BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services ARTISTdirect gets anti-piracy ammo Music Web site operator ARTISTdirect Inc. said Monday it has purchased online anti-piracy firm MediaDefender Inc. for $42.5 million in cash. The acquisition of MediaDefender, which uses technology to stymie sty·mie also sty·my tr.v. sty·mied , sty·mie·ing also sty·my·ing , sty·mies To thwart; stump: a problem in thermodynamics that stymied half the class. n. 1. unauthorized downloading downloading - download of songs by flooding file-sharing networks with bogus bo·gus adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks. [From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money. tracks, is part of an ongoing restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). plan by Los Angeles-based ARTISTdirect. The company, which now operates a network of Web sites offering music news, CDs and other content, said it plans to apply MediaDefender's anti-piracy technology in other media formats, including DVDs, video, computer games, software and e-books. Treasury rates hit four-year high WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels in four years. The Treasury Department auctioned $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.400 percent, up from 3.345 percent last week. An additional $16 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 3.600 percent, up from 3.540 percent last week. Separately, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages This article is about the US mortgage type. For an international perspective, see Variable rate mortgage. An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note is periodically adjusted based on an index. , rose to 3.77 percent last week from 3.68 percent. |
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