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Virgin, MusicNet Partner on Digital Music Services
o "Grey
Tuesday" Protest Draws 100,000 Downloads for Remix Album
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Patent in $521 Million Judgment Against Microsoft Declared Invalid
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Report: Leading Cable, DSL Providers Count 24.6 Million Subscribers
in 2003
o Microsoft to Dump Hard Drive
for Flash in Next Xbox
o China Leads Worldwide DSL
Market With 10.95 Million Subscribers
o Video Game Developer
Activision Faces Shareholder Class Action Suit
o MTV, Motorola Sign Wireless
Content Distribution Deal
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o Virgin, MusicNet Partner on Digital
Music Services
London -- Virgin Group announced on Monday that in August it will
launch a digital music service in conjunction with MusicNet that
will incorporate the company's Virgin Megastores, the Internet,
mobile phones and portable devices. MusicNet, a joint venture
between Time Warner, RealNetworks and labels Bertelsmann, EMI and
Sony, has been offering an online music subscription service since
2001. The new Virgin Digital service will feature a download store
and subscription service offering over 700,000 tracks. Virgin said
that Zack Zalon, former general manager of the company's Radio Free
Virgin online radio service, has been named president of Virgin
Digital.
http://www.musicnet.com
http://www.virgin.com
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o "Grey
Tuesday" Protest Draws 100,000 Downloads for Remix Album
New York -- On Feb. 24, over 100,000 people downloaded copies of
a remix album containing elements of the Beatles' "White Album,"
which was posted online against EMI's wishes in protest of record
industry sample licensing practices, according to Downhill Battle,
organizers of the "Grey Tuesday" event. "The Grey Album," from DJ
Danger Mouse, mixes the vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "Black Album"
with instrumental tracks sampled exclusively from the Beatles'
"White Album." Major label EMI, which controls licensing for the
Beatles, ordered physical copies of the album destroyed and sent
cease-and-desist letters to several of the nearly 200 websites that
offered the album for download. "In the visual arts you have people
like Picasso or Rauschenberg who are creating artwork out of
collage," Downhill Battle's Nicolas Reville told MTV.com. "For
music, the rules are totally different and musicians that build a
collage are treated like criminals. We need to find a way to change
that to make sampling practical." For its part, EMI says it
regularly clears samples and was never contacted by DJ Danger Mouse
regarding the work.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1485593/20040305/jay_z.jhtml
http://www.downhillbattle.org
http://www.djdangermouse.com
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o Patent in
$521 Million Judgment Against Microsoft Declared Invalid
Seattle -- Eolas Technologies, winner of a $521 million patent
judgment against Microsoft over features in the company's Internet
Explorer browser technology, has seen that award put in question
after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week said in a
preliminary ruling that the Eolas patent is invalid, Reuters
reported. Microsoft had started to make changes to its browser to
comply with a federal judge's ruling last month upholding the $521
million jury award, but suspended the move to wait for the Patent
Office's ruling. If the patent is ruled invalid after the full
review process, Microsoft will not be forced to make changes to its
Internet browsing software or pay the half billion-dollar
settlement.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2C2247A7
http://www.eolas.com
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o Report:
Leading Cable, DSL Providers Count 24.6 Million Subscribers in 2003
Durham, N.H. -- The leading U.S. DSL and cable broadband Internet
service providers reported a total of 24.6 million subscribers at
the end of 2003, according to a report from New Hampshire-based
market research firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG). The two
competing access services added a combined 7.4 million new
subscribers in 2003, with cable providers taking 60% of these new
additions. Cable broadband subscribers now account for 63% of the
overall market when compared to DSL. A separate LRG survey of 1,600
U.S. households found that 62% subscribe to an online service at
home, with about one-third of these reporting a broadband
connection. "Clearly the market for broadband has become more
competitive in the past year, and competition will only intensify as
the number of broadband subscribers in the U.S. doubles over the
next four years," said LRG president Bruce Leichtman.
http://www.leichtmanresearch.com
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o Microsoft to
Dump Hard Drive for Flash in Next Xbox
Fremont, Calif. -- M-Systems, a maker of Flash memory storage
products, announced that Microsoft has contracted the company to
provide Flash memory for the next edition of its Xbox video game
console. Several news outlets have reported that M-Systems CEO Dov
Moran says that the Flash memory will replace the hard drive in the
current generation Xbox, once touted as a feature that set the Xbox
apart from competing consoles. "Microsoft has taken the hard disc
out of its Xbox," Moran told Israeli business website Globes Online.
"At some point, when users want to save their e-mail messages, copy
music, or anything like that, the only storage they'll have is what
we give them." Microsoft would only say that Moran's statements are
speculation.
http://www.m-sys.com/Content/Corporate/Press/prInfo.asp?id=615
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docView_Archive.asp?did=774748
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=dev&aid=3068
http://news.com.com/2100-1043-5170899.html
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o China Leads
Worldwide DSL Market With 10.95 Million Subscribers
Fremont, Calif. -- China has become the world's largest DSL
high-speed Internet market, with 10.95 million total DSL lines in
2003, according to a report from Fremont, Calif.-based DSL Forum, an
industry trade group. The Asia-Pacific region accounted for 20
million of the world's 63.8 million total DSL subscribers, or 32% of
the marketplace. Japan was second in total subscribers for 2003,
with 10.27 million, followed by the U.S. with 9.12 million and South
Korea with 6.43 million subscribers.
http://www.dslforum.org/PressRoom/2003_GlobalDSLChart_3.2.2004.pdf
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o Video Game
Developer Activision Faces Shareholder Class Action Suit
Santa Monica, Calif. -- Video game developer and publisher
Activision said on Monday it strongly denies the allegations
contained in a class action lawsuit filed against the company,
alleging it overstated revenues and earnings during 2001 and 2002 in
order to inflate its stock price. The lawsuit was filed on March 5
in California federal court by the Construction Industry and
Carpenters Joint Pension Trust for Southern Nevada, and seeks
unspecified damages. Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision's games
include the popular "Tony Hawk Pro Skater" and "Call of Duty"
franchises.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040308/nym082_1.html
http://www.activision.com
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o MTV, Motorola
Sign Wireless Content Distribution Deal
Miami -- Cell phone maker Motorola and MTV announced on Monday a
partnership that will see Motorola become the exclusive worldwide
provider of MTV-branded wireless content. The deal includes a series
of wireless games dubbed "Plastikulture," and a wireless version of
MTV's "Exquisite Corpse" image campaign. Content will be pre-loaded
on select new Motorola handsets and become available for download at
Motorola's wireless portal HelloMoto.com by this summer.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040308/nym087_1.html
http://www.mtv.com
http://www.plastikulture.com
http://www.hellomoto.com
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o Briefly Noted:
(Los Angeles) Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt's LFP
Broadcasting announced on Monday the national launch of new Hustler
video-on-demand and pay-per-view services. The on-demand service
will launch in April with 50 hours of content per month. Initially
titles will be of the "XX" variety, but will also eventually include
"XXX" titles as well.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/48/48039.html
http://www.hustler.com
(Andover, Mass.) Gotuit Media, a provider of navigation and indexing
technologies for video-on-demand services, said on Monday that it
has reached an agreement with Scripps Networks, which owns the cable
TV networks Food Network, Home & Garden Television, DIY and Fine
Living. Massachusetts-based Gotuit will provide its technology that
allows viewers to select segments of a stored program and
immediately watch just those parts of the show. A trial has been
launched with Time Warner Cable subscribers in Maine.
http://www.scripps.com
http://www.gotuit.com
(Los Angeles) The Los Angeles Times on Monday reported on the
beginnings of the radio broadcasting industry's transition from
analog to digital. Technology from Maryland-based IBiquity Digital
that allows stations to broadcast a digital signal -- complete with
a wireless data feed -- alongside their analog signals was approved
for use this year. Jim Watkins of Washington's WHUR-FM told The
Times that it cost his station $50,000 to make the transition to
digital, but added that less than two dozen locals have purchased
the $400 digital radios necessary to receive the broadcasts.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hdradio8mar08.story
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