BitTorrent Expands Into Japan

BitTorrent has announced BitTorrent Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. BitTorrent founded BitTorrent Japan to address the growing demand for peer-assisted content delivery technology among Japanese content publishers and consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers. Japan, with some of the fattest broadband pipes has serious hunger for large downloadable content. BitTorrent has responded with a new technology...

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Amazon Launches Public Beta of Amazon MP3

Amazon MP3 Debuts With Over 2 Million Songs Amazon.com has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a new digital music download store with a large selection of individual DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Amazon MP3 has over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels. Every song and album on Amazon MP3 is available only in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM)...

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