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Mark's Digital Music Blog January 2008 Archive

By Mark Harris, About.com Guide to Digital Music

Insignia Kix 1GB MP3 Player

Thursday January 31, 2008
Insignia? Who are they? This is Best Buy’s consumer electronics label which encompasses TVs, DVD/VCR, home theater and MP3 players. The Insignia Kix is a budget MP3 player that has ... Read More

Qtrax’s Free Music Fails to Materialize

Tuesday January 29, 2008
Qtrax, a New York based digital music service, revealed at the weekend that it had signed music deals to provide a whopping 25 million free and legal music tracks. Qtrax ... Read More

RIAA Website Gets Nuked by Hackers

Thursday January 24, 2008
The website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been subjected to a series of attacks by a group of hackers who eventually ‘hosed’ the website clean. Not ... Read More

Amazon and Pepsi to Offer Free MP3 Music

Thursday January 17, 2008
Amazon and Pepsi have teamed up for a promotional blast and will be giving away up to $1 billion in prizes. The Pepsi Stuff promotion, as it is called, will ... Read More

Napster to Sell DRM-free Music

Thursday January 10, 2008
Napster Inc. has announced that it is to start selling unprotected MP3 downloads this spring. The last time Napster hosted MP3 files, it was ceremoniously shut down in 2001 by ... Read More

Is Ripping Your Own CD Illegal?

Thursday January 3, 2008
According to the Washington Post, the RIAA imply in their legal brief for the Atlantic v. Howell case that ripping a CD is illegal. Like or loath the RIAA, ... Read More

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