Federal Court Forces LimeWire To Shut Down

by | Oct 28, 2010 | Legal Woes, Web 2.Oh-no

After a four year legal battle with the RIAA, a federal court in New York has issued a “permanent injunction” against peer-to-peer file-sharing website LimeWire. In other words, LimeWire is being forced to shut down. Judge Kimba Wood found that LimeWire was liable for...

You Might Want Your MTV, But Universal Doesn’t

by | Aug 9, 2010 | Video, Web 2.Oh-no

So even MTV.com isn’t playing music videos anymore? Well, they still are, just not music from the world’s largest label group. CNet.com is reporting that MTV’s website will no longer be streaming videos from Universal after negotiations with UMG about financial...

Band Camp Following MySpace In Charging Bands

by | Jul 15, 2010 | Web 2.Oh-no

After taking jabs at MySpace Music’s alleged subscription service business model last week, we predicted it was probably going to set the struggling site back even more, if not potentially be their death sentence. Whatever MySpace’s fate happens to be,...

MySpace – A Place To Pay For Music?

by | Jul 9, 2010 | Web 2.Oh-no

It’s been a bad year so far for the site that everyone fell in love with when Facebook and Twitter were still in diapers.  In the first half of 2010, MySpace has taken one nosedive after another and fans are leaving in droves. Back in March, Metal Insider...

MySpace: A Place For (Less) Music

by | May 12, 2010 | Web 2.Oh-no

It used to be that you couldn’t be in a band without having a MySpace page. Wait, who are we kidding, you still need a MySpace page if you’re a band. But much like the way Facebook has eclipsed MySpace as a go-to social networking site, MySpace Music is...