Quepasa Announces RingTone Service

Quepasa has announced a new service that allows users to sell their own ringtones. For a $4.99 registration fee, anyone can upload their own creations and share in the revenue generated by selling them. Quepasa, not really known for its music action, is a portal aimed at Spanish-speaking individuals that provides email, instant messaging, chat, forums and other community fare. Quepasa will display the uploaded ringtones in their...

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File-Sharing Declared Legal In Italy

Music & Movie downloading is only a crime if a financial gain is involved… According to a ruling by a top criminal court in Rome, Italy, file-sharing is legal as long as the participant don’t profit from the exchange. The court overturned the convictions of two former Turin Polytechnic Institute students, both prolific file-traders, who ran a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network in the 1990s, though authorities shuttered the...

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