Universal Music Group & Google Extend YouTube Deal – Launch Vevo

Universal Music Group and Google announced that they would extend their agreement to allow Universal’s music available for user-generated content on YouTube. Universal also announced the launch of Vevo which will provide Universal’s music video library to the masses in a more “controlled” environment. While the music videos are slowly being deployed to Vevo, YouTube’s licensing deal will allow budding...

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The Pirate Bay Lobs Another File-Sharing Grenade

Even with a verdict looming next month on the copyright infringement case against the four founders in Sweden, The Pirate Bay is currently beta testing virtual private network (VPN) technology for a new pay service, dubbed IPREDator, which would allow file-sharers to use the Swedish BitTorrent tracker without leaving a data trail. IPREDator, named after IPRED, the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement...

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