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BurnLounge Lets Fans Create Own Digital Music Stores, Earn Points

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 15, 2006 - 9:19am.
New York - BurnLounge on Wednesday announced a public beta test of its service that will let users create their own digital music stores and sell tracks from their favorite artists to the public. Powered by Loudeye, a provider of branded digital music stores with a catalog that includes tracks from all major labels, the service costs $30 per year, and rewards fans who sell tracks from their sites with points redeemable for products, services or music downloads. For an extra fee, fan affiliate sites can redeem points for cash, and also create their own affiliate networks.
tags: Music | BurnLounge | Create | Store | Own | Earn Point |

Showtime Networks Series Added to iTunes Store

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 7, 2006 - 4:41am.
New York - CBS Corporation's Showtime Networks pay-TV service on Tuesday became the latest network to begin offering episodes of its programs for purchase and download from Apple's iTunes Store. Episodes of Showtime series including "Sleeper Cell," "Weeds" and "Fat Actress" will be available for $1.99 each. Programming from ABC, NBC, Comedy Central, MTV, USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ESPN and Pixar is also available from iTunes, which Apple said has now sold more than 12 million videos.
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Polish Police Bust Pirate Group That Hacked Academic Servers to Store Files

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 26, 2004 - 3:27am.
Warsaw -- A group of over 100 hackers who used academic computer networks to store games, movies and music they sold on the pirate market has been busted by Polish police, Reuters reported. In addition to storing their pirated wares on the university servers, the group of mainly twenty-something hackers may have also lifted and sold academic theses they found stored there. "They broke into the biggest systems they could find and set up 'warehouses' to store pirated games, films and music," police spokeswoman Agata Salatka told Reuters. "They distributed the goods through the Internet, and also supplied bazaars with the latest hits -- even before their official premieres."
tags: Store | Polish Police | Files | Pirate Group | Academic Servers |

Apple Licenses European Indie Record Labels for iTunes Music Store

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 21, 2004 - 4:59am.
Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple announced on Wednesday that it has signed licensing agreements with three large European independent record labels for its iTunes Music Stores in the U.K., France and Germany. Tens of thousands of songs from artists on labels controlled by Beggars Group, Sanctuary Records Group and V2 -- including Interpol, the Pixies, The Crystal Method and The White Stripes -- will now be available for purchase by European iTunes customers. Apple launched its European iTunes Stores without a deal in place with independent record labels, and has since worked to fill those gaps in its catalog. "We now have a standard agreement. It's a deal that all UK and European independent labels can get from Apple," Sam Sheptob, a spokesman for indie label trade group the Association of Independent Music, told Reuters.
tags: Europe | Apple | iTunes | Store | Musics |