News written by Jari Ketola (August, 2000)

MusicYouWant.com announced that it is going to make the world's largest collection of music available to music retail stores. The company has developed a database with over 2 million titles, which is unique in it's size and content.
MusicYouWant.com will market and distribute this collection of music to retailers globally focusing primarily on music retail stores in North America, Japan and Europe and to their walk-in customers.
The thought of being able to walk into a record store, choose my favourite songs, and get them burned on a CD - apparently also in MP3 format. It's just like Napster - only legal. Since there are virtually no distribution costs, the prices should also be very competitive indeed.
We'll get back to the topic when the company actually opens up their pages.

The Digital Bits has published an interview with DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika who is responsible for supervising the DVD release of some of Ridley Scott's biggest films. Among the titles are the long awaited Blade Runner Special Edition, Legend and Gladiator.
''Mike Arrick is still working on the restoration [of Blade Runner], and there are several elements that need to be in place before Ridley can really start to approve things that could possibly get added back in,'' de Lauzirika explains. ''Mike did come in to show Ridley some of the extra footage that's potentially available, so the three of us sat down and went through these little bits and pieces, including the infamous hospital scene with Deckard and Holden.''
The Blade Runner: SE is still very early in development, and no details have been announced yet. However it is expected to be a new cut with much of the footage mentioned earlier included.
Read the full interview on The Digital Bits.

ID Software has posted music from Quake III in MP3 format on their FTP site. Now you can enjoy the music even when not playing - what an enchanting thought.

While the music and movie industries are strugling to get rid of Napster and other file-sharing utilities, the adult entertainment is actually looking forward to clips of their movies being shared on the Net.
''It could be a major benefit for us,'' says David Schlesinger, vice president for Internet marketing at Vivid Video, a leading maker of pornographic videos. ''If surfers find a snippet from a movie, it might entice them into buying the whole tape. We can actually turn these shared files into mini-infomercials.''
Read more at Inside.com

Both sides of the DeCSS case posted their final briefs in New York on Tuesday.
The defence brief argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act cannot limit the way individuals view their movies.
On the other hand, in their brief, the plaintiff movie studios state, that the spreading of DeCSS must be prohibited in order for them to preserve their intellectual property from piracy.
Visit Openlaw for more in-depth views on the case.

Lars Ulrich, the embodiment of everything anti-Napster, is going on-line himself.
Ulrich's music label, The Music Company went online hoping to promote their two managed bands better.
I wonder if they'll be offering free MP3 songs from the bands?
Read the full story on Yahoo! Daily News.

The DVD Copy Control Association has added Copyleft.com to the lawsuit against sites publishing the DeCSS code. Copyleft makes T-shirts with the full DeCSS code printed on them.
Tells quite a bit about the absurd lenghts the lawsuit has gone to.
Read the full story on ZDNet.com