Two track mind for MP3 Surround | The Register > Having seemingly failed to persuade the digital music world to upgrade to MP3 Pro, the format’s founder, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, is trying again, this time with MP3 Surround, a multi-channel implementation of the hugely popular music codec. It’s also backwards compatible, and free for non-commercial [...]
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To Fight RIAA Lawsuit Mom Solicits Donations
To Fight RIAA Lawsuit Mom Solicits Donations > My choice to fight the RIAA’s lawsuit was made when I received a call from a settlement center saying I’d already been sued. I assumed that once I explained to them that there was no music on my computer and that I never had purchased or signed [...]
Sony BMG repents over CD debacle
BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony BMG repents over CD debacle > Sony BMG is rethinking its anti-piracy policy following weeks of criticism over the copy protection used on CDs. Doesn’t even hint at where they might end up after this rethink, but one can hope that they actually have some sense and see that [...]
Lock and Load
PBS | I, Cringely . December 8, 2005 – Lock and Load > Two interesting events took place while I was distracted with Google over the past couple weeks — events that give us just a bit more information about where the future of digital media distribution is likely to end up, and the risks [...]
A Music File by Any Other Name
Wired News: A Music File by Any Other Name > Today we’ll study the most popular audio formats and the players that support them. We’ll look strictly at audio-file formats that utilize lossy compression, because the small file size and ultimate portability of compressed audio files has afforded them huge popularity, not to mention near [...]
Slim Devices : Squeezebox
Slim Devices : Squeezebox : Free your music! I really want one of these. Hook it up to your living room stereo, and stream your music collection from your PC in your room via wifi – controlling the whole thing with a nice remote. If you have several players, you can easily lock them together, [...]
New Sony CD security risk found
New Sony CD security risk found | CNET News.com > Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label’s CDs. The fun never stops! This time, they’ve actually managed to create [...]
Greetings fellow pirates! Arrrrr!
> I’m here today to talk to you about copyright, technology and DRM, I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation on copyright stuff (mostly), and I live in London. I’m not a lawyer — I’m a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send [...]
First RIAA lawsuit heads to trial
First RIAA lawsuit heads to trial > Holy litigation, Batman! The National Law Journal reports that the RIAA has launched 14,800 lawsuits in the last two years in an attempt to clamp down on file swapping. But what’s striking about the RIAA’s tactics is that out of all 14,800 lawsuits, not a single one has [...]
Nu Tech Dark Shadow 256MB MP3 Sunglasses
Nu Tech Dark Shadow 256MB MP3 Sunglasses = www.bigbruin.com = Heh. You’d have thought that after Oakley bummed out with their MP3 sunglasses, other companies would stay away. But no, another pair of sunglasses doubling as a MP3 player has been put on the market. With the iPod Nano and loads of other tiny MP3 [...]