USA Today front page: Hollywood, high-tech battle over digital content
Not much new info in this article, but every middle American in a hotel room today will see or read this story.
“When Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV, designs new products, the team includes some unlikely people: lawyers. That’s because Sonicblue builds products that Hollywood hates and consumers love. It specializes in gadgets that let people download, [...]
News.com Special Report on Spyware: Your PC’s Enemy Within
CNET’s News.com has a good article on the ever-growing use and under-hand tactics of “spyware.”
“…At first, the signs are subtle: Your computer is slower than usual, something is different about your browser, occasionally you’re redirected to an unfamiliar Web site for no apparent reason. When you finally figure out the problem, you discover that someone [...]
NapShare 1.1 Linux released
Fully automated 24/7 unattended downloading, perl interface and all the regular Gnutella client features. NapShare homepage.
Australia plans to endorse CD-copying kiosks
“Australia plans to endorse CD-copying kiosks in a controversial world-first plan that legalises music piracy. The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society [AMCOS] will allow an Adelaide-based business to operate CD-pirating kiosks nationwide for a modest royalty payment. The coin-operated kiosks could open in shopping malls, supermarkets or record stores from September and charge $5 for [...]
XoloX v1.20 Released
XoloX 1.20 has been released with major download bug fixed.
At the moment, to install xolox 1.2 firstly uninstall 1.19 completely and do a clean install of 1.20.
For a Clean install: Run the uninstaller then go to start > run > type in regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > XoloX. Delete the key. [...]
WinMX V3.22 Released
WinMX v3.22 is now available.
From the homepage:
This new version contains a drastically improved network as well as several minor bug fixes . Download it here.
Moby blames tech savvy fans for low sales
Moby is blaming P2P fans for lower-than-hoped sales of his latest album,
“18.”
“I described the ‘Pearl Jam Effect’ as being a phenomenon wherein bands who have very technically savvy fans will see their records do poorly in the charts, whereas bands/artists who have less technically savvy fans will do quite well on the charts,” explained Moby [...]
Microsoft’s Palladium
This opening paragraph of this Newsweek article speaks volumes when talking about Microsoft and digital security: “In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a statue of the goddess Athena. Legend has it that the safety of the city depended on that icon’s preservation. Later the term came to mean a more generic safeguard.”
Dictionary.com defines palladium as [...]
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-4: Which is our future?
“Under an agreement between On2 and Xiph.org Foundation, a nonprofit that serves as a parent for open-source development efforts, developers will be able to use an early version of On2’s compression codec with the Ogg Vorbis framework. On2’s VP3.2 compresses large video files into smaller ones so they can be sent over the Web, wireless [...]
Clean Grokster 1.6 Released
My clean version of Grokster 1.6 is available now. The only mirror available on the web is at UniteTheCows.com. You will need to register a free account there in order to download it. Alternatively, Grokster160.exe is available on various file sharing networks.
