Source: CNet News
L33tdawg: w00t -- serves them right anyway.
The Recording Industry Association of America's Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack.
The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after the group endorsed legislation to allow copyright holders to disrupt peer-to-peer networks.
Source: CNet News
L33tdawg:
"Running such programs on company PCs or through company servers substantially increases the risk that our network could be hacked, that viruses could be introduced into our network, and that internal corporate documents could inadvertently be shared with others outside the company,"
Didn't they already have a problem with stuff like this BEFORE p2p came around? What's the big deal? We're used to hearing about it! heh :)
Source: CNet News
A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line.
Source: Wired.com
L33tdawg: Who was it who mentioned to me the other day that Propellerhead Software were pissed with HITB cause our .net logo looks like theirs? *shrug* whatever man. :|
Jayne Charneski over at Edison Research just passed me on the results of a recent survey they conducted. The team's results came up with the conclusion that three-fourths of 12-17-year-olds do not feel "there is anything morally wrong about downloading music for free off the Internet." They also found that the majority of these young consumers continue to buy CDs. End result, the record industry is missing the boat and thus missing opportunity.
Source: CNet News
The Recording Industry Association of America said Wednesday that it has begun pressing for anti-copying technology in future digital radio standards.
Mitch Glazier, the association's top lobbyist, said the RIAA is contacting IT and consumer electronics groups to ask them to consider a "broadcast flag" for digital music sent through the Internet, satellite or cable.
PSA stands for Portable Sports Audio and when we tested the Nike/Sonic Blue PSA[Play 120 last year it immediately became a favorite player of ours. Nike has since shifted to an alliance with Philips electronics who have kept the shape of the original PSA line and expanded it into several new offerings. Now before their release, Philips is offering 100 users the opportunity to beta test two of the units.
Source: CNN.com
L33tdawg: Damn this must have been an EXCELLENT rave... would certainly love to make it next year :) Did anyone go?
The attendance was down, there were scores of arrests, but hundreds of thousands of revellers still turned out in Berlin for the annual Love Parade, branded the world's largest techno-music rave.
Selling for about $120 the DCP-100 comes fairly well equipped. The unit starts with remote control and rechargeable batteries (the unit can also run on standard AA batteries), then throw in ample internal memory to improve play. This includes an eight minute memory buffer to prevent your MP3s from skipping (16 minutes when playing tunes in the WMA format) and an auto memory that will store the playlists of 12 CDs automatically.
Source: internet magazine
Universal Music is making around 1,000 of its albums available for download on its EMusic portal- but you'll have to subscribe to the service to access the songs.
Around 50,000 people have already been willing to part with $9.99 to $14.99 a month to use the EMusic service, which lets people access 200,000 songs in MP3 format which they can then download or burn onto their CDs.
