Audio/Video

The Music Freedom Project has launched today as an alternative means of licensing for webcasters and small AM/FM stations.

Whether you liked just the first one or the whole pack, The Matrix is undoubtedly one of the most ground breaking films that will be remembered and highlyr regarded for many years to come. Member Orangesoul noticed this information about the DVD release of the trilogy at Australian DVD store Ezydvd.com.au. The Set features 9 DVD's, the 3 movies, and the 'animatrix'. Special features include

L33tdawg: I've got LOADS of CDs that have 'rotten' away as well.

Dan Koster was unpacking some of his more than 2,000 CDs after a move when he noticed something strange. Some of the discs, which he always took good care of, wouldn't play properly.

Koster, a Web and graphic designer for Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, took one that was skipping pretty badly and held it up to the light.

"I was kind of shocked to see a constellation of pinpricks, little points where the light was coming through the aluminum layer," he says.

David Bowie has invited fans to bootleg his music -- and he's offering prizes for the most creative theft.

The musician's Web site urges fans to mix classic Bowie songs with material from his latest album, "Reality," to create a "mash-up" -- a track that uses vocals from one song superimposed over the backing tracks of another.

Developments in music software has made the technique long employed by record producers easily accessible to thousands of "bedroom DJs" -- a fact that has alarmed record companies battling for control of Internet music distribution.

Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry's assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line.

Warner Bros. film studio has sued several people, including a Hollywood actor, who it alleges made illegal digital copies of movies and distributed them on the Internet, court papers show.

How to record/download/store/save stream on the Internet.
When talking about broadband streaming, the words "record," "download", "save" and "store" all refer to the same process of keeping the streamed image in a format that allows you to play it back again and again.
Broadband streams cannot be recorded, downloaded or stored without special software, which is described below.

Nova Spivack, a well-heeled New Yorker and technophile, had been dying to get an iPod for a long time.

The problem wasn't money, but Spivack's giant CD collection. He couldn't face the chore of converting 1,000-plus CDs to digital format.
Then Spivack discovered RipDigital, a firm that offers a surprising but timely service: For about a dollar a disc, the company converts entire CD collections to MP3 files, all nicely organized by artist and album.

A young Norwegian who became a global hacker hero by writing and distributing a program to crack DVD security codes appears to have struck again, this time against Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes online music service.

Jon Lech Johansen, 19, faces a new trial that starts Tuesday after prosecutors appealed his January acquittal on charges that he violated Norway's data break-in laws with his DeCSS program for DVDs.

GeekNewz.com has found a version of the COMDEX Matrix Spoof to share with you all. This is the clip that was shown at after the COMDEX Keynote featuring Bill Gates as Neo and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus.

This clip is only half of it but its as good as it will get till Microsoft releases it them selfves. During the COMDEX show it was very difficult to film during the Matrix Spoof as they made sure nobody had any sort of electronical device in their hands.