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Tuesday, September 9, 2003

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Apple sells ten million tunes: "Apple says it has sold more than ten million songs on its iTunes Music Store since its launch four months ago." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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iTunes: over 10 million songs downloaded: "Apple let it be known they have sold over 10 million tunes since the iTunes launch 4 months ago. Extrapolated over a year, it comes to sales of over 30 million tunes and would be approach the number of CD + LP singles sold in the past 2 years." [Ars Technica]

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Apple: reselling iTunes Music Store songs is a pain, so don't bother: '"Apple's position is that it is impractical, though perhaps within someone's rights, to sell music purchased online," Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketing for applications and services, told CNET News.com in an interview. "They would have to somehow give their account info to the person they were selling to in order to get their Mac authorized to play the music being sold," he said.' [Ars Technica]

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That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case: "The Court of Appeal in The Hague today rejected all of Scientology's claims in appeal in Scientology's action against XS4ALL, Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers. As a result, Karin Spaink's website, which Scientology sought to remove from the Internet based on copyright claims, is entirely legal in the Netherlands. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of which said that linking to material that infringed a copyright was itself actionable. The other ruling said that ISPs that failed to act on credible notification of a copyright violation could be held liable for that. The Appeals Court felt that this was too vague a standard, and thus posed a threat to free speech. More info at ScientologyWatch.org."