TECHNOLOGY: The Great Migration Away from Limewire Begins

TECHNOLOGY: The Great Migration Away from Limewire Begins
LimeWire has been ordered to shut down. The RIAA will now seek damages upwards of $ 1 billion. They estimate that LimeWire costs the record labels $ 500 million in lost music sales every month. From Download.com alone, LimeWire has been downloaded around 206,881,874 times. This news leaves the more than 50 million monthly users of the client looking for new ways to consume music. Some will migrate …
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Waiting for Spotify, act gazillion and one
We’ve seen lots of positive press about Spotify, but the European music service trying to jump to the U.S. just can’t seem to put nagging doubts about its business model behind it.
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Today’s Op-Eds: Medicare Rip-Offs; Courts And The Individual Mandate; Accountable Care
The Courts And The Mandate The New York TimesInstead of getting hung up on labels adopted in the heat of political battle, they should focus instead on Supreme Court precedents that found that taxes designed to influence behavior, like taxes to deter the sale of particularly dangerous firearms, were constitutional, provided they raised revenue in the process. A penalty to prod people into taking …
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