Thousands of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards reportedly overwhelmed Apple’s iTunes music store on Christmas day, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song. Disenchanted users began posting “unhappy” messages Monday and Tuesday on Apple’s technical forum for...

AllofMP3, the embattled Russia-based online music store, has responded to the lawsuit filed earlier this month by the RIAA calling the RIAA’s move “unjustified.” AllofMP3 continues to claim that the site is legal under Russian law. In a press release on the website, AllofMP3 says, “certainly the labels are free to file any suit they wish,...

There’s been a lot of online chatter recently about Stanton debuting FinalScratch3 at the upcoming NAMM show in Anaheim, as if there was a question whether or not the hardware company was just going to abandon the product now that Native Instruments has disassociated themselves from the company. The “big exclusive” that some organizations have...

Miyoko Kawahara, 59, was given a 20-month prison term after she was charged with inflicting injury on her neighbor by blasting rock music at her house for more than two years. Kawahara, a Japanese citizen, was sentenced by the Osaka High Court, revoking an initial ruling that had given her a one-year prison term, court spokesman Takanao Kawasaki said. Kawahara...

SpiralFrog has won our famed Vaporware Award For 2006. The company was supposed to debut a free music downloading service in 2006, but nothing has materialized. Even after the New York City-based company made a series of splashy announcements in the summer of 2006, when it boasted of big plans to distribute free music downloads via an ad-supported Website from...