Imagine evil doers ready to invade your home, destroy your music, lock up your videos and take over your computer.  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an animated series called. Continue reading

UPDATED – – iTunes wants to offer downloadable movies for about $10 but Hollywood is moving slowly having learned from the music industry having given too much control to Apple,. Continue reading

HITS – The Future Of Music Coalition for bringing into focus just how important the fight for net neutrality is for all who are involved with indie and D.I.Y. music.. Continue reading

– The rumors are building that Microsoft is developing it’s own iPod killer. (Reuters) – Norway, Denmark and Sweden are joining France in trying to force Apple’s iTunes to open. Continue reading

PayPlay.FM opens with a library of 600,000 indie songs selling for as low as 77 cents a track and $7.77 per album and offers encryption that allows songs to be. Continue reading

Net neutrality – that all traffic on the net should be treated equally – has been a much debated topic in recent weeks as Congress takes a hard look at. Continue reading

Two major analysts take a detailed look at slowing growth in paid downloads and what it means for the future of the music industry: The Diffusion Group: "The Sky Is. Continue reading

– The Wall Street Journal’s respected tech writer calls the new wi-fi enabled Music Gremlin portable player "the perfect iPod alternative".  (WSJ via RAIN) – A Jacob’s Media study shows. Continue reading

eMusic has added a slate of new labels to it’s subsription download offerings including V2 (White Stripes, the Raconteurs, Moby), Palm Pictures (Baaba Maal, Ernest Ranglin) and Velour (Sonya Kitchell,. Continue reading

For those critical of MySpace there are an estimated 300 or more alternatives.  Friendster, hi5, Facebook, Bebo, orkut and even smaller specialty sites like HolyPal are all vying for a. Continue reading