krj
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Dec 19 03:01 UTC 2005 |
Hard news and rumors are turning up about the Musicland operation,
which runs the venerable chain store Sam Goody, and which was
still one of the top ten music retailers in the USA. Hard news is that
Musicland is going to shutter the Media Play retail operation, which
sold CDs, books and DVDs at 61 locations, including Ann Arbor.
That's widely reported in mainstream media.
A report which is mostly behind a Billboard subscription wall
does have a teaser peeking out. It says that Musicland is asking
its suppliers (presumably of CDs?) to accept 50% of what they are
owed, and to take a IOU note for the rest.
And, in bloggy rumor land, the Coolfer blog quotes HitsDailyDouble
as rumoring that creditor banks have taken control of Musicland, but
that's not confirmed anywhere I can find.
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Dec 22 18:58 UTC 2005 |
French Parliament Votes to Allow Web File Sharing (Update1)
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Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The French Parliament voted last night to allow
free sharing of music and movies on the Internet, setting up a conflict
with both the French government and with media companies.
If the amendment survives, France would be the first country to legalize
so called peer-to-peer downloading, said Jean-Baptiste Soufron, legal
counsel to the Association of Audionautes, a French group that defends
people accused of improperly sharing music files.
(Full story at
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=avOoTq8aXkU8)
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