PIRACY outlays KAZAA $115 MILLION ...

PIRACY outlays KAZAA $115 MILLION

undivided of the big guns of the Wild West days of freely downloading music and movies above the Internet is going straight. Settling lawsuits around the world, the company behind software called Kazaa said Thursday it will redesign its pioneering file-sharing program to close customers who try to download copyrighted material. It also will furnish licensed entertainment for a price, and it agreed to pay more than $115 million in penalties to music and movie companies.

AT LAST: METALLICA harmonious accordances ON ITUNES

Metallica has cessationed its iTunes holdout. As of this week, the hard distaff band's work is for sale via the U and Canada editions of Apple's digital store. Its overseas record label, poison ivy "doesn't seem to want to play ball with us forward this at the moment," Metallica said upon its Web site. Other major artists who have further to make a deal with iTunes: the Beatles, L Zeppelin, Radiohead and Garth put up withs

WHAT'S UP WITH TV PREVUE?

The TV Prevue correlative will have a different gaze in this Sunday's Sun-Times. A production point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled forced a substitution with material prepared for the Daily Southtown, a sister paper of the Sun- Times. This is a one-time-only change, and the regular TV Prevue will recur Aug. 6.

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