Bach Technology, a music coding company from German, has unveiled what it calls the successor to the ubiquitous MP3 file format, MusicDNA. (…we’ve heard this before. —Ed.) Bach claims the MusicDNA format contains additional music content as part of the file including lyrics, artwork and tour dates to blog posts, videos and twitter feeds. This...

There’s been some chatter surfacing this week that Google is planning a new music service. Google already has a free music service in China, but the new North American version unfortunately won’t be givin’ it away. Rumor has it that Google is attempting to launch the new service before the holidaze, but there’s not much to go on at this...

MySpace has confirmed that they are purchasing iLike. Why? We don’t really know either. Seems like they should be investing more money in their site’s infrastructure to make the painfully slow-loading site more efficient. But, they may feel the need to somehow score some media love instead of watching Facebook get all the action. According to...

France’s “three strikes” illegal downloading law passed the French Senate earlier this week. The contentious law will give downloaders of copyrighted works two warnings before cutting off their Internet service for a year. The law sets up a special government anti-piracy agency who will police the net with Web Sheriffs, dubbed Internauts....

In a ruling that will be heard around the world, the Stockholm District Court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom, founders of The Pirate Bay, to one year each in prison, and to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) to several entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and...

Trent Reznor and co-conspirator Rob Sheffield have developed a dedicated NIN app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like the rest of his savvy online ventures, Reznor has come strong with a slick and sophisticated application that looks to set the high-water-mark for mobile applications for musicians. The app seamlessly combines online community, streaming music...