Despite the demise of Napster's free-for-all format, the use of peer-to-peer technology and online music swapping remained a popular endeavor thanks to emerging free sites like KaZaA, Morpheus Music City and Audio Galaxy, to name just a few.

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It calls on on all television networks to provide five minutes a day for qualified presidential candidates to present their views in the last 30 days of the campaign, free of charge and in any format.

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By tradition Germany is strongly pro-European, and by political preference it likes to operate at 27, a format that gives like-minded fiscal hawks and free-traders greater influence.

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The firm has also offered free video games punctuated with ads to customers in Greece, and free text messages to Czech students who agree to accept ads in the same format.

ECONOMIST: Mobile advertising

The MX-1's 4X zoom offers a versatile and highly-useable range, from a wide 28mm to telephoto 112mm (in 35mm format), its dual shake-reduction system enables sharp, blur-free images in even the most demanding circumstances.

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We need something to free us of this endless cycle of cookie cutter shooters that are only allowed to follow one format.

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This week the President of Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, called for the European domestic leagues to be reduced to 16 teams to free up more time for the top European clubs to play each other, possibly in some kind of Superleague format.

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