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Sci-Tech Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
British Sky Broadcasting said Tuesday that it would introduce an online subscription music service and had signed the world's largest music group, Universal, as its first partner. The service will offer downloads and unlimited listening of streaming music for a monthly subscription fee, BSkyB said. It added that the tracks would be in MP3 format, meaning they could be used on many devices, including...
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Tech Confidential Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
While digital music subscription services such as RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody [RNWK] and Napster Inc. [NAPS] have augmented their services with DRM-free download stores in recent weeks, U.K.-based...
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Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Good news for you Rupert Murdoch fans out there. The mogul's UK-based pay-TV juggernaut is preparing its own music service, and it's inked a deal with bigwig major label to help make it happen. Yes, BSkyB is getting into the...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TV giant BSkyB has done a deal with Universal, the worlds largest music group, to launch an online download service challenging Apples iTunes.
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broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain's six largest Internet providers (BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse) have collectively agreed to a plan by the entertainment industry that would have them send letters to subscribers informing them that their P2P use is being monitored . The plan does not ISPs terminating the accounts of any users -- yet. According to Reuters UK , the plan could still evolve into...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A list showed that BBC Trust members had claimed £147,368 in expenses, including licence fees for subscriptions to British Sky Broadcasting's satellite TV services
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JupiterResearch Analyst Weblogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
The BBC and Telegraph (among numerous others) report that the BPI will today announce that it has agreed with six of the UK’s largest ISPs (BT, BSkyB, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse) to send out letters to their customers that are the heaviest downloaders of music illegally from file sharing networks. This is in the context of the threat of legislation to compel ISPs to act should...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
-- Sky: BSkyB ( NYSE: BSY ) has commissioned an online-only weekly fashion video show for its Sky Style fashion portal, the site's first dedicated web series. Wear It Well will come in 26 two-minute episodes will be promo'ed on Sky.com and the satcaster is hoping for syndication to third parties. It's produced by MoMedia, in which Endemol holds a stake. -- Roulette on FreeSat: Participation TV operator...
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Express & Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain’s six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government clampdown on illegal downloading of music and films. Do you back the move? Give your views in the comment form below The big six ISPs - BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse - have signed … [visit site to read more]
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TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following a rather brief period of opposition six of UK's biggest Internet Service Providers (ISPs), BT, Virgin Media, BSkyB, Tiscali, Carphone Warehouse and Orange have agreed to back up a new crusade aimed to lower the piracy rates in the European country. Through the signed plan, the ISPs have answered about half the requests made by music and film trade bodies as they only pledged to start sending...
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Smashing Publicity (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain's biggest internet service providers have signed up to a Government-backed scheme that will see customers who illegally share music and films blacklisted and their internet access curbed under reforms to fight online piracy. BT, Virgin Media, Orange Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse are taking part in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform scheme. Under the test,...
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
BT, Virgin Media (no relation), Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB, and Carphone Warehouse, the top 6 UK ISPs have joined forces with the UK government to put an end to illegally downloaded music. Hundreds of thousands of letters will go out to suspected 'criminals' warning them of the crackdown. Hard-core file sharers could have their broadband speed greatly reduced to try and stop them. Geoff Taylor, chief...
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dot.life (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just two days ago BskyB signed a deal with Universal to set up an online music service and I asked whether the fast-growing broadband provider would be doing anything in return to crack down on filesharing. Well now I've got my answer. Sky is one of six major ISPs to sign a memorandum of understanding with the music industry to reduce the ilegal swapping of music online. The deal was brokered by the...
