Popularity of digital audio files stunt hi-fi sound
Music lovers remember a familiar advertising image from the past: a man reclined in a chair, head back, blown away by music from his high-fidelity sound system.
Like the Marlboro Man before him, Maxell’s pitchman is now a relic.
With their ability to store vast libraries of music in your pocket, sleek digital music players have replaced [...]
Grand Theft Auto 6 On Its Way!
We’re not sure if it meant to do it, but PLAY magazine UK has inadvertently announced a game we thought was a good four years away, with news that next month it has an exclusive on the SIXTH instalment of the best-selling crim sim. We’ve printed a picture of it below just so you can [...]
Amazon set to launch online music store
Amazon, the internet retailer, wants to launch an online music store next month to challenge Apple and is working on plans to sell music with reduced protection against copyright infringement.
The internet giant has approached all the music majors in the past fortnight and said that it wanted to sell unprotected MP3 songs in May as [...]
BitTorrent’s Swarms Have a Deadly Bite On Broadband Nets
In case you missed it, the annual compilation of technical papers from the National Show is out. As usual, it’s worth a look, especially if you’re into immersion learning from the industry’s top tech thinkers.
If your copy got lost in the stack, or you’d rather read the Cliff’s notes, this week’s translation focuses on my [...]
Man gets 5,000 calls for YouTube posting
Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 [...]
The BitTorrent Song
Found this clip on YouTube, it’s kinda cheesy but, hell he can play the piano and I can’t.
I must admit that the lyrics of this song really resonate with me, and I’m sure they do with many of you as well.
As for the quality of his singing? Eh, not great, and I’m sure Simon Cowell [...]
Carnegie Mellon P2P System Could Speed Movie, Music Downloads
A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist says transferring large data files, such as movies and music, over the Internet could be sped up significantly if peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services were configured to share not only identical files, but also similar files.
David G. Andersen, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, and Michael Kaminsky of [...]
Circuit City partners up with Napster to create ‘Circuit City + Napster’
The new digital music subscription service will offer 99-cent song download purchases in addition to Napster’s unlimited content streaming service.
Starting April 29, 2007, consumers can sign up for Circuit City + Napster at www.circuitcity.com/napster and gain unlimited access to millions of songs on their PCs and portable digital music players for $14.95 per month. [...]
Canadian MP wants to clean up the internet
Conservative MP Joy Smith introduces the Clean Internet Act.
The Clean Internet Act (Bill C-427) is a newly submitted private member bill in the Parliament of Canada by Conservative MP Joy Smith, that among many things will mandate that ISPs obtain a license in order to offer internet services as well as require them [...]
Mainstream Norweigan political party condones file-sharing
The Liberal Party in Norway has backed the legalisation of the sharing of copyrighted material for personal use. It is the first mainstream European political party to adopt a pro-file-sharing stance.
The Venstre, or Liberal Party, is the country’s seventh largest party and holds 10 of the Norwegian Parliament’s 169 seats with 5.9% of the vote. [...]
