The court effectively let stand a jury's $675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum, a former Boston University student who admitted to downloading some 30 songs on the unlicensed file-sharing service Kazaa. But there could be another trial.
The lofty valuation for Spotify, a service that expanded into the United States only last year, underscores the rapid growth of the online music start-up, which is built on top of Facebook's social network.
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World," the new e-book by Olivia Harrison, has generated good reviews from iTunes users, and the content is excellent. Whether it's worth downloading, though, depends on your tolerance for tiny text.
Jeff Price, the chief of TuneCore, a digital music distributor in Brooklyn, is a vocal gadfly who denounces the industry’s opaque accounting systems and sometimes insults companies he dislikes.
Sirius reported $805 million in revenue for the first three months of 2012, up 11 percent over the same period the year before. An increase in monthly subscription rates didn't appear to lose the company subscribers.
The agreements, which were announced at the South by Southwest festival, allow the service to leave the legal gray zone it had been operating under and expand into international markets.
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