Digital Music News

IPods and hearing loss

October 18, 2006

A study by several leading hearing experts offers guidelines to safe listening of IPods. They reported, according to Digital Music News, that the average person could listen to the IPod for 4.6 hours a day at 70 percent of its maximum volume without increasing the risk of hearing loss. A separate study took into account [...]

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Are lawsuits the anwer?

October 17, 2006

Digital Music News reports that IFPI has pursued thousands of lawsuits against illegal file- swappers. ‘“They all thought they were unlikely to be caught, but teachers, postal workers, IT managers, scientists and people in a host of other occupations, as well as parents, have ended up having to dig deeply into their pockets,” said IFPI [...]

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“Are Paid Downloads Dead”

October 6, 2006

Paul Resnikoff’s article, “Are Paid Downloads Dead,” in the Oct. 6, Digital Music News Daily Snapshot is indeed worrisome to me, a new participant in a digital music venture. Since the business model for music2work2 is based on digital distribution and sales, paid downloads are a major part of the life-blood of the business. With [...]

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