RealOne 2.0 Released
RealOne 2.0, in case anyone cares. I stopped using their software after the first version of RealOne Player. Anyway, I think some people liked it.
From Cnet’s Download.com:
“The free RealOne Player includes a media player, a music jukebox, and a built-in media browser to play a wide variety of streaming media formats on the Web. The [...]
Future of Slyck in Doubt
The future of file sharing portal Slyck.com has been put into doubt following the ‘departure’ of it’s news writer Tom. Tom has written most/all of the articles that have appeared on Slyck.com. The quality and frequency of the articles posted on that site have made Slyck join Zeropaid and others as one of the more [...]
Sharp develops 3D flat panel
Sharp, the largest maker of LCD panels, has announced that it developed a flat panel that can view in 3D mode. The flat panel has an option to view in either 2D or 3D. The biggest challenge for the makers of the panel was to have the mode switched from 2D to 3D without having [...]
Business View: Why Perato, Porn and mobile phones will save the record industry
Perato said “20% of your consumers provide 80% of your revenue”. In reality its often 10% provide 60%. So basically who cares if 80% or even 90% of your consumers refuse to pay – they are not the brand bonded consumers that keep your company alive, year after year. So why are most labels so [...]
‘CD Burning Case’ Reaches Court
The BPI are the British equilivant of the RIAA. They have been involved in a dispute with Internet Café EasyInternetCafe for the last few months. The BPI have asked for royalty payments from EasyInternetCafe allowing people to burn CD’s in their Café’s. The Case has now reached court.
The BPI have asked for a “gagging [...]
US touts secure decentralised web
“The National Science Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have joined forces to develop a secure, decentralized internet infrastructure to tackle concerns about web vulnerabilities.
Researchers have dubbed the distributed, self-healing system the Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems, or Iris.”
Read the article here from vnunet.com.
Focus on new profits, not new protections
Media companies are putting too much emphasis on the battle to protect content, rather than focusing on new ways to drive revenues and beat the pirates to the consumer pocket, says a new report from KPMG
Read the full story
Peer2Politics: House Subcommitee meeting on P2P piracy
Early Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held a meeting on House Resolution 5211. You all know this bill as “the Berman bill”. As you probably also already know, this bill allows media companies to “use limited self-help measures” (read: hack into P2P networks) to prevent unlawful piracy [...]
P2P Adware/Spyware
The mainstream media has finally clued into what Buyersport, LimeShop, SaveNow and other spyware/stealware programs are up to: Re-directing affiliate commissions into the pockets of Morpheus, LimeWire and KaZaA. This still-legal but highly unethical practice is exposed in today’s
Blubster 2.0 is Here – But is it the client everyone has been waiting for?
I was probably the most excited when hearing about the release FINALLY of Blubster 2.0. It is, without a doubt, my most anticipated release of a file-sharing client – EVER. So what do I think of it after finally seeing the light of day for it’s release…..? Hmm, I’m not so sure….
It didn’t’t start off [...]
