Starbucks To Give Away 50 Million Digital Downloads From iTunes

Starbucks is ramping up an iTunes/iPhone marketing campaign that will give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic locations. From October 2nd to November 7th, the company will hand out about 1.5 million “Song of the Day” cards in more than 10,000 U.S. stores each day. The cards can be redeemed at Apple’s iTunes Store and feature 37 artists including Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Joss...

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German Authorities Pull The Plug On eDonkey Servers

After court injunctions in Germany, seven of eDonkey’s mega servers were shut down last week. The shutdown follow similar eDonkey server closures in the Netherlands and France. “In the last few weeks the number of eDonkey users worldwide has been reduced by more than a million, knocking an estimated third of users off the network,” the IFPI, who spearheaded the legal action, reported. “Fresh actions will...

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