Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive
MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive...
View ArticleSkype, Kazaa Founders Launch Rdio Streaming App (Private Beta)
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom think they can succeed where others have failed, in convincing music fans to spend a few dollars each month on an unlimited music subscription service. If these were...
View ArticleSlacker Radio Secretly Preparing On-Demand Music Service
Slacker, the critically praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in ’07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify in...
View ArticleClassic Film Buffs Rejoice: Sony Unveils On-Demand DVDs
Performances by Anne Bancroft, Kirk Douglas, Omar Sharif and other silver-screen stars are available digitally, but too many of their films lack enough fans to justify, from a commercial standpoint,...
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