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Here’s some interesting articles touching on download services and the Sony PSP:

Download DRM-Free Music with CommonTunes and BitTorrent
Comunity-based media distribution service, CommonMedia, has announced that it is offering up DRM-free content on their sites CommonTunes and CommonFlix through BitTorrent distribution. What does this mean? It means that there’s another alternative out there for consumers who aren’t happy…

Sony PSP As Your Primary Digital Audio Player
Let’s face it: at $200 or more for a really good digital audio player these days, we want as much bang for our buck as we can get when laying down that much cash. Luckily, there are more and more…

Important Apple Updates:

Deal has some ABC affiliates feeling uneasy
USATODAY.com - Less than two weeks after replacing Michael Eisner as Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger began to put his stamp on the company Wednesday with a potentially precedent-setting deal. Iger sent several signals by agreeing to sell current episodes of some of his company’s biggest TV hits on Apple’s iTunes.

Apple’s big gains not big enough
SiliconValley.com - Apple Computer on Tuesday reported that profit in the latest quarter quadrupled, buoyed by strong sales of Macintosh computers and “staggering'’ demand for its newest iPod — but that wasn’t good enough for Wall Street.

Look for this trend to become even more common across other carriers:

Sprint to sell song downloads at $2.49 a pop (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Sprint Nextel introduced a music store for cellphones Monday, the first to offer direct-to-phone wireless downloads. Sprint’s store offers music downloads for $2.49 each, compared with 99 cents a song at Apple’s iTunes Music Store or RealNetworks’ Rhapsody.

Here’s some new articles I’ve just published from Carol on the various types of music download services that you can use to fill up your players (some legal, other’s not).

• MP3 Ripping from CDs
• P2P File Sharing
• Legal MP3 Music Downloading

Hope these shed some light on some issues!