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o WSJ: Amazon.com to Launch Digital Music Service This Year
o Justice Dept. Makes First Indictment Under Camcorder Piracy Law
o IRMA: Eight of 17 Accused Music Uploaders Agree to Settle
o Italian Digital Music Firm Vitaminic to Acquire France-Based Freever
o Head of Streaming Firm Future Network Broadcasting Arrested for Fraud
o Report: One in Seven Cell Phones Become Faulty in First Year


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o Briefly Noted: eMusic - 10,000 new tracks, Nokia mobile TV - IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Shaw Communications - Paramount Pictures, Zone4Play - Betfair, Gizmondo - U.K. retailers, 'NSync's J.C. Chasez - MusicFreedom.com, HDNet - free sample downloads, EU piracy directive - "indirect copyright infringement"
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o WSJ: Amazon.com to Launch Digital Music Service This Year

New York -- Online retail giant Amazon.com is planning to launch a digital music download store and subscription service later this year, which will compete with Apple's iTunes and others in the space, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal cited people familiar with licensing discussions held between Amazon executives and record label executives, and also pointed to a job listing on the company's website seeking a content acquisition manager, for "our forthcoming digital music service." Amazon may also seek to license tracks from MusicNet, the digital music distribution company set up by several major labels and RealNetworks. "It takes a certain dedication and focus on that part of the business to make it profitable, and to make it compelling," GartnerG2 analyst Mike McGuire told CNET News.com. "We've seen earlier that having a big brand and being powerful in other media or online businesses doesn't guarantee online music success."
http://tinyurl.com/amyzv
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o Justice Dept. Makes First Indictment Under Camcorder Piracy Law

San Jose, Calif. -- The U.S. Justice Dept. this week made its first indictment under a new law that makes it a crime to bring a camcorder into a movie theater to make a pirate recording. Nineteen-year-old Curtis Salisbury, of St. Charles, Missouri, faces up to 17 years in prison for allegedly bringing a camcorder into screenings of "The Perfect Man" and "Bewitched," later posting copies of the pirate recordings he made on file-sharing networks. In addition to the charges under the camcorder law, which took effect in April, the Justice Dept. has also leveled conspiracy and copyright infringement charges against Salisbury, who allegedly also downloaded a number of pirated films and software programs from the networks. The Justice Dept. said Salisbury's indictment was a result of Operation Copycat -- a local version of its larger Operation Site Down online piracy investigations -- that have so far indicted five individuals and conducted more than 40 searches nationwide. Salisbury is scheduled to appear in court in federal court San Jose, Calif. on Aug. 18.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/html/2005_08_04_Salisbury.html
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o IRMA: Eight of 17 Accused Music Uploaders Agree to Settle

Dublin -- The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) announced that eight of the 17 people it has accused of being among Ireland's worst offenders for illegally uploading music have agreed to settle out of court. The IRMA said the eight people agreed to pay damages of up between $2,470 and $7,400, and to never again swap music illegally over the Internet. The IRMA's action against the file-swappers began in April as part of a global campaign led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which filed more than 960 cases against file-sharers in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Iceland, Finland, Ireland, Japan and the U.K. IRMA Director Dick Doyle said that his organization had additional information on other alleged file-swappers and that it may target more individuals in the coming months.
http://www.irma.ie/index2.htm
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o Italian Digital Music Firm Vitaminic to Acquire France-Based Freever

Milan -- Buongiorno Vitaminic Spa (BV), an Italy-based digital music distributor, announced that it has acquired Freever, a France-based mobile community developer, for approximately $22.9 million. "Freever is the uncontested leader in the Mobile Community sector in Europe," said BV CEO Andrea Casalini. "Due to its excellent management team, specialist knowledge, its dedicated technology platform, management's constant focus on issues concerning privacy and protection of minors and the loyalty gained from both the end-users as well as the major European telephone companies, Freever has built a profitable and sustainable business with excellent growth prospects." Following to the closing of the acquisition, Freever, which has offices in France, Germany and U.K., will remain an independent business unit within the Buongiorno Vitaminic Group, the company said.
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o Head of Streaming Firm Future Network Broadcasting Arrested for Fraud

Charlotte, N.C. -- Matthew Brown, the head of Future Network Broadcasting (FNB), a company that falsely claimed to own a technology for streaming video over the Internet, has been arrested in California for stealing about $560,000 that he raised from investors in FNB. He faces several federal criminal charges, including securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Brown, who has a previous conviction for grand theft, could face a maximum sentence of 450 years in prison as a result of his FNB scheme and related crimes.
http://brownarrested.notlong.com
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o Report: One in Seven Cell Phones Become Faulty in First Year

London -- About one of every seven mobile phones become faulty within just one year of purchase, according to a new report by U.K. consumer watchdog group Which? Of those phones that develop a problem, about 70% do so within six months, the report said. "A one-in-seven chance your phone's going to develop a fault is way too high," said Malcom Coles, the editor of Which? "Not only that, but retailers who should be bending over backwards to help customers who've already suffered the inconvenience of a fault aren't giving people the help they need." The firm said that handsets made by Motorola and Sony Ericsson were the most likely to malfunction, with approximately 20% of owners reporting faults, while Nokia and Samsung were considered the most reliable.
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o Briefly Noted:

(New York) Digital music service eMusic announced this week that it has added more than 10,000 tracks to its library of 700,000 songs from mainly independent artists, with the signing of license agreements with labels including Smithsonian Folkways, Merge Records and Nettwerk Records. The new labels will contribute tracks from artists such as Woody Guthrie, Dinosaur Jr., The Arcade Fire and Doc Watson to the eMusic service. The new additions also include tracks from nearly 20 other independent labels. New York-based eMusic now sells two million downloads monthly, and claims to be the No. 2 download service behind iTunes.
http://www.emusic.com

(Espoo, Finland) Nokia said on Friday that it is among a number of companies working to provide a live mobile TV broadcast of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish broadcasting company YLE will offer mobile TV viewers multi-channel coverage of the Championships, including full broadcasts of individual events on separate channels. The sporting events will be viewable on Nokia 7710 smartphones equipped with a mobile TV receiver.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050805/ukf001.html
http://www.finnishmobiletv.com 

(Calgary, Alberta) Canadian cable TV operator Shaw Communications said on Friday that it has signed a video-on-demand agreement with Paramount Pictures. Under the deal, Paramount films including "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" and "Team America World Police" will be added to Shaw's video-on-demand library, which offers 1,700 titles each month.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050805/55212.html
http://www.shaw.ca

(Wilmington, Del.) Zone4Play, a provider of interactive TV and mobile gaming technologies, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with U.K. betting exchange Betfair, to develop mobile phone wagering solutions. The services are expected to launch in the fourth quarter, both for Betfair's 350,000 registered users and other mobile bettors.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050804/ukth010.html
http://www.betfair.com
http://www.zone4play.com 

(London) A day after pushing the U.S. release date for its device from August to October, Gizmondo Europe said it has secured three new U.K. retailers for its Gizmondo multi-functional handheld video game system. Argos, Comet and HMV will now sell the Gizmondo and associated game titles.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050805/ukf002.html
http://www.gizmondo.com 

(Orlando, Fla.) A joint venture that includes 'NSync pop group member J.C. Chasez has launched MusicFreedom.com, a site that will allow independent artists and bands to sell their songs directly to the public. The site will include a search engine for finding artists based on musical style or mood, and will allow customers to sample tracks before buying. Other parties in the venture include Bill Marquez, CEO of Internet search portal Netster.com, and record producer Alex Greggs.
http://www.musicfreedom.com 

(Los Angeles) The Los Angeles Times on Friday reported on the decision of HDNet -- dot-com billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's HDTV network -- to offer lengthy free samples of its high-definition content on the Internet. Content delivery network Red Swoosh is providing a secure file-sharing network to deliver the files, which can take more than three hours to download a 20-minute clip over a broadband connection. Offerings will include a highlight video of footage from the latest space shuttle launch.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ed-cuban5aug05,0,7309004.story
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(San Francisco) Wired News reported on Friday on language in a proposed European Commission directive on piracy that would criminalize "attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting" copyright infringement -- essentially exporting to European countries the MGM v. Grokster Supreme Court ruling that found makers of file-sharing software can be held liable for copyright infringement. The proposal, which will be debated later this year, could go even further than the U.S. ruling, making "indirect copyright infringement" a crime. It would also set maximum criminal penalties for "criminal organizations" engaged in piracy at four years in prison and a $370,000 fine.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68418,00.html
  
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