The companies taking the legal action claim that tracks by Christina Aguilera, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bruce Springsteen have been unlawfully distributed through the site.
CDS-100, like Key2Audio, simply prevents all PC playback, while CDS-300 - to be released later this year - builds digital rights management into downloadable tracks. Big labels such as Sony Music and Universal have begun adding copy protection to...
So the kids got around this by re-digitising the tracks by linking hi-fi output to PC audio input. The record companies similarly tried to stop audio-tape recording, and then made a fortune out of cassettes.
The interactive function will also make it easy for the station to compile 'most wanted' music tracks and to tell from minute to minute how many users are watching the video clips and how many are listening.
Spotlight is an indexing engine that tracks every file as it is created, opened, changed, copied or deleted. Spotlight can catalogue plain text, Microsoft Office documents, address book contacts, MP3 and AAC audio and QuickTime movies, among other...
In January, Apple added its own tools for making podcasts as part of GarageBand, the company's consumer audio editing program. Currently, Apple provides its podcasts and video podcasts for free, though it charges $1.99 an episode for TV shows and...