Executives at the company described an upcoming, subscription-based “ecosystem” that includes desktop and mobile apps, a web-based component, and both downloading and streaming aspects. Judge Kimba M. An anonymous LimeWire source said, “we can confirm that in our ongoing dialogues with numerous industry executives, this service has been very well received.” Looks like the site may be able to cut down on its lawyer fees soon enough. Unsurprisingly, they’re very ambitious. LimeWire’s content will be also be cloud-based, meaning you can access it from anywhere. TAGGED AS: Limewire. Despite this victory for the RIAA, they kept pushing with lawsuit after lawsuit, the latest which was filed on June 21th.

Here’s a hypothetical. You need to get paid off your work for re-use. Apple also claims the DMCA makes it unlawful to jailbreak iPhones. Which begs the question – where is this all going, and how will creative artists get paid. Sheryl Crow has to tour her skinny ass off all year long to make the money. General knowledge that infringement is ‘ubiquitous’ does not impose a duty on the service provider to monitor or search its service for infringements,” the ruling said. But it will make it all the more difficult for rights holders to protect their works. But it has been a bust in other areas. I mean, am I missing something.

And this ruling shows the courts still don’t understand the meaning of theft of intellectual property. Among its provisions, it prohibits the circumvention of encryption technology. YouTube, on the other hand, provided a platform for content and removed infringing material when informed about it. The decision ensured that American firms will remain global leaders in the creation of sites that rely heavily on user-generated content.

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And if ISPs don’t want to get in trouble with the law, we can be equally certain they’ll hardly put up much of a fight. Got a beef? that’s an Apork. Atheist… would that make one. I was extremely flattered that someone else liked it. Is that really what people want? and put up a web-site, once. Avirginbirth. Given Stanton’s ruling, perhaps filtering technology isn’t required for service providers to claim safe harbor from liability. If one WERE to be an Atheist. Hollywood seems to be reading that message from the decision. “At a time where there is more talk about service providers becoming proactive in the course of their normal routines, this opinion comes along and says you can be willfully blind,” says Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, who agrees that the decision potentially opens the door to ISPs dropping their filtering technology. Plus, now there’s a legal precedent, or at least a practiced negotiation history to look back at in this time around. Aholy?

The DMCA provides a “safe harbor” from liability for service providers that respond promptly to warnings that they are hosting pirated material. GROKSTER And history shows how fate can quickly turn in these matters as the cases move their way up the courts. “If the court had said otherwise, nobody knows what would have happened.

It can’t all fall on the shoulders of third-party host services.” Tom Sydnor, a senior fellow who heads up studies digital property issues at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, said he expects Stanton’s decision to be reversed. The judge ruled that damages were not available for content produced outside America. Smaller labels and independent artists may have a tougher time.

Stanton’s ruling underscores the fact that the 1998 law puts the onus on them to constantly send in takedown notices to services that they feel should be doing more to more proactively police their networks.

Online services who show interest in licensing music will continue to be sued. Here’s a key excerpt from the ruling: If a service provider knows of specific instances of infringement, the provider must promptly remove the infringing material,” Stanton wrote. “If not, the burden is on the owner to identify the infringement. Until these cases reach a final resolution, it’s unlikely that yesterday’s ruling will have any affect on existing digital music business models. Not exactly. General knowledge that infringement is ‘ubiquitous’ does not impose a duty on the service provider to monitor or search its service for infringements. The judge agreed. “If a service provider knows of specific instances of infringement, the provider must promptly remove the infringing material. If not, the burden is on the owner to identify the infringement. Until these cases reach a final resolution, it’s unlikely that yesterday’s ruling will have any affect on existing digital music business models. Not exactly.

General knowledge that infringement is ‘ubiquitous’ does not impose a duty on the service provider to monitor or search its service for infringements.” This seems to indicate that YouTube and Google may not be required to employ filtering technologies. “What this court seems to be saying is that it has cleared the way for people to create innovative technologies like YouTube, and to some extent like Facebook,” he said. At the end of the day, though, WSJ reports, yesterday’s ruling is a setback for media companies, who for years have complained that this protection places all the onus on media companies to police illegal uses of their content.

He also noted that the current system can work well. Unfortunately, the case means they will be even more zealous and unquestioning in their execution of takedown notices.  Legal scholars predicted the outcome of this landmark suit would determine who profited the most from content: the people who pay for its creation, or the people who help disseminate it over the Web. Grokster case. “The same results will follow here.

I think so. Apparently Google has caught onto this and wants to capitalize. Back in the day if you wanted to buy music without leaving your home you were pretty much forced to use an illegal service such as the late, great Napster. How many of these aspects can Google include in its service. This Google music service rumor and speculation leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Makes perfect sense that Google would let users search through millions of tunes. Almost all digital music services come with drawbacks. It seems like most other services combine one or two. It’s not unlike how Apple decided it needed a mobile ad platform and bought and built one. Google’s decision to create a Web music store and later a music download service seems like a long shot for a company I fear is spreading itself too thin. The option to purchase, obviously, will be the driving force of the business.

There are some parts of the company that are doing cool stuff. That and it wants to control the Web services it offers so it can place its own ads on them, or at least make money off of music. After all, if you’re searching for a song you’re probably at least somewhat likely to purchase it. Not that it doesn’t have $25 billion or so in the bank to burn.

What we are talking about here, however, is new competitors in the digital music industry. Every service, it seems, has a downside that makes it not worth it for someone like me, who enjoys his music on different devices. Sure, there are still illegal ways to download music and there probably always will be but that’s not what we’re talking about here. What struck me, however, was the note that Google also plans a subscription music service that would launch next year.

As of late, companies are stepping in to fill the gap and offer completely legal, paid for digital downloads. Furthermore, considering Google is first and foremost a search engine based company, these reports also suggest that the company will provide song downloads straight through search results. It’s a nice little marketing ploy to boost song sales, and it sits in a logical place. Easy enough. Typically you can play the full song once in each browser, after which you can hear just a short sample. Why would Google do this. No one knows if Google has deals in place with record labels.

Apple charges way too much for its tracks and albums, especially the DRM-free and high-quality ones. I like Napster because they offer you purchase credits along with your subscription price. I disagree. This is where I think they can really sink in their claws.

I like the idea of playing these tracks on any medium I choose. Sounds like many of us will have to go out and buy extended life batteries. I like the idea of playing these tracks on any medium I choose.

Google (Again) Reported To Be Planning Music Download Service

By Eric Savitz

Google (GOOG) is planning to unveil a music download service tied to its search engine later this year, with an online subscription service to follow in 2011, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing “people familiar with the Internet giant’s discussions with the music industry.”

CNET published a similar report earlier this month.

The WSJ said that Google’s proposals “are still vague,” and added that it is not clear if the company has struck any deals with the record labels so far. But the piece said that the company has stepped up conversations about offering new music serviced tied to phones running its Android OS software.

A move into music would add one more area of competition in its increasing tense rivalry with Apple (AAPL) which dominates the digital music business with the iPod and the iTunes music store.

The Journal writes that the first phase of Google’s music service will be a Web store for buying tracks.

Google to Go After Apple With New Digital Music Service

Google is in “very preliminary” talks with executives in the record business to launch a new music service to compete with Apple’s dominant iTunes, according to a source at a major record label and recent media reports. Although The Wall Street Journal reported a service linked to Google’s search engine could open by the end of this year, with a subscription service in early 2011, sources say it’s pure speculation. “Maybe they’re thinking, ‘Look, iTunes won the online-music battle, but nobody has claimed the wireless one,’ ” says the major-label source. “They’re going head-to-head with Apple and the iPhone. What better way to do it than with music?”

The new Google service, many predict, is likely to allow iTunes or Windows Media Player users to stream their entire online libraries to Android phones. So rather than transferring songs one-by-one from their computers to their phones, or subscribing to streaming services such as Rhapsody or Spotify, users will be able to access thousands of their own downloads via any player. “We think users are going to love this feature,” the company’s vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, said last month, during a demonstration at the Google I/O developers’ conference. However, Google spokespeople wouldn’t say when the feature would be available.

The idea of accessing music via “the cloud” — a sort of Internet-based storage locker — has been around since MP3.com tinkered with it more than a decade ago. Late last year, Apple purchased LaLa, a service allowing users to store their online music on a central website. But rather than opening a cloud-centered service, Apple closed LaLa with no explanation in late April. That could leave a competitive opening for Google.

“The key word is ‘cloud.’ Instead of using your old-fashioned Rhapsody, or even Spotify, where you can pick a song or an album to listen to and make some playlists, you’re going to be able to upload all your music to remote servers — and access them through any doorway,” says Aram Sinnreich, a music-industry analyst and managing partner for Radar Research. “And every 15 minutes Google inserts some audio ad.” Still, the major-label source says Google has yet to hold serious talks with record labels over licensing their catalogs to any future service: “That is very compelling. It’s potentially a huge market. But a lot has to happen.”

Google to launch music service: report

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Google to Compete with iTunes?

It was reported on TechCrunch that Google may soon be launching its own version of iTunes after visitors had a glimpse of the possible iTunes competitor that would be a new section of the Andriod Market. Not much detail was available on this service at the time.

A TechCrunch user found a logo hosted on Google’s domain for the new service, which appears will be called Google Music. Below is the logo found on Google’s server:

It is suspected the service will entail users accessing the service online, searching for the required song and then be able to download it on their Android devices.

Another hint confirming the upcoming service is the fact that Google announced the acquisition of Simply Media.

We are looking forward to see exactly what this service will entail and what it will be called, if not Google Music.

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