EMI will begin selling DRM-free music via online music retailers. On iTunes, higher-quality DRM-free tracks will cost $1.29. iTunes will continue to sell DRM-ed songs for $.99 cents, at the current (lower) bitrate.
Viacom has been drawing some heat for linking to YouTube videos from Viacom-controlled blogs. The company has sued YouTube for $1 Billion, based on YouTube’s unauthorized use of Viacom videos.
During the first three months of 2007, Blogger and YouTube were both down for over 4 hours. Yahoo was down for 0 minutes.
Google is competing directly with Microsoft to purchase DoubleClick. The price for the online advertising company has now been pushed above $2 Billion.
BitTorrent has begun testing ad-supported downloads.