Microsoft is moving quickly to respond to FairUse4WM, a free program which threatens to undermine Microsoft-based online music service offerings. FairUse4WM, a so-called DRM-stripper, lets users remove the rights management software from music downloads in Microsoft‚Äôs Windows Media DRM (digital rights management) 10 and 11. The formats are used by many online music services to […]

Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced an agreement with SpiralFrog to make UMG‚Äôs catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog‚Äôs advertising-supported service.SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the ability to legally download music by many of the world‚Äôs most popular and award-winning artists. No mention has been […]

Canadian indie band Uncle Seth will be playing at the first PodCamp, being held in Boston September 9-10. Uncle Seth’s reputation in the Canadian podcasting community recently earned them the chance to play at the inaugural Podcasters Across Borders conference, which took in Kingston, Ontario this past June. Podcasters from across Canada and the U.S. […]

Metallica, one of the most visible holdouts in the world of digital music, is now in the iTunes Music Store. Metallica famously sued Napster and asked that hundreds of Napster users that had been trading Metallica songs on the network be banned. Metallica’s Lars Ulrich also provided a statement to the US Senate on the […]

Yahoo! wants you to have A Public Affair with Jessica Simpson, with no strings attached.Yahoo! is selling personalized versions of the new Jessica Simpson song A Public Affair from their Yahoo! Music web site. What makes it newsworthy is that Yahoo! is letting you get the track personalized with your name (a large list of […]