British & Dutch Authorities Shutter OiNK – Members Only File Sharing Network

After a two-year investigation, British and Dutch police shut down OiNK, a member’s only file-sharing site thatt specialized in pre-release albums. An estimated 180,000 members paid a membership donation via debit or credit cards for OiNK’s catalog of music and other media. Prerelease leaks have become one of the most damaging forms of piracy for the music industry, which relies on marketing hype to create demand for new...

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AT&T Announces Expanded Deal With Napster – $2 Wireless Downloads

AT&T has announced that it will offer wireless song downloads from Napster’s digital music catalog to their customers for $2 per song. AT&T, which already lets Napster subscribers transfer music from their personal computer to their cell phone via a cable or a storage card, said it would sell Napster’s 5 million tracks directly on its phones for $7.49 for a bundle of five songs, or $1.99 for a la carte purchases,...

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