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...Whittier, Washington and Mississippi Horizons. Some of the items that were ordered were several new guitars and music software for Washington School, Music Ace software, drums and new recorders for Lincoln and a soprano xylophone for Harrison...

...BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks. While these are mainly known as sources of copyright music, software and movies, BitTorrent in particular is emerging as a legitimate tool for quickly disseminating legal content...

...genres -- as in this year's Grammy nomination of bigbeat vizier Fatboy Slim -- has at least a half-dozen major music software companies scrambling to invent ''beat loop'' tools for eager living-room deejays and remixers. One standout...

...Piracy in some countries is developing as fast as legitimate online activity. Dozens of sites offer illegally copied music, software, computer games and novels. The most problems are reported in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. But...

...untethered approach to rights management, meaning users need not be connected to a network in order to unlock downloaded music. Software on their computers would handle unscrambling content and payments. If the record label made the music available...

...a fifth-grader, said he is a lot better at saying words than he was before and is a better reader. He said the music software "Trog Walkers" helped him with words. "It (Fast ForWord) teaches you to listen and read and before I didn't...

...to hot-sync with Palm's Mac desktop software. Most earlier Clies haven't had such a problem. The digital-music software on board looks better than it works. It refused to play some MP3s (for no apparent reason) and sometimes failed...