http://www.mp3starfish.com/news The latest news about mp3 and multimedia Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:46:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The music industry is preparing a lawsuit against Yahoo China for copyright infringement, in the words of John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, "Yahoo China has been blatantly infringing our members' rights. We have started the process and as far as ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/07/05/music-industry-will-file-a-lawsuit-agains-yahoo-china/ Virgin France has been sued for downloading Madonna's Hung Up and offering it for resale after re-encoding the track with their own DRM. France Telecom had the exclusive rights for a week to this track after paying €500,000 for it. Virgin France declared to have "broken the exclusive agreement in the interest ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/29/virgin-france-sued-for-piracy/ Mog.com is a social networking site for music lovers, following the steps of MySpace.com, the new site launched on tuesday will expand into the music niche, "This is really exciting to people who want to see what other people are listening to and to people who want to ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/21/music-based-social-network/ Microsoft is developing a music player that will compete with Apple's iPod, it's said that Microsoft could also be developing a digital music service that would compete with iTunes. As of today there is not a date for the launch of the device. [Read it from: News.com] Tags: mp3 music mp3player mp3-player ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/18/microsoft-develops-ipod-rival/ MusicGremlin is the name of the new Wi-Fi music player and it allows you to buy music from the MusicGremlin Direct store from wherever you can access an 802.11 wireless connection. The music player comes with 8GB storage size, which can store up to 2,000 MP3, WMA, or WMA DRM tracks. [Read ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/14/new-wi-fi-music-player/ Hypebot offers today an exclusive interview with David Pakman, the CEO of eMusic on which he talks about the position of eMusic in the market, the music industry and DRM. At this moment eMusic is the #2 online music service just behind iTunes with the big difference between ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/12/emusic-ceo-consumers-are-confused-about-drm/ The legal music sharing service by Tiscali has ceased operations while in an statement they accuse the European recording industry of "short-sightedness" for not "making any effort to understand either the basic needs or habits of music fans that choose to consume music via the internet, or the acts directly ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/11/tiscali-suspends-its-music-sharing-jukebox-service/ Version 2.55 of Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker has been released, now you can import data and backup CDs, to do so just insert a data or backup CD/DVD and then bring up the "Tracks Listing" and click "Read CD". It will scan the CD or DVD and ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/09/acoustica-cddvd-label-maker-updated/ The new iPod U2 Special Edition comes with 30GB of storage which means that it could store 7,500 songs, up to 25,000 photos, or up to 75 hours of video. It also comes with up to 14 hours of battery life, the price for this new iPod model is $329. Technorati ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/07/new-ipod-u2-special-edition/ EMI has anounced that their music catalog will be available on Qtrax, a new ad-supported peer to peer music service. "We think that any ad-supported model should be offered in a way that maintains, or even enhances the value of music, and we believe Qtrax does that by offering a good ... http://www.mp3starfish.com/news/2006/06/05/emi-catalog-available-in-new-legal-p2p-network/