Wednesday, April 30, 2003

iTunes Music Store will 'alter balance of power'. Apple's new iTunes Music Store "promises to forever alter the balance of power in musicland," Alex Salkever writes in the latest Byte of the Apple column for Business Week Online. [MacCentral] 9:52:18 AM

Artists Fight Radio Deregulation. Thirty major recording artists sign a letter to be sent to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission that warns against further deregulation of the radio industry. They say it will 'impede the functioning of our democracy.' [Wired News] 9:51:46 AM

Smut Trading Outstrips Tune Swaps. Will Apple's new paid music service put a dent in free file-trading services like Kazaa and Gnutella? No, because most files being traded on P2P sites aren't music files at all. Surprise -- they're porn. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News] 9:51:25 AM