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After the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed lawsuits against 11 Harvard students last month, most users have wisely shied away from i2hub, the once-popular peer-to-peer firesharing program. And those who illegally download material are just plain dumb, according to everyone who doesn’t like large fines and prisons...
...sister who lives in London to download any songs that I need and then have her e-mail them to me,” says one freshman who reverted to this method after receiving threats from FAS Computer Services for downloading Tyrese songs off of LimeWire, another peer-to-peer filesharing program...
...broadcast radio, is to fend off rival audio technologies, from iPods to cell phones that can play MP3s to Internet radio. Consumers like New York City law student Shaina Itkin, 26, say they would love a satellite radio--iPod combo, using the radio to find new music to download. Although there's an iPod dock from TimeTrax for podcasting satellite radio, for now, she says, "my iPod will do." Sprint, meanwhile, launched a radio network this month (see sidebar). And Motorola is testing a service called iRadio that will allow users to download MP3s and content from Internet stations...
...chief and China's President Hu Jintao's "Education Campaign of Maintaining Party Members' Advanced Nature." But the exercise isn't taken as seriously as it was during the Cultural Revolution, when self-criticisms could involve public humiliation or worse; these days, some cadres are finding it easier to download sample texts from websites like dangyuan.cn and submit them as their own. A few excerpts...
...explosion of new ways for consumers to enjoy better sounding music in the cutting-edge formats we all desire. Again and again, we have embraced the technological advances that have allowed tens of millions of people around the world to enjoy the music we create. From scores of download and subscription services to Internet radio to ringtunes, we are aggressively licensing music to a host of legitimate services...