Posts Tagged with ‘digital-downloads’

Slowly but surely, IPTV is making way into more and more avenues of the consumer market. The latest news to push that point further along is an Amazon-TiVo joint announcement stating movies available in Amazon’s Unbox department will be accessible to all Series 2 and Series 3 TiVo set top box owners/users – directly through interaction with said TiVo boxes - starting today.
Okay, so it’s not technically IPTV if we’re talking “Internet Protocol Television”. Same diff, though, [...]

In a piece published yesterday here on Profy, we mentioned Apple?s curious shift toward acceptance of Web app development, if only to appease the wolves in the third-party universe eager to make themselves at home on the iPhone platform. In short, Mr Jobs told the world of Web 2.0 to get coding, because they now have a chance to get their feet in what could be a very big door before even so much as a morsel of an [...]

Hours ago, somewhere in Silicon Valley, a startup by the name of Lala.com made a splash on the Web-based digital music scene. A big splash. The business, which previous focused solely on playing middleman to the trading of CDs between folks within its network, has now repositioned itself as a three-pronged audiophilic solution, catering to those interested in enjoying full-album previews and the convenience of digital downloads (DRM-free), as well as maintaining the option to purchase new CDs and trade [...]

Picture this. You’re at home, inside an Internet café, or library laced with WiFi, and you hear – through an email notification, an IM, etc. – that there’s a concert going on someplace. It’d be great if you could see it live. But you can’t, for a myriad of reasons. Would you then opt for a virtual sit-in of sorts?
Some businesses, many of which sprouted due to the success of the Web experiment that placed the worldwide Live 8 [...]

DRM isn’t so much a product of Web 2.0 as it is its nemesis. Web 2.0 is very much an open space. DRM is very, very closed. That alone should be reason enough to send cumbersome copy protection off to the gallows.
Which Amazon pledges to do. (Pardon the terrible opener and subsequent segway.)
Today in the news: The largest of online retail giants intends to offer only DRM-free music downloads. Big story. Perhaps even more so than Apple’s recent [...]

AllOfMP3 hasn’t fooled anyone with its ridiculously low-priced tracks. The site’s operators have claimed repeatedly that middlemen working for the recording industry were remunerated by the sales, despite repeated assertions by members of the RIAA, among other organizations, that they had yet to see any funds from the Russia-based operation. And it would only take an ounce of reason to deduce that no cash had or would ever be transferred from the folks working the store at AllOfMP3 to [...]

Mac communities were certain of it. Anti-Mac communities figured it would happen, too. Beatles fans anticipated. And then there were those that did not care. That last bunch made out pretty well considering the latest news on the Beatles-iTunes front: it's apparently not to be. At least not yet.
The record label holding the Beatles’ back catalogue (EMI) decided to finally get the rumor mill off its back, stating that digital downloads of the songs from throughout the Fab Four’s history [...]