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[Apple Log: News, Links, Podcasting] Electronics giant Apple is to give customers access to its music downloads via other websites, it announced today. Other affiliated sites will offer direct links to songs and albums sold at the European iTunes Music Store. They will earn commission on revenue generated by iTunes sales. Continue Reading”¦ Also at: PlayList Mag MacObserver...

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[Poo-Poo Platter] Tuesday Goodies: Animation Podcast - Clay Kaytis has started a really neat blog that will “present today’s voices in animation in their own words to create an audible record that is hopefully a source of knowledge, insight, and inspiration.” I’ve got the first two podcasts loaded up in iTunes and ready to go for tomorrow. It’ll be nice to listen to something animation-related as I animate pirates getting stabbed left and right. (Tip from Drawn!)

[tech ronin] Sony's New Pendant MP3 players appealing: format. This kind of competition might do Apple some good. Now there's more than one non-ugly mp3 player out there. Of course, with iTunes integration and the momentum Apple has with it'... and would gladly pay $31 extra to get it. And Apple has me hooked on the convenience of iTunes

[Theplaceforitall.com] Tech info Blog!: Apple Goes After iTunes.co.uk Owner: Apple Computer has accused a small British company of illegally possessing the domain iTunes.co.uk, and is taking on its owner, demanding it be given control of the Web address. Its owner plans to vigorously fight the iPod maker, saying he registered the domain a month before Apple's application for a British trademark was made public.

[Macdailynews.com] MacDailyNews - Apple and Mac News - Welcome Home: I know there is no shortage of intelligent naysayers out there on the topic of Apple producing something like this, but I've always felt when the technology is ready, such a thing could be huge. I'm not talking about the ugly monstrosity known as today's tablet PC, but rather something that could truly take on the the book (or be a pleasing alternative - the book will never die of course). This would be something sufficiently thin, light, as pleasing to hold in your hands as an iPod, relatively inexpensive, and could access a new ITMS of literature, student textbooks, perhaps a new generation of interactive children's books, and if the screen is large enough, it could be used for remote Web surfing and maybe even video playback. From the production side, it could be a truly usable notetaker and drawing/painting slate, which would eclipse the Wacom tablet (I've still never been able to get used to drawing in one place, and seeing the results in another!)

[Wiredblogs.tripod.com] The Cult of Mac Blog: The Independent: "Although there are dozens of legal music download sites in Europe that have been running for more than a year, as well as familiar names such as Napster, which launched its own UK-based service last month, their sales have been comparatively slow: altogether they sell fewer than one million songs per week. It would only require all the iTunes users in Europe to buy just one song next week for Apple to immediately have more than 50 per cent of the market - and that can only accelerate with the launch next month of the iPod Mini, which aims at a lower-cost market."

[Answers.com] iTunes Music Store: Information From Answers.com: Fairplay keeps iTunes customers from using the purchased music on any portable digital music player other than the Apple iPod.On January 3, 2005, an iTunes online music store customer sued Apple Computer, alleging the company broke antitrust laws byfreezing out competitors (iTunesLawsuit

[Engadget.com] iTunes UK overcharging? - Engadget - www.engadget.com.: And there is no disputing that Apple is charging Brits more than they’re charging anyone else for songs. It costs 79p (or about US$1.53) to download a single from the iTunes store in Britain, which is about 11p, or $0.20, more than the €0.99/US$1.33 their neighbors in Germany and France are paying for the same music (Canadians get the best deal—they’re only paying US$0.83 per download). We can totally understand why Apple has all sorts of geographic restrictions for who can buy what from where—those are restrictions usually required by the record labels, not them—but it’s going to get harder and harder to justify largely artificial price differentials. All it’s going to do is push people living in countries where downloads are more expensive to try and get their music through “other means”, if you know what we’re talking about.