July 2, 2008

Top Music Sites

With music and copyrights frightening off many people who would have already been copy music for their own pleasure, after all they have probably been doing it since the first cassette tape came out.
But there is way where they could continue to copy and save the music that they like, which is both free and [...]

June 16, 2008

Torrent fines not paid

This is a slightly worrying subject which seems to have made its way under the wire, but no more. It has been found that the in recent years the attempts of lawyers acting on behalf of the media companies who believe that they are in breach of copyright.
This information comes from Logistep who are an [...]

June 12, 2008

Metallica does not want bloggers review their music

It hard to feel sorry for the likes of Metallica the heavy rock band which conquered the world and are really still there at the top of their game.
But when they ask people to listen to their new album you think fair enough, but when the job has been done it astonishing that the bands [...]

June 3, 2008

Two years after being raided, the Pirate Bay survives

It was the end of May two years ago when the Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police and the two owners of the site were arrested, but not for long.
The sites servers were taken and to all intents and purposes the authorities may have thought that they had effectively closed down the Pirates [...]

May 6, 2008

Swedish file sharer convicted

File sharing can sometimes lead to jail, especially if you live in Sweden. This where the trial of a file sharer was found guilty of file sharing, but actually got a suspended sentence for his troubles. The only saving grace is the fact that the court stated that he would have gone to prison, but [...]

May 1, 2008

iTunes celebrates five years

Originally started as a platform for mac users to download music and other things! The iTunes service from Apple wanted to provide for the market which was only three per cent at the time. That was five years; on 28th April 2003 the first tunes were sold.
Within five days the store had sold over one [...]

April 28, 2008

Gardening or computing

For some parents it is a full time job just getting the kids off of the computer these days, for what ever the reason, be it home work, surfing or talking to their friends, some kids just stay glued to their seats and are rarely seen coming out of their rooms apart from when there [...]

April 8, 2008

Nearly all teenagers download illegally

Recently there we noted that there have been changes in the views of the main record companies as they try to capture a slice of the download market. This is a great move by them and will show the younger internet users that they can be up with the latest technology.
But for some people this [...]