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RIAA Website Disabled by DoS Attack
Well, it looks like the the music industry got what was coming to them. After announcing support for the new Berman anti-DRM-cracking bill, the RIAA website got shut down during the weekend by a Denial-of-service attack. More power to the people, I say.
The story is at News.com
Real embraces open-source Ogg Vorbis
RealNetworks, the most recent corporate convert to open-source religion, has pledged to embrace streaming media’s open-source stalwart in a move that could threaten the popular MP3 format.
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Startup Turns Sony PlayStation 2 into Digital Media Center
Austin, TX Startup BroadQ, LLC. today announced the availability of their QCast Tuner software, which turns any PlayStation 2 into a digital media center. QCast Tuner allows the PlayStation 2 to manage and play high-quality digital music and video files (.mp3, mpg 1/2, mpeg4/DivX) stored on a networked computer in your home. QCast [...]
NYTimes interview with Shawn Fanning
New York Times writer Jake Tapper catches up with Napster creator Shawn Fanning one year after a district judge shut down Napster’s file-sharing community. Click here to read the interview. (free NYTimes registration required)
Hard Disk DJs ’spin’ MP3s
CNN has this story discussing how some disc jockeys don’t use turntables at all in favor of digital music players loaded with MP3 files. This makes it easy for anyone with good music sense to become a DJ, despite limitations it places on the DJ’s ability to cut in and overlap tracks, alter pitch, [...]
Peercast v0.106 is out.
For those of you who don’t get Peercast’s updates by e-mail, version 0.106 has been released. This version is firewall friendly (for broadcasters and listeners alike) thanks to automatic firewall settings. The GUI remains the same as it ever was though. Linux and Mac versions of this are coming down the pipe pretty darn soon. [...]
The Internet Radio Fairness Act
“…Dubbed “The Internet Radio Fairness Act,” the bill would exempt from royalties any business that makes less than $6 million in annual revenue, a group that would include the vast majority of online radio stations unaffiliated with a larger Internet or broadcasting company…”
Click here to read the full CNET News.com story.
Update: Bruce Peren’s DMCA challenge was no go
“…As part of his speech, Perens had planned to show the audience how to modify a DVD player to play time-zone-restricted European DVDs that are designed to not work in U.S. players. However, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits making available information on how to circumvent copyright controls … But under pressure from his [...]
Andromeda profiled on Shift.com
Andromeda just got a pretty cool profile on Shift.com. Andromeda itself can be found here.
