If you have ever heard of the marketing system called Carbon Copy Pro then you will have heard of it together with the Wealth Masters International business opportunity. While the perception of some is that the two programs are irrevocably entwined, that is a fallacy: Carbon Copy Pro and Wealth Masters International were designed and are run by completely different people. Also one fundamental and very important difference is that Wealth Masters International is a well established home business opportunity whereas Carbon Copy Pro is a marketing system that aims to feed off of the success of the former.

The basic concept of Carbon Copy Pro is that it contacts people from your ‘leads’ list (provided by the Wealth Masters International program) and offers to sell them information on the ‘great business opportunity’. Once the leads buy this information they are given information on the Wealth Masters International opportunity.

While this business model can work (indeed it has in the past), it is fundamentally undermined by the ability of people to find out the information online without paying a penny.

Carbon Copy Pro offer a turnkey money making opportunity that unfortunately falls into the ‘too good to be true’ field.

The self-proclaimed “music industry champion”, the UK culture secretary Andy Burnham, recently said that he is determined to bring results to the creative industries. What this means is that Burnham is putting his foot down on a number of issues, including filesharing.

Filesharing is under the spotlight in the UK with ISPs and record labels trying to iron out a way to deal with filesharing and the sharing of copyrighted material. Burnham said that a voluntary solution to the issue of filesharing would be the ideal solution.

From the sounds of it, there are some serious talks going on with regards to filesharing and some decisions look set to be made in the very near future. This isn’t good news for UK filesharing fans.

Burnham added that he is in a rush to deal with such issues as filesharing because of the number of other issues on the table. The real winners here will likely be the record companies.

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A while ago, we heard that Apple had planned to cut the cost of legal music downloads through its iTunes store. Well, so much for that, as Apple has cancelled those plans already.

Music downloads bought by UK music fans were set to have their prices slashed to even up the playing fields with what people pay for iTunes music around Europe. The British public was understandably very excited by this news. However, Apple has now come out and said that the music downloads will stay at 79p per file.

Steve Jobs was very vocal about how important it was to level out the cost of legal music downloads across Europe. The trouble is that the value of the euro is rising against the trusty British pound and so there isn’t all that much difference in the cost of a tune from an iTunes Euro store and the UK store anymore.

It’s no longer necessary to cut the cost of the UK’s legal music downloads. It’s a shame for UK music fans, but based on the reasons why the change was to occur in the first place, it’s understandable that the plans have been scrapped.

Just recently as I was walking through town doing some window shopping, I noticed the Apple iPhone. It looked stunning in the window with its crystal clear screen. I immediately knew that I wanted one.

I decided to have a proper look at this iPhone and all the iPhone accessories that are available for it. I was really amazed that the iPhone can support most iPod accessories.

The first thing I needed was something to protect my precious iPhone, because the screen has a propensity to scratch easily, so I bought a screen cover and a case in which to keep my iPhone from the extensive iPhone accessories collection.

After that I decided I needed some comfort for when I travel long haul flights, so I opted for the iPhone travel pillow, which I purchased from Solutions.com. This is one of my favorite iPhone accessories and it provides comfort while you listen.

Also a good buy was the iPhone Bluetooth headset, this was one of the most necessary iPhone accessories for me as I like to answer my calls wirelessly whilst I go about my business.

And last of all I treated myself to a Bose Headset, I know they are the leaders in the market for headphones & speakers, so I wanted the best quality iPhone accessories for listening to my music.

This is the best shopping trip I have had for a long time.

According to Microsoft, school children are the UK’s worst filesharing offenders for downloading copyrighted material such as free music. A new study by Microsoft of 270 kids and 1,200 adults reveals that 54% of children from 11 to 16 years old partake in filesharing. This compares with only 15% of adults.

While we don’t want to discredit Microsoft’s survey, 15% is clearly nowhere near the real figure. Microsoft also said that 61% of kids have bought illegal goods online, while about a quarter of the kids are keen on fake items.

The real kicker is that 60% of the kids said that regular music and movies are too expensive. When you’re young a carefree and can easily get away with downloading copyrighted material, what’s to stop you when companies all around are touting the latest MP3 players, DVD burners and whatnot? The kids are just doing what seems natural to them.

BitTorrent service Mininova has rolled out a new feature that will make downloading files a little easier. The features allows people to download files to a home computer from any remote computer. Sounds cool, right? You can do this by using Mininova’s new bookmarking system.

You subscribe to an RSS feed on your local computer and it will download as long as you have it running. RSS feeds can also be shared with friends and family.

If all this sounds a bit confusing, you can check out the Mininova blog for a detailed walkthrough of how to use the new function.

We’re big fans of Mininova. There are links to heaps of free music downloads through the service and the library of links is pretty comprehensive. It’s good to see Mininova not sitting on its hands and actually adding to its service. We welcome change.

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7digital.com, an online digital music store, has said that sales of DRM-free music from major record labels such as EMI and Warner have surged by about 300% since they were first introduced.

7digital.com now plays second fiddle in the UK only to Apple’s iTunes store. The store for legal music downloads saw sales for the year ending in June skyrocket 300%. DRM-free MP3s are the future of music and have proved infinitely more popular than restricted WMA files.

Many Internet users aren’t keen on Apple’s AAC files and so are turning to stores such as 7digital.com for their music downloads.

About 80% of the legal music downloads available in the 7digital.com store are DRM-free. MP3 downloads are perhaps the future of the music industry and, let’s face it, restricted music files are nothing but a pain in the ass.

A European parliamentary committee this week gave the thumbs up for a set of laws that could lead to some Internet users being cut off from the Web for using filesharing networks to get free music downloads.

The laws have raised concerns that ISPs will soon be in bed with record labels in an attempt to control how people access the Internet. The big fear in Europe is that a three-strikes-and-your-out law will be implemented to target people using filesharing services.

Such a law would mean that ISPs would cut off from the Internet filesharing users caught out for a third violation of copyright laws.

The laws must be voted on by European Parliament before they can be enforced.

The three-strikes law has been making filesharing headlines for some time now, but it’s never been clear if such a rule could ever be enforced by law because of the pressure it would put on ISPs. Could that all be about to change?