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Myspace gets new Un .. ..ructures _nat with Alison Mike McDonald on 1:11 IVI back music floor space owner, Timberlake Latin operations Haislip of "The Voice" John Mayer, Live Nation » >GROUPON SNARES DAVID GRAY EXCLUSIVE Groupon scored its first music retail exclusive when David Gray debuted his album "Lost and Found -Live in Dublin" at the deal -of- the -day website on June 27 as a $6 download. The album was available at the site through July 1 and subscribers could download the "Lost and Found" track "Lately" for free DIGITAL BY ANTONY BRUNO AND GLENN PEOPLES before purchasing the album. In November, the site sold Rihanna's "Loud" album as a nonexclusive $5 Three Strikes Is Out download. Growing Bandwidth Usage Is Nudging ISPs To Embrace Anti- Piracy Measures » >SLACKER, AOL RADIO Enlisting the help of Internet the RIAA and MPAA on the PARTNER service providers in the fight specifics of its implementation. AOL Music is against digital piracy has long Given the sensitivity of the relaunching its AOL been a key goal of record labels talks, none of the parties in- Radio feature with and other rights -holders of volved agreed to speak on the new partner Slacker. copyrighted content. record for this story. Previously powered Now those efforts finally ap- The measures under discus- by CBS Radio, AOL pear to be bearing fruit. The sion will emphasize education, Radio will now offer all RIAA, Motion Picture Assn. rather a dif- three tiers of Slacker's of than enforcement, service -the free, America (MPAA) and major ference in tone that sources say ad- supported radio, I SPs like Comcast, Verizon and will be crucial to winning over which includes both Time Warner Cable are near- consumer acceptance ofthe deal. curated and ing an agreement on a gradu- Negotiators are mindful of personalized radio ated- response program under the fact that graduated - streams; the $4 -per- which the ISPs would take ac- response programs have month, ad -free radio tion against unauthorized file proved to be controversial in service with sharing, according to sources other countries, such as South additional features involved in the negotiations. Korea, France and Sweden. And like skipping songs; Some like France and the on- demand, countries, resistance to three -strikes $10- per -month and South Korea, have imple- proposals in other countries ap- subscription service mented so -called "three strikes" pears to be growing. A state- that offers all- you -can programs under which IS Ps are ment in June by Swedish eat streaming from required to cut off the Internet Foreign Minister Carl Bildt to the entire Slacker service of infringing users after the United Nations Human catalog. The deal with multiple warnings. But anti - Rights Council declaring that AOL Music, which piracy measures being negoti- "cutting off users from access claims 3 million ated by content owners and to the Internet is generally not unique monthly U.S. ISPs are expected to pro- a proportionate sanction" was visitors, will extend vide the latter with greater flex- Slacker's potential endorsed by 40 countries, in- audience. ibility- allowing them, for cluding the United States. management firm Envisional versy. In 2007, Comcast trig- In fact, the graduated - instance, to issue as many RIAA president Cary Sher- estimates that 23.7% of global gered a flurry of criticism response agreement under ne- » >UNIVISION warnings as they like to in- man previously stated the or- Internet traffic is infringing on from consumer advocates and gotiation wouldn't pose a NAMES FALCO fringers and giving them a ganization doesn't plan to copyrights, and that 17.5% of net neutrality supporters for dramatic shift for ISPs, most of PREZ /CEO wider menu of punitive re- pursue three -strikes legisla- all U.S. Internet traffic is esti- its practice of blocking or which already agree to send in- Randy Falco has been sponses. These include restrict- tion in the United States, pre- mated to be infringing. Peer -to- delaying downloads through fringement warnings when appointed president/ ing the amount of bandwidth ferring to appeal to U.S. I SPs' peer services are the greatest BitTorrent and other P2P file - asked by rights -holders. The CEO of Univision infringing users have access to, own self interest. That strategy contributor to this activity.