Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
What if Google wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one [...]
Top The-RealWorld.de Alternatives
Its official The-RealWorld.de is no more. This may leave many of its users scratching their heads wondering where they are to get links to their favorite shows now. Digitaltopia will attempt to help those poor lost souls out with our official ‘Top RealWorld.de Alternatives.
Coming in respective last place is ED2K-it.com TV section of their [...]
Should ISPs Pay for Music?
A scheme that would shift the cost of digital music from users to Internet service providers is gaining international support. August 26, 2005
Though legal forms of digital distribution of music like iTunes and Rhapsody that charge users to listen to songs are gaining steam, some experts propose a more radical system for collecting revenues: making [...]
A Perfect Storm of Infringement
Norman Zada is CEO of Perfect 10, which publishes a print magazine and a subscription-only Web site showing nude photos of models under exclusive contracts. On Wednesday, his lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to order Google to stop showing images of Perfect 10 models.
Zada sued Google in November 2004, after Google [...]
Royalty fight clouds music subscriptions
Digital-music companies and music publishers have reached an impasse in royalty negotiations, clouding the future of online subscription services such as those from Yahoo, RealNetworks and Napster. The two sides have been negotiating on and off for years over the amount of money that songwriters and music publishers should get from these subscription plans, which [...]
How Napster and DRM arrived at University of Washington
The stereotypical question one gets asked at the beginning of a new school year is, "What did you do during your summer vacation?" Me? I’ve spent a good part of the summer working on an agreement to bring a commercial music downloading service from Napster to the students living in residence halls at the University [...]
Zeropaid WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO Adrian Marquis Pimp My Ride
Allllrighty Zeropaiders, we have a WORLD PREMIERE EXCLUSIVE video from a local San Diego artist, Adrian Marquis. He chose to drop the video for his new single, “Pimp My Ride” here on Zeropaid, for FREE with NO DRM.
Adrian’s DJ, DJ Matty A is in the video wearing this Zeropaid shirt. Be the first viewer to [...]
Mom ends download fight
Sylvia Price has given up her battle to prevent the record industry imposing a 4,000 fine after her daughter illegally downloaded music from the web. The 53-year-old, who lives in Springbank, Cheltenham, hired a solicitor to fight the case against the British Phonographic Industry but now says she can’t afford to take it through the [...]
BitTorrent – Just enough piracy
It’s not news that the main reason the movie and television industries are wary of BitTorrent is that they’re freaked out by the music industry’s experience with piracy. Although they see the economic advantages of P2P distribution, they’re concerned that once they put their stuff out there, even wrapped in triple layers of kryptonite DRM, [...]
Skype demonstrates superiority over Google Talk
With the recent release of Google Talk, it’s no surprise that Skype has fired back with some “Home Grown” technology of its own. Yesterday, in a Skype PR there is mention of 2 new technologies about to be unveiled by Skype, I will go over both of them in this article.
SkypeWeb – this seems to [...]
