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...Files fans take note: The truth may be out there, online, starting today. This week Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) begins releasing all its files about UFOs - in ministry parlance, "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" - on a government website, free for download...
...Hulu does have huge gaps. You can fill in those gaps two ways. One is with money: Apple's pay-per-download iTunes store has a wider selection of TV shows and movies than Hulu, as does Amazon's Unbox service. Two is with your immortal soul: you can download all this stuff for free, illegally, via LimeWire, BitTorrent and lots of other file-sharing systems...
...digital market is hardly new, yet it still seems to catch major record labels dozing. Alt-rockers Radiohead last year famously distributed their album In Rainbows without the help of their former record company, EMI, instead letting fans decide how much to pay the band to download it. Meanwhile, adding to the sense that this entire industry is in flux, musicians' other means of income - from T-shirt sales to concert tours - are booming. "The whole industry is moving into a new phase," says Mark Mulligan, an analyst at JupiterResearch in London. "This isn't a blip...
...Europe dropped by 4% between 2003 and 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. One way to maintain price levels is to offer deluxe products that pair a standard CD with a fancy book, live recording or DVD. Radiohead figured that out: aside from its pay-what-you-want download offer, the band flogged a special-edition box set of In Rainbows for $80 a piece. And a repackaged, "deluxe" version of Back To Black, bundling Winehouse's 2006 album with bonus tracks, shot to the top of Britain's album charts just this month...
That means easing restrictions on how downloads can be used, and on what kind of devices. You'll still need a whizzy Apple gadget to hear most of the music available from iTunes, but Amazon last September began selling tracks in the U.S. in a format compatible with most digital music players. Its catalogue of 3 million songs - culled from all four majors - will be available outside the U.S. later this year; European music fans unable to wait can from this month download such unrestricted tracks by Warner Music and EMI artists from 7digital, a U.K. music site...