Content and Downloads

3G Music Download Subscription

The world’s first digital music download subscription will get mobile in Australia thanks to Hutchison’s Three network and destraMusic’s MP3.com.au division.

Google Launches Music Search

Google’s latest search vertical is Music.

Word of the Year is Podcast

Podcasting has burst onto the tech scene in 2005 with an impact so great the word itself has been named “Word of the Year” by the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary.

Law & Order Now Showing On Your iPod

Popular Australian TV shows like “Law & Order” will be available to be downloaded to an iPod Video.The service is the latest attempt by a major network to reach beyond the traditional TV audience.

Kazaa Flaunts Legal Deadline

The future of Sharman Networks and its Kazaa file-sharing software remained in doubt yesterday after the Sydney-based company failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to modify the software with 3000 keyword filters that would severely limit the illegal copying of copyright music.

Video Ezy To Offer Video On Demand

Video Ezy is set to deliver Video-on-Demand (VoD) to customers in the coming year, as well as other services such as MP3 downloads and home cinema components.

Kazaa’s Night Of Reckoning

The clock was ticking away at peer-to-peer software provider Kazaa last night. The music industry was waiting until midnight to see if Kazaa would begin implementing court-ordered filters to prevent file-sharing from being used for music piracy and threatening a possible shutdown if that didn’t happen.

Sony DRM (Disastrous Rootkit Mistake)

Could Sony BMG’s disastrous rootkit mistake get any worse?

Nov 2005

Free Illegal Music Beats iTunes

Young people are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple’s iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum.

Nov 2005

Music Industry After Billions From Kazaa

Forget the figure of $200 million bandied about late last week as the potential amount of damages being sought by the recording industry from Sharman Networks, distributor of the Kazaa file-sharing software used by millions of people round the world – reps of the music industry have confirmed to CDN that they are seeking billions…