Sources: Sony BMG, Grokster in talks on new file-sharing venture
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LOS ANGELES - Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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Contrary to messages from the music industry, not all file sharing rips off artists. Weed, a peer-to-peer file sharing program, provides a way for people to share music and pay artists. By Katie Dean.
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The company will begin selling music downloads in the MP3 format, at least in North America. Sony says it has no plans to drop copy protection elsewhere.
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A new agreement between a peer-to-peer network and the major music labels has created the first peer-to-peer file sharing network for licensed digital music.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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Bertelsmann [BERT.UL] expects it will cost around 370 million euros ($445 million) to bring together and restructure Sony BMG, its music joint venture with Japan&#39;s Sony (6758.
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Blog: Warner Music has reached a settlement with music-sharing service Imeem. Could legal music-sharing services finally be poised to take off?
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Sony BMG, the world's No. 2 record label, is in early talks with file-sharing network Grokster in what could lead to a legalized Internet music service, its chairman said on Tuesday.
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THREE major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Kazaa and Grokster, which belongs to the large FastTrack network, uses the UUHash hashing mechanism to verify files. Its main advantage is that it allows large files to be checked very quickly.
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Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will produce
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Plus: File sharing growing like a Weed. [News.com Extra]
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By Bernhard Warner LONDON  - Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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The world&#39;s largest music company is discussing ways to distribute its songs through Grokster and other Internet file-swapping services, a deal that would embrace a technology long under legal assault by the recording industry.
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File-sharing is being seen as both a threat and an opportunity by the entertainment industry.
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EMI and Sony BMG have reached a deal to get more music and other products distributed using the Internet in the US and Canada. The cooperation deal covers new DualDisc products, ring tones
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The U.S. Department of Justice has  requested information from Sony BMG and Universal Music Group  about their talks to launch an online music subscription  service, said a record company executive on Thursday.