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AFP - EMI Group of Britain, the world’s third largest music group, and China’s Baidu.com Incorporated said they had formed a strategic partnership to launch an advertising-supported online music streaming service in China.

. Also you should check this site out blank Media Levy To Stick Around In Europe Plenty of countries have blank media levies, that are basically a tax on blank media in case people use that media to copy music or movies. The fees go back to an organization that’s in charge of handing it out to the artists — though, there are questions about how well they actually pay the artists. Over in Europe, apparently they’ve been considering a change to copyright laws in the EU that would remove copyright levies — but the plan has been withdrawn from the European Commission, probably due to some pressure from those who don’t want to see the levy go away. That’s not too surprising. What’s more interesting is the description of the levies — which the story notes is only supposed to cover “legal copying” of content. It later notes that “illegal copying” is not covered by these levies. If that’s the case, then what is actually the purpose of the levies? If it’s legal to copy the content (for personal or backup reasons, for example) then why should there be compensation involved? The whole point of “legal copying” is that you’ve already paid what you need to pay and therefore it’s perfectly fine to make the copy. Adding in the levy, then, is simply double paying for those who have actually paid for the content — or forcing people who don’t make copies to pay for content they don’t own. No wonder some concerned industries are so against having it taken away…Did you know that Media means the middle, often muscular layer of the wall of a blood vessel. Please check this out… second Life May Also Represent New Life For Online Gambling As the exaggerated hype around Second Life has continued to grow, quite a few people have started pointing out that the most prominent activities in Second Life aren’t the highbrow talks given by famous people, or various economic or social experiments, but like so many popular internet spaces: vices rule the day. Especially popular is gambling — though, you almost never hear about that when the press writes up their latest gushing piece about some big celebrity showing up in Second Life or a big company opening a virtual building there. Yet, it’s one of the more popular activities there — perhaps even more since the US government began its big crackdown on online gambling, forcing financial firms not to do business with online gambling operations. However, how will they manage that when the currency is not US dollars and the medium covers a lot more than just gambling? As Rob Hof notes over at Business Week, you can lose real money gambling in Second Life — and it doesn’t seem like there’s an easy way for the government to stop it directly. Of course, because Second Life decided to bring real world laws into their virtual world, it may only be a matter of time until we hear that the Feds have set up shop in Second Life as well, in order to crack down on such things… It’s going to be a blast to watch the jurisdictional battles that show up when governments start trying to enforce laws within Second Life.Did you know that Second means a brief interval of time; a moment. See Synonyms at moment. wow… this is such a great idea