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Virgin, Universal Team on Music Service, Anti-Piracy

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 15, 2009 - 9:10am.
London - U.K. ISP Virgin Media (NASD: VMED) has partnered with Universal Music Group to launch an unlimited music download service, and more controversially has also agreed to work with the label to suspend the accounts of repeat file-swappers. The DRM-free service, expected to launch in the U.K. in the fall, will offer unlimited downloads for a monthly fee less than the cost of two CDs, according to published reports.
tags: P2P | Music | Universal Music | Copyright | Virgin Media | DtecNet | Three-Strikes |

RIAA Dumps P2P Monitoring Firm MediaSentry

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 5, 2009 - 11:04am.

New York - Shortly after its announcement that it would end its five-year lawsuit campaign against individual file-swappers, comes news that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has severed ties with MediaSentry, a company it had used to track file-sharing and gather evidence of illegal downloads for its lawsuits, the Wall Street Journal reported.

tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Music | RIAA | Copyright | MediaSentry | DtecNet |