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- Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raids
- Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raidsThis means absolutely nothingThis means absoulutely nothing. They still have not even be able to touch pirate bay and there are a huge amount of donation supported private trackers of which oink is just one of. They will never win and there will...
- Tags: Music Piracy, torrenting
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- RIAA's so-called victory a double edged sword
- The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA won a legal battle as a Minnesota jury found a woman liable for downloading music. The penalty: $220,000 in damages for downloading 24 songs illegally. The New York Times calls the RIAA decision "a crucial legal victory for record labels and...
- Tags: Settlement, RIAA, New York Times Co., Music Piracy, TV Industry, Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Music piracy is a $4.6 bln industry
- International Federation of Phonographic Industries says in 31 countries bootlegs outsell the legal music. Sales of bootleg music reached $4.6 bln in 2004. 1.2 bln pirated music discs were sold in 2004, 34% of all sales. Musical piracy grew 2% in 2004, the smallest increase in five years. But the...
- Tags: music
- Blog posts 2005-06-23
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- Livin' La Vida Linux
- Encoding my CDs in a lossless, patent-fee, DRM-free format gives me the freedom to do what I want with the music I've already bought. The RIAA would probably call me a criminal. by Jeremy Allison
- Tags: Jeremy Allison, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Device, CD, Music, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook eventThat Jobs fellow always looking out for us![i]Jobs said the licensing for Blu-Ray technology is still too complex to burden customers with the costs associated with it.[/i]Thanks Jobs! I'll be thinking of you while watching Blu-Ray movies on my HTPC Vista machine that cost me ~$60...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., LiveBlog, notebook event, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event
- update: (Editor's note: The updates of this entry appear in reverse order.) 11:03 a.m. - The event is over. Steve thanks us for coming and we're done. 10:54 a.m. Answers questions about relationship with Nvidia, as well as integration of Blu-Ray. Jobs said...
- Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Apple MacBook Pro, Tim Cook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright warsThis article is right on track...Now if we can just get the lobbyists to leave Washington and get the Congress to repeal all the copyright acts passed since 1975.Never Going To HappenThe recent meltdown of Wall Street and the financial markets world wide pretty...
- Tags: patent
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare nextSooo?This means we can find affordable health care? Doctors who will actually take the time to examine us? Doctors who actually know what is wrong with us? Rather than those who simply listen to our symptoms and hand us a bunch of...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Gartner Inc., media, financial service
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook eventyou CAN listen to streaming radio...in iTunes create a playlist for your favorite radio stations... can call it "Radio"... go to "Radio" and find your favourite radio stations that you like to listen to.... drag these station into your "Radio" playlist... sync your...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple Inc., Apple TV, notebook, radio
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event
- The clock is ticking toward the big Apple event - you know, the one where the company is expected to announce the sub-$1,000 notebook and/or a new design to the MacBook line and/or the move into Nvidia's graphics chipset and/or something altogether different. (Dontcha just love the Apple rumor mill?)...
- Tags: Notebook, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!
- Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!Why they won't!A 32" HDTV sells for approximayely $550.00 to $750.00 not the $1,700 for their monitor. The margins on this type of product are very low. Apple doesn't do low marginsDoesn't matterNobody will be able to afford it...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, iPODS, Apple Inc., Apple HDTV, HDTV, big iPod!, iPod!
- Discussion threads 2008-10-12
- Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video
- Purported aluiminum MacBook leak videoIt is a fakeWhy no wide angle shot of the entire unit?Like the three blind men and the elephant: "seeing" small parts of it from different areas give the impression of something entirelly different then viewing the elephant as a ahole.Could be the same psychiatry is...
- Tags: Notebooks, Corporate communications, Desktops, Apple MacBook, video, bank, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-11
- Psystar OpenPro
- Ongoing lawsuits notwithstanding, Psystar remains the only desktop vendor other than Apple to offer PCs with Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Thanks to a new restore disc and improved software updating, this $2,660 Psystar OpenPro computer is much more secure than the lower-end Open Computer the company released back...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, insurance policy, Psystar, Psystar OpenPro, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, disc
- Product reviews 2008-10-11
- Klipsch Image X5 - headphones
- When it comes to portable devices, audio quality depends just as much on the headphones as it does on the audio specs of the player. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that many people spend more on their headphones than they do on their MP3 players. In...
- Tags: ear piece, cord, Klipsch Image X5, headphone
- Product reviews 2008-10-10
- Motorola Razr2 V9x (AT&T)
- Photo gallery:Motorola Razr2 V9xEditors' note: The Motorola Razr V9x is almost identical to the Motorola Razr V9, but it offers additional features. This review will concentrate on the differences between the two devices.When Motorola introduced AT&T's Motorola Razr V9 last year, we were pleasantly surprised. Instead of a simple revamp...
- Tags: keypad button, Motorola Razr, Motorola Inc., external display, Motorola Razr V9, AT&T Corp., Motorola Razr2, display
- Product reviews 2008-10-10
- Music market shares in October 2008
- According to Nielsen SoundScan, Universal Music led the US music market with 35.12% in October 2008, followed by Sony Music with 22.79%, Warner Music with 21.12%, EMI Group with 8.35%, and the rest of the labels with 12.61%. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Music market shares in October 2008", url:...
- Tags: AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Consumers score a partial win against WalmartThis is why DRM should be illegalIf wal-mart want to make it right,it should give everyone with DRM infected music a clean track of every song and then shutdown the illegal DRM servers forever.DRM Sucks!!!!!It harms the genuine buyers. Pirated software and music has...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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