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iTunes Music Store has sold 200 million of songs - As the Reuters agency informs, 200 million of compositions have been sold through the on-line musical shop iTunes Music Store, which belongs to the Apple company.

British iTunes Music Store will answer for the high prices - Management on the trade rules observance of the United Kingdom has addressed a statement of claim to the European commission.

Napster is going to have a videoshop - Napster on-line musical shop is going to expand the list of services and will suggest for its users not only musical compositions, but films also, CNET News informs.

The owner of Napster.no site is produced guilty in the infringement of a copyright - According to the decision of the Supreme Court of Norway, the owner of Napster.no website has to pay indemnification to the sound recording studios for the infringement of copyrights, Associated Press informs.

The founder of the MP3.com portal comes back to the musical business - Michael Robertson, the founder of the musical portal MP3.com and the head of the Linspire company, comes back to the on-line musical business and starts new musical Internets-shops, CNET News informs.

Napster has passed on the subscription system - Napster on-line musical shop has passed on a user's payment, agency Reuters informs.

New on-line musical shop MP3tunes is open - On-line musical shop MP3tunes, which distributes records in the ÌÐ3 format without any additional protection against copying, has officially begun its work, News Factor informs.

New musical Internet-shop will be opened In Japan - Yahoo Japan company - the operator of the largest in Japan Internet-portal plans to start the new musical on-line service, agency France-Press informs.

The British users of the iTunes Music Store demand validity - The European commission conducts the investigation under the claim about the overestimate of the prices for the compositions in the iTunes Music Store on-line musical shop for the British users against Apple Computer company, agency Reuters informs.

PlayFon has started a new service for the copyright owners - Russian company PlayFon - the content-provider and the supplier of the services on the basis of wireless means of data transmission

The growing demand for video in the USA reduces the sales of DVD on demand - As a result of the researches carried out in a segment of the on-line entertainments market on the territory of the USA

British have got the access to the services of Russian content-provider PlayFon - Since March, 7 the Russian company PlayFon - content-provider and the supplier of the services on the basis of wireless means of data transmission

The on-line shop of the ethnic music will be started in June - The special competitor will appear soon for the musical on-line shops by Apple Computer, Microsoft and Sony companies, Tech Web informs.

The musical industry has conceived the first litigation in Asia - The musical industry has conceived the first litigation in Asia against the illegal distributors of music

The MusicNet service is sold to a private joint-stock company - MusicNet, one of the first "legal" on-line musical services, created by the largest concerns of the entertaining industry

Internet2 horrifies the mediaindustry - The association of the American sound recording industry (RIAA) has submitted about four hundreds legal actions against the American students

Universal Music begins a struggle against the Chinese infringers of a copyright - The Publishing Group division of the Universal Music company has signed the agreement with the Chinese company R2G

PlayFon has gained the rights on distribution of the games from I-play - Company PlayFon - the Russian content-provider and the supplier of the services on the basis of wireless means of data transmission

RealNetworks starts a new musical service - The RealNetworks company has declared the start of a new on-line musical service

Wal-Mart starts to write down the compact discs to order - The network of the shops Wal-Mart Stores began to sell the compact discs in the on-line shops

The Yahoo musical shop will compete with the iTunes Music Store - The Yahoo company has started a new subscription musical service Yahoo Music Unlimited

MPAA struggles against an exchange of the teleserials on the Internet - Six sites, around which the communities exchanging the records of the teleprograms and teleserials with the use of BitTorrent protocol were grouped

Radio loses popularity, but there are more and more fans of the digital music - More and more people prefer to listen to the music on the portable players or to use personal computers for these purposes

Napster does not want to reduce the cost of a subscription - The Napster on-line musical shop does not plan to reduce the cost of a subscription to the services

Will Yahoo Music Unlimited turn over the musical branch? - In his blog well-known network figure and sports billionaire Mark Quban has published a note

The Canadian court has prevented the prosecution of the filesharing fans - The federal appeal court of Canada has left without satisfaction the appeal of the Canadian association of the sound recording companies