Downloads Fall in Japan
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An entertainment industry group says activity on legal music and video services has dropped for the first time.
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Sales of the PlayStation 3 in Japan fell by almost half in the first full week of availability, and low shipments are being blamed for the lackluster sales, say gaming company Enterbrain.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average started a  holiday-shortened week slightly down on Tuesday, falling for a  fourth straight session as brokers and banks fell again on  recent domestic data showing signs of a slowdown in some key  areas.
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Japanese stocks fell, sending the Nikkei 225 Stock Average and Topix index to their biggest losses in a month. Exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp.
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Sony Corp (6758.T) said on Thursday it  would stop shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and  60-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing  instead on the 40-GB model.
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This is a fun little query:  I was googling for Futakoi (which I know nothing about but its more Anime).  Anyway.  The first two links are .torrent files!
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U.S. DVD unit sales fell 4.5  percent in 2007, marking the first big year-over-year decline  for the category since the disc format debuted in 1997,  according to preliminary estimates released on Thursday.
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Yoshihiro Inoue used the Winny program at his home in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan on September 24 and 25 last year and enabled general computer users to download the Hollywood film &quot;A Beautiful Mind&quot; and another movie on the Internet, the ruling said
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On-demand download services for PlayStation, Xbox and Wii promise a world of choice, but deliver fewer games than traditional retail channels. Why? By Chris Kohler.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp. 6758.T said on   Tuesday it would launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical   disc recorder in Japan in December with an expected price tag   of around 300,000 yen ($2,550) for a model with a 500-gigabyte   hard disk drive.
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Apple has announced that it will drop prices on its DRM-free AAC downloads to $0.99, the same price as all other single-song downloads. Amazon responded by giving its affiliates a 20% cut of all sales.
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Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average was down 0.4 percent by midsession on Monday on selling of exporters like Toyota Motor Corp., which announces results later in the day, and wariness ahead of the US presidential election.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp. 6758.T said on   Tuesday it will launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical disc   recorder in Japan in December, with an expected price tag of   around 300,000 yen ($2,550) for a model with a 500-gigabyte   hard disk drive.
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InfoWorld - NTT DoCoMo&#39;s 3G network in part of central Tokyo was hit by trouble on Saturday resulting in problems for tens of thousands of users.
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Blog: The Russian government has shut down AllofMP3, which offered downloadable MP3 files at a much lower price than stores such as iTunes, but fans will probably just migrate to other similar services.
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Less than a month after the troubled launch of its PlayStation 3, Sony has rolled out its new high definition DVD recorder in Japan as it struggles to restore its tarnished reputation.
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Meanwhile, Japan's getting a 16GB version Asus' elfin Eee PC is coming to Japan and it's going to get 16GB of solid-state storage, it has been claimed. Meanwhile, in the UK availability has reached Wii-like limits, according to insiders.â¦