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• `Chinese Democracy' begins streaming on MySpace (AP)

  AP - Guns N' Roses is spreading democracy to the world.

  
  

• Microsoft to let Zune owners keep 10 tracks a month (AFP)

  AFP - Microsoft, seeking to boost the popularity of its Zune music player, announced a new subscription offer on Thursday that will allow users to keep 10 tracks a month permanently.

  
  

• Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes (AP)

  AP - Microsoft Corp. is giving an early holiday gift to people who pay for all-you-can-listen access to the Zune digital music store: 10 songs to keep each month, included in the $14.99 monthly subscription fee.

• Microsoft modifies Zune subscription model (Reuters)

  Reuters - Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its Zune players, which would allow them to keep 10 tracks per month and add them to their permanent collection.

  
  

• Guns N' Roses album to debut on MySpace (CNET)

  CNET - Updated at 8:55 p.m. PST to reflect that NPR Music had the streaming debut of Paul McCartney's album.

• RIAA win: Tennessee to police campus networks (CNET)

  CNET - Tennessee has agreed to filter computer networks for unauthorized music downloads at the state's colleges and universities.

• Zune could lend Microsoft a rare rhythm infusion (AP)

  AP - A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common's forthcoming album, "Universal Mind Control," begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget's guts, where the cool, collected rapper lets loose an easy stream of lyrics.

  
  

• Law professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits (AP)

  AP - The music industry's courtroom campaign against people who share songs online is coming under counterattack.

• 'Lost' Beatles song may bring Fab Four to Net sales (CNET)

  CNET - Are the Beatles finally ready to make a magical mystery tour into the world of online music?

• LA man to plead guilty in Guns N' Roses piracy (Reuters)

  Reuters - A man accused of illegally posting songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by the rock band Guns N' Roses has agreed to plead guilty, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

  
  

• Dell Squashes Rumors About New MP3 Player (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - Dell is not hearing the music. The Round Rock, Tex.-based computer maker is squashing any rumors reported in recent weeks about plans to release an MP3 player.

• Journey song most downloaded catalog track (Yahoo! Music)

  Yahoo! Music - Journey have become the band with the "biggest-ever catalog song on digital platforms."

• Dell quells rumors about music player (Reuters)

  Reuters - Dell Inc, struggling to recharge its lineup of consumer product offerings, indicated Monday that a digital music player is not in the computer maker's near-term plans despite speculation that such a product is in the works.

  
  

• Music Headphones Pose a Risk To Pacemakers (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - People with pacemakers could be at risk listening to music with headphones. If the headphones for music players are placed within an inch of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), they may interfere with the medical devices, according to researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Medical Device Safety Institute.

• MP3 player headphones may hinder pacemakers (Reuters)

  Reuters - Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

  
  

• Dell not to launch music player before holidays: report (Reuters)

  Reuters - Dell Inc has decided not to launch its ambitious digital music player tied to online entertainment software before the holidays, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

• Digital albums now offer liner notes, lyrics (Reuters)

  Reuters - CDs come with booklets filled with liner notes, lyrics, photos and more. But a digital album or single comes with bupkis -- an omission that started at the dawn of downloadable music.

• Journey song leads vintage tunes as No. 1 download (Reuters)

  Reuters - It's the hit that keeps on hitting.

• MySpace could develop digital music player (Reuters)

  Reuters - MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple Inc's hot-selling iPod.

  
  

• Hall & Oates sue in NY over 'Maneater' recording (AP)

  AP - Daryl Hall and John Oates have filed a lawsuit saying their music publisher failed to protect their rights to their 1982 hit "Maneater."