ--DownloadingMusic Downloading music gets more expensive By ETHAN SMITH The Associated Press 4/7/04 9:09 AM The Wall Street Journal To see the future of online music prices, look no further than "Fly or Die," ==========> 04-04-09-SJMerc-MusicSalesIncrease.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8396823.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 09, 2004 U.S. music sales continue to rise despite piracy LOS ANGELES (AP) - Online music file-sharing and other forms of piracy haven't gone away, but a gradual turnaround in U.S. music sales that began in the fall has picked up in the first quarter of this year, resulting in the industry's best domestic sales in years. ==========> 04-04-15-CNETNews-AppleLeaksRealNetworksOfferAndSaysNoThanks.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-1025_3-5192344.html Jobs to Glaser: Buzz off By Charles Cooper Story last modified April 15, 2004, 1:25 PM PDT RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser just proved how very bright folks sometimes wind up making the dumbest decisions. In a private e-mail sent last week to Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, Glaser ==========> 04-04-15-CNETNews-AppleRebuffsRealNetworksCompatibilityOffer.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-1025-5192344.html?tag=nefd.acpro Jobs to Glaser: Buzz off By Charles Cooper Story last modified April 15, 2004, 1:25 PM PDT RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser just proved how very bright folks sometimes wind up making the dumbest decisions. In a private e-mail sent last week to Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, Glaser ==========> 04-04-15-OReilly-RealNetworksSeeksMusicalAllianceWithApple.txt========== http://news.oreillynet.com/pub/n/RealAppleAlliance RealNetworks Seeks Musical Alliance with Apple Apr. 15, 2004 Permalink Source: C|Net News Story Link: http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5191831.html?tag=nefd.top RealNetworks has appealed to Apple for the two to work together to thwart Microsoft's plans in the digital music business. "The offer to create a ==========> 04-04-15-SJMerc-ATTWirelessOffersSongRecognitionService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8439967.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 15, 2004 AT&T Wireless Launches Music Service Associated Press LOS ANGELES - AT&T Wireless began offering its U.S. subscribers a service Thursday that uses mobile phones to identify the names and performers of more than 1 million popular songs. ==========> 04-04-16-SJMerc-AppleRebuffsRealNetworksCompatibilityOffer.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8441648.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 16, 2004 Apple Rebuffs Online Music Alliance Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Computer Inc. apparently doesn't want to sing the same tune as its Internet music rival RealNetworks Inc. Seattle-based RealNetworks said Thursday that Apple chairman Steve Jobs had ==========> 04-04-25-NYT-AppleMusicBusinessOutshinesComputerBusiness.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/business/yourmoney/25jobs.html April 25, 2004 Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells Computers By JOHN MARKOFF New York Times Cupertino, Calif. STROLL the corridors and the atriums on Apple Computer's corporate campus these ==========> 04-04-26-ZDNet-iTunesSuccessChallengesCompetitors.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5199227.html iTunes ushers in a year of change By John Borland and Ina Fried CNET News.com April 26, 2004, 4:00 AM PT John Gillilan has hundreds of Pepsi caps lined up in rows in his University of Southern California freshman dorm room, each one representing a song downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store. ==========> 04-04-28-LATimes-OnlineMusicAvailabilityHasChangedTheBusiness.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music28apr28,1,1966020.story?coll=la-home- business Online Music Alters Industry Sales Tempo The labels could gain if they persuade people to spend more, but some worry that 99-cent singles will beat out more-lucrative albums. By Jon Healey and Jeff Leeds LA Times Staff Writers April 28, 2004 ==========> 04-04-28-SJMerc-iTunesWildlySuccessfulDespiteRestrictions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8538438.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 28, 2004 iTunes hits right note By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News As Apple Computer marks the one-year anniversary of its iTunes Music Store today, the recording industry and consumers are indeed thinking differently about music downloading. ==========> 04-04-29-SJMerc-AppleAddsFeaturesToiTunes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8547490.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 29, 2004 Apple adds iTunes features ONLINE MUSIC SITE TO INCLUDE USERS' PLAYLISTS By Sam Diaz Mercury News Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs celebrated the one-year anniversary of the iTunes Music Store by announcing a new version of the online music ==========> 04-04-29-SJMerc-TinyMP3RecorderProvidesConcertRecord.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8545143.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 29, 2004 Chad Rachman/AP New device allows recording at concerts LUKAS I. ALPERT Associated Press NEW YORK - Oh, how far we've come from the 78, the 45, even the CD. Now, minutes after your favorite band sounds its last note on stage, you can load a ==========> 04-05-00-RollingStone-ClearChannelLimitsConcertCDSales.txt========== http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6066617&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=sing le1&rnd=1085441305296&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847 Clear Channel Limits Live CDs Company to block bands from selling instant albums In the past few years, fans leaving some concerts have discovered a souvenir far better than a T-shirt: a live recording of the show they just attended. Bands including the Allman Brothers, moe. and Billy Idol have sold instant concert discs, and the Pixies and the Doors plan to launch similar programs ==========> 04-05-05-LATimes-SonyOnlineMusicStoreEntersCrowdedField.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-connect5may05,1,7881671.story?coll=la-he adlines-technology Sony Gets Music Store Off Ground, Into Crowded Field By Jon Healey Times Staff Writer May 5, 2004 Pop star Sheryl Crow went to unusual lengths Tuesday to help Sony Corp. launch its online music venture, performing hits in the aisle of a United Airlines jet ==========> 04-05-05-SJMerc-MiniDiscShapesNewSonyMusicDowloadService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8594320.htm Posted on Wed, May. 05, 2004 Sony launches competitor to iTunes BATTLE PITS IPOD, MINIDISC By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The first serious challenger to Apple Computer's market-dominating iTunes Music Store hit the runway Tuesday with a splashy launch event that featured a twist ==========> 04-05-07-NYPost-ApplesiTunesMayRaiseFees.txt========== http://www.nypost.com/business/20309.htm APPLE TUNES UP By TIM ARANGO May 7, 2004 -- Music fans may have to start shelling out more to download some of the most popular songs on Apple's iTunes digital music service, The Post has learned. The five major record labels have been in negotiations recently with Apple over ==========> 04-06-03-PCWorld-InternetTaxIssues.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116339,00.asp A Tangled Web of Taxes The rise of tax-free voice-over-IP phone services gives new urgency to the ongoing debate over Internet taxation. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Thursday, June 03, 2004 The Web's been a fairly safe refuge from taxes for millions of shoppers and, more recently, for a growing number of callers as well. That may change as ==========> 04-06-08-CNETNews-BeatlesMusicToGoOnline.txt========== http://news.com.com/Beatles+in+talks+for+online+song+sales/2100-1027_3-5228914.h tml Beatles catalog headed for digital distribution? By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified June 8, 2004, 1:03 PM PDT Talks have begun that could finally make the songs of The Beatles available for sale online, sources familiar with the situation said. ==========> 04-06-09-FinTimes-BeatlesMusicToGoOnline.txt========== http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=Sto ryFT&cid=1086445524021 Internet to gain Beatles' magic By Scott Morrison in San Francisco Published: June 9 2004 0:34 | Last Updated: June 9 2004 0:34 Internet music afficionados could soon be able to legally download songs by The Beatles, the legendary English pop group that has for several years shunned the online music business. ==========> 04-06-14-LATimes-RealNetworksAndStarzOfferMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-starz14jun14,1,4582878.story?coll=la-headl ines-business Service to Offer All You Can Watch Starz and RealNetworks team up to provide unlimited downloads of movies for a flat fee. By Jon Healey Times Staff Writer June 14, 2004 ==========> 04-06-14-NYT-RealNetworksAndStarzOfferMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/technology/14real.html June 14, 2004 Selling 'Nemo' Online, Trying to Repel Pirates By SAUL HANSELL RealNetworks and the Starz Encore Group will introduce an online service today that will let high-speed Internet users download and watch many of the movies shown on the Starz cable channel. The move is another early attempt by Hollywood to build a business out of downloadable movies and head off the sort ==========> 04-06-14-RockyMtnNews-StarzOffersMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_2960879, 00.html Starz Encore tests subscription service that allows customers to download films By Chris Walsh, Rocky Mountain News June 14, 2004 Starz Encore Group LLC made a name for itself during the past decade by delivering hit movies through its subscription TV channels. ==========> 04-06-14-SJMerc-RealNetworksAndStarzOfferMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8918390.htm Posted on Mon, Jun. 14, 2004 Subscription service offers movie downloads By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The number of people who pay to download movies each day could probably fit into your average suburban megaplex -- with seats to spare. ==========> 04-06-15-Apple-AppleOpensMusicStoreInEurope.txt========== http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/15itunes.html Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in the UK, France & Germany Same Innovative Features & Breakthrough Price of €0.99 & £0.79 Per Song LONDON—June 15, 2004—Apple® today launched its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store in the UK, France and Germany giving music fans there the same large online catalogue, a la carte pricing, free previews, one-click purchasing and downloading, and groundbreaking personal use rights that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. With Apple’s legendary ease of ==========> 04-06-15-Guardian-EuropeanITunesLacksImportantIndependentArtists.txt========== http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1239200,00.html Licensing row mars iTunes launch Dominic Timms Tuesday June 15, 2004 Franz Ferdinand, Basement Jaxx and The White Stripes are refusing to license their music to iTunes, causing a significant setback to Apple's new music download service just hours before it launches to a fanfare in Europe. ==========> 04-06-15-IntlHeraldTtrib-AppleOpensMusicStoreInEurope.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/525006.html Apple opens iTunes to 3 European countries Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches Reuters, IHT Tuesday, June 15, 2004 LONDON Apple Computer, operator of the world's biggest online music service, introduced on Tuesday a European version of its iTunes Web site for downloading music. ==========> 04-06-15-MacWorld-Jobs-iTunesOnlyRealCompetitionIsPiracy.txt========== http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8915&Page=1&pagePos=4 Macworld Daily News Tuesday - June 15, 2004 Jobs: iTunes' only rival is piracy By Jonny Evans During the launch of the iTunes Music Store Europe at an event in London, Apple CEO Steve Jobs dismissed other digital-music services today, saying the real competition Apple faces in the market comes from piracy. ==========> 04-06-25-SJMerc-IndependentsUseP2PToPromteThemselves.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9012630.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 25, 2004 Music sellers build fan base using file-sharing services By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News On any given day, popular movies such as ``Harry Potter'' and ``Around the World in 80 Days'' are illegally traded over Internet file-sharing services like so many baseball cards. ==========> 04-06-28-SJMerc-DownloadingMoviesMovesCloserToReality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/9030078. htm Posted on Mon, Jun. 28, 2004 Downloading movies moves closer to reality for the masses By Mike Langberg Mercury News Here's something my 3-year-old daughter, Sara, will have a hard time remembering when she's in high school: ==========> 04-07-16-ShoreWalker-BooDotCom-HowToProvideABadShoppingSite.txt========== http://www.shorewalker.com/section7/boo.html How to rebuff stupidity: "Remember Boo.com" This item first filed on Monday, May 29, 2000 and last modified on Friday, July 16, 2004 A small tribute to the mother and father of all dot-com disaster stories. ShoreWalker The Web shopping jumbo known as Boo.com suddenly crashed to earth in May 2000. The much-hyped 18-country new-economy pedlar of "sports and streetwear on the ==========> 04-07-26-SeattlePI-RealNetworksMusicStoreSongsNowPlayOnIPods.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/183508_real26.html Monday, July 26, 2004 RealPlayer Music Store songs now play back on iPods and more By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Seattle's RealNetworks Inc. has released a new version of its audiovideo player software that it said allows moving songs bought from its online music-purchase service to some portable devices that use the formats of rivals Apple and ==========> 04-07-27-BusWeek-AppleShouldTakeActionAgainstRealNetworks.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2004/tc20040727_6351_tc120.htm JULY 27, 2004 • Editions: Edition Preference COMMENTARY By Peter Burrows For Apple, Harmony Is Off-Key RealNetworks' attempt to make its music downloads work on iPods does Jobs & Co. and consumers a disservice -- and should be thwarted ==========> 04-08-05-MacWorld-VirginMegaComplainsAppleNoLicenseFairPlayInFrance.txt========== http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9345&Page=1&pagePos=10 Macworld Daily News Thursday - August 05, 2004 Virgin Mega says Apple's FairPlay 'unfair' By Macworld staff Apple's determination not to license its FairPlay digital rights management system faces further opposition, this time in France. ==========> 04-08-06-TheReg-VirginMegaDemandsAppleLicenseFairPlay.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/apple_vs_virgin/ Virgin demands Apple license iTunes DRM By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 6th August 2004 15:18 GMT The Register VirginMega - the Virgin Group's French online music joint venture with media company Lagardère - has claimed that Apple is guilty of anti-competitive behaviour by refusing to licence the iTunes Music Store's FairPlay DRM ==========> 04-08-07-SJMerc-CreativeTakesOnIPodWithNewMP3Players.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9343890.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 07, 2004 Taking on the iPod MAKER OF FIRST HARD DRIVE MP3 PLAYERS AIMS TO REGAIN A LEADERSHIP POSITION By Sam Diaz Mercury News Craig McHugh remembers the late 1990s, when naysayers ``scoffed'' at the idea of consumers moving digital music from their computers to portable devices. ==========> 04-08-09-SJMerc-InstancesOfOnlineCreditCardTheft.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9357645.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 09, 2004 Big-time ID theft symptom of database culture BOSTON (AP) - BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. attracts shoppers to its stores by putting thousands of discounted products under one roof. It wasn't hard to attract cyberthieves either, with databases that amass credit card numbers in huge numbers. ==========> 04-08-16-SJMerc-EntertainmentWorldStillWaryOfMS.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9415458.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 16, 2004 Entertainment world still wary of Microsoft LOS ANGELES (AP) - CinemaNow Inc., the Internet-based movie service, is a rarity in Hollywood -- a company that eagerly embraces Microsoft Corp. technology and relies on it exclusively to transmit, protect and display the movies it rents to customers. ==========> 04-08-23-MediaPost-MostConsumersUnawareThatIPodFormatProprietary.txt========== http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=265324 MediaPost's MediaDailyNews Monday, Aug 23, 2004 Consumers Say Apple Should Share by Ross Fadner The vast majority of consumers are unaware that an Apple iPod digital music player will not play music files from other digital music providers, while a smaller majority agree that it is within RealNetworks' rights to develop a ==========> 04-08-23-SJMerc-MSAnnouncesMusicStoreAndPlayer.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9471751.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 23, 2004 Microsoft to join battle of the beats with music store By Dawn C. Chmielewski and Dean Takahashi Mercury News Expect Microsoft to announce its long-anticipated foray into the online music business this week, raising the competitive stakes for the current market leader, Apple. ==========> 04-08-24-RealNetworks-RealAnnounces1MSongsSold.txt========== http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2004/music_momentum.html REALNETWORKS CELEBRATES BRINGING HARMONY TO MUSIC FANS - SELLS MORE THAN 1 MILLION SONGS IN A WEEK Hundreds Of Thousands Of Consumers Experience The Benefits Of RealNetworks' Compelling And Comprehensive Music Offerings Including Real Guide, RealPlayer Music Store, And Rhapsody SEATTLE, Aug. 24, 2004 — RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), today announced ==========> 04-08-27-CNETNews-EBooksMoveToMultifunctionDevicesButDRMStillAProblem.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5326015.html Have e-books turned a page? By David Becker Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5326015.html Story last modified August 27, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT After more than a decade of false starts and empty promises, publishers may finally be starting to understand what consumers want from electronic books. ==========> 04-08-28-SJMerc-HPVersionOfIPodHasSameFeaturesAndPriceAsApples.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9521942.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 28, 2004 HP to sell version of Apple's iPod MUSIC PLAYER WILL HAVE SAME FEATURES, PRICE By Dean Takahashi Mercury News Hewlett-Packard on Friday unveiled its own version of Apple's iPod music player, part of its alliance with Apple Computer as well as HP's own foray into ==========> 04-09-00-IEEESpectrum-AdvancesInDigitalMusicTechAndDistribution.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep04/0904audio.html Music Everywhere It's all about the algorithm—but which one will win? By Thomas Mock September 2004 IEEE SPectrum Of the countless human pursuits touched by technology, music has been among the most profoundly transformed. Beginning more than a century ago, when Thomas ==========> 04-09-00-Wikipedia-SonyAdaptiveTransformAcousticCoding-ATRAC-LikelyObsolete.txt========== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATRAC ATRAC From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) is an audio compression algorithm used to store information on Minidiscs and other Sony-branded audio players. First developed by Sony in 1991; the higher mincompression flavors of ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus followed in 2000 and 2003, respectively. It uses quadrature mirror filters and modified discrete cosine transform to represent encoded ==========> 04-09-01-JupiterRes-MSEntersOnlineMusicMarketWithMSNMusic.txt========== http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/003682.html Analyst Weblog: Michael Gartenberg September 01, 2004 MSN Music Store - First Take Jupiter Research Looks like the embargo has lifted early so I'll toss in one last post for the day. There's a lot of buzz about the new MSN Music store. While Microsoft's efforts here are very good, there's nothing unique that will really serve to ==========> 04-09-02-SJMerc-MSEntersOnlineMusicMarketWithMSNMusic.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9563161.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 02, 2004 Microsoft to make foray into online music By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Microsoft makes its long-anticipated entry into the online music market today, marking the first serious challenge to Apple Computer's popular iTunes service. ==========> 04-09-02-WSJ-MSEntersOnlineMusicMarketWithMSNMusic.txt========== http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20040902.html September 2, 2004 Microsoft Challenges Apple's iTunes Store, But It Isn't There Yet The Wall Street Journal By WALTER S. MOSSBERG In the battle to dominate the emerging business of online music sales, the 800-pound gorilla finally is taking the field. Today, Microsoft rolls out its MSN Music store, directly challenging its nemesis, Apple Computer, which so far ==========> 04-09-07-SJMerc-NetflixAndTiVoWorkingTogetherOnInternetMoviesOnDemand.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9602437.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 07, 2004 Netflix, TiVo reported huddling over movie-on-demand service San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. hope to link up on a service that will use high-speed Internet connections to pipe DVD-quality movies into the homes of their mutual subscribers. ==========> 04-09-09-RealNetWorks-3MillionSongsSoldDuringThreeWeekPromo.txt========== http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040909/sfth052_1.html Press Release Source: RealNetworks, Inc. RealNetworks Announces Record 3 Million Songs Sold in Three-Week Music Sale Thursday September 9, 12:01 am ET More than 96% of Music Fans Say in New Survey That the Digital Music They Purchase Should Play on Any Device Top Tracks to Remain 49 Cents SEATTLE, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - ==========> 04-09-12-SAPVentures-NetflixAndTiVoWorkingTogetherOnInternetMoviesOnDemand.txt========== http://sapventures.typepad.com/main/2004/08/nflx_tivo.html August 12, 2004 NFLX + TIVO SAPVentures You heard it here first... I'm calling it: Tivo and Netflix are going to merge. No, they have not announced anything, I'm just making a projection. Here's why I'd be looking at this if I was on either of their boards: ==========> 04-09-13-Newsweek-NetflixAndTiVoWorkingTogetherOnInternetMoviesOnDemand.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5915470/site/newsweek/ I Want a Movie! Now! For those who can't wait, Netflix and TiVo have an idea By Brad Stone Newsweek Sept. 13 issue - Netflix and Tivo ushered in an age of couch-potato bliss. Netflix lets its customers browse through its huge movie catalog on the Web and rent DVDs through the mail without having to worry about late fees. TiVo lets ==========> 04-09-16-RevolutionMag-MostPreferCDsToDownloads.txt========== http://www.revolutionmagazine.com/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=ViewNewsArticle&ID=2 22272 Legal downloading is no threat to CD sales says report September 16, 2004 Staff Revolution Magazine LONDON - Legal music downloading through the internet is complementing rather than eroding CD sales, according to a new report. ==========> 04-09-17-TheReg-MostPreferCDsToDownloads.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/17/92percent_prefer_cds/ 9 out of 10 cats prefer CDs to downloads By Andrew Orlowski (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 17th September 2004 11:52 GMT The Register Not only is the CD format alive and well, but it's emerging from the "online" revolution looking healthier than ever. 92 per cent of DRM-store downloaders surveyed by Entertainment Media Research prefer the plastic platters to their ==========> 04-09-20-PCWorld-BillsOnInternetTaxBanandIP.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117852,00.asp Congress Tackles Taxing Issues Lawmakers may vote on Internet tax ban, controversial copyright bills before year's end. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Monday, September 20, 2004 WASHINGTON -- With the U.S. Congress winding down its work for 2004, technology lobbying groups are stepping up their push for lawmakers to pass several pieces ==========> 04-09-22-SFChron-SalesOfPortableDigitalMusicPlayersBoom.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/22/BUG OO8SNQC1.DTL&type=business Strong sales forecast for digital audio players - Benny Evangelista, SF Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Sales of portable digital audio players like Apple Computer Inc.'s trendy iPod are booming and are expected to generate $58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a research report released Tuesday. ==========> 04-09-22-SJMerc-SonyAnnouncesSupportForMP3InAdditionToATRAC.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9732905.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 22, 2004 Sony shifts strategy to support MP3 music files Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a major strategic reversal, Sony Corp. said Wednesday it plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players. The shift to support the widely used MP3 music format would end Sony's ==========> 04-09-23-VNUNet-MP3PopularityTHreatensIPOD.txt========== http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158305 IPod faces competition as MP3 player sales boom Portable flash players to shake up the market James Sherwood, vnunet.com 23 Sep 2004 Sales of MP3 players are rocketing, fuelled by falling unit prices, integration of MP3 support into a wider range of devices and the creation of legal music download websites. ==========> 04-10-06-SJMerc-OnlineSalesHelpMusicSalesToAlmost6PercentIncreaseIn2004.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9852630.htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 06, 2004 U.S. album sales up 5.8 percent in first nine months of 2004 ALEX VEIGA Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Album sales in the United States rose 5.8 percent in the first nine months of this year, reflecting an overall turnaround in music sales that began a year ago on the strength of hit releases and a growing market for ==========> 04-10-21-Wired-INDUCEActTalksFail-LegalP2PLikely.txt========== http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65414,00.html Toe-to-Toe Over Peer-to-Peer By Michael Grebb 02:00 AM Oct. 21, 2004 PT Wired WASHINGTON -- Amid the recent collapse of talks over the Induce Act in Congress, record labels are closing in on deals to enable several new peer-to-peer services to emerge -- with the sanction of major record labels ==========> 04-10-30-SJMerc-SonyReadyToJoinMusicFIleSharingSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10055238.htm Posted on Sat, Oct. 30, 2004 Sony ready to join music file-sharing DISTRIBUTION ACCORD WITH FORMER ADVERSARIES IN THE WORKS By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The world's largest music company is discussing ways to distribute its songs through Grokster and other Internet file-swapping services, a deal that would ==========> 04-11-00-BlogMav-WhenWillMusicIndustryDoItRight.txt========== http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/3856521420807387/ When will the music industry do it right ? Nov. 00, 2004 Can the music industry cry wolf any longer? This is the only industry in the world that can see thousands of its retailers close, reduce the number of products it sells via cutbacks in artist rosters and albums released, cut back marketing and promotional dollars and then blame a reduction in sales on someone or something other than themselves. ==========> 04-11-10-SJMerc-WTOSaysUSShouldAllowOffshoreInternetGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10146233.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 10, 2004 WTO says United States should drop ban on offshore Internet gambling GENEVA (AP) - In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos. In its final 287-page report, the WTO panel confirmed the preliminary ruling it ==========> 04-11-16-SJMerc-UniversalLicnesesSnocapToSellDigitalMusic.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10193743.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 16, 2004 File-swap firm gets license to sell music UNIVERSAL DEALS WITH FANNING'S SNOCAP SERVICE By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News In another sign of the music industry's grudging embrace of file-swapping technology, Universal Music Group has agreed to license its 150,000-song ==========> 04-11-24-SJMerc-ThreeRecordLabelsLicenseSongsForP2P.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10261238.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 24, 2004 File-swapping embraced THREE MAJOR RECORD LABELS AGREE TO DISTRIBUTE SONGS ON WEB SERVICE By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News In another deal that signals the music industry's increasing willingness to co-opt rather than crush file-swapping technology, three major record labels ==========> 04-11-27-SJMerc-ExpertsAdviseVigilanceAtECommerceWebsites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10282987.htm Posted on Sat, Nov. 27, 2004 Online shoppers warned to be vigilant EXPERTS CAUTION AGAINST SPYWARE, PHISHING By Dan Lee Mercury News Since the early 1990s, Charley Kline has used the Internet to buy everything from his favorite brand of socks to the latest digital camera. And this year, ==========> 04-11-29-SJMerc-OnlineRetailersUseBetterMarketingToIncreaseSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10297460.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 29, 2004 Online retailers see Thanksgiving surge San Jose Mercury NEW YORK (AP) - Computer-savvy consumers did plenty of online shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend, giving companies like Amazon.com and walmart.com the same kickoff to the holiday season as department stores and malls had. ==========> 04-12-01-SJMerc-ComcastToOfferMusicVideosOverCableBroadbandInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10315087.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004 Comcast to offer music videos on demand to broadband users San Jose Mercury LOS ANGELES (AP) - Comcast Corp. plans to begin offering music videos on demand to its broadband Internet subscribers early next year, part of a multiyear deal with the television network Music Choice. ==========> 04-12-03-LATimes-NapsterFounderStartsSnocapToDistributeMusicLegally.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-snocap3dec03,1,7466457.story?coll=la-headl ines-business Napster Builder Looking to Share Again Shawn Fanning built Napster, which sparked the battle between file swappers and the music industry. His new venture aims for a cease-fire. By Joseph Menn Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 3, 2004 ==========> 04-12-03-SJMerc-NapsterFounderStartsSnocapToDistributeMusicLegally.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10328765.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 03, 2004 Napster founder goes legit FANNING'S NEW COMPANY HAS DEALS WITH MUSIC LABELS By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The kid who sparked the digital music revolution says he's back to finish the job. ==========> 04-12-03-TheReg-NapsterFounderStartsSnocapToDistributeMusicLegally.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/03/snocap_launch/ Shawn Fanning's Snocap touts vision of P2P heaven By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 3rd December 2004 10:49 GMT The Register Analysis Snocap, the company formed by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, today launched what it claims is the first music licensing platform that will allow music download services and P2P networks alike to allow any track to be ==========> 04-12-04-SJMerc-DG-SupremeCourtToHearOnlineWineSalesCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10338447.htm Posted on Sat, Dec. 04, 2004 Message to Supreme Court: It's time for selling wine online By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist A longstanding tactic in corporate lobbying is moral piety: reciting the time-honored mantra of protecting children when the main goal is actually protecting business clients. ==========> 04-12-10-SJMerc-LegalDownloadsWillNotStopPiracy.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/columnists/mike_langberg/103 84268.htm?1c Posted on Fri, Dec. 10, 2004 Legal downloads can't stop piracy By Mike Langberg Mercury News I'm about to save the music industry from shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for consultants and research reports, by revealing the marketing secret ==========> 04-12-14-SJMerc-GoogleLibraryProjectCouldLeadToCommercialization.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10416638.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 14, 2004 Does Google move augur commercialization of libraries? SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The Internet company that famously promised to ``do no evil'' is on a new mission to digitize the collections of some of the nation's leading research institutions and establish a massive online reading room. But Google Inc.'s ambitious effort could herald the beginning of the ==========> 05-01-05-Yahoo-LawsuitClaimsIPodViolatesAntiTrustLaws.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=2&u=/nm/20050106/tc_nm/t ech_apple_ipod_dc&sid=95573503 Lawsuit Claims Apple Violates Law with iTunes Wed Jan 5, 9:04 PM ET By Duncan Martell SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An unhappy iTunes online music store customer is suing Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news), alleging the company broke antitrust laws by only allowing iTunes to work with its own music player, the ==========> 05-01-06-ArdTech-LawsuitClaimsIPodViolatesAntiTrustLaws.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050106-4508.html Apple sued over iTunes lock-in Ars Technica 1/6/2005 11:12:37 AM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher Thomas Slattery of California has sued Apple Computer for engaging in monopolistic practices. Slattery was apparently displeased when he learned that music purchases from the iTunes Music Store could only be played back using iTunes and Apple's portable iPod line of players. The suit was filed this past ==========> 05-01-21-SJMerc-ChinaArrestsAlmost600InInternetGamblingCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10700941.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 21, 2005 China arrests almost 600 in Internet gambling case San Jose Mercury SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Authorities have arrested 597 people in connection with an underground Internet gambling network thought to involve funds totaling more than $60 million, state media reported Friday. ==========> 05-02-03-SJMerc-MP3beamerServiceSellsUnrestrictedMP3Music.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10809948.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 03, 2005 MP3.com founder to launch new music service San Jose Mercury LOS ANGELES (AP) - The founder of pioneering music download Web site MP3.com is preparing to re-enter the digital music business with a new online music service set to debut next week. ==========> 05-02-03-SJMerc-NewDRMBoostsSubscriptionMusicViability.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10804837.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 03, 2005 Rivals hope to sink iPod with rented music ALEX VEIGA Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Is music something you own or something you rent? How music fans answer that question in coming months will help determine the ==========> 05-02-09-CNETNews-MP3comFounderToStartMP3TunesLegalMusicService.txt========== http://news.com.com/MP3tunes.com+shuns+digital+rights+management/2100-1027_3-556 9293.html?tag=nefd.top MP3tunes.com shuns digital rights management By Matt Hines CNET News Story last modified Wed Feb 09 12:30:00 PST 2005 MP3tunes.com introduced its digital music service on Wednesday, offering 300,000 songs at 88 cents each from mostly independent and unsigned artists. ==========> 05-02-09-TechRev-MP3comFounderToStartMP3TunesLegalMusicService.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/wo/wo_hellweg020905.asp?p=0 TechnologyReview.com Michael Robertson Unveils Linux Music Service, Home Media Hub By Eric Hellweg February 9, 2005 Note From the Web Editor Normally, the notebook is written by the journalist writing the story. This time, however, I decided to add my own two cents. ==========> 05-02-10-SJMerc-AlmostHalfOfNetUsesHaveTriedOnlineBanking.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10865334.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 10, 2005 Almost half of Net users have tried online banking WIDER USE OF BROADBAND ACCESS A BIG FACTOR By Deborah Lohse Mercury News The number of people who've tried online banking grew 47 percent in the past two years, as more men, tech-savvy young adults and wealthy households pay ==========> 05-02-14-SJMerc-CellPhoneMakersIncorporatingMusicPlayers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10902513.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 14, 2005 Eyeing iPod sales, phone makers announce music push San Jose Mercury News CANNES, France (AP) - With a covetous eye on the success of portable music players, mobile phone makers are going after would-be iPod buyers by building high-quality players into their handsets. ==========> 05-03-00-CACM-DoConsumersUnderstandTheRoleOfPrivacySealsInEcommerce.txt========== Do consumers understand the role of privacy seals in e-commerce? Trevor Moores March 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 3 An exploratory investigation indicates trust is crucial to e-business—but consumers and e-businesses alike are failing to support ways of assuring it. E-Commerce sales in the U.S. totaled $56.0 billion in 2003, an increase of 26.4% over the 2002 total of $44.3 billion [7]. This increase was achieved at a ==========> 05-03-09-GlobeAndMail-LowCostMusicWouldIncreaseProfits.txt========== http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050309/SONG09// ?query=mcgill Would you pay 5 cents for a song? McGill academic has a plan to end file swapping and save the music industry By GUY DIXON Globe and Mail Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Updated at 7:04 PM EST An academic at McGill University has a simple plan to stop the plague of ==========> 05-03-10-ITWorld-SenateRepublicansSetTechPoicyGoals.txt========== http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/050310techpolicy/ Senate Republicans set high-tech policy goals IDG News Service 3/10/05 IT World Grant Gross, IDG News Service, Washington Bureau U.S. Senate Republicans want to pass patent reform, a permanent Internet tax moratorium and a permanent research and development tax credit in the next two years, members of the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force (HTTF) said ==========> 05-03-10-SJMerc-PeerflixUsesP2PToFacilitateDVDSwapping.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11100282.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 10, 2005 A cross between Netflix and Napster . . . PEERFLIX LETS CUSTOMERS TRADE DVDS FOR 99 CENTS By Michael Bazeley Mercury News With a full-time job and two kids, Michael Shanafelt doesn't have much time to watch movies. Seeing his Netflix or Blockbuster rentals collect dust on top of ==========> 05-03-14-AFFECT-PrinciplesForFairCommerceInDigitalProducts.txt========== http://www.fairterms.org/12PrincGeneral.htm Accessed on 3/14/05 12 Principles for Fair Commerce in Software and Other Digital Products Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (AFFECT) When you buy an off-the-shelf product for yourself or your business, you expect the law to provide you with some basic rights. For example, your car will work as advertised. Or you will be allowed to legally sell the television set when you upgrade to a new one and ==========> 05-03-14-SJMerc-NapsterToGoOffersPortableDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11132507.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 14, 2005 Napster To Go offers a great deal for music listeners By Mike Langberg Mercury News Napster's new Napster To Go music service, despite inevitable first-generation headaches and drawbacks, still takes a big step toward the long-awaited celestial jukebox, the dream of having access to all the world's recorded music ==========> 05-03-31-ZDNet-SonyTryingToDevelopeITunesForMovies.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5647682.html By Stefanie Olsen ZDNet March 31, 2005 SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment is trying to develop and own the next iTunes--but for films. "We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like ==========> 05-04-00-CACM-PrivacyInEcommerce-StatedPreferencesVsActualBehavior.txt========== Privacy in e-commerce: stated preferences vs. actual behavior Bettina Berendt, Oliver Günther, Sarah Spiekermann April 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 4 In search of an intelligent privacy watchdog at the user's service. In times of ubiquitous electronic communication and increasing industry pressure for standard electronic authentication, the maintenance of privacy, or "the right to be left alone" becomes a subject of increasing concern. The ==========> 05-04-06-InetNews-HousePanelRulesOutDigitalMusicCompatibilityStandards.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3495791 April 6, 2005 A Law Mandating Music File Compatibility? By Roy Mark InternetNews WASHINGTON -- Congress is toying with the idea of mandating one standard for all online music platforms. ==========> 05-04-07-MktWatch-HousePanelRulesOutDigitalMusicCompatibilityStandards.txt========== http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BF05DE5E8-543D-4307-BF5D-FE56D6 97A7CC%7D&siteid=google&dist=google&cbsReferrer=www.siliconvalley.com Lawmakers look at digital music compatibility concerns By Elana Schor, Medill News Service Last Update: 3:28 PM ET April 7, 2005 Market Watch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A House panel appeared to rule out strict enforcement of digital music compatibility standards Wednesday, but left the ==========> 05-04-08-SJMerc-BritainSetsUpCommissionToRegulateInternetGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11347228.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005 Britain to set up commission to regulate Internet gambling San Jose Mercury News LONDON (AP) - The British government said Friday it was setting up a new commission to regulate gambling, including bets made on the Internet. The Gambling Bill, which overhauls Britain's outdated gaming regulations, was ==========> 05-04-13-SJMerc-Murdoch-NewspapersMustEmbraceInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11385696.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 13, 2005 News Corp. CEO urges newspaper editors to embrace Internet San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Rupert Murdoch urged newspaper editors Wednesday to embrace the Internet, saying print news executives have ``sat by and watched'' as a new generation of digital consumers has turned away from newspapers. ==========> 05-04-15-CNETNews-VintCerf-HollywoodInterestedInBitTorrent.txt========== http://news.com.com/Cerf+Hollywood+interested+in+BitTorrent/2100-1032_3-5672216. html?tag=nefd.top Cerf: Hollywood interested in BitTorrent By Renai LeMay CNET News Story last modified Fri Apr 15 06:20:00 PDT 2005 Hollywood is anxious to embrace BitTorrent as a method of movie distribution, according to the father of the Internet, Vinton Cerf. ==========> 05-04-25-SJMerc-GoogleChangesAdStyleAndPrice.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11484741.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 25, 2005 Google changing the way ads are created, priced By Michael Bazeley Mercury News In a bid to appeal to a broader base of advertisers, Google is introducing changes that allow advertisers to create more eye-catching pitches and to target them to appear on certain Web sites. ==========> 05-04-25-SJMerc-InternetSweepstakesRaisesQuestionAboutGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11484833.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 25, 2005 Internet 'sweepstakes' raises question about gambling San Jose Mercury News CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - D.R. ``Doc'' Carson made his way to the Internet Cafe every morning and pulled up a chair in front of a terminal. He skipped the keyboard, choosing instead to use the touch-screen monitor. He usually stayed until around 5 p.m., when his wife gets home. ==========> 05-04-26-NYPost-TealNetworksLaunchesMusicLicensingServiceForPortableDevices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11504683.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 27, 2005 High-tech giants push for fast digital-TV transition WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- A group of U.S. high-tech heavyweights on Wednesday urged Congress to set a firm date for the transition to digital signals for television broadcasts, saying it's critical for innovation and jobs. The High Tech DTV Coalition, launched Wednesday, includes Dell Inc., Cisco ==========> 05-04-26-RealNet-RealLaunchesRhapsodyMusicLicensingService.txt========== http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2005/musicrevolution_conferen ce.html NEW RHAPSODY LETS CONSUMERS LISTEN TO AND SHARE MUSIC FOR FREE, LEGALLY New Rhapsody Lets Consumers Choose Up to 25 Songs Each Month from a Library of More than One Million Songs from all Major Labels Company Launches Three Tiers of Service: "Rhapsody 25," "Rhapsody Unlimited" and "Rhapsody To Go" SEATTLE, April 26, 2005 — Ten years ago, RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), ==========> 05-04-30-CNN-CerfSaysHollywoodShouldEmbraceBitTorrent.txt========== http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/29/technology/movie_piracy/index.htm BitTorrent as friend, not foe Hollywood wants to cripple peer-to-peer technology. One Internet guru thinks that's a mistake. April 30, 2005: 4:04 PM EDT By Krysten Crawford, CNN/Money staff writer BitTorrent is still the most popular peer-to-peer technology. Traffic levels are about the same today as they were a year ago. ==========> 05-05-00-HuffingtonPost-SteveJobsShouldOpenIPodToOtherMusicSources.txt========== http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/steve-jobs-let-.html Hilary Rosen, Steve Jobs, Let my Music Go Huffington Post May 2005 The new iPod my girlfriend gave me is a trap. Yeah, it is great looking and I really love the baby blue leather case but when, oh when, will Steve Jobs let me buy music from somewhere other than the Apple iTunes store and put it on my iPod? ==========> 05-05-09-HuffPost-WhenWillAppleLetMeBuyMusicFromNonITumesSites.txt========== http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/steve-jobs-let-my-music-_b_439.html Huffington Post, 05.09.2005 Steve Jobs, Let my Music Go Hillary Rosen The new iPod my girlfriend gave me is a trap. Yeah, it is great looking and I really love the baby blue leather case but when, oh when, will Steve Jobs let me buy music from somewhere other than the Apple iTunes store and put it on my iPod? ==========> 05-05-09-SJMerc-RhapsodyOffersLimitedFreeOnlineMusicOnDemand.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11601807.htm Posted on Mon, May. 09, 2005 Real deal: 25 songs for free, and no strings By Mike Langberg Mercury News Have I got a deal for you: Want to listen to Bruce Springsteen's hot new album ``Devils & Dust,'' absolutely free and legal with no strings attached? ==========> 05-05-11-SJMerc-YahooOffersSpecialPricingOnOnlineMusicDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11619193.htm Posted on Wed, May. 11, 2005 Yahoo enters online-music fray INTERNET GIANT'S SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO COMPETE WITH NAPSTER, REALNETWORKS By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Yahoo today is expected to launch an online music subscription service that dramatically undercuts the fees charged by such established players as Napster ==========> 05-05-13-SJMerc-LimitedOnlineMusicCatalogsEncouragesPiracy.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11638539.htm Posted on Fri, May. 13, 2005 The industry should fight piracy with more songs By Mike Langberg Mercury News Make a list of your 10 favorite songs of all time. Then go to Apple's iTunes Music Store or one of its rivals, such as Napster, ==========> 05-05-13-Yahoo-YahooOffersSpecialPricingOnOnlineMusicDownloads.txt========== http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ Take advantage of our introductory price! Service available in the US only. [Accesed 5/13/2005 Unlimited access to subscription music catalog (when purchased on an annual basis)† $4.99/mo $14.95/mo $13.32/mo Unlimited access to subscription music catalog (when purchased on a monthly ==========> 05-05-20-SJMerc-InternetRetailSalesSurgeFromYearAgo.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11699631.htm Posted on Fri, May. 20, 2005 Report: Internet retail sales surge from year ago San Jose Mercury News CHICAGO (Dow Jones/AP) -- First-quarter retail Internet sales rose 23.8 percent to $19.8 billion in the United States from $16 billion a year ago, according to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Department of Commerce. ==========> 05-06-07-Reuters-LegalOnlineMusicStoresGainOnIllegalServices.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID=8721765 Legal online music stores gain on illegal services Tue Jun 7, 2005 01:09 PM ET By Adam Pasick LONDON (Reuters) - Legal online music stores have gained a solid foothold against free file-sharing networks, according to new data released on Tuesday. The beleaguered music industry has been pursuing a carrot and stick strategy of ==========> 05-06-09-CNETNews-MSPlanningSubscriptionMusicService.txt========== http://news.com.com/Microsoft+planning+music+subscription+service/2100-1027_3-57 39458.html?tag=nefd.top Microsoft planning music subscription service By John Borland Story last modified Thu Jun 09 12:48:00 PDT 2005 CNET News With Apple Computer's dominance over the digital music business growing, Microsoft is planning to bolster its own online song store with a new ==========> 05-06-15-SJMerc-CalifRequiresBordersToCollectOnlineSalesTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11900160.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 15, 2005 Ruling hits online sales-tax evasion By Michele Chandler San Jose Mercury News A recent California appellate court ruling that Borders Group must pay state sales tax for books, music and other goods sold online to California residents could open the door to more vigorous prosecution of other firms that try to ==========> 05-06-17-KelseyGrp-ReportSaysSmallBusinessesShouldUseMoreOnlineMarketing.txt========== http://www.kelseygroup.com/sum/ilmwp0502.htm Report Summary Calls, Clicks & SMEs: Driving Leads from Web to Phone By Greg Sterling with Neal Polachek, 6/17/05 There are perhaps more than 20 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.S., depending on how one defines the market. There are also many millions of SMEs around the globe. Though a relatively small percentage currently uses online marketing, The Kelsey Group (TKG) believes that small ==========> 05-07-11-CompWorld-SoftwareUsersDraftFairLicensingTerms.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,103065,00.htm l New Battle Brews Over UCITA, Software Licensing Terms Some users worry that act could be cited by default in courts News Story by Patrick Thibodeau JULY 11, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A new legislative battle is looming over the controversial UCITA software licensing law. But this time, it's software users, not vendors, who are poised to attack. ==========> 05-07-18-CNETNews-iTunesDownloadsPass500Million.txt========== http://news.com.com/iTunes+downloads+top+500+million+mark/2110-1027_3-5792960.ht ml iTunes downloads top 500 million mark By CNET News.com Staff Story last modified Mon Jul 18 09:25:00 PDT 2005 Music downloads from Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store topped 500 million, the company said Monday. Amy Greer of Lafayette, Ind., purchased Faith Hill's "Mississippi Girl" as the 500 millionth song sold from the online music store. ==========> 05-07-21-SJMerc-RatingChangeForGameCouldSignalCrackdown.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12185371.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 21, 2005 Rating change for "GTA: San Andreas" could signal start of a crackdown RON HARRIS San Jose Mercury News, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - The video game industry's decision to give "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" an adults-only rating after explicit sexual content was discovered hidden in scenes could signal the start of a crackdown on raunchy games. ==========> 05-07-23-NewSci-HardCashNotBeingReplacesByElectronicPaymentSystems.txt========== # "Soft Cash" New Scientist (07/23/05) Vol. 187, No. 2509, P. 40; Mackenzie, Dana The popularity of electronic currency, smart cards, and other technologies would seem to indicate that hard currency's days as viable legal tender are numbered, but cash has proved remarkably resilient because most people think it is still more convenient than digital money. Merchants must be convinced that customers are going to use a new payment system or currency before they accept it, and vice-versa. "Micropayment" technologies that enable transactions for low-value goods are gaining ground in places such as Hong Kong, where the ==========> 05-07-25-SJMerc-NetflixToTestInternetMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12217453.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 25, 2005 Netflix near launch of movie downloads CUSTOMERS WOULD USE TV SET-TOP BOX TO GET VIDEO ON DEMAND By Dawn C. Chmielewski San Jose Mercury News Netflix is poised to test its long-awaited Internet movie download service, which would broaden its rental business beyond its current DVDs-by-mail ==========> 05-07-27-BBC-IllegalMusicDownloadersBigSpendersOnLegalDownloads.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4718249.stm BBC NEWS Downloading 'myths' challenged People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests. Published: 2005/07/27 Digital music research firm The Leading Question found that they spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans. ==========> 05-07-27-Guardian-IllegalMusicDownloadersBigSpendersOnLegalDownloads.txt========== http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1536886,00.html Online file sharers 'buy more music' Owen Gibson, media correspondent Wednesday July 27, 2005 The Guardian Computer-literate music fans who illegally share tracks over the internet also spend four and a half times as much on digital music as those who do not, according to research published today. ==========> 05-08-06-SJMerc-AmazonPreparesToLaunchDigitalMusicDownloadSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12319363.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 06, 2005 Amazon preparing to launch digital tunes By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Internet retailer Amazon.com is poised to make its long-anticipated entry into the digital music market, launching a music service as early as this fall. ==========> 05-08-06-SJMerc-GameSpotLaunchesOnlineSubscriptionGamePlayingService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12319366.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 06, 2005 New pay service creates online gaming arena By Dean Takahashi Mercury News GameSpot, one of the most popular Web sites for video game enthusiasts, has started a new subscription online service where hard-core gamers can battle each other in the most popular online computer games. ==========> 05-08-08-AmazonMayBeGettingReadyToDoDVDRentals.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,68367,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 Amazon Eyes DVD Rentals By Holly J. Wagner Wired 02:00 AM Aug. 08, 2005 PT Amazon.com job listings for software engineers raise the specter of the internet retail giant entering the online DVD rental market in the United States, challenging companies like Netflix and Blockbuster. ==========> 05-08-08-Wired-AmazonComtemplatesDVDRentals.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,68367,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 Amazon Eyes DVD Rentals By Holly J. Wagner Wired 02:00 AM Aug. 08, 2005 PT Amazon.com job listings for software engineers raise the specter of the internet retail giant entering the online DVD rental market in the United States, challenging companies like Netflix and Blockbuster. ==========> 05-08-12-SJMerc-TiVoTestsInternetDownloadServiceForTV.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12368315.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 12, 2005 TiVo tests Internet download service San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Add TiVo Inc. to the list of companies trying to wed the Internet to television. The digital recording company will soon allow customers to download TV shows to their set-top boxes via the Internet -- even before the shows air on TV. ==========> 05-08-20-SJMerc-AmazonStartsShortStoryDownloadsFor49Cents.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12432680.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 20, 2005 Amazon has short-story downloads for 49 cents By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News For less than the price of a cup of coffee, you can now download short stories from bestselling authors like Danielle Steel or Terry Brooks at Amazon.com. ==========> 05-08-22-AppleInsider-MotorolaUserManualDetailsiTunesMobile.txt========== http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1242 Monday, August 22, 2005 iTunes mobile detailed in Motorola user manual By AppleInsider Staff Published: 04:00 PM EST A verified authentic draft of a user manual for Motorola's forthcoming E790 GSM mobile handset contains several pages dedicated to an embedded version of Apple's iTunes jukebox software, AppleInsider has discovered. ==========> 05-08-22-CNETNews-WarnerReadiesNoCDMusicLabel.txt========== http://news.com.com/Warner+Music+readies+CD-free+e-label/2100-1027_3-5841355.htm l Warner Music readies CD-free 'e-label' By Declan McCullagh Story last modified Mon Aug 22 11:22:00 PDT 2005 CNET News ASPEN, Colo.--Warner Music Group is creating a new music-distribution mechanism that will rely on digital downloads instead of compact discs. ==========> 05-08-22-MacNCell-MotorolaUserManualDetailsiTunesMobile.txt========== http://www.macncell.com/index_html/archive/2005/08/22/itunes-phone-approved-at-f cc iTunes Phone approved at FCC Motorola E790iTunes Mobile interface Aug. 22, 2005 According to documents submitted to the FCC by Motorola, the E790 will have iTunes capabilities. See photos of the phone and the owners manual explaining how to use the iTunes functionality below. ==========> 05-08-27-NYT-AppleAndRecordIndustryDisageeOverPricing.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/technology/27apple.html?ei=5088&en=e1f491cc952 a0133&ex=1282795200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all August 27, 2005 Apple, Digital Music's Angel, Earns Record Industry's Scorn By JEFF LEEDS The New York Times Two and a half years after the music business lined up behind the chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, and hailed him and his iTunes music service ==========> 05-08-28-SJMerc-WarnerReadiesNoCDMusicLabel.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12498618.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 28, 2005 New digital music labels could bring you tunes by Jihad Jerry and Evildoers By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Warner Music Group is tossing aside an '80s icon -- and no, we don't mean Madonna. ==========> 05-09-20-SJMerc-JobsResistsMusicCompanieGreedyDemandsForiTunesPriceHike.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12694142.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 20, 2005 Jobs says no to iTunes price hike PARIS (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs vowed Tuesday to resist music companies' ``greedy'' demands for price increases on the iTunes music download site and warned that such a move would encourage piracy. Jobs, speaking to reporters before the opening of the Apple Expo in Paris, ==========> 05-09-23-SJMerc-MusicDownloadsBigBusinessForCellPhoneCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12724310.htm Posted on Fri, Sep. 23, 2005 Wireless carriers, record labels banking on mobile music Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) - When someone dials Leah Balecha's mobile phone, it doesn't ring. It jams with the sounds of 50 Cent, OutKast, Gwen Stefani and Kelly Clarkson. ==========> 05-10-03-IFPI-DigitalDownloadsNearlyOffsetPhysicalMediaSales.txt========== http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20051003.html Digital sales triple to 6% of industry retail revenues as global music market falls 1.9% IFPI London, 3 October 2005 Booming demand for music on the internet and mobile phones nearly offset the decline in physical formats as recorded music sales fell 1.9% to a retail value of $US 13.2 billion in the first half of 2005, compared to $US 13.4 billion in ==========> 05-10-03-TheReg-DigitalMusicRevenuesSoar.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/03/h1_2005_music_market/ Digital music revenues soar By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk) Published Monday 3rd October 2005 16:04 GMT The music industry made $440m out of digital music during the first half of 2005, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) trade group said today. ==========> 05-10-06-IFPI-LegitimateDigitalDownloadsGrowing.txt========== http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20050119b.html IFPI Digital Music Report 2005: facts and figures The Growing Legitimate Digital Music Market [Accessed Oct. 6, 2005] * Legal music sites have quadrupled to over 230 in 2004 o up from 50 a year earlier o Over 150 services available in 20 countries in Europe o Over 30 services in the UK, more than 20 in Germany and 10 in France ==========> 05-10-08-SJMerc-CalifBansSalesAndRentalsOfViolentVideoGamesToMinors.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12851768.htm Posted on Sat, Oct. 08, 2005 Governor signs bill on violent games RENTING, SELLING THEM TO MINORS BECOMES ILLEGAL By Dean Takahashi Mercury News Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday that makes it illegal to sell or rent violent video games to minors in California. ==========> 05-10-18-SeaTimes-PeerflixFacilitatesDVDExchanges.txt========== http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002567211_dvdbarter18.h tml Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 12:00 AM Ill trade you Gladiator for LA Confidential ROBERT LACHMAN / LOS ANGELES TIMES By Elaine Dutka Los Angeles Times Eighteen months ago, Billy McNair told his friend and business associate Dan ==========> 05-10-25-ZDNet-iTunesMusicStoreLaunchedInAustralia.txt========== http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/iTunes_Music_Store_comes_to_Australia/ 0,2000061733,39218798,00.htm iTunes Music Store comes to Australia Iain Ferguson and Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia October 25, 2005 iTunes Australia Apple today launched the long-awaited iTunes Music Store in Australia, with songs priced at AU$1.69, videos at AU$3.39 and most albums at AU$16.99, despite ==========> 05-10-26-SJMerc-YahooDoublesPriceOfPortableMusicSubscriptions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13003597.htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 26, 2005 Yahoo doubles price of portable music subscription service Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is doubling the price of its online music subscription service for portable MP3 players, ending a short-lived promotion that tried to lure consumers away from Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iTunes store. ==========> 05-11-00-CACM-RuleOfLawAndInternationalECommerce.txt========== Rule of law and the international diffusion of e-commerce Chuan-Fong Shih, Jason Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer November 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 11 Strong institutional environments serve as a foundation for e-commerce growth opportunities. E-commerce has gone through a cycle of hype and disappointment and renewed hope in the public eye since the late 1990s. However, in actual use, the pattern has ==========> 05-11-03-SJMerc-AmazonServiceProvidesSaleOfPartialBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13074892.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 03, 2005 Amazon to allow individual book pages to be purchased Marcury News NEW YORK (AP) - Book buyers, soon you'll be able to pay by the page. With its new Amazon Pages service, Amazon.com Inc. plans to let customers to buy portions of a book -- even just one page -- for online viewing. A second ==========> 05-11-04-LATimes-AmazonServiceProvidesSaleOfPartialBooks.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon4nov04,0,4811734.story?coll=la-home- headlines Amazon to Let Readers Buy Just the Good Parts By Chris Gaither and Julie Tamaki L.A. Times Staff Writers November 4, 2005 Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday previewed a service to sell just a few pages or chapters of a book — allowing one of the world's oldest media to be chopped up ==========> 05-11-04-SJMerc-SocialNetworkPartnersWithRecordLabelToDiscoverNewBands.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13079206.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 04, 2005 Record labels scan Internet for new stars By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News At first blush, the Hollywood Undead is your standard-issue metal band. The group's official biography boasts of how it was born ``on the ==========> 05-11-16-Forbes-EMISaysAppleWillChangeiTunesPricing.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/2005/11/16/apple-emi-itunes-cx_pak_1116autofacescan08.html EMI Says Apple's Jobs Will Change ITunes Pricing Peter Kafka, 11.16.05, 2:01 PM ET Forbes Life is complicated, but Apple Computer's iTunes store is pretty simple: Download a song, pay 99 cents. Consumers have done that more than 600 million times since Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs opened the online music store in 2003. ==========> 05-11-18-SJMerc-AmazonToOfferPartialBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13201992.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 18, 2005 Publishers brace for selling bits of books online By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News The publishing world is about to have its iTunes moment. Starting next year, you'll be able to buy books by the chapter or page from ==========> 05-11-18-SJMerc-NBCUniversalToRentVideoOverLegalP2PService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13202005.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 18, 2005 NBC Universal makes deal with Peer Impact MOVIES, TV SHOWS TO BE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH FILE-SHARER By John Boudreau Mercury News In a sign that Hollywood is beginning to embrace Internet file-swapping after spending years trying to crush the technology, NBC Universal on Thursday ==========> 05-11-20-NYT-LegalFileSharingServicesStartUp.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/business/yourmoney/20fanning.html November 20, 2005 Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle By SAUL HANSELL New York Times San Francisco SHAWN FANNING turns 25 on Tuesday, and it's been a very long seven years since he wrote a little computer program that let him trade electronic music files ==========> 05-11-21-ContraCostaTimes-CraigslistUnderFireForSexualAds.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13226838.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 21, 2005 Craigslist under fire again for sexual ads Critics say Web site makes it too easy to find, offer intimate encounters By Guy Ashley Contra Costa Times Five months after his stepdaughter ran away from home, Linton W. found her one night last August on Craigslist. ==========> 05-11-23-GYardleyBlog--GoogleToOfferClickToCallAdverstising.txt========== http://www.yardley.ca/blog/index.php/archives/2005/11/23/google-tests-out-click- to-call-adwords/ Google tests out Click-to-Call AdWords Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Greg Yardley Blog Google is apparently testing out click-to-call AdWords - I can’t see it myself, but Seth just searched for ‘refinance’ and spotted some phone icons alongside the AdWords listings. He entered his phone number and within five seconds ==========> 05-11-25-MediaPost--GoogleToOfferClickToCallAdverstising.txt========== http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=36728&Nid= 16798&p=229680 Google Dips Toe In Pay-Per-Call by Shankar Gupta, Friday, Nov 25, 2005 6:00 AM EST MediaPost GOOGLE THIS WEEK BEGAN TESTING pay-per-call ads, in which users can click to be connected to a merchant or service provider via telephone, a spokesman for the search giant told OnlineMediaDaily. In Google's model, users click on an icon ==========> 05-11-28-Akamai-InternetTrafficBoomsAtStartOfHolidayShopping.txt========== http://www.akamai.com/en/html/about/press/press543.html Press Release Strong Start to Online Shopping Season Revealed by Akamai's Net Usage Index for Retail * Today's "Cyber Monday" e-commerce revenue anticipated to be the highest ever, based on recent surge of online visitors to shopping sites ahead of year-end holidays * Online retail shopping website traffic has been increasing 3.6 percent ==========> 05-11-28-SearchEngWatch-GoogleToOfferClickToCallAdverstising.txt========== http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051123-013242 Google Begins Test of "Click-to-Call" Advertising Program Search Engine Watch Nov. 28, 2005 If you wondered when Google might begin offering pay-per-call ads, or at least click-to-call, it looks like the time is now. In a very thorough blog post, Greg Yardley reports (nice work Greg, screen ==========> 05-11-29-SJMerc-CyberMondayBecomesBigHolidayShoppingDay.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13283236.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 29, 2005 Shopping rush moves online `CYBER MONDAY' BRINGS FLOOD OF NET BUYERS, WITH MORE TO COME By Michele Chandler and Matthai Chakko Kuruvila Mercury News Waking up super-early for 5 a.m. store-opening sales? Getting trapped in 50-yard checkout lines? ==========> 05-11-30-SJMerc-OnlineHolidaySalesHaveStrongStart.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13294240.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 30, 2005 Online sales strong for start of holiday season Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - Free shipping and enticing discounts appeared to have paid off for online merchants, who enjoyed a robust Monday, the official start of the holiday shopping season for electronic retailers. ==========> 05-12-04-CNETNews-RealNetworksOffersWebBasedRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://news.com.com/RealNetworks+moves+Rhapsody+to+the+Web/2100-1027_3-5980908.h tml?tag=nefd.top RealNetworks moves Rhapsody to the Web By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: December 4, 2005, 9:00 PM PST RealNetworks' core music subscription service is migrating onto the Web on Monday, in a move that includes some of the first fruits of its recent ==========> 05-12-04-CNN-AdsInVideoGamesCanBePersuaive.txt========== http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/12/04/games.ads.ap/ Study: Ads in video games hit mark Video games have "more consumption by males 18-34 than television." CNN, Dec. 4, 2005 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Ads in video games can have a major influence on whether people buy products and recommend them to friends, a new study by Nielsen Entertainment concludes. ==========> 05-12-05-PRNewswire-AdsInVideoGamesCanBePersuaive.txt========== http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-05-200 5/0004227505&EDATE= Study Shows that Combination of Product Integration and Pervasiveness Leads to High Degree of Persuasion Participants say Presence of Ads Increases Enjoyment of Games PR Newswire, Dec. 5,2005 SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Nielsen Entertainment today released the results of a ==========> 05-12-05-SeaTimes-RealNetworksIncreasesRhapsodyWebPresence.txt========== http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002664933_btrealnetwor ks05.html Monday, December 5, 2005 - 12:00 AM Rhapsody becoming visible on the Web By Kim Peterson Seattle Times technology reporter RealNetworks is moving today to increase the visibility of its Rhapsody music service, hoping to gain more paying subscribers with a greater presence on ==========> 05-12-05-SJMerc-AdsInVideoGamesCanBePersuaive.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13333201.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 05, 2005 Ads in video games can be persuasive, study shows Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ads in video games can have a major influence on whether people buy products and recommend them to friends, a new study by Nielsen Entertainment concludes. ==========> 05-12-05-SJMerc-RealNetworksOffersWebBasedRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13329404.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 05, 2005 RealNetworks to offer Rhapsody service ALLISON LINN Associated Press Mercury News SEATTLE - RealNetworks Inc. to launch a Web-based version of its Rhapsody subscription music service, becoming the latest company hoping to capitalize on ==========> 05-12-06-SJMerc-AppleAndNBCToOfferTVShowsOnITunes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13341694.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 06, 2005 Apple, NBC ink deal to offer TV shows on iTunes Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - NBC Universal has inked a deal with Apple Computer Inc. to become the second network to sell television shows a la carte on Apple's online iTunes store, the companies announced Tuesday. ==========> 05-12-07-SJMerc-GouperNetworksToOfferUserVideoSharing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13347563.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 07, 2005 Startup to offer online video-sharing service Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Expanding on the success of online photo-sharing sites, Grouper Networks Inc. on Wednesday will unveil a service that lets users share their homemade videos over the Internet and play them on portable devices such as the iPod. ==========> 05-12-08-Magnatune-TryBeforeYouBuyMusic.txt========== http://magnatune.com/ We're a record label. But we're not evil. Magnatune [Accessed Dec. 8, 2005 We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music. Listen to 416 complete MP3 albums from musicians we work with (not 30 second snippets). ==========> 05-12-13-RedHerring-MTVandMSToDevelopOnlineMusicService.txt========== http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=14862&hed=Microsoft+and+MTV+Get+the+Urg e§or=Industries&subsector=Computing Microsoft and MTV Get the Urge The two companies team up on a new digital music service set to launch next year. December 13, 2005 Red Herring MTV and Microsoft said Tuesday that they’re teaming up on Urge, a digital music ==========> 05-12-13-SJMerc-MTVandMSToDevelopOnlineMusicService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13399110.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 13, 2005 MTV partners with Microsoft to develop online music service Mecury News LOS ANGELES (AP) - MTV Networks Inc. said Tuesday it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to develop an online music service to launch early next year. The service, dubbed URGE, will be integrated into the next version of the ==========> 05-12-19-SJMerc-TechAndHollywoodHaveChanceToReinventEntertainmentIndustry.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13442838.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 19, 2005 Silicon Valley, Hollywood have chance to reinvent entertainment industry By Scott Kirsner Mercury News Hollywood is hoping, like a child tracking the daily transits of the UPS truck, that Peter Jackson's remake of ``King Kong'' will deliver a giant Christmas gift to the movie business. With box office revenues down about half a billion ==========> 05-12-23-Bloomberg-SpitzerSubpoenasMusicCompaniesOnPriceFixing.txt========== http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aX.AlsxSDnjM&refer=top_world _news Warner Music Gets Subpoena on Song-Download Pricing (Update2) Bloomberg Last Updated: December 23, 2005 18:41 EST Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Warner Music Group Corp., the fourth- largest record company, received a subpoena from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as part of an industrywide antitrust investigation into digital-music prices. ==========> 05-12-26-FinTimes-SpitzerSubpoenasMusicCompaniesOnPriceFixing.txt========== http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20051 226&ID=5379102 December 26, 2005 09:41 PM ET Spitzer quizzes music groups on downloads Financial Times Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, has issued subpoenas to the world's leading music companies in an effort to discover whether the industry has broken any laws regarding the wholesale pricing of digital music downloads. ==========> 05-12-27-SJMerc-SpitzerSubpoenasMusicCompaniesOnPriceFixing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13494628.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 27, 2005 Spitzer subpoenas music companies on pricing ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State investigators have subpoenaed several major music companies as part of a preliminary inquiry into whether the digital music services have engaged in any illegal price-fixing activity. Darren Dopp, a spokesman for state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, said the ==========> 05-12-28-SJMerc-LegalMusicDownloadsMoreThanDouble.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13503553.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 28, 2005 U.S. music album sales off 7 percent; downloads more than double LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. album sales were down about 7 percent as 2005 drew to a close, but the budding market for music downloads, which more than doubled over last year, helped narrow the revenue gap, according to figures released Wednesday. ==========> 06-01-02-CNETNews-StarzVongoServiceToProvideDownloadableMovies.txt========== http://news.com.com/Starz+looks+to+expand+to+PCs%2C+video+players/2100-1026_3-60 15418.html?tag=nefd.top Starz looks to expand to PCs, video players By Saul Hansell Story last modified Mon Jan 02 19:45:00 PST 2006 CNET News Starz Entertainment Group is introducing a $9.95-a-month subscription service that will allow people to download movies from the Internet and watch them on ==========> 06-01-03-SJMerc-StarzVongoServiceToProvideDownloadableMovies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13539444.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 03, 2006 Starz to offer download movie service for portable devices LOS ANGELES (AP) - Starz Entertainment Group is launching a movie download service that allows consumers to view full-length studio films, concerts and TV shows on portable devices powered by Microsoft Corp. software. The service will provide the content critical for the success of a number of ==========> 06-01-05-SJMerc-AkimboAgreementToDistributeMoviesOverInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13556143.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 05, 2006 Internet movie distributor inks deal with studios AKIMBO ALSO ANNOUNCES BOX TO BE BUILT UNDER RCA BRAND By John Boudreau Mercury News San Mateo start-up Akimbo announced a deal Wednesday with Hollywood studios to distribute movies over the Internet to consumers' televisions, another sign of ==========> 06-01-05-TheReg-HPToSwitchFromITunesToRhapsody.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/05/hp_cans_itunes/ HP benches iTunes and promotes Real's Rhapsody By Ashlee Vance in Las Vegas Published Thursday 5th January 2006 07:27 GMT The Register CES HP's career as an Apple reseller has come to an end. The computer maker is expected to announce that it has dropped iTunes as the main music software on its PC and picked up the Rhapsody service from Real Networks as a replacement. ==========> 06-01-05-WSJ-GoogleToOfferVideoDownloads.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113643814564838423-wGEG4V5bN3Q0Pm7bvt0ceW XfYjQ_20060112.html?mod=blogs Google to Offer Video Downloads, Software That Rivals Microsoft's By KEVIN J. DELANEY and NICK WINGFIELD Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 5, 2006; Page A9 Google Inc. plans to announce Friday that it will begin allowing consumers to ==========> 06-01-06-SJMerc-GoogleToOfferVideoDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13565001.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 06, 2006 Google maps next moves VIDEO OVER THE INTERNET, DESKTOP SOFTWARE BUNDLE By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Google is set to unveil two major moves today -- distributing video over the Internet and providing a bundle of basic desktop software -- that are likely to ==========> 06-01-08-WashPost-LegalMusicDownloadsSoarLastWeekIn2005.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010800632. html Digital music enjoys a dream week By Brian Garrity Reuters Sunday, January 8, 2006; 5:04 PM LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - There was so much legitimate downloading in the final week of 2005 that it recalled the impossible tallies research firms used in the ==========> 06-01-09-ArsTech-LegalMusicDownloadsGrowingFasterThanReported.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060109-5936.html Music downloads growing faster than reported ArsTechnia 1/9/2006 2:59:57 PM, by Anders Bylund The final numbers are in, and while the sales numbers for legally downloaded music got a nice Christmas boost, the overall picture didn't change much—the CD is still king in the music biz. But some of the new information lets us finish the calculations I started back in December, and it looks like the big studios ==========> 06-01-09-SJMerc-InternetTakesCenterStageAtCBS.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13584966.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 09, 2006 CATCHING UP WITH LARRY KRAMER The Internet takes center stage at CBS By Michael Bazeley Mercury News The mainstream media are under pressure, their future cloudy as people turn to a wider and more diverse variety of sources for their news. ==========> 06-01-09-YaleLaw-WebsiteSuesGoogleOverDropInRank-TheSuit.txt========== http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807 Google replies to SearchKing lawsuit Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, January 09 @ 17:19:16 EST Contracts Back in October of last year, LawMeme reported on a lawsuit filed by SearchKing against Google. The lawsuit alleged that changes made by Google to its algorithms reduced the PageRank ratings Google assigned to pages within the "SearchKing Network" and that this reduction was an illegal interference with ==========> 06-01-19-IFPI-2005GlobalDigitalMusicSalesTripleTo1BDollars.txt========== http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20060119.html Global digital music sales triple to US$1.1 billion in 2005 as new market takes shape IFPI London, 19th January, 2006 Sales of music via the internet and mobile phones proliferated and spread across the world in 2005, generating sales of US$1.1 billion for record companies - up from US$380 million the previous year - and promising further ==========> 06-01-19-SJMerc-2005InternetMusicSalesExceed1BillionDollara.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13663289.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 19, 2006 Report: Sales of music via Internet, phones topped $1 billion in '05 LONDON (AP) - Worldwide sales of music via the Internet and mobile phones hit $1.1 billion last year, almost triple 2004 sales and accounting for 6 percent of global record companies' revenues, an industry group said Thursday. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, said the ==========> 06-01-20-BBC-2005GlobalDigitalMusicSalesTripleTo1BDollars.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4627368.stm BBC NEWS Published: 2006/01/20 14:31:53 GMT File-sharing 'not cut by courts' Global court action against music file-sharers has not reduced illegal downloading, an industry report says. The level of file-sharing has remained the same for two years despite 20,000 legal cases in 17 countries. ==========> 06-01-20-Reuters-TVMyPodSellsIPodsWithPreloadedMovies-IsItLegal.txt========== http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/01/20/new_tvmypod_servic e_comes_in_gray_area/ IPods pre-loaded with video tread legal gray zone By Chris Marlowe | January 20, 2006 | Reuters LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A tiny Massachusetts company named TVMyPod is selling iPods that come with movies and TV programs already loaded on them, a practice that raises questions of legality as it addresses consumer demand for convenience and portability. ==========> 06-01-26-SJMerc-NapsterDeniesRumorsOfFinancialProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13715775.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 26, 2006 Napster denies rumors of trouble amid layoffs Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) - Online music retailer Napster Inc. on Wednesday said it had cut roughly 10 middle management-level jobs, but dismissed reports suggesting it is on the auction block and that a wider round of layoffs was pending. ==========> 06-01-26-SJMerc-PhillipMorrisToStopSupplyingIllegalInternetDealers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13718869.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 26, 2006 Philip Morris to stop supplying illegal Internet dealers Mercury News ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Philip Morris USA will stop supplying cigarettes to illegal Internet and mail order dealers as part of an agreement with attorneys general for 37 states and territories, New York officials said Thursday. ==========> 06-01-30-Topix-NewspapersNeedToChangeBusinessModels.txt========== http://blog.topix.net/archives/000094.html January 30, 2006 What do newspapers do For chrissake. Topix,net Blog The job of newspapers is to inform the public about what’s happening on their beat – be that a town (SF Chronicle) an industry (Financial Times), or the world at large (NY Times). Their job is to inform the public to what’s going on – They can be objective or opinionated – but they need to speak to their ==========> 06-02-01-SJMerc--GoogleTestsVoIPCallsFromSearchResults.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13764468.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 01, 2006 Google tests VoIP calls to firms DEAL TAKES SEARCH COMPANY FURTHER INTO TELECOM By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Google is adding another way to cash in on search advertising, confirming Tuesday that it is working with a Florida-based telephone network to allow ==========> 06-02-07-AP-EUAntitrustUnitToInvestigateOnlineMusicRoyalties.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13812808.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 07, 2006 EU antitrust regulators investigate online music royalties BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European Union antitrust regulators said Tuesday they were investigating the European agencies that collect royalties for musicians from Internet sites -- in parallel with other EU moves to open up the European market for online music. ==========> 06-02-16-WSJ-AmazonPlansMusicServiceToRivalITunes.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114005222162375368.html Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iTunes By ETHAN SMITH and MYLENE MANGALINDAN February 16, 2006; Page B1 Wall Street Journal In recent years, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has explained his company's deliberately paced approach to the digital-music business by saying he wants to avoid simply imitating the dominant player in the field, Apple ==========> 06-02-17-SJMerc-AmazonPlansMusicServiceToRivalITunes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13897476.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 17, 2006 Amazon music service rumored IPOD RIVAL MAY BE ON THE WAY, TOO By John Boudreau Mercury News Apple Computer, the king of digital music, could face a formidable threat from the king of online retail: Amazon.com. ==========> 06-03-01-AP-WebsitesSellCallerIDSpoofingService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13991593.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 01, 2006 When a stranger calls, Caller ID might not be trustworthy NEW YORK (AP) - Last fall, U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy's office started getting phone calls from constituents who complained about receiving recorded phone messages that bad-mouthed Murphy. The constituents were especially upset that the messages appeared to come from ==========> 06-03-02-ThinkSecret-AppleToMakeMovieDealsForVideoIPOD.txt========== http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0603movies.html With video iPod debut near, time is running out for Apple to strike big movie content deals By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor Think Secret March 2, 2006 - With the debut of Apple's true video iPod on the horizon, sources have told Think Secret "the eleventh hour" has approached in negotiations between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and major powers in the industry over ==========> 06-03-03-AP-USDOJToInvestigateOnlineMusicPriceFixing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14009155.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 03, 2006 Sources: Feds querying record labels over online music pricing LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it has launched an inquiry into possible price fixing in the burgeoning online music industry. Two record industry officials characterized the inquiry as essentially identical to one launched in December by New York Attorney General Eliot ==========> 06-03-08-AP-NYCGoesAfterSalesTaxesOnInternetCigaretteOrders.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14047455.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 08, 2006 NYC goes after smokers who bought cigarettes on Internet NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of New Yorkers who bought cigarettes on the Internet without paying sales taxes will be reordered to pay a collective $33 million that went unpaid, officials said. City lawyers say New York loses millions of dollars a year from unpaid taxes on ==========> 06-03-08-EGoldman-ClickFraudLawsuitNearSettlement.txt========== http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/03/lanes_gifts_cli_1.htm Technology & Marketing Law Blog March 08, 2006 Lane's Gifts Click Fraud Lawsuit Near Settlement By Eric Goldman Google announced that it is near a settlement in the Lane's Gifts class action lawsuit over click fraud. The way I read the announcement, the parties have agreed to the terms, so the settlement just needs the judge's approval. ==========> 06-03-09-AP-GoogleToPayUpTo90MInClickFraudCase.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14055152.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 09, 2006 Google to pay up to $90 million to settle 'click fraud' case SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as ``click fraud.'' ==========> 06-03-09-Wired-ClickFraudCouldSwallowTheInternet.txt========== http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.html How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet Pay-per-click advertising is big, big, big business. So are bogus hits on Internet ads. It's search giants against scam artists in an arms race that could crash the entire online economy. By Charles C. Mann Wired [Accessed March 9, 2006] Stuart Cauff launched a charter-jet service in Miami Beach back in 2002. Being ==========> 06-03-13-BusWeek-AmazonToOfferUnlimitedStorageForSWDevelopers.txt========== http://blogs.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/03/amazons_newes t.html March 13, 2006 Amazon's Newest Product: Storage Rob Hof Business Week Huh? That's right, the online store with "Earth's biggest selection" of everything from books to zithers will announce Tuesday morning that it's adding ==========> 06-03-13-Reuters-FrenchLawWouldOpenITunesToOtherDevices.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/sponsoredby/amex/article.aspx?type=innovationNews&story ID=2006-03-13T184438Z_01_L10436201_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-FRANCE-COPYRIGHTS.xml French plan would open iTunes to other devices Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:44 PM ET By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS (Reuters) - France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player. ==========> 06-03-13-SJMerc-GoogleAndMSAndYahooAimToKeepYouWithThem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14088102.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 13, 2006 Langberg: Keeping you in the Big 3 playgrounds By Mike Langberg Mercury News Google, Microsoft and Yahoo no longer aim to confine you in a ``walled garden'' -- the online equivalent of a gated community where you only use the owner's services. ==========> 06-03-14-SJMerc-GoogleToOfferPaidAccessToOnlineBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14095698.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 14, 2006 Google to put books online COMPLETE WORKS TO BE AVAILABLE, FOR A FEE, IN DIGITAL FORM ONLY By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Google is expanding its role in the publishing world from a search engine for books to a distributor making entire books available to read online. ==========> 06-03-14-VnuNet-FrenchLawWouldOpenITunesToOtherDevices.txt========== http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2151932/france-forces-apple-open France chews Apple over proprietary downloads New law would make DRM hacking legal Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 14 Mar 2006 A draft law before the French parliament would force Apple's iTunes Music Store to open up to competition, and make it legal to hack a DRM system to transfer content between devices. ==========> 06-03-16-SJMerc-InternetGamblingNeedsRegulationNotBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14114169.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006 Online gambling needs regulation, not a complete ban By David Carruthers People who never bet on sports make an exception this time of year. Something about the NCAA basketball tournament -- maybe it's the appeal of filling out those brackets and tracking their progress each day -- brings out the gambler in all of us. But if some members of Congress get their way, we won't be able ==========> 06-03-17-AP-FrenchLawWouldOpenITunesToOtherDevices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14124921.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 17, 2006 French draft law threatens iPod's future PARIS (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. faces a serious challenge in France as lawmakers move to sever the umbilical cord between its iPod music player and iTunes online store -- threatening its lucrative hold on both markets. Amendments to an online copyright bill, adopted early Friday, would give rivals ==========> 06-03-17-AP-WebsiteSuesGoogleOverDropInRank.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14125988.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 17, 2006 Lawsuit alleges Google improperly banishes Web sites SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index. ==========> 06-03-18-SJMerc-WebsiteSuesGoogleOverDropInRank-TheSuit.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/multimedia/mercurynews/news/googlesuit_031806.pdf Gregory J.Yu (State Bar No.133955) GLOBAL LAW GROUP 2015 Pioneer Court,Suite P-1 San Mateo,CA 94403 Telephone:(650)570-4140 Facsimile:(650)570-4142 E-mail:glgroup [at ] inreach [dot ] com Attorney for Plaintiffs and Proposed Class and Subclass ==========> 06-03-18-SJMerc-WebsiteSuesGoogleOverDropInRank.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14132232.htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 18, 2006 Web site sues Google over drop in rank PLUNGE IN PAGE VIEWS AND AD REVENUE 'CATACLYSMIC,' SAYS KINDERSTART.COM By Mark Schwanhausser Mercury News Google has mysteriously downgraded the search ranking of a Web site geared to help parents care for young children, causing a ``cataclysmic fall'' in ==========> 06-03-21-AP-FrenchLawOpensITunesToOtherDevices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14151518.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 21, 2006 French lawmakers approve bill forcing Apple to open iTunes, iPods PARIS (AP) - French lawmakers approved an online copyright bill Tuesday that would require Apple to break open the exclusive format behind its market-leading iTunes music store and iPod players. The draft law -- which also introduces new penalties for music pirates -- would ==========> 06-03-21-AppleInside-AnalystsBelieveAppleWouldDropOutOfFranceBeforeOpeningIPOD.txt========== http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1612 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Apple more likely to drop out of France than open iPod and iTunes By Prince McLean and Katie Marsal, Apple Insider Published: 04:00 PM EST Reacting to the French National Assembly's vote today to force Apple to open its closed iPod and iTunes ecosystem, analysts for PiperJaffray said they ==========> 06-03-21-Reuters-AppleSaysFrenchLawSmacksOfPiracy.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-03 -22T015826Z_01_N21354430_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-FRANCE.xml&rpc=22 Apple says proposed French law smacks of piracy Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:58 PM ET12 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday a proposed French law that would force Apple to make sure that songs bought on its iTunes music store can work on any portable player would result in "state-sponsored piracy." ==========> 06-03-22-AP-FrenchLawWouldOpenITunesToOtherDevices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14159110.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 22, 2006 French bill perceived as threat to Apple LAW WOULD FORCE ONLINE MUSIC FIRMS TO SHARE SECRETS By Laurence Frost Associated Press PARIS - French lawmakers approved an online copyright bill Tuesday that would require Apple Computer to break open the exclusive format behind its ==========> 06-03-22-AP-OnlineGameProviderWildTangentAdoptsTokePaymentSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14160676.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 22, 2006 Online game provider adopts arcade-like token payment system SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Remember how easy it was to spend a roll of quarters on arcade games? Soon, some online gamers will similarly be able to play ``Bejeweled'' or ``Zuma'' to their hearts desire at 25 cents a pop when a leading online gaming ==========> 06-03-22-FinTimes-FrenchLawWouldOpenITunesToOtherDevices.txt========== http://news.ft.com/cms/s/708a13d2-b948-11da-b57d-0000779e2340.html France seeks to fragment Apple's core By Kevin Allison, Tom Braithwaite and Richard Waters Published: March 22 2006 02:00 | Last updated: March 22 2006 02:00 Financial Times The iPod in digital music, the Playstation 2 in videogames, the BlackBerry in portable e-mail: some of the technology industry's biggest recent successes have been built around closed systems with a tight connection between hardware, ==========> 06-03-28-VanityFair-SteveJobsBecomesMassMediaInsider.txt========== http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/060320roco01?print=true iPod, Therefore I Am By MICHAEL WOLFF Vanity Fair [Accessed Mar. 28, 2006] After 30 years as an outsider, Apple founder Steve Jobs is the white-hot center of mass-market media. His obsession with design is now America's: the machine has become the message. With the $7 billion Pixar deal, Disney—kingdom of ==========> 06-04-03-AP-MusicLabelsAndAppleDividedOverPricing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14252432.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 03, 2006 Music labels, Apple divided over pricing as talks approach LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three years ago, Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs persuaded major recording companies to buy into his vision of a simple, one-price-fits-all online music store. As Apple's iTunes grew into the undisputed king of digital music sales, ==========> 06-04-03-HollywoodRep-OnlineMovieSalesBecomeReality.txt========== http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=10022 76060 April 03, 2006 Hollywood reporter Online film sales become a reality In a groundbreaking development, five of the six major movie studios have agreed to let consumers download movies to own for the first time. In separate deals set to be announced today, Movielink and CinemaNow are set to offer ==========> 06-04-04-AP-BarnesAndNobleRejectsSonyEBook.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14262936.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 04, 2006 Barnes & Noble spurns Sony's highly touted e-book device NEW YORK (AP) - Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation's largest bookstore chain, is spurning the Sony Reader, a new electronic device cited as a potential turning point for the tiny e-book market. ``We have sold e-readers before and they haven't done particularly well,'' ==========> 06-04-10-StanfordCIS-OnlineDisputeResolution.txt========== The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) and The Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) Online Dispute Resolution, Democracy and the EBay Experience Colin Rule, Director of Online Dispute Resolution eBay and PayPal April 10, 2006 As people around the world increasingly interact with each other in cyberspace it is inevitable that disputes will arise. If the internet is to become a ==========> 06-04-11-AP-IRSAsksPayPalForHelpFindingTaxpayerIncomeOffshore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14318267.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 11, 2006 IRS asks PayPal for help finding taxpayers hiding income offshore WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, officials said Tuesday. A federal court in San Jose, Calif., gave the IRS permission to ask PayPal Inc. ==========> 06-04-12-AP-ABCSaysOnlineMusicDistributionMessPromptedOnlineTVShowOfferings.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14326019.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 12, 2006 ABC's Iger says music mess influenced decision to offer shows online LOS ANGELES (AP) - The decision to offer ABC's hit shows for free online was motivated largely by a desire to avoid the kind of distribution troubles suffered by the music industry, The Walt Disney Co.'s president and CEO said Tuesday. ==========> 06-04-13-CNETNews-StatesSeekTaxesOnDigitalDownloads.txt========== http://news.com.com/The+tax+man+cometh+after+iTunes/2009-1022_3-6059914.html?tag =nl States seek levies on digital-media downloads By Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache Staff Writers, CNET News.com April 13, 2006 4:00 AM PDT Internet shoppers accustomed to tax-free purchases from Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store soon may be in for an unpleasant surprise. ==========> 06-04-19-SJMerc-ATTAndAkimboTeamToOfferHomezoneDownoadService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14377627.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 19, 2006 AT&T to offer TV, movie downloads PHONE COMPANY TO TEAM UP WITH AKIMBO IN ENTERTAINMENT By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News AT&T announced Tuesday that it will team up with San Mateo-based Akimbo to allow customers to download movies and shows over the Internet through AT&T's ==========> 06-04-20-AP-OnlineAdRevenuesGrowForThirdStraightYear.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14389275.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 20, 2006 Online ad revenues grow for third consecutive year NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. online advertising revenues grew for a third consecutive year as keyword ads targeted to specific search queries continued to dominate, an industry group said Thursday. Online advertising set a new record of $12.5 billion last year, a 30 percent ==========> 06-04-20-NYPost-RecordIndustryMayGiveInToAppleOnPricing.txt========== http://www.nypost.com/business/64711.htm APPLE'S NO. 1 HIT By TIM ARANGO NY Post April 20, 2006 -- The record industry may be on the verge of waving the white flag in front of Apple boss Steve Jobs, and abandoning its demand for iTunes to charge different prices for different songs, The Post has learned. ==========> 06-04-24-AP-AmazonSubToSellDVDsOfTVShows.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14419059.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 24, 2006 Amazon.com subsidiary to sell television DVDs SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. said Monday that its subsidiary, CustomFlix Labs Inc., has signed deals with television networks including NBC Universal that could let them sell DVDs of television shows soon after they air. The deals mark yet another offering for people looking to watch TV shows when ==========> 06-05-01-FinTimes-AppleKeeps99CentSongDownloadingPricing.txt========== http://news.ft.com/cms/s/297eecc2-d934-11da-8b06-0000779e2340.html Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads By Joshua Chaffin and Kevin Allison in New York Published: May 1 2006 21:15 | Last updated: May 1 2006 21:52 Financial Times itunesApple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat ==========> 06-05-02-AP-NapsterOffersLimitedFreeSongsOnRevampedWebsite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14480971.htm Posted on Tue, May. 02, 2006 Napster offers limited free songs on revamped Web site LOS ANGELES (AP) - Napster Inc. launched a revamped music Web site Monday that allows limited free, on-demand access to more than two million songs. Visitors to the site can listen to many songs five times before having to buy a copy for 99 cents or subscribe to Napster's premium service. ==========> 06-05-03-LATimes-AppleKeeps99CentSongDownloadingPricing.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-apple3may03,1,5857221.story? coll=la-headlines-business-enter Apple Fights to Hold 99-Cent Download Line "The labels say they want to charge more, but they've never proven that they're offering consumers any new value in exchange for the higher cost." By Charles Duhigg, LA Times Staff Writer May 3, 2006 How long can Steve Jobs hold the line on 99-cent downloads? ==========> 06-05-03-SJMerc-AppleKeeps99CentSongDownloadingPricing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14489777.htm Posted on Wed, May. 03, 2006 Apple: Don't mess with 99 cents By Therese Poletti Mercury News Apple Computer still reigns over the digital music world. When the Cupertino company confirmed this week that songs at its iTunes Music ==========> 06-05-04-AP-TobaccoBusinessesSueNYStateOverInternetSalesBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14500145.htm Posted on Thu, May. 04, 2006 Group sues N.Y. to overturn law banning Internet tobacco sales ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A group of cigarette distributors and sellers sued New York Wednesday seeking to overturn a law banning Internet, telephone and mail order tobacco sales. The suit by the Association of Responsible Cigarette Sellers, filed in state ==========> 06-05-05-SJMerc-CBSLaunchesAdSupportedTVWebsite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14509514.htm Posted on Fri, May. 05, 2006 CBS leaps into online television AD-SUPPORTED `INNERTUBE' WILL SHOW ORIGINAL PROGRAMS, RERUNS By Charlie McCollum Mercury News CBS took a major step forward in online television Thursday by launching ``innertube,'' an advertising-supported broadband entertainment channel that ==========> 06-05-08-TheTimes-JobsInvitesBeattlesToJoinITunesAfterWinningLawsuit.txt========== http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2170741,00.html Times Online May 08, 2006 Jobs invites Beatles to join iTunes after Apple legal victory By Philippe Naughton The Beatles were invited to join the iTunes music revolution today after losing their trademark battle with Apple Computer. Apple Corps, the company set up by the Fab Four in 1968, had wanted ==========> 06-05-09-AP-AppleToSellFoxShowsOnITunes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14537266.htm Posted on Tue, May. 09, 2006 Apple to sell Fox shows on iTunes NEW YORK (AP) - Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store has started selling TV programs from Fox Entertainment Group's networks, including shows such as ``24,'' the companies said Tuesday. Shows for sale will cost $1.99 each to download and will come from the News ==========> 06-05-09-AP-WarnerBrosToDistributeFilmsOnInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14533156.htm Posted on Tue, May. 09, 2006 Warner Bros. to distribute films on Web GARY GENTILE Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Warner Bros. will become the first major studio to distribute its films and TV shows over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology developed by BitTorrent Inc., the home of a popular tool for trading pirated copies of ==========> 06-05-09-LATimes-WarnerBrosToDistributeFilmsOnInternet.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-torrent9may09,1,3472399.story?coll=la-he adlines-technology&ctrack=1&cset=true From the Los Angeles Times Warner Brothers Decides to Join 'Em in Downloading Deal "The way we're positioning this within Warner Bros. is, let's take the problem and turn it into an opportunity." By Chris Gaither, LA Times Staff Writer May 9, 2006 ==========> 06-05-09-NYT-WarnerBrosToDistributeFilmsOnInternet.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/business/media/09movie.html?ex=1304827200&en=b 9b8a86b480c7d56&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss May 9, 2006 Warner Bros. to Sell Movies and TV Shows on Internet By JULIE BOSMAN and TOM ZELLER Jr. The New York Times Warner Brothers plans to announce today that it will make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent ==========> 06-05-14-AP-PornMakerToAllowDownloadsCopiedToDVDs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14579823.htm Posted on Sun, May. 14, 2006 Porn maker allows downloads for TV viewing GARY GENTILE Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV. While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap. ==========> 06-05-15-AP-MTVLaunchedOnlineMisucAndVideoStore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14581158.htm Posted on Mon, May. 15, 2006 MTV launches online music, video store ALEX VEIGA Associated Press LOS ANGELES - For years, MTV Networks Inc. sat on the sidelines while Apple Computer Inc., RealNetworks Inc. and others racked up sales of music downloads. Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago ==========> 06-05-17-AP-IndictmentsIssuedAgainst2.5BOnternetGamblingOperation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14603258.htm Posted on Wed, May. 17, 2006 Justice Department takes down $2.5 billion Internet gambling operation WASHINGTON (AP) - The government dismantled a $2.5 billion offshore Internet gambling operation, the Justice Department said Wednesday, charging two fugitives and their companies with laundering gambling proceeds from Internet casino games and sporting events. ==========> 06-05-22-AdWords-AdWordsToOfferClickToPlayVideoAds.txt========== http://adwords.blogspot.com/2006/05/click-to-play-video-ads-for-adwords.html Inside AdWords The official source for information about AdWords Click-to-play video ads for AdWords We're very excited to announce the release of click-to-play video ads on the content network. Here's Bismarck, from the Video Ads team, with the details on this new feature: 5/22/2006 08:56:00 PM ==========> 06-05-22-Money-NavioAffersAlternativeToAppleIPodDRM.txt========== http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/22/technology/business2_launchpad0522/index.htm Unlocking the iPod If you want to buy content for Apple's iPod, you have to go through iTunes. Navio Systems is hoping to change that. Business 2.0 Magazine By Michael V. Copeland, Business 2.0 Magazine senior writer May 22, 2006: 7:07 PM EDT In an ideal digital world, we'd be able to buy copyrighted music and videos ==========> 06-05-23-NYT-GooglePlansToSellSpaceForVideoSpotsOnWebsites.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/business/media/23adco.html?_r=1&oref=slogin May 23, 2006 Google Moves to Sell Space for Video Spots on Network of Web Sites By SAUL HANSELL The New York Times GOOGLE is taking its first steps to go after the huge market for television advertising this week with a new service that will place video commercials on the many Web sites where it sells advertising. ==========> 06-05-23-screenWerk-GooglePlansToSellSpaceForVideoSpotsOnWebsites.txt========== http://gesterling.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/google-click-to-play-video/ Screenwerk Greg Sterling’s Musings on Offline and Online Media Google ‘Click to Play’ Video Ads May 23, 2006 Today Google is launching "click-to-play" video ads that will appear in its AdSense network. The ads will be part of the same auction as text and graphical ads and feature the same targeting capabilities. It's a fascinating development ==========> 06-05-23-SJMerc-CompetitorsOfferAlternativesToAppleIPod.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14647394.htm Posted on Tue, May. 23, 2006 Digital content goes outside the box By John Boudreau Mercury News Just an iPod's throw from Apple Computer's headquarters in Cupertino, a small start-up is working to revolutionize how people buy and manage their digital goodies, from music downloads to ring tones to videos. ==========> 06-05-23-TechCrunch-GooglePlansToSellSpaceForVideoSpotsOnWebsites.txt========== http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/23/google-ppc-video-ads-im-betting-against-it/ May 23 2006 Google PPC Video Ads - I’m Betting Against It Michael Arrington Google will launch a new pay-per-click video ad product and syndicate it out through its Adsense Network today. Like Google’s normal text ads, Advertisers will bid for placement and will be charged when a user clicks on the video. A graphic will appear on the website displaying the ad. The Google blog post on ==========> 06-05-25-APCrackdownOnInternetGamblingAdvancesInCongress.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14666873.htm Posted on Thu, May. 25, 2006 Crackdown on Internet gambling advances in Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - A House panel voted Thursday to crack down on the $12 billion Internet gambling industry by applying federal prohibitions to games like online poker, blackjack and roulette. The legislation would amend the 1961 Federal Wire Wager Act to explicitly ==========> 06-05-25-AP-NBCOffersNewsProgrammingForSaleInITunes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14667204.htm Posted on Thu, May. 25, 2006 NBC offers variety of news programming for sale in iTunes NEW YORK (AP) - NBC said Thursday it will become the first broadcast news organization to offer news programming for sale for viewing on computers and iPods through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes service. A variety of current, archival and specially-produced material will be ==========> 06-05-29-SJMerc-AppleITunesGettingSomeCompetition.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14699519.htm Posted on Mon, May. 29, 2006 Apple's iTunes solo act is getting competition By Mike Langberg Mercury News Apple Computer is becoming the Microsoft of digital music, and that's not a good thing for either consumers or the music industry. ==========> 06-05-30-AP-ComplaintsFiledOverGooglesProposedClickGraudSettlement.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14704729.htm Posted on Tue, May. 30, 2006 Complaints filed over Google's proposed click-fraud settlement TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - As the deadline approaches for firms to accept a settlement between Internet advertisers and the Google search engine over click-fraud claims, nearly a dozen complaints about the deal have been entered in an Arkansas circuit court. ==========> 06-05-31-AP-DisneyToStartSellingMovieDownloadsOnCinemaNow.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14704845.htm Posted on Wed, May. 31, 2006 Disney to start selling downloads to own on CinemaNow LOS ANGELES (AP) - Disney films such as ``Glory Road'' and the animated ``Chicken Little'' will soon be available to own via computer download from the Internet-based movie site CinemaNow. The companies were expected to announce Wednesday that CinemaNow will sell the ==========> 06-05-31-SJMerc-TechFirmsGoToHollywoodForDeals.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14707062.htm Posted on Wed, May. 31, 2006 To win deals, tech firms go Hollywood By John Boudreau Mercury News HOLLYWOOD - To become a dealmaker in the world of make believe, it helps to look the part. ==========> 06-06-02--AP-EBookProjectGivesFreeAccessToBooks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14727375.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 02, 2006 E-book project to give free access to 300,000 volumes CHICAGO (AP) - Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two nonprofits are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online. Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make ``a third of a million'' ==========> 06-06-07-AP-EUExtendsSalesTaxRulesForInternetCommerce.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14762090.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 07, 2006 EU extends sales-tax rules for Internet companies until year end LUXEMBOURG (AP) - EU finance ministers on Wednesday extended the current sales-tax system for Internet-based services until the end of the year, after failing to get unanimous support for changes that would see value-added tax charged in the country where the customer is based. ==========> 06-06-09-Forbes-GooglePlansOnlinePaymentSystem.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/markets/equities/2006/06/09/google-0609markets09.html Google's GBuy Could Be 'Revolutionary' Maya Roney, 06.09.06, 12:46 PM ET RBC Capital Markets maintained an "outperform" rating on Google in light of the impending launch of the company's online payment system, currently known as "GBuy." Consumers using GBuy, which is set for release on June 28, will be taken off ==========> 06-06-10-Reuters-eBayToTestAdvertisingAuctionsOnOtherSites.txt========== http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060610/wr_nm/ebay_advertising_dc eBay to test advertising auctions on other sites By Eric Auchard Sat Jun 10, 7:09 PM ET Reuters LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Online marketplace eBay Inc. is set to unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites, borrowing from the strategies of Google and Yahoo. ADVERTISEMENT ==========> 06-06-12-Google-NoPlansForPlansOnlinePaymentSystem.txt========== http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/06/22/schmidt-says-g-m oney-aint-happening-dawg/ Schmidt Says “G-Money” Ain’t Happening, Dawg By Nathan Weinberg Eric Schmidt told an interviewer from the Associated Press that Google is absolutely not going to release an electronic payment system to compete with eBay’s PayPal. ==========> 06-06-12-NYT-OutcryOverEUProposalToTaxInternetCommunications.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12email.html June 12, 2006 Idea for Electronic Message Tax Prompts Swift Outcry in Europe By THOMAS CRAMPTON, International Herald Tribune The New York Times PARIS, June 11 — A French member of the European Parliament, Alain Lamassoure, recently uttered the dreaded T-word — taxes — in connection with e-mail and mobile phone text messages, and in so doing earned the wrath of the Internet ==========> 06-06-12-SearchEngineJ-GooglePlansOnlinePaymentSystem.txt========== http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3515 6/12/2006 Google GBuy More Than Paypal Alternative Search Engine Journal Google is expecting to launch an online payment system similar to (but expect something Google-rific) eBay’s (and Yahoo’s) Paypal system. The Google payment system, dubbed GBuy, is scheduled for release on June 28th according to Maya Roney at Forbes. ==========> 06-06-12-SJMerc-GooglePlansOnlinePaymentSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14801280.htm Google to take on eBay SEARCH COMPANY EXPECTED TO LAUNCH ONLINE PAYMENTS AT END OF MONTH By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Google is expected to roll out an online payment system at the end of the month that will directly compete with eBay's PayPal, a Wall Street analyst said Friday. ==========> 06-06-12-Stanford-BestECommercePracticesConference.txt========== E-Commerce Conference CONTACT: Kimberly Jantz Asst. Director of Content & Information Program Group Office: 650-736-1397 Fax: 650-724-0125 REGISTRATION: ==========> 06-06-14-AP-BlockbusterRetaliatesAgainstNetflixPatentClaims.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14816043.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 14, 2006 Blockbuster retaliates against Netflix's patent claims SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Escalating a bitter legal battle, Blockbuster Inc. on Tuesday accused Netflix Inc. of manipulating the U.S. patent system in a devious effort to monopolize the booming market for online DVD rentals. The antitrust allegations represent Blockbuster's counterpunch to patent ==========> 06-06-16-SJMerc-AmazonAddsGroceries.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14834824.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 16, 2006 Online book champ adds grocery aisles SALES, DISTRIBUTION EXPERTISE PROMISE SUCCESS, SAY EXPERTS By Sarah Jane Tribble Mercury News Looking for that hard-to-find cereal or trying to buy laundry detergent in bulk? Check out Amazon.com. ==========> 06-06-18-Variety-ApplePlantsSeedsForVideoDownloads.txt========== http://www.variety.com/VR1117945507.html Posted: Sun., Jun. 18, 2006, 10:00pm PT Apple plants seeds for pic downloads iTunes going to the movies By BEN FRITZ Variety After conquering the digital music biz and taking the lead with TV shows online, Apple is looking to feature films. ==========> 06-06-18-Variety-EntertainmentExecsWorringAboutStaveJobsClout.txt========== http://www.variety.com/VR1117945470.html Friend or foe? Film exex want to tap into Jobs' savvy but worry about his growing clout By BEN FRITZ, Variety, Posted: Sun., Jun. 18, 2006, 6:00am PT Five years ago, when Steve Jobs was in negotiations to sell songs on iTunes, he gave music execs a choice: Either work with me or get left in the dust. They worked with him. ==========> 06-06-19-AP-YodleeOffersOnlineBillPayingWithCreditAndDebitCards.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14854819.htm Posted on Mon, Jun. 19, 2006 Online financial company Yodlee offering bill pay with credit, debit cards NEW YORK (AP) - Yodlee Inc., which is best known for its online account aggregation service, announced Monday it is expanding its online bill payment service to allow consumers to pay with credit or debit cards as well as with cash transfers. ==========> 06-06-1-TypeAd-eBayToTestAdvertisingAuctionsOnOtherSites.txt========== http://ecpm.typepad.com/clickety_clack/2006/06/ebay_to_create_.html June 12, 2006 Ebay To Create An Adsense Contextual Ads Competitor TypeAd Ebay plans to create an adsense contextual advertising competitor, according to this reuters article. Michael van Swaaij, eBay's chief strategy officer, told a conference of ==========> 06-06-22-BBC-FrenchDigitalMusicAntirestrictionsBillGetsAmendedToFavorApple.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5106400.stm Apple gets French iTunes reprieve The future of iTunes in France looks more secure after MPs watered down a draft of its new copyright law. BBC, 2006/06/22 The bill had aimed to ensure digital music could be played on any player, regardless of its format or source. ==========> 06-06-27-AP-WarnerBrosSellsFilmDownloadsViaGuba.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14910702.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 27, 2006 Warner Bros. sells films, TV shows via Guba.com LOS ANGELES (AP) - Warner Bros. began selling its movies and TV shows over the Internet video site Guba.com Monday, marking the second deal the studio has made to distribute content over Web sites that have offered pirated video in the past. ==========> 06-06-27-SJMerc-WarnerBrosSellsFilmDownloadsViaGuba.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14912715.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 27, 2006 Independent video site wins retail deal with Warner Bros. By John Boudreau, Mercury News Continuing Hollywood's dance with Bay Area tech companies, Warner Bros. announced Monday a partnership with online video site Guba.com to distribute new and vintage movies and TV shows. ==========> 06-06-29-NYT-FrenchDigitalMusicAntirestrictionsBillGetsAmendedToFavorApple.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/technology/29music.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, July 29, 2006 Apple Gets French Support in Music Compatibility Case By THOMAS CRAMPTON PARIS, July 28 — The French constitutional council, the country’s highest judicial body, has declared major aspects of the so-called iPod law unconstitutional, undermining some controversial aspects of the legislation. ==========> 06-06-30-AP-FrenchAssemblyApprovesLawToRequireITunesCompatibility.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14939651.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 30, 2006 French 'iTunes law' on download compatibility approved in final vote PARIS (AP) - French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to government-backed legislation that could force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod music player and iTunes online store compatible with rivals' offerings. Both the Senate and the National Assembly, France's lower house, voted in favor ==========> 06-07-10-AP-CustomersUseInternetForResearchThenBuyInStores.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15006408.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 10, 2006 Web reshapes how we shop CUSTOMERS GO ONLINE TO RESEARCH, THEN TO MALL By Sarah Jane Tribble, Mercury News A self-proclaimed ``geek'' with seven computers at home, San Jose resident John Shifflett says shopping online is boring. ==========> 06-07-10-AP-InternetGamblingUnderAttackInUSCongress.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15007277.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 10, 2006 Web wagering under attack in Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won't like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for paying online bets and could padlock gambling Web sites. ==========> 06-07-24-BusWeek-KazaaAndSkypeDevelopersShowVideoOverInternetSystem.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jul2006/db20060724_713810.ht m?chan=top%20news_top%20news By Steve Rosenbush Business Week Online, JULY 24, 2006 Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project" Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering ==========> 06-08-10-AP-BritishInternetGamblingCompanyShutsUSFocussedOperations.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15244156.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 10, 2006 Gamblers hoping to get money back after betting Web site shuts down NEW YORK (AP) - Since BetOnSports PLC started accepting wagers online, gamblers played the odds on plenty of sporting events. But they also gambled on whether U.S. prosecutors would one day target the Costa Rica-based company for possibly violating federal law. ==========> 06-08-11-AP-BritishInternetGamblingCompanyShutsUSFocussedOperations.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15252268.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 11, 2006 BetOnSports shutting U.S.-focused operations over fraud indictment LONDON (AP) - BetOnSports PLC, the British-based Internet gambling company that has been charged with fraud and racketeering in the United States, said Friday it will shut down its services for American gamblers. BetOnSports said it plans to stop operating in Costa Rica and Antigua -- from ==========> 06-08-14-AP-FoxPlansMovieAndTVShowDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15267973.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 14, 2006 Fox plans movies, TV shows for download ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press NEW YORK - The new "X-Men" movie and television shows like "24" are coming to a computer near you. Fox will tap into a platform now used to sell video games and let visitors buy ==========> 06-08-14-LATimes-NewsCorpPlansDownloadableFoxMoviesAndTVShows.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-myspace14aug14,1,7225371.story?c oll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=1&cset=true Parent News Corp. will offer downloadable copies of movies and TV shows on MySpace and other websites beginning in October. By Chris Gaither, LA Times Staff Writer, August 14, 2006 Signaling its ambition to turn MySpace into an entertainment marketplace, News Corp. today is expected to unveil plans to sell downloadable copies of 20th Century Fox movies and TV shows through the popular social network and other ==========> 06-08-15-AP-NordicRegulatorsMayActAgainstAppleInIPodRestrictions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15279943.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 15, 2006 Nordic regulators to discuss possible action against Apple OSLO, Norway (AP) - Nordic consumer regulators will meet in Iceland this month to discuss possible legal action against iPod-maker Apple Computer Inc. if the company does not ease restrictions that prevent songs bought at its online store from being played on rival music players. ==========> 06-08-16-AP-CBSToStartFreeOnlineStreamingOfPrimeTimeTVShows.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15284799.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 16, 2006 CBS to start streaming prime-time episodes online LOS ANGELES (AP) - CBS Television will begin showing episodes of several new and returning prime-time shows for free on the Internet, becoming the second network to do so. The unit of CBS Corp. already sells downloads of episodes on Apple Computer ==========> 06-08-19-AP-OnlineMusicHoldoutsGiveInAsITunesPopularitySurges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15314292.htm Posted on Sat, Aug. 19, 2006 Online music holdouts give in as iTunes popularity surges BRIAN CHARLTON, Associated Press DETROIT - Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store. ==========> 06-08-24-AP-AOLToSellMoviesAndTVShowsThroughVideoPortal.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15351880.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 24, 2006 AOL to sell movies, shows through video portal NEW YORK (AP) - ``Hitch,'' ``24'' and ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' are among the movies and television shows that AOL will sell through its new video portal under deals the Internet company has forged with major Hollywood studios. The partnerships, announced Thursday, represent AOL's latest efforts to become ==========> 06-08-25-AP-OnlineRetailerSentencedForComputerAttacksOnRivals.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15363417.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 25, 2006 Online retailer sentenced for arranging computer attacks on rivals NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A 19-year-old Michigan man who ran an Internet business selling retro sports jerseys was sentenced Friday to 30 months in federal prison for recruiting a New Jersey teen to carry out computer attacks against competitors. ==========> 06-08-29-AP-AOLToLaunchNewOnlineMusicServiceWithVideoOfferings.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15389685.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 29, 2006 AOL to launch revamped online music service with video offerings LOS ANGELES (AP) - Internet giant AOL has revamped its Web-based music download service, adding music videos, streaming radio and user community features. The new version of AOL Music Now is scheduled to debut Tuesday, offering some 2.5 million audio tracks and thousands of music videos, the company said. ==========> 06-08-29-AP-UniversalLicensesSongsForFreeDownloadsOnAdSupportedSite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15391278.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 29, 2006 Universal licenses songs for free downloads on ad-supported site LOS ANGELES (AP) - Universal Music, home to artists such as U2, The Killers and Audioslave, will make its catalog of recordings and music videos available for free downloading on an ad-supported Web site launching later this year, the site operator said Tuesday. ==========> 06-08-29-JupiterResch-UniversalLicensesSongsForFreeDownloadsOnAdSupportedSite.txt========== http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/mulligan/archives/016945.html Evreryone's Going Crazy About the Frog Windows DRM Hacked. So what?! Mark Mulligan | Jupiter Research | August 29, 2006, 07:15 AM Universal Music are reportedly backing a new ad-supported free music service SpiralFrog. This is innovative but not entirely new - it is part of a broader development of the music industry becoming more experimental and broad minded with digital music. See also EMI / Mashboxx, Snocap and all the majors ==========> 06-08-29-RedHerring-UniversalLicensesSongsForFreeDownloadsOnAdSupportedSite.txt========== http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18226&hed=Universal+Offers+Free+Music&s ector=Industries&subsector=EntertainmentAndMedia Universal Offers Free Music Industry will use ads to generate revenue while bringing hardcore illegal downloaders back into the fold. Red Herring, August 29, 2006 After years of heavy-handed litigation, the music industry may have found a way to bring hardcore, illegal music downloaders back into the fold with an ==========> 06-08-29-TechCrunch-UniversalLicensesSongsForFreeDownloadsOnAdSupportedSite.txt========== http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/29/universal-music-group-to-try-ad-driven-musi c-downloads-through-sprialfrog/ TechCrunch, August 29 2006 Universal to try ad driven music downloads through SpiralFrog - still with DRM Marshall Kirkpatrick If you’re familiar with this story, see the updated details at the end. Universal Music, the corporate parent behind labels like MoTown, Geffen Records and many more, announced this morning that they will be making their entire ==========> 06-08-31-BusWeek-WalMartUnhappyOverAppleITunesMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2006/db20060831_806225.ht m Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf AUGUST 31, 2006, Business Week By Ronald Grover The retail behemoth isn't happy about the iPod maker's plans to offer movie downloads through iTunes. Has Wal-Mart met its match? ==========> 06-09-01-RealRechNews-AppleITunesMovieDownloadsTooExpensiveAndRestricted.txt========== http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3440 Apple To Sell Movies Through iTunes–But Why Bother?, September 1, 2006 By David Johnston, Contributing Writer, RealTechNews BusinessWeek Online is reporting that Apple will soon announce the sale of full-length films through its iTunes music store. The BuisinessWeek story also includes one more interesting detail: the price. Apple plans to price movies at around $14.99 for newer releases and $9.99 for older titles. That may sound like a good deal if you’re still buying most of your movies from brick and ==========> 06-09-01-TechCrunch-WalMartUnhappyOverAppleITunesMovieDownloads.txt========== Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf TechCrunch, September 1 2006 iTunes To Have Movie Downloads This Month Michael Arrington Rumors have been swirling for weeks (see here and here) that Apple will soon be selling full length movie downloads on the iTunes service. This morning, Business Week is stating, based on unnamed sources, that the service will launch by mid-September. ==========> 06-09-01-USAToday-WalMartUnhappyOverAppleITunesMovieDownloads.txt========== http://blogs.usatoday.com/maney/2006/09/itunes_movies_s.html USA Today, Posted at 11:56 AM/ET, September 01, 2006 iTunes movies: Should Wal-Mart worry? Another view through the fidelity v. convenience lens... News is bouncing around the Web today that Apple is close to offering downloadable iTunes movies for a price that could undercut DVD prices at Wal-Mart by a couple dollars. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch says Wal-Mart is pissed off and Netflix should be worried. ==========> 06-09-03-JupiterResearch-MySpaceToSellMusicFrom3MillionBands.txt========== http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/016977.html MySpace Gets Into Digital Music David Card | September 03, 2006, 01:12 PM | Jupiter Research MySpace is going to do a digital music store. Well, sort of. Actually, it’s going to enable unsigned artists to sell songs online. That’s a logical, cool service for the thousands of bands with pages on MySpace, and for their fans. And MySpace addresses several issues that are huge challenges facing retailers trying to make a business out of a la carte downloads. ==========> 06-09-03-Reuters-MySpaceToSellMusicFrom3MillionBands.txt========== http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060903/tc_nm/media_myspace_songs_dc MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands By Yinka AdegokeSun Sep 3, 12:20 PM ET, Reuters MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands. MySpace is the latest company to try to take on Apple Computer Inc.'s ==========> 06-09-05-WashPost-TechnologyTakingTheMiddlemanOutOfTheMusicBusiness.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400806. html MySpace: Meet the Band, Buy the Song By Yuki Noguchi, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, September 5, 2006; Page D01 Technology is taking the middleman out of the music business, giving artists a bigger array of tools to get their songs in the MP3 players of potential fans around the world. ==========> 06-09-07-AP-AmazonStartsVideoDownloadService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15462890.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 07, 2006 Amazon.com starts video download service, Associated Press SEATTLE - Amazon.com launched a digital video downloading service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business. The service, dubbed Amazon Unbox, will offer television shows, movies and other ==========> 06-09-07-TechDirt-AmazonVideoDownloadServiceMostrlyMeToo.txt========== http://techdirt.com/articles/20060907/174513.shtml Amazon's Video Downloads About As Me Too (Read: Not Interesting) As You Can Get from the disappointing dept Techdirt, Sept. 7, 2006 It's no secret that Amazon has been preparing its own video download store, and with most people believing that Apple is going to announce their own offering early next week, it looks like Amazon tried to jump ahead in line by announcing its own offering today. Unfortunately, the offering is about as "me too" as you ==========> 06-09-08-Amazon-AmazonStartsVideoDownloadService-FAQs.txt========== http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/102-8780108-8986558?ie=UTF8& nodeId=3748 Amazon Unbox Frequently Asked Questions Amazon [Accessed Sept. 8, 2006] * What are the system requirements for Amazon Unbox? * Do I need to order/download from the computer I use to watch the video? * Can I use Amazon Unbox on my Macintosh or iPod? * How big is an Amazon Unbox file? ==========> 06-09-08-AP-AmazonStartsVideoDownloadService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15464222.htm Posted on Fri, Sep. 08, 2006 Amazon.com launches TV, movie service ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE, Associated Press SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. launched a digital video downloading service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business. ==========> 06-09-12-AP-AppleStartsITunesMovieStoreWithDisneyProducts.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15501108.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 12, 2006 Apple unveils online movie store SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Seeking to push digital media further into homes, Apple Computer launched its long-awaited online movie service Tuesday and showed off a device that will make it easier for consumers to watch the videos on television. ==========> 06-09-18-SJMerc-AppleAndAmazonOnlineMovieDistributionNotReadyForPrimeTime.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15548570.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 18, 2006 Apple, Amazon online movie distribution service not ready for prime time By Mike Langberg, Mercury News Hollywood is sending in the A-team -- Amazon and Apple -- on a kind of mission impossible: persuade consumers to download movies online, instead of buying or renting DVDs. ==========> 06-09-21-AP-PhiladelphiaOrchestraOpensOnlineMusicStore.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15574122.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 21, 2006 Philadephia Orchestra to become first to open online music store PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Philadelphia Orchestra will become the first major U.S. orchestra to open its own online music store for consumers who want to download performances. While other orchestras make their performances available online, they have done ==========> 06-10-02-AP-UKOnlineGamblingStocksPlungeAsUSPassesRestrictiveLegislation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15660791.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 02, 2006 U.K. online gambling shares plummet as U.S. passes restrictive legislation LONDON (AP) - Shares in British online gambling companies, including Sportingbet PLC and PartyGaming PLC, dived Monday after the U.S. Congress passed legislation prohibiting the use of credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers for online gaming. ==========> 06-10-06-CACM-FakeWebSitesUnderminesConsumersTrustInECommerce.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 10 (2006), Pages 76-82 Why spoofing is serious internet fraud Tamara Dinev Fake Web sites fool the unwary into divulging personal data, undermining all consumers' trust in e-commerce, no matter how trustworthy the authentic online business truly is. Identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints about fraud, according to ==========> 06-10-06-MplsStarTrib-BestBuyToOfferRebrandedRhapsodyMusicService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15695911.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 06, 2006 Best Buy to offer rebranded Rhapsody music service By Steve Alexander, Minneapolis Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Hungry for a taste of Apple's overflowing music pie, Best Buy Co. Inc. is entering the music downloading business. But analysts don't expect the Richfield-based retailer to get a very big slice. ==========> 06-10-09-AP-DVDRetailersPressureMovieStudiosForSameDiscountsAsOnlineSellers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15718165.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 09, 2006 DVD sellers warn studios against price breaks for downloaded movies LOS ANGELES (AP) - National retailers that control the lucrative DVD market are pressuring Hollywood studios to give them the same favorable deals being offered to Web-based download services such as Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes. The latest expression of concern from retailers was a letter sent to studios by ==========> 06-10-09-Slate-TheLastDaysOfBlockbusterMovieRentalStores.txt========== http://www.slate.com/id/2133995/ the hollywood economist Hollywood's New Zombie The last days of Blockbuster. By Edward Jay Epstein Posted Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, at 1:03 PM ET Slate In 1998, at the dawn of the age of the DVD, Blockbuster made a decision that ==========> 06-10-13-AP-DecreasedCDSalesPartiallyOffsetByIncreasedDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15748013.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 13, 2006 U.S. music CD shipments down, but downloads up LOS ANGELES (AP) - Shipments of CDs and other physical music formats to U.S. retail outlets were down in the first half of 2006, but the decline was partially offset by downloads, the recording industry's trade group said Thursday. ==========> 06-10-17-AP-MTVAndBaiduLaunchInternetMusicVideoVentureInChina.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15780390.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 17, 2006 MTV, Baidu.com launch Internet music video venture in China BEIJING (AP) - MTV and search engine Baidu.com on Tuesday unveiled a venture to distribute music videos via the Internet in China, boosting the music video channel's exposure in a market where regulation has limited its presence. The companies said they will begin by offering 15,000 videos and MTV programs ==========> 06-10-23-AP-AOLToOfferParamountMovieAndTVShowsForDownload.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15826975.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 23, 2006 AOL video portal to offer Paramount downloads for sale NEW YORK (AP) - Movies and television shows from Paramount Pictures will be available for sale through AOL's new video portal under a deal announced Monday. Classics such as ``Breakfast at Tiffany's'' and ``Chinatown'' and newer releases like ``Mission: Impossible III'' will be sold for $9.99 to $19.99 ==========> 06-10-23-BusWeek-BitTorrentProvidesLegalDownloads.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061023_551741_page_2. htm BitTorrent Goes Legit, Business Week, OCTOBER 23, 2006 By Sarah Lacy With entertainment deals, hardware partnerships, and plans to dominate content distribution, BitTorrent plans to stay in your system Long before anyone had heard of YouTube, BitTorrent was the bad-boy online ==========> 06-10-24-AP-InternetGamblingBanLawThreatensgrowthOfGamingSites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15838151.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 24, 2006 Anti-gambling bill threatens growth of gaming sites NEW YORK (AP) - Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won't keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law's reach. ``It has put a terrible scare into people,'' said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches ==========> 06-10-24-AP-NewInternetGamblingLawMayHurtWorldSeriesOfPoker.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15838080.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 24, 2006 New law on Internet gambling may hurt World Series of Poker LAS VEGAS (AP) - Observers say the recently enacted U.S. law that bans gambling online could cut into the number of entrants to the planet's richest card game -- the World Series of Poker. The number of players in the tournament, run by Harrah's Entertainment Inc., ==========> 06-10-27-AP-BritishCabinetSecretaryCriticizesUSOnlineGamblingBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15865072.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 27, 2006 Britain criticizes U.S. online gaming ban LONDON (AP) - Britain's culture secretary on Friday compared the U.S. crackdown on online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as she prepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week. Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would make ==========> 06-10-31-PhilaInq-NewspaperWebVisitRiseAsCirculationFalls.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15891496.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 31, 2006 Web sites are good news for newspapers AS CIRCULATION CONTINUES FALL, WEB VISITS RISE By Joseph N. DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper circulation continued to drop during the spring and summer, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' yearly sales report for printed newspapers during the six months that ended Sept. 30. ==========> 06-11-06-StanfordCIS-ECommerceAllowsMoreNicheProductsToBeOffered.txt========== The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) & The Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) Present... The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine Monday November 6, 2006 The Long Tail, in a nutshell: "The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of 'hits' (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number ==========> 06-11-09-NYT-MSAgreesToPayPercentageOfMusicSalesToUniversal.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09music.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slo gin&ref=business&adxnnlx=1163077539-+e9dtp3Ua3Aj8PtBFZRZIA&pagewanted=print&oref =slogin November 9, 2006 Microsoft Strikes Deal for Music By JEFF LEEDS, The New York Times In a rare move, Microsoft said yesterday that it had agreed to pay a percentage of the sales of its new portable media player to the Universal Music Group. ==========> 06-11-09-SJMerc-MSAgreesToPayPercentageOfMusicSalesToUniversal.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15971263.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 09, 2006 Microsoft to pay music label cut of revenues from digital player, songs By Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News Microsoft has agreed to pay Universal Music Group a portion of the revenue from sales of Zune, its new digital entertainment device, the companies said today. Microsoft will also pay a royalty for the sale of individual songs to ==========> 06-11-16-AP-CasinoExecsAndOthersHopeToOverturnInternetGamblingBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16023629.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 16, 2006 Gamblers take aim at Internet ban RYAN NAKASHIMA, Associated Press LAS VEGAS - Casino executives and a poker lobby group said that they hope a change in power brought by the midterm elections will help them overturn an Internet gambling ban rushed through Congress while Republicans were still in control. ==========> 06-11-16-AP-EMIMusicAgreesToLicenseMusicVideosToOnDemandVentureGotuitMedia.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16030674.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 16, 2006 EMI Music agrees to video licensing pact, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - EMI Music has agreed to license music videos by its slate of recording artists to an online video portal and on-demand cable service operated by Gotuit Media Corp., the companies said Thursday. The multiyear agreement, reached this week, calls for the companies to share ==========> 06-11-16-AP-NYPDBreaks1BillionWebGanmblingRing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16021509.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 16, 2006 NYPD busts $1B a year Web gambling ring TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK - More than two dozen people, including a professional baseball scout and a high-stakes poker player, were charged Wednesday in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring that rivaled casino sports books. ==========> 06-11-28-AP-WalMartToTestMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16117828.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 28, 2006 Wal-Mart to test movie downloads, Associated Press BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is edging into selling video downloads by offering buyers of the "Superman Returns" DVD a chance to buy downloads of the same movie, beginning Wednesday. The world's largest retailer said Tuesday that shoppers have the choice of ==========> 06-11-28-Reuters-UniversalMusicMaySeekMusicRoyaltyDealWithApple.txt========== http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN28280985 UPDATE 1-Universal Music may seek royalty deal with iPod Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:50am ET136 NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Universal Music Group Chief Executive Doug Morris said on Tuesday he may try to fashion an iPod royalty fee with Apple Computer Inc. (APPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in the next round of negotiations in early 2007. ==========> 06-11-29-AP-BitTorrentReachesContentLicensingDealsWithAdditionalStudios.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16120737.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 29, 2006 BitTorrent adds content deals for new video service LOS ANGELES (AP) - BitTorrent Inc., developer of a popular online file-sharing tool, said Tuesday it has reached licensing deals that will boost the number of movies and TV shows it can offer as part of a video download service launching next year. ==========> 06-11-29-LATimes-BitTorrentToTransitionToLicensedOnlineContent.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-torrent29nov29,1,7277166.story?c oll=la-headlines-entnews&track=crosspromo BitTorrent set to unveil deals with studios The file-sharing service will try to transition to selling licensed online content, including films, TV shows and music, starting in February. By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, November 29, 2006 Onetime file-swapping pariah BitTorrent Inc. is expected to announce deals today with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and MTV Networks to deliver ==========> 06-11-29-SJMerc-BitTorrentToAnnounceDistributionDealsWithSeveralStudios.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16122678.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 29, 2006 BitTorrent cuts online video deals, By Troy Wolverton, Mercury News In the latest volley in the growing battle to distribute movies, television shows and other video content online, BitTorrent plans to announce deals today with Paramount, MTV Networks, 20th Century Fox and several smaller studios. As part of the deals, BitTorrent users will be able to purchase or rent movies ==========> 06-11-30-AP-NewFilmToBeReleasedOnlineTwoWeeksAfterTheaterOpening.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16133529.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 30, 2006 Morgan Freeman to release new film online two weeks after theater opening NEW YORK (AP) - Just two weeks after ``10 Items or Less'' opens in theaters Friday, it'll be available for digital download from Clickstar, a company that Morgan Freeman's production company and Intel have founded to bring small movies to those who live far from boutique cinemas. ==========> 06-12-06-AP-GrowingNumberOfRetailersOfferingOnlineCustomerReviews.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16178835.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 06, 2006 Growing number of stores offer customer reviews online NEW YORK (AP) - Retailers are giving vocal online shoppers more opportunities to sound off about products this holiday season -- and in return are hoping to convert more surfers into buyers. Shoppers have been able to review and rate purchases on online-only retailers ==========> 06-12-06-AP-MajorRecordLabelsToOfferUnprotectedMP3s.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16181555.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 06, 2006 EMI tries selling unprotected MP3 music LOS ANGELES (AP) - After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted MP3 file format. The releases are part of an experiment to gauge demand for tracks that can be ==========> 06-12-07-AP-MajorRecordLabelsToOfferUnprotectedMP3s.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16181982.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 07, 2006 Major labels to offer unrestricted MP3s, ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted MP3 file format. The releases are part of an experiment to gauge demand for tracks that can be ==========> 06-12-12-AP-ChinaOrdersDistributorsOfOnlineProductsToGetApprovalForProducts.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16223497.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 12, 2006 China tightens control over online music, JOE McDONALD, Associated Press BEIJING - China is tightening control over its online music and game industries, ordering distributors to submit all imported products for approval by official censors, the government said Tuesday. The moves come amid official efforts to step up control over the Internet and ==========> 06-12-14-AP-OnlineMusicRetailerEMusicHas100MLegalMP3Downloads.txt========== Gore urges scientists to be more active Posted on Thu, Dec. 14, 2006 EMusic touts MP3 sales, ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Online music retailer eMusic said it's racked up its 100 millionth digital music download this week, a milestone reached roughly three years after the service launched. The sales total is a far cry from the 1 billion tracks sold in about the same ==========> 06-12-18-AP-PeerflixHoldsPatentForInternetSwappingOfPhysicalItems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16268284.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 18, 2006 Peerflix picks up potentially potent patent as part of makeover SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Online DVD trading service Peerflix may expand beyond movies, thanks in part to a new patent that could force other e-commerce companies to change the way they do business. The 2-year-old start-up is similar to file-trading sites such as Kazaa, the ==========> 06-12-20-AP-VeriSignToDistributeMoviesUsingAxiomTV.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16285981.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 20, 2006 VeriSign to distribute family-friendly movies MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - VeriSign Inc., best known for managing e-commerce security and Internet addresses, said it will start distributing family-friendly movies early next year. The movie download service will be run by AxiomTV, a subsidiary of Axiom ==========> 06-12-24-AP-WebSafeSecurityMarkFeaturesEludeSmallOnlineMerchants.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16312964.htm Posted on Sun, Dec. 24, 2006 Web 'safe' mark may elude new merchants ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press NEW YORK - As an online shopper, Claudia Race knows she must look out for scams. So as an Internet entrepreneur working out of her home in New Braunfels, Texas, Race wants to use all the tools available to assure customers they can trust the vacation-rentals service she is about to launch. ==========> 06-12-26-CompWorld-TokyoStoresReadyToBeamAdsAndInfoViaRFID.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9006778 Project to tag Tokyo neighborhood with RFID Will blanket Ginza shopping district, By Martyn Williams December 26, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A location-based services trial that will see a famous Tokyo neighborhood blanketed with about 10,000 RFID tags and other beacons got its start earlier this month. ==========> 06-12-28-SJMerc-RecordLabelsLookingAtDistributionViaMP3Format.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16336583.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 28, 2006 Music labels change tune FIRMS NOW LOOKING AT MP3 FORMAT, ONCE ANATHEMA, FOR DISTRIBUTION By Troy Wolverton, Mercury News For years, the recording industry has fought the popular MP3 music format. Now, some think the industry is ready to declare a truce. ==========> 06-12-30-AP-AppleFacesLawsuitsOverIPodITunesExclusivity.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16347928.htm Posted on Sat, Dec. 30, 2006 Apple faces suit over iPod-iTunes link BETSY SCHIFFMAN, Associated Press NEW YORK - As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc. said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players. ==========> 07-01-02-NYT-DefunctInternetMovieDistributionCompanySuesOthersForPatentInfringment.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03patent.html?ex=1325480400&en=e250 d62e167d4fe4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss The New York Times, January 3, 2007 Patent Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms By JOHN MARKOFF and MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 — In 1997, Jonathan T. Taplin, a veteran film and television producer, stood up at a cable industry convention and asserted that in the future all movies would be distributed over the Internet. He recalls ==========> 07-01-04-AP-MusicDigitalDownloadsIncreased65PercentIn2006.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16383233.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 04, 2007 Albums sales plunged in 2006, but digital downloads soared NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - U.S. album sales continued to decline in 2006, down nearly 5 percent from the previous year, but total music sales were up thanks to a huge increase in digital downloads. Year-end sales figures released Thursday by Nielsen SoundScan said 588.2 ==========> 07-01-08-AP-IBMPlansToBuildVirtualStoresOnSecondLife.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16412977.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 08, 2007 IBM launches e-commerce push in Second Life SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - IBM Corp. didn't throw a lavish casino party or set up an over-the-top booth to mark its return to the International Consumer Electronics Show for the first time in a decade. Rather, the company reserved its most ambitious consumer initiative for the ==========> 07-01-08-BBCNews-WebUsersDemandingMoreFromWebCompanies.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6198125.stm Web users driving change in 2007 [Accessed Jan. 8, 2007] By Mark Ward, Technology Correspondent, BBC News website It is often said the only constant in the world of hi-tech is change - a fact that makes prediction notoriously difficult. But here three tech veterans give their view about what will drive change over the next 12 months and beyond. There is little doubt that 2006 was the year that web users started to flex ==========> 07-01-10-AP-JapansBiggestOnlineMallToLaunchUSService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16427953.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 10, 2007 Report: Japan's biggest online mall to launch U.S. service TOKYO (AP) - Japan's biggest online shopping mall Rakuten Inc. plans to launch a service in the United States later this year, according to a news report Wednesday. Tokyo-based Rakuten, used by an estimated 18 million shoppers in Japan, also ==========> 07-01-11-NewTeeVee-FoundersOfSkypeAndKazaaDescribeOnlineTVProject.txt========== http://newteevee.com/2007/01/11/venice-project-mozilla/ Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla Written by Om Malik- Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 11:25 PM PT NewTeeVee The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders of Kazaa and Skype are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just as ==========> 07-01-15-HackingNetFlix-NetflixToOfferOnlineVideoService.txt========== http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2007/01/breaking_netfli.html#more Breaking: Netflix Launches "Watch Now" Downloads HackingNetFlix, January 15, 2007 | Netflix has launched a new feature called Watch Now that will enable subscribers, at no additional cost, to watch movies immediately on Netflix.com. The new service does not limit the number of movies a customer can watch, instead it gives users 1 hour of video for every $1 they spend monthly (18 hours of online video is free with the $17.99 plan). Customers can watch 5 ==========> 07-01-16-AP-FoundersOfSkypeAndKazaaUnveilJoostNetTVService-2.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/16472701.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 16, 2007 Skype founders unveil TV service details, TOBY STERLING, Associated Press AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The co-founders of the Internet telephone service Skype unveiled the brand name and details of their latest project Tuesday: a new Internet-based television service called Joost. Entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold Skype for $2.6 billion ==========> 07-01-16-AP-FoundersOfSkypeAndKazaaUnveilJoostNetTVService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16472975.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 16, 2007 Founders of Skype, Kazaa unveil Joost, a Net TV service AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The co-founders of the Internet telephone service Skype unveiled the brand name and details of their latest project Tuesday: a new Internet-based television service called Joost. Entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold Skype for $2.6 billion ==========> 07-01-16-SJMerc-NetflixToOfferOnlineVideoService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16470058.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 16, 2007 Mail too slow? Netflix to roll out online video, By John Boudreau, Mercury News Netflix, the Los Gatos DVDs-by-mail company, will offer a sneak preview beginning today of its new online service that lets viewers access and watch select movies and TV episodes through the Internet. The trial ``Watch Now'' program, to run through June, will be offered for no ==========> 07-01-16-Variety-FoundersOfSkypeAndKazaaUnveilJoostNetTVService.txt========== http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957482.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 Skype founders launch Joost.com Online venture will offer free TV content worldwide, By STEVE CLARKE, Jan. 16, 2007 LONDON — The ambitious online TV endeavor created by the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, known as The Venice Project, will be launched as Joost.com. ==========> 07-01-17-AP-OnlineMusicDoublesIn2006To10PercentOfAllMusicSales.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16480148.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 17, 2007 Online music sales doubled in 2006, JANE WARDELL, Associated Press LONDON - Global online music sales nearly doubled in 2006 to about $2 billion, or 10 percent of all sales, but failed to compensate for an overall decline in sales of CDs, the global music industry trade body said Wednesday. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or the IFPI, also ==========> 07-01-18-AP-eBayTightensSecurityPrecautions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16485614.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 18, 2007 EBay heightens security precautions RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Executives at eBay Inc. are touting security as their top priority in 2007 after an internal survey showed that online scammers may be denting the company's reputation. ==========> 07-01-22-AP-EuropeanInlineGamblingSharesFallAsUSBeginsProbe.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16519192.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 22, 2007 European online gambling shares fall as U.S. begins probe LONDON (AP) - Shares in European online gambling companies fell as much as 14 percent Monday on news that U.S. prosecutors had launched a probe into Internet gambling. The U.S. Department of Justice has sent subpoenas to about 15 investment banks ==========> 07-01-22-AP-RuckusNetworksBringsAdSupportedMusicServiceToCollegeStudents.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16519205.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 22, 2007 Ruckus Networks expands Web music service to all college students LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ruckus Network, which distributes movies and music online to colleges nationwide, is expanding access to its ad-supported music download service to any U.S. college student. Beginning Monday, any student with a valid university e-mail account will be ==========> 07-01-22-PBS-LegalDownloadsResultingInIndustryLoosingControlOverPhysicalAlbumSales.txt========== http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/01/digital_disruptionmusic_indust.html Digital Disruption - Music Industry Losing Control Over Album Sales PBS, Jan.22, 2007, by Mark Glaser, 11:38AM Why is the retail price of a new music CD $15.98? Where does this price come from and how is it set? Is it fair? For a long time, I’ve wondered about the high price of music, especially when bought in physical form as a compact disc. As longtime music buyers, we have a certain mindset about the CDs we buy: We have always bought new CDs for around $12 to $15 or more, and that’s the way it ==========> 07-01-23-AP-SonyBMGAndWarnerJoinInDownloadJoinVentureInChina.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16525048.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 23, 2007 Sony BMG, Warner Music in joint venture, ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group have partnered with a joint venture operating in China that develops technology for distributing music downloads and other content to mobile phones, the record companies said Tuesday. ==========> 07-01-25-AP-NetherlandsJoinsEURebellionAgainstITunesRestrictions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16544785.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 25, 2007 Netherlands joins European rebellion against iTunes restrictions AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch consumer protection agency became the latest in Europe on Thursday to pressure Apple Inc. into changing restrictions that tie songs bought on iTunes to its market-leading iPod players. Consumentenbond spokesman Ewald van Kouwen said his group had filed a formal ==========> 07-02-05-AP-SpendingOnSearchRelatedAdsCouldRise39PercentIn2007.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16628927.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 05, 2007 Study: Spending on search-related ads could rise 39 percent this year NEW YORK (AP) - Online advertising spending in the United States will grow 18 percent this year, faster than in any other media, and Internet search advertising alone will grow 39 percent, a market research company is forecasting. ==========> 07-02-05-NatlNews-LegalDownloadsOfBeatlesSongsCouldTakeOverTop10.txt========== http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=SN533741I&news_headline=beatles_could_t ake_over_entire_top_10 Beatles Could Take Over Entire Top 10 National News, Monday, 5th February 2007, 17:34 The Beatles are quoted at 10/1 by bookmakers to occupy every space in the Top 10 chart within the next year. And Hey Jude is the favourite to be the first Fab Four digital number one ==========> 07-02-06-AP-Wal-MartLaunchesDigitalMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16632764.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 06, 2007 Wal-Mart launches long-awaited digital movie download store LOS ANGELES (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched its long-awaited online movie download store, entering a market that has yet to catch on with consumers but is expected to grow rapidly. A ``beta'' version of the online video store, which debuted Tuesday, sells ==========> 07-02-06-GigaOm-Wal-MartLaunchesDigitalMovieDownloadsInSpiteOfPreviousLackOfTechSuccess.txt========== http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/walmart-moviedownloads/ Wal-Mart, The Grand Delusion, Part II Written by Om Malik- Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 8:23 AM PT, GigaOm Back in the 1990s, you knew things were getting a tad frothy when you found companies with essentially no expertise in a “hot business” expanding into businesses they had little or no clue about. A good case in point: Enron and its broadband push. They thought bandwidth was like energy, and well rest is a well known tragedy. ==========> 07-02-06-MacNN-NorwegianConsumerCouncilSaysAppleSkirtingKeyIssuesInITunesMusicDispute.txt========== http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/06/norway.responds.to.jobs/ Tuesday, February 6th Norway responds to Jobs' open DRM letter MacNN Senior advisor Torgeir Waterhouse of the Norwegian Consumer Council has responded to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open letter concerning digital rights management and free music, which the executive published earlier today. "We're happy to see Steve Jobs take on the responsibility that follows from Apple's ==========> 07-02-06-NYT-Wal-MartLaunchesDigitalMovieDownloads.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/technology/06video.html?ei=5090&en=6b0d3659171 c7eca&ex=1328418000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1170784850-Q+RB JA7fjEN/J07z63hbXg The New York Times' February 6, 2007 Wal-Mart and Studios in Film Deal, By MICHAEL BARBARO Wal-Mart Stores may have lost the online DVD rental battle, but it has no plans to lose the higher-stakes video downloading war. ==========> 07-02-07-AP-AmazonKeepsCockfightingMagsDespiteLawsuitThreats.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16648822.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 07, 2007 Amazon keeping cockfight magazines despite lawsuit threat SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com says it will keep selling two magazines about cockfighting, despite plans by the Humane Society of the United States to file a lawsuit Thursday accusing the company of operating an illegal ``animal-fighting paraphernalia sale and distribution scheme.'' ==========> 07-02-07-AP-NorwegianConsumerCouncilSaysAppleSkirtingKeyIssuesInITunesMusicDispute.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16644172.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 07, 2007 Norway: Apple skirting key issues in iTunes music dispute OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norway's Consumer Council applauded signs of willingness from Apple Inc. to open its iTunes music store to players other than its iPod, but said Wednesday the company was skirting key issues and passing responsibility to record companies. ==========> 07-02-07-AP-TiVoAndAmazonBringVideoDownloadsDirectToTVSets.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16641224.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 07, 2007 TiVo, Amazon bring video downloads into the TV room SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. have jumped into the digital download wars -- with a twist. The new partners will beam movies and TV shows directly to their customers' living rooms. The companies said a test version of their new service, called Amazon Unbox on ==========> 07-02-12-FoxNews-BeatlesMusicToBeAvailableForDownloadingSoon.txt========== http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251410,00.html Beatles Ready for Legal Downloading Soon Fox News, Monday , February 12, 2007, By Roger Friedman The Beatles songs — all of them — will be offered for downloading soon. That’s what Neil Aspinall, the head of Apple Corps Ltd. and the man who’s protected the Beatles legacy for the last 40 years — told me over the weekend. “All 13 core albums, the ones originally released on CD in 1987, have been ==========> 07-02-19-SJMerc-P2PProvidingLegalMusicAndVideoDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16732868.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 19, 2007 Going straight: Peer-to-peer entertainment deals By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News It's the ending entertainment kingpins would have ordered Hollywood to produce if the industry's struggle with peer-to-peer piracy had been a scripted reality show: After years of ferocious legal battles and high-tech hijinx, the unsavory purveyors of illicit music, TV shows and movies come in from the cold, pledging ==========> 07-02-23-Bloomberg-EMIAndOnlineMusicRetailersHaltTalksOnProvidingNonCopyProtectedMusic.txt========== http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awZmsCe3NdSU EMI, Online Music Retailers Halt Copyright Talks, People Say By Dina Bass and Andy Fixmer Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- EMI Group Plc and online music sellers including Microsoft Corp. halted talks aimed at removing copyright protection from songs because they couldn't agree on the size of an advance payment, people briefed on the offer said. ==========> 07-02-25-LATimes-HollywoodDoesntMatterMuchAnymore.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-gabler25feb25,0,4482096.sto ry The movie magic is gone Hollywood, which once captured the nerve center of American life, doesn't matter much anymore. By Neal Gabler, Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2007 TONIGHT'S Oscars will be awarded, most likely, in the usual atmosphere of solemn self-congratulation and decorous chest-thumping. But for all the outward ==========> 07-02-25-NYT-BitTorrentLauchingLegalDownoadSite.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/technology/25bit.html?ex=1330059600&en=7b224e0 313e84cff&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss The New York Times, February 25, 2007 Software Exploited by Pirates Goes to Work for Hollywood, By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 — Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent. On Monday, the company, whose technology unleashed a wave of illegal ==========> 07-02-26-SJMerc-BitTorrentLauchingLegalDownoadSite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16785903.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 26, 2007 BitTorrent opens its movie store By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News Call it ``Hollywood's Revenge.'' BitTorrent, the San Francisco company that created the most popular software for pirating content on the Web, is launching a marketplace of legal movies on ==========> 07-02-27-SJMerc-ItsTimeToTreatMusicAsAServiceRatherThanAGood.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16794367.htm SJ Mercury News, Posted on Tue, Feb. 27, 2007 It's time to treat music as a service rather than a good, By Don Tapscott Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicked off a debate last week on whether the digital songs his company sells online should continue to be encased in technology to prevent endless copying. The issue is a red herring. What the music industry should discuss, instead, is how to move toward a smarter business model that offers music for rent rather than purchase. ==========> 07-03-02-AP-BBCBeginsShowingVideoExcerptsOnYouTube.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16819668.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 02, 2007 BBC signs deal with YouTube to show program excerpts LONDON (AP) - The British Broadcasting Corp. began showing excerpts from its news and entertainment programs on the YouTube video-sharing Web site Friday, becoming the first international broadcaster to ink a major deal with the Google Inc.-owned portal. ==========> 07-03-02-BenMetcalf-BBCBeginsShowingVideoExcerptsOnYouTube.txt========== http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/02/my-reactions-to-the-bbc-deal-wi th-googleyoutube/ My reactions to the BBC deal with Google/YouTube Ben Metcalfe Blog, Published: 03.02.07 / 7am The BBC has announced that it’s done a deal with YouTube, to put short clips and trailers up on the video sharing site. I actually found out about this last Monday when I visited the BBC, but promised to keep it quiet until the official announcement. ==========> 07-03-02-NYT-YouTubeDoesSmalDeals-BigOnecomingSoon.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/technology/02google.html?ei=5088&en=0022647a0e 470b64&ex=1330491600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1172853638-ynhJSpSw Cxg5JZkuPdBO3Q The New York Times, March 2, 2007 Google Courts Small YouTube Deals, and Very Soon, a Larger One, By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 — Google has been frustrated in its efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major studios and networks to put their video on YouTube. But in the meantime, it is forming partnerships with hundreds of ==========> 07-03-02-SplashMedia-BBCBeginsShowingVideoExcerptsOnYouTube.txt========== http://splashcastmedia.com/the-bbc-decides-to-youtube SplashCast: Channel Yourself Across The Web The BBC Decides to YouTube, March 2nd, 2007, by Marshall Kirkpatrick The BBC announced today that it has singed a deal with Google in regards to BBC video on YouTube. The agreement raises interesting strategic questions as it represents an important alternative approach to the high profile requests to remove content by other publishers. The BBC has made a series of high-profile announcements regarding new social media - the organization said it was ==========> 07-03-02-TechCrunch-GoodAndBadNewsForYouTubeWithContentProviders.txt========== http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/02/good-news-bad-news-at-gootube/ TechCrunch, March 2 2007 Good News, Bad News at GooTube, Michael Arrington Lots of news today around YouTube’s efforts to get big content providers under agreement to provide their stuff to YouTube. First, the good news. The BBC has agreed to allow some of their content onto YouTube in exchange for a share of advertising revenue. Only promotional clips ==========> 07-03-06-AP-GoogleCEOSaysNewAndOldMediaCompaniesDividedOverInternetVideo.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16845327.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 06, 2007 Google CEO: Old and new media remain divided over online video NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the Internet giant continues to pursue deals that will let it show copyrighted videos on YouTube, but suggested old and new media remain far apart in how they view the emerging business of online video. ==========> 07-03-07-AP-USOnlineAdRevenueRises34PercentToOver16B.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16853914.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 07, 2007 U.S. online ad revenue rises 34 percent to $16.8 billion in 2006, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. online advertising revenue climbed 34 percent to $16.8 billion during 2006, setting a new record for the third consecutive year, according to estimates released Wednesday by an industry trade group. ==========> 07-03-19-NYT-ResearchersTraceJunkWebPagesCreatedToFoolSearchEngines.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/technology/19spam.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages Yi-Min Wang of Microsoft helped trace the source of the Web pages. By JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times, Published: March 19, 2007 Tens of thousands of junk Web pages, created only to lure search-engine users to advertisements, are proliferating like billboards strung along freeways. Now Microsoft researchers say they have traced the companies and techniques behind them. ==========> 07-03-22-BuzzMachine-NewsCorpAndNBCUniversalFormNewWebsiteToProvideVideoAndChallengeYouTube.txt========== http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/03/22/the-nbcfox-gigadeal-on-video/ The NBC/Fox gigadeal on video BuzzMachine, March 22nd, 2007 Just as it was to be announced, I learned about what could be an extraordinary deal between NBC and Fox to go a different way from Viacom in their relationship with online video. The two networks/studios are creating a new company to distribute TV on the ==========> 07-03-22-SJMerc-NewsCorpAndNBCUniversalFormNewWebsiteToProvideVideoAndChallengeYouTube.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16953925.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 22, 2007 YouTube under fire from media, Web titans By Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News News Corporation and NBC Universal are going after YouTube -- with help from AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo. The media and Web giants are teaming to launch an Internet video site that will offer free television shows, including ``24,'' ``Saturday Night Live,'' and ``The Simpsons,'' as well as movies. ==========> 07-03-23-AP-JudgeDismissesSuitAttackingGoogleSearchRankingsPolicies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16962389.htm Associated Press, Posted on Fri, Mar. 23, 2007 Federal judge dismisses suit attacking Google's search rankings SAN JOSE - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Google Inc. abused its position as the Internet's leading search engine by wrongfully banishing dozens of Web sites from its index. In a March 16 ruling, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel concluded there were ==========> 07-03-23-SJMerc-NewsCorpAndNBCUniversalFormNewWebsiteToProvideVideoAndChallengeYouTube.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16960677.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 23, 2007 Can Hollywood topple YouTube? GOOGLE-OWNED VIDEO SITE HOLDS `POSITION OF POWER' VS. STUDIOS By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News NBC Universal and News Corp. announced Thursday that they are teaming up with Google's biggest rivals in an effort to topple ``the kings'' of YouTube off their Internet throne. ==========> 07-03-25-SJMerc-IndependentBandRisesOnChartsViaITunesDistribution.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16974100.htm Posted on Sun, Mar. 25, 2007 Big media gets `toilet-papered' as iTunes push for band falls short By Shay Quillen, Mercury News A bid by podcasters and bloggers to launch an independent band to No. 1 on the iTunes chart Thursday apparently fell short. As of 4:30 p.m. Friday, the song ``Mine Again'' by Black Lab, a rock band formed in San Francisco in the 1990s, had not cracked the overall U.S. Top 100 at Apple's digital download site. ==========> 07-03-26-AP-ElectronicArtsAndNettwerkOneMusicToCreateFullServiceMusicSite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16976800.htm Associated Press, Posted on Mon, Mar. 26, 2007 Electronic Arts to create full-service music company in joint venture with Nettwerk One Music SAN FRANCISCO - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. announced Monday the creation of a full-service music label in a joint venture with Nettwerk One Music Ltd. ==========> 07-03-29-AP-AppleITunesWillProvideFullAlbumsAtDiscount.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_5548942 Apple rolls out iTunes feature to buy full albums at discount Associated Press, 03/29/2007 10:39:26 AM PDT SAN JOSE - Apple Inc., the company that popularized selling songs online for 99 cents apiece, now hopes to buoy interest in albums, giving customers credit for purchases of full albums from which they have bought individual tracks. Apple introduced the "Complete My Album" feature Thursday on its iTunes Store. ==========> 07-03-30-AP-WTOFavorsOnlineGamblingInterestsAgainstUSGovernment.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5557510 WTO ruling favors online gambling interests Associated Press, 03/30/2007 09:22:19 AM PDT GENEVA - The U.S. has failed to change its ban on Internet betting to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling that said the legislation unfairly targets offshore casinos, the global trade body said Friday. The ruling opens the door to possible commercial sanctions against the U.S. ==========> 07-04-03-AP-EUSaysAppleITunesCountryOfResidenceRestrictionsViolatesAntitrustLaws.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_5583154?nclick_check=1 EU launches antitrust probe into Apple's iTunes The Associated Press, 04/03/2007 07:59:12 AM PDT BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The deals Apple Inc. struck with record labels to stock its European iTunes stores may violate EU competition rules, regulators said Tuesday. Apple and the record companies were notified of an investigation into their ==========> 07-04-07-CoxNews-EUProbeOfITunesPraised.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_5616320 EU's iTunes probe praised EFFECT SPREADING ACROSS ATLANTIC By Shelley Emling, Cox News Service, 04/07/2007 01:39:37 AM PDT LONDON - Europe's antitrust probe into the way Apple works with the major music labels to sell songs on the online iTunes store is benefiting music lovers across the Atlantic, and some see more changes on the way. ==========> 07-04-11-AP-MGMOffersDownloadableMoviesOnITunes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5643488 MGM becomes the latest major studio to list films with iTunes Associated Press, 04/11/2007 02:43:05 PM PDT SAN JOSE, Calif. - MGM has become the latest major film studio to offer downloadable movies on Apple's iTunes Store. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. deal, announced Wednesday, builds the iTunes catalog to more than 500 movies. The studio is offering classic movies ==========> 07-04-12-AP-RepFrankWillPushToLiftUSBanOnOnlineGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5651066 Rep. Frank attacks Internet gambling ban Associated Press, 04/12/2007 10:03:16 AM PDT BRUSSELS, Belgium - Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday he would start pushing to lift a U.S. ban on online gambling in the next few weeks, but said it was too early to make any concrete move to lift restrictions ruled illegal last month by the World Trade Organization. ==========> 07-04-17-AP-CurrentDigitalMusicFilesHaveLowerQualityThanCDsAndRecords.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5687765 Digital music libraries and devices portend death of hi-fi sound Associated Press, 04/17/2007 02:31:01 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO - Music lovers remember a familiar advertising image from the past: a man reclined in a chair, head back, blown away by music from his high-fidelity sound system. Like the Marlboro Man before him, Maxell's pitchman is now a relic. ==========> 07-04-20-AP-CircuitCityAndNapsterTeamToLaunchDigitalMusicService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/personaltech/ci_5714882 Circuit City, Napster team up to offer new digital music service Associated Press, 04/20/2007 02:02:54 PM PDT LOS ANGELES - Online music retailer Napster Inc. said Friday it is teaming up with electronics retail chain Circuit City Stores Inc. to launch a new digital music service. The co-branded service, called Circuit City \+ Napster, will be powered by Los ==========> 07-04-26-AP-RepFrankProposesBillToAllowInternetGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5758016 Here's the deal: Proposal would allow Internet gambling Associated Press, 04/26/2007 03:28:50 PM PDT WASHINGTON - The ban on Internet gambling enacted last fall would be overturned under legislation proposed Thursday by a senior House Democrat, but the bill faces long odds in Congress. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, ==========> 07-05-04-AP-USToUseWTOProcedureToClarifyOnlineGamblingBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5818734?nclick_check=1 U.S. to clarify online gambling ban Associated Press, 05/04/2007 09:30:40 AM PDT WASHINGTON - The United States will use a World Trade Organization procedure to clarify its ban on online gambling, a U.S. trade representative said Friday. In March, a WTO panel opened the door to possible commercial sanctions against the United States when it ruled that the U.S. law as written unfairly targets ==========> 07-05-08-Reuters-MediaCompaniesLookAtInternetContentDistributorsAsFoes.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0847652320070508?feedType=RSS&r pc=22 Old media turns combative against new media Reuters, Tue May 8, 2007 7:40PM EDT, By Kenneth Li LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than friend. ==========> 07-05-10-AP-ConsumersOverwhelminglyChooseSingleMusicTrackDownloadsOverAlbums.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5864627?nclick_check=1 Revenge of the single: Digital tracks now dominating the music industry Associated Press, 05/10/2007 01:32:34 PM PDT NEW YORK - It sounds like a horror movie: a beloved friend is callously exterminated, then reincarnated in a different form to wreak havoc on the killer. That's the nightmare currently facing the music industry. Almost a decade after ==========> 07-05-10-Billboard-BeatlesMusicAlmostAvailableForDownloads.txt========== http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=100358392 2 Exclusive: McCartney Goes Digital, Beatles 'Virtually Settled' Billboard, May 10, 2007, 5:30 PM ET, Brian Garrity, N.Y. and Paul Sexton, London Paul McCartney's new album, "Memory Almost Full," will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones. As previously reported, the set is due June 5 via Starbucks' new Hear Music label. In addition, McCartney tells Billboard in an exclusive interview to be ==========> 07-05-14-AP-OnlineClothingSalesOvertakeComputerGearPurchases.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/personaltech/ci_5893097 Study: Online apparel sales overtake computer gear purchases Associated Press, 05/14/2007 08:18:35 AM PDT NEW YORK - Online shoppers - wooed by new sites like Gap Inc.'s shoe site piperlime.com, enhanced merchandise images and such come-ons as free shipping - spent more on clothing and accessories than on computers for the first time ever, according to an annual industry study released Monday. ==========> 07-05-16-AP-AmazonPlansToSellMusicWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5908800 Amazon.com to launch music store without copy restrictions Associated Press, 05/16/2007 07:14:36 AM PDT SEATTLE - Online retailer Amazon.com said Wednesday that it plans to launch a digital music store later this year featuring songs without copy protection restrictions. The store will feature millions of songs from 12,000 labels able to be played ==========> 07-05-16-JupiterResearch-AmazonPlansToSellMusicWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/2007/05/other_shoe_dro p.html Other Shoe Drops: Amazon to Launch Digital Music Sales David Card, Jupiter Research, May 16, 2007, 09:24 AM Here's the release. They wouldn't tell me much more. Later this year, DRM-free MP3s from EMI (entire digital catalog) and 12,000 other labels. No word on pricing, but Amazon assured me they strive to offer low prices, and that careful observers will note that CDs have a lot of variety in their price ==========> 07-05-16-SJMerc-AmazonPlansToSellMusicWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5909664 Amazon plans to sell digital music without copy protection By Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News, 05/16/2007 09:36:34 AM PDT Amazon.com will launch a digital music store later this year, offering millions of songs from more than 12,000 record labels, including the entire digital catalogue of major label EMI, the companies said today. The Seattle online retailer said it will sell MP3s without digital rights ==========> 07-05-17-AP-StudyIndicatesMoreThan10PercentOfAdClicksFraudulent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5920147 Study raises more questions about click fraud Associated Press, 05/17/2007 03:30:02 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO - Deceptive clicks on Internet advertising links distributed by Google, Yahoo and other online marketing vehicles are probably occurring far more frequently than the network operators acknowledge, according to a study by fraud detection specialist Fair Isaac Corp. ==========> 07-05-17-SJMerc-AmazonPlansToSellMusicWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5915930 Amazon to sell digital music playable on any MP3 device By Troy Wolverton, Mercury News, 05/17/2007 01:34:15 AM PDT Amazon.com is getting into the digital music market, taking on Apple's iTunes Music Store. But the move may end up helping Apple instead, analysts say. That's because Amazon may expand the market for digital music downloads. That in turn could increase the market for digital music players, particularly for ==========> 07-05-18-AP-10PercentOfInternetAdvertisingClicksAreFraudulent.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5925778 1 in 10 online ad clicks are fraudulent, study says By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 05/18/2007 01:41:56 AM PDT Deceptive clicks on Internet advertising links distributed by Google, Yahoo and other online marketing vehicles are probably occurring far more frequently than the network operators acknowledge, according to a study by fraud-detection specialist Fair Isaac. ==========> 07-05-22-AP-AntiguaSeeksCompensationFromUSOverWTODecisionOnInternetGambling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_5959469 Antigua threatens to target U.S. interests as WTO adopts decision on Internet gambling Associated Press, 05/22/2007 12:48:27 PM PDT GENEVA - The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda seeks compensation from the U.S. over its illegal restrictions on Internet gambling sites based overseas and on Tuesday asked other countries to join in as it targets Washington over its failure to comply with global trade rules. ==========> 07-05-30-AP-AppleDebutsOnlineSongsFreeOfCopyingRestrictions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6020639 Apple debuts online songs free of copying restrictions Associated Press, 05/30/2007 09:12:27 AM PDT Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store started selling thousands of songs without copy protection Wednesday, marking the trendsetting company's latest coup and a model for what analysts say will likely become a pattern for online music sales. Launching initially with songs from music company EMI Group PLC, iTunes Plus ==========> 07-05-30-Apple-FreeUniversityEducationalMaterialAvailableOnITunes.txt========== http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/05/30itunesu.html Apple Announces iTunes U on the iTunes Store Free Content From Top Universities Now Available CUPERTINO, California—May 30, 2007—Apple® today announced the launch of iTunes® U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT. ==========> 07-05-31-EMI-EMIContentToBeAvailableOnYouTube.txt========== http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press38.htm EMI, 31 May 2007 EMI Music, Google and YouTube strike milestone partnership Fans to have on-demand access to videos from EMI Music’s roster of artists on YouTube NEW YORK and SAN BRUNO, Calif. – May 31, 2007 – EMI Music – one of the world’s leading global music companies, Google and YouTube, the leader in online video – today announced a landmark agreement which will give YouTube users ==========> 07-05-31-SJMerc-EMIContentToBeAvailableOnYouTube.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6029369 Google, EMI deal gives YouTube users access to music label's videos, clips By Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News. 05/31/2007 09:50:50 AM PDT Google and major music label EMI have reached an agreement that will allow YouTube users to watch music videos from EMI artists and include clips from them in videos they create, the companies said today. YouTube now has agreements with all four major music labels, and the latest ==========> 07-06-05-AP-CDSwappingSiteLalaToOffer99CentMusicDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6063911 CD-swapping site looks to undergo transformation LALA.COM PLANS TO OFFER 200,000 SONGS AT 99 CENTS EACH By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press, 06/05/2007 01:38:15 AM PDT Entrepreneurs behind Silicon Valley start-up Lala.com hope to transform the CD-swapping site into a music portal where members can download songs directly to their iPods, bypassing the computer hard drives where most music is stored. ==========> 07-06-06-AP-InternetAdSpendingUpFor10thQuarter.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6076567 Spending on Internet ads hits new high for 10th straight quarter Associated Press, 06/06/2007 04:56:22 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. spending on Internet ads hit a new high for the 10th consecutive quarter during the first three months of the year, a trend that has enriched online powerhouses like Google Inc. and has distressed other more established media like newspapers. ==========> 07-06-06-CarnegieMellonUniv-OnlineShoppersWillPayExtraToProtectPrivacy.txt========== http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/June/june6_privacy.shtml Online Shoppers Will Pay Extra To Protect Privacy, Carnegie Mellon Study Shows Carnegie Mellon University, June 6, 2007 PITTSBURGH—People are willing to pay extra to buy items from online retailers when they can easily ascertain how retailers' policies will protect their privacy, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows. Participants in the laboratory study used a Carnegie Mellon shopping search ==========> 07-06-12-AP-ApplePlansOnlineMovieRentals.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6119988 Video rentals next for Apple Associated Press, 06/12/2007 01:38:20 AM PDT LOS ANGELES - Apple is planning to launch an online movie rental service by fall, though the company is meeting resistance from some Hollywood studios concerned about piracy, people familiar with the plan told the Associated Press on Monday. Apple might try to launch the service sooner to coincide with the planned June 29 introduction of its iPhone, which will play video files, ==========> 07-06-12-AP-BlockbusterOffersLowerPricesOnlineMovieRentals.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6122280 Blockbuster offers lower-priced plans for online movie rentals to compete better with Netflix Associated Press, 06/12/2007 09:28:15 AM PDT DALLAS - Blockbuster Inc. is offering lower-priced plans for online movie rentals as it competes with Netflix Inc. in a market that it said could grow 43 percent this year. ==========> 07-06-18-AP-EBayMakesSiteMoreFriendlyToCustomers.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-ebay18jun18,1,6092519.story?coll=la-head lines-technology From the Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2007 EBay makes a bid to freshen its image, By Brian Bergstein, The Associated Press BOSTON — When Pierre Omidyar founded EBay 12 years ago, he wanted to build the world's most efficient marketplace. At the very least, he launched the most comprehensive one. ==========> 07-06-18-IntlHeraldTrib-EBayMakesSiteMoreFriendlyToCustomers.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/18/business/ecom.php EBay moving to speed growth of its auctions By Bob Tedeschi, International Herald Tribune, Published: June 18, 2007 BOSTON: In 1998, eBay's chief executive, Meg Whitman, changed the background color of the site's home page from gray to white. Rather than simply switching colors overnight, though, Whitman directed eBay's engineers to bleach the gray over the course of 30 days. ==========> 07-06-18-NYT-EBayMakesSiteMoreFriendlyToCustomers.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/technology/18ecom.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, June 18, 2007 EBay Moves to Recharge Its Auctions, By BOB TEDESCHI BOSTON — In 1998, eBay’s chief executive, Meg Whitman, changed the background color of the site’s home page from gray to white. Rather than simply switching colors overnight, though, Ms. Whitman directed eBay’s engineers to bleach the gray over the course of 30 days. At the end of the month, the company asked users if they noticed anything different. No one did. ==========> 07-06-20-AP-AntiguaRequestsTradeSanctionsAgainstUSForInternetGamblingRestrictions.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6185464 Antigua demands $3.4 billion in trade sanctions against U.S. in Internet gambling dispute Associated Press, Article Launched: 06/20/2007 07:41:55 AM PDT GENEVA - The United States should face commercial sanctions worth more than $3.4 billion each year for its failure to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling that its Internet gambling restrictions are illegal, the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda said Wednesday. ==========> 07-06-28-PennStateU-SearchersFavorYahooAndGoogleOverOthersEvenIfResultsIdentical.txt========== http://www.live.psu.edu/story/24878 Branding matters -- even when searching Penn State Univ, Thursday, June 28, 2007 University Park, Pa. -- Web searchers who evaluated identical search-engine results overwhelmingly favored Yahoo! and Google, providing evidence that branding matters as much on the Internet as off, according to a Penn State study. ==========> 07-07-01-BoingBoing-VivendiUniversalMusicRefusesToRenewITunesDeal.txt========== http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/01/universal_threatens_.html BoingBoing, Sunday, July 1, 2007 Universal threatens to drop iTunes Store contract Universal Music Group, the largest record label on Earth (an accomplishment akin to being the world's largest corset-buttoner, horse-shoer, or gutta-percha cable-insulator), has told Apple that it plans not to renew its contract to sell its music via the iTunes Store. ==========> 07-07-02-Last100-VivendiUniversalMusicRefusesToRenewITunesDeal.txt========== http://www.last100.com/2007/07/02/why-apple-doesnt-need-universal-music/ Why Apple doesn’t need Universal Music by Steve O'Hear, Last100, July 2nd, 2007 iTunes logoThe New York Times is reporting that Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group has decided against renewing its licensing deal with Apple’s iTunes. Instead, Universal will license its music to Apple “at will”, meaning that the company can remove its songs from the iTunes store at short notice, which it hopes will put the company in a stronger position when negotiating pricing and ==========> 07-07-02-NYT-VivendiUniversalMusicRefusesToRenewITunesDeal-2.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/business/media/02universal.html?ex=1341028800& en=64687402344443f8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss The New York Times, July 2, 2007 Universal in Dispute With Apple Over iTunes, By JEFF LEEDS Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is an emerging force in the mobile phone business, thanks to the snaking lines of gadget fans who queued up last week to buy the iPhone. But now he faces a headache in an industry Apple already dominates — digital music. ==========> 07-07-02-NYT-VivendiUniversalMusicRefusesToRenewITunesDeal.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6280120 Music group refuses to renew iTunes deal New York Times, Article Launched: 07/02/2007 01:30:11 AM PDT The Universal Music Group of Vivendi, the world's biggest music corporation, last week notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes, according to executives briefed on the issue who asked for anonymity because negotiations between the companies are confidential. ==========> 07-07-03-Bloomberg-YahooPlansTargetedPersonaizedAds.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6287821 Yahoo aims to personalize ads, charge more TRAVEL IS FIRST INDUSTRY TO USE NEW, TARGETED SMARTADS SYSTEM By Dina Bass, Bloomberg News, Article Launched: 07/03/2007 01:39:57 AM PDT Yahoo has developed software to let advertisers quickly generate personalized listings to target users as it seeks to sell more expensive ads. The SmartAds system is being introduced one industry at a time, starting with ==========> 07-07-03-NYT-NBCTestsViewersBiologicalReactionsToFastForwardingThroughCommercials.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/business/media/03adco.html?ex=1341115200&en=02 6462fe95d1a1ab&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss The New York Times, July 3, 2007 Engaging at Any Speed? Commercials Put to Test, By LOUISE STORY In new experiments for NBC, people are hooked up to sensors as they watch television, and researchers observe changes in their heart rate, palm sweat, eye movement and breathing patterns. ==========> 07-07-03-SFChron-AppleDeniesUniversalMusicGroupMayQuitITunes.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/03/BUGM5QPPLG1.DTL Apple denies big record label may quit iTunes Universal reportedly won't sign a long-term contract for music Ellen Lee, Chronicle San Francisco Staff Writer, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its online iTunes Store. "We are still negotiating with Universal," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said. ==========> 07-07-04-MacWorld-UniversalMusicGroupConfirmsNonRenewalOfITunesLongTermContract.txt========== http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=18459 Universal confirms that it will not renew its long-term iTunes contract Jonny Evans, MacWorld, July 4, 2006 Universal Music Group has confirmed reports that it has altered its licensing deal with Apple's iTunes service. The world's largest major record label last night released a statement on the matter, telling Macworld UK: "Universal Music Group has decided not to renew ==========> 07-07-05-AP-EBayLaunchesUSSiteForClassifiedAds.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6305947 EBay quietly launches U.S. site for classified ads Associated Press, Article Launched: 07/05/2007 01:37:24 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO - EBay Inc. has launched a free classified advertising site in the United States, an experiment the online auction company says could lead to new sources of revenue. Since February 2005, San Jose, Calif.-based eBay has been operating an ==========> 07-07-09-AP-NielsenToFocusOnTimeSpentNotPagesViewsInRatings.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6333548 Nielsen to focus on time spent, not page views, in measuring Web site popularity Associated Press, Article Launched: 07/09/2007 12:43:28 PM PDT NEW YORK - A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites. The move by Nielsen/NetRatings, expected to be announced Tuesday, comes as ==========> 07-07-09-DMWDaily-NielsenToFocusOnTimeSpentNotPagesViewsInRatings.txt========== http://dmwmedia.com/news/2007/07/10/analysis-nielsen-swaps-one-problematic-metri c-for-another Analysis: Nielsen Swaps One Problematic Metric For Another Submitted by Scott Karp, DMW Daily, July 10, 2007 Nielsen took a big step towards accelerating the death of the page view by announcing it would rank websites by time spend on the site instead. But time spent is an equally problematic metric that assumes that more is better, which isn’t the case with web applications designed for efficiency, like Google ==========> 07-07-09-PaidContent-NielsenToFocusOnTimeSpentNotPagesViewsInRatings.txt========== http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nielsen-to-drop-page-view-ratings-in-favor- of-time-spent/ Nielsen To Drop Page View Ratings In Favor Of Time Spent By Staci D. Kramer - PaidContent - Mon 09 Jul 2007 02:25 PM PST Earlier today we wrote about IAB’s efforts to standardize web video metrics. Now, news that Nielsen/NetRatings is planning a major shift in web metrics, moving, according to the AP, from page views as the key metric to time spent on a site. This comes as more sites are using Ajax, which allows updating without ==========> 07-07-09-ReadWriteWeb-NielsenToFocusOnTimeSpentNotPagesViewsInRatings.txt========== http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tyranny_of_the_page_view.php Tyranny of the Page View Nearly Over? Written by Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb / July 9, 2007 / An AP report today states that Nielsen/NetRatings, one of the leading Internet stats services, will "scrap rankings" based on page views and replace it with how long visitors spend at websites. The reason is that online video and technologies such as Ajax "increasingly make page views less meaningful." We've known for some time, but it's big news if a major stats service like ==========> 07-07-10-CompWorld-NielsenToFocusOnTimeSpentNotPagesViewsInRatings.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1497013742;fp;16;fpid;0 New Web metric likely to hurt Google, help YouTube Nielsen/NetRatings to use total time spent by users of a site as its primary measurement metric Heather Havenstein, Computer World, 10/07/2007 08:31:09 In a nod to the success of emerging Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX and streaming media, one of the country's largest Internet benchmarking companies will no longer use page views as its primary metric for comparing sites. ==========> 07-07-17-AP-ChinaLaunchesCampaignToLimitTeenageInternetGamePlaying.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6396389 China clamps down on teenage Internet gaming Associated Press, 07/17/2007 01:37:58 PM PDT HONG KONG - The Chinese government has launched a campaign to limit the number of hours teenagers spend online playing games. Under new rules that took effect Monday, Chinese Internet gaming companies must install a program that requires users to enter their ID card numbers. After ==========> 07-07-23-JNolan-PrivacyBecomesACompetitiveWeapon.txt========== http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/07/23/privacy-as-a-competitive-weapon/ Privacy as a Competitive Weapon Jeff Nolan, Posted on July 23, 2007 A while back I wrote a post titled Google Flirts With Evil in which I argued that Google should offer an aggressive opt-out mechanism for personal dat "Google could actually take a leadership position on this issue [privcacy] and use it for competitive advantage, I would certainly be more inclined to use ==========> 07-07-24-AP-AOLToBuyInternetAdFirmTaconda.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_6452197 AOL reaches deal for targeted ad company Tacoda Associated Press, Article Launched: 07/24/2007 12:07:34 PM PDT NEW YORK - Continuing its bid to rely more on advertising as Internet access subscriptions plummet, AOL said Tuesday it was buying a company that delivers targeted ads based on a visitor's browsing habits. AOL, the online unit of Time Warner Inc., said the acquisition of Tacoda Inc. ==========> 07-07-24-DMWMedia-TacondaInterview-ImprovingOnlineAdRelevancy.txt========== http://dmwmedia.com/news/2007/07/24/improving-online-display-ad-relevancy-interv iew-with-tacoda-s-larry-allen Improving Online Display Ad Relevancy: Interview With Tacoda’s Larry Allen Submitted by Scott Karp on July 24, 2007 - 7:46am. Following up on my post about the poor state of online ad relevancy, I’ve been digging deeper with some of the companies that are working to improve that state, which lead to the following interview with Larry Allen, SVP, Business Development and Marketing at TACODA. Believe it or not, we completed this ==========> 07-07-26-Reuters-LindenLabStopsGamblingOnSecondLife.txt========== http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/07/26/linden-lab-outlaws-second-life- gambling/ Reuters, Linden Lab outlaws Second Life gambling Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:07am PDT, By Adam Reuters, (Adds Linden Lab comment) SECOND LIFE, July 26 (Reuters) - Second Life’s booming gambling sector was wiped out on Wednesday night when Linden Lab, which had taken earlier steps to restrict activity amid scrutiny from real-world law enforcement agencies, prohibited nearly all games of chance. ==========> 07-07-26-SecondLifeBlog-LindenLabStopsGamblingOnSecondLife.txt========== http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/07/25/wagering-in-second-life-new-policy/ Wagering In Second Life: New Policy Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 at 4:05 PM PDT by: Robin Linden [UPDATE: Wednesday, July 25 4:47PM PDT] For those of you who find logging into the Knowledge Base to be sort of kludgy (and I know it is — we’ll find a better way!), I’ve pasted the text of the policy and FAQ below. Several months ago we discussed the issue of gambling in Second Life (R) in a ==========> 07-07-31-ArsTechnica-EMusicPatrnersWithATTToSellMusicDownloadsViaCellphones.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070731-indie-music-meet-telco-behemoth-em usic-comes-to-att-phones.html Indie music, meet telco behemoth: eMusic partners with AT&T By Nate Anderson | ArsTechnica | July 31, 2007 - 09:13AM CT eMusic, which sells DRM-free MP3s, has just inked a deal with AT&T to make music available for purchase directly from AT&T handsets. Users can also download another copy from a home computer an no extra charge. ==========> 07-07-31-LinuxElectrons-NewSoftwareToolsToSecureTransactionsAndPrivateInformation.txt========== http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10989/prototype-software-tool-plugs-s ecurity-leaks Prototype Software Tool Plugs Security Leaks Linux Electrons, July 31 2007 @ 8:35 PM CDT Contributed by: Tommy GeneralChicago, IL – Often when you make an Internet transaction, symbols on the Web page assure you that your transaction will be secure and that private information about you, such as passwords, bank account or credit card numbers, ==========> 07-07-31-NYT-EMusicTOSellMusicDownloadsViaCellphones.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/business/media/31music.html?ex=1343534400&en=9 2980650f359cd6d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss The New York Times, July 31, 2007 Music From Independent Labels to Be Sold via Cellphones, By ROBERT LEVINE EMusic, the nation’s second-largest online music seller after Apple’s iTunes, plans to announce a deal with AT&T today that will allow people to buy songs from independent labels through their cellphones, without the need to go through a personal computer. ==========> 07-07-31-WiredBlogs-EMusicPatrnersWithATTToSellMusicDownloadsViaCellphones.txt========== http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/07/apples-3-billio.html Wired: Apple's '3 Billion Songs Sold' Tainted By AT&T's EMusic Affair By Adario Strange, WiredBlogs, July 31, 2007 | 12:27:12 PM Dpakman Today Apple announced that iTunes has cracked the 3 billion songs sold mark. The tip-off that this news is not one of Apple’s mega-announcements is that Steve Jobs declined to comment, instead allowing iTunes boss Eddy Cue to say, “We’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone.” OK, 3 billion songs sold is a big deal, but the timing ==========> 07-08-01-BloggingStocks-ACDCGroupSkipsITunesForDealWithVerizon.txt========== http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/08/01/bypassing-apple/ AC/DC is bypassing Apple Posted Aug 1st 2007 7:00AM by Douglas McIntyre It would appear to be a small thing. The band AC/DC will bypass selling songs [subscription required] on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes and has cut a deal with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) to market its music on the cell service's handsets. The band's label, Columbia Music said that the deal offered "a fantastic new ==========> 07-08-02-AP-MSToOfferFreeAdSupportedVersionOfWorks.txt========== Microsoft to offer free, ad-supported version of Works Associated Press, Article Launched: 08/02/2007 01:49:20 PM PDT SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. will test a free, advertising-supported version of Works, an already inexpensive package of word processing, spreadsheet and other programs, but would not say whether it is exploring a similar Web-based suite. The company said Wednesday that a limited number of computer makers will pre-install Microsoft Works 9 SE on new PCs in certain markets, and that the test of the business model will last about a year. ==========> 07-08-07-SJMerc-ElectronicWalletMovesCloserToReality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6562317?nclick_check=1 `Electronic wallet' era moves closer to reality By Mark Schwanhausser, Mercury News, 08/07/2007 01:52:27 AM PDT The day is coming when merchants will be able to beam coupons and other special offers to a shopper's cell phone so they can be redeemed at the checkout stand. In this case, a device made by Vivotech of Santa Clara reads the card and the offer and completes the transaction. ==========> 07-08-09-AlletInsider-UniversalToTestOnlineMusicSalesWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/08/universals-drm-.html Universal's DRM Drop: Just an Apple Negotiating Ploy AlleyInsider | Peter Kafka | August 9, 2007 11:38 PM The Times reports that Universal Music will join EMI and drop DRM restrictions from its digital downloads -- sort of. Why sort of? Because Universal won't be doing the deal with Apple's iTunes. Since Apple controls 70% of the digital music marketplace, the real news here ==========> 07-08-09-AP-AdSupportedMusicSiteSpiralFrogEntersBetaTesting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6581820 Ad-supported music site SpiralFrog enters beta testing Associated Press, 08/09/2007 07:03:26 AM PDT LOS ANGELES - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, has begun testing its service with plans to launch by the end of the year. The New York-based company recently began allowing an unspecified number of ==========> 07-08-09-JupiterResearch-UniversalToTestOnlineMusicSalesWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/2007/08/universal_musi c.html Universal Music's DRM-free Experiment Won't Solve Industry Woes DRM...the Old-Fashioned Way, Jupiter Research David Card | August 09, 2007, 08:13 PM Yeah, DRM-protected downloads suck. But so does a who-knows-what's-available-where shotgun approach. RealNetworks is doing Universal artists but hasn't got EMI's DRM-free tracks. iTunes has EMI but not ==========> 07-08-10-AP-gBoxMusicSiteToGetReferralsFromUniversalViaGoogleAds.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6594013 Startup hopes to challenge iTunes through Google ads Associated Press, 08/10/2007 02:21:23 PM PDT NEW YORK - Add gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes's dominance. The Cupertino, Calif., startup was forced out of a stealth mode when Universal Music Group announced late Thursday it would test sales of some digital music ==========> 07-08-10-AP-UniversalToTestOnlineMusicSalesWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_6590004 Digital tunes with no copy barrier on tap UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP TO TEST SALES FROM AUG. 21 to JAN. 31 By Alex Veiga, Associated Press, 08/10/2007 01:35:26 AM PDT LOS ANGELES - Universal Music Group said Thursday it will sell digital music from artists such as Sting, 50 Cent and Stevie Wonder without the customary copy-protection technology for a limited time. ==========> 07-08-10-DigitalDaily-UniversalToTestOnlineMusicSalesWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070810/umg-drm-free/ iTunes Is the ‘Control Group’–As in ‘More Control Than We’re Comfortable With’ Digital Daily, August 10, 2007, By John Paczkowski These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it. So it’s time to get paid for it.” –Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO Doug Morris on digital music players, November 2006 ==========> 07-08-10-LATimes-UniversalToTestOnlineMusicSalesWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/business/la-fi-music10aug10,1,3776126. story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter&ctrack=1&cset=true Universal Music to sell songs without copying constraints It will partner with Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Amazon but not iTunes. By Joseph Menn and Dawn C. Chmielewski, LA Times, August 10, 2007 Moving to blunt Apple Inc.'s growing power, the world's largest music company is bypassing the iPod maker to sell thousands of songs in an unrestricted digital format through many other online music stores. ==========> 07-08-10-NYT-UniversalToTestOnlineMusicSalesWithoutCopyProtection.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/business/10music.html?ei=5088&en=39b55e76375c9 504&ex=1344398400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1186769069-L/V0uLhlHjH bvLkjBs7X9Q The New York Times, August 10, 2007 Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection, By JEFF LEEDS Signaling another departure from the music industry’s longtime antipiracy strategy, the Universal Music Group will sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary copy protection software for at least the next ==========> 07-08-10-OnlineStorageRaisesIssuesAboutPrivacyControlAndPrices.txt========== http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/08/10/the-more-you-upload-the-more-they- know/ The more you upload, the more they know, and why Google should pay us August 10th, 2007, WebStrategist Are you an Online Data Storage (ODS) rogue? Do you realize whoever controls the data (the cloud) controls the information? Google has just announced a new service to increase your storage amounts online, more comments on Techmeme. ==========> 07-08-11-Bloomberg-YouTubeToStopSellingVideoDownloads.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6599903 Google to stop selling TV downloads on video site By Ari Levy, Bloomberg News, 08/11/2007 01:37:07 AM PDT Google, after buying video-sharing site YouTube nine months ago for $1.65 billion, plans to stop selling television shows on its homegrown video site. The company will stop offering download-to-own and download-to-rent programs Aug. 15, according to an e-mail sent to customers Friday. The Mountain View