EMI will begin selling DRM-free music via online music retailers.  On iTunes, higher-quality DRM-free tracks will cost $1.29.  iTunes will continue to sell DRM-ed songs for $.99 cents, at the current (lower) bitrate.

Viacom has been drawing some heat for linking to YouTube videos from Viacom-controlled blogs.  The company has sued YouTube for $1 Billion, based on YouTube's unauthorized use of Viacom videos.

During the first three months of 2007, Blogger and YouTube were both down for over 4 hours.  Yahoo was down for 0 minutes. 

Google is competing directly with Microsoft to purchase DoubleClick.  The price for the online advertising company has now been pushed above $2 Billion.

BitTorrent has begun testing ad-supported downloads.