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Greedy Warn!
Warner exec: Labels could cut off iTunes Music Store
Warner Music Group digital strategy chief Michael Nash said today that the major record labels could easily cut off the iTunes Music Store if Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn’t budge in the song pricing battle.

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  9/26/2005

Piracy 101
Potter fan copies out whole book
A Harry Potter fan has spent her summer holidays writing out the latest book because she couldn't afford to buy it.

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  9/18/2005

Googleright
Google Takes On Copyright Laws
The search giant's project to scan millions of books in order to make their text searchable is on hold at the moment. Fans of the effort say it'll help readers find obscure titles; critics worry it will hurt the book industry.

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  9/15/2005

???
Is the clock ticking on podcasting?
The other day, a colleague of mine shouted over the cubicle wall, “I think podcasting is at its 14th minute.” Of course, he was referring to the proverbial 15 minutes of fame. And of course, I broke into laughter. But his comment got me thinking: where is podcasting going?
The main aspect of any new entertainment technology is content. It follows that if the content resonates with the audience, the technology will likely take off—witness MTV (Video killed the radio star…) as an example from the last two decades. Podcasting is in its infancy, in this regard. As far as podcasting content goes, let’s face it: among those gems like KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic and Inside Mac Radio broadcasts, a lot of podcasts are just a bunch of guff.

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  9/12/2005

Future Memory
Flash memory closing in on hard drives
Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said Monday.
South Korean-based Samsung said its latest NAND memory device has 16-gigabit density. That's twice the density of the 8-gigabit NAND memory developed last year by Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi and others.
NAND flash memory is widely used in consumer devices like digital cameras, cell phones, USB flash drives and portable music players such as Apple Computer's new iPod Nano.

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Nano Story
Time Mag: Stevie's Little Wonder
Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget

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  9/10/2005

Ooouch
Greedy Empire RIAA
p2pnet: You're reported to have said you've never used Kazaa and that, further, you didn't even know what it was before the RIAA turned up on your door-step. It's also been said the software belongs to a friend of your children's and was installed without you, or anyone else in your family, knowing about it. Is that an accurate summary?
Santangelo: That's correct. I had no idea what Kazaa was or what it was used for. I think of software as an actual disk that you hold in your hand so I'm not sure about that or how it was installed. The screen-name that was used for the Kazaa account did not belong to any of my children is what I said. I never said that one of my children did not know this person had a Kazaa account.
p2pnet: Even though you hadn't heard of Kazaa, did you know what an mp3 was? And had you come across the term p2p (peer-to-peer) before?
Santangelo: No. I had no idea what either a p2p or an mp3 was.

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  9/09/2005

New iPod Nano
New iTunes 5.0
New iPod Updater Sept 2005, which do not fix the SmartPlaylist capability of iPod previously before the June 2005 Update.

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  9/05/2005

World's Unlikeliest Bestseller
Guiness 50th Anniversary
This year Guinness World Records celebrates its 50th anniversary. Since 1955, the company's exacting scribes have chronicled the earth's extremes: Tallest Building (Taipei Financial Building, Taiwan). Largest Atoll (Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands). Driest place (Chile's Atacama Desert). Heaviest Human (Jon Brower Minnoch, U.S.A., 1,399 pounds). Most Venomous Mollusk (the blue-ringed octopus). Now it also sanctions some of the world's silliest stunts. Most Clothespins Clipped on a Face (159). Most Straws Stuffed in the Mouth (258). Largest Group Hug (5,117 people). The list goes on, making each annual Guinness edition a compendium of timeless trivia, genuine feats and shameless publicity stunts. And readers around the world have made it a record setter in its own right. Under bestselling books, the 2005 golden anniversary edition states: "Excluding noncopyright works such as the Bible and the Koran, the world's all-time best-selling book is Guinness World Records," with sales exceeding 100 million copies.
Download the Full Text Review in PDF

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Bad Idea Dept.
Audio Book, computer-generated
JWalk: Nice thought, but I don't think anyone could possibly stand to listen to an entire book read by a synthesized voice.

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New iPod Mini
iPod Mini to 'drop hard drive, gain colour display'
Like the iPod Shuffle, the Mini will gain Flash storage in place of the hard drive, though its capacity will not be reduced. Instead, it will be relaunched in 4GB, 6GB and 8GB versions. With no hard disk, battery life is likely to be significantly better than the Mini achieves today, though the move to a 1.5in colour display could counter that. The new release will also be smaller, but the general design - display above clickwheel - is expected to remain the same.
Interestingly, Think Secret's description of the Flash-based Mini is not unlike one received of a Flash-based iPod late last year, just before the Shuffle was announced. With the Shuffle presented to the public, we discounted the rumour. We were told the devices was essentially a credit card-sized Mini, complete with display and clickwheel.

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  9/02/2005

The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music
There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services promise.
Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) — also known as "copy protection" — that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of your choice or creating remixes. Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth. Breaking the DRM or distributing the tools to break DRM may expose you to liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) even if you're not making any illegal uses.
In other words, in this brave new world of "authorized music services," law-abiding music fans often get less for their money than they did in the old world of CDs (or at least, the world before record companies started crippling CDs with DRM, too). Unfortunately, in an effort to attract customers, these music services try to obscure the restrictions they impose on you with clever marketing.
This guide "translates" the marketing messages by the major services, giving you the real deal rather than spin. Understanding how DRM and the DMCA pose a danger to your rights will help you to make fully informed purchasing decisions. Before buying DRM-crippled music from any service, you should consider the following examples and be sure to understand how the service might limit your ability to make lawful use of the music you purchase.

The article above is too hyperbolic the situations. FYI. Apple allow unlimited burning as long as you create new play list after the 5 limitation, you can edit and really owned from the DRM free CD that you burned.
discuss it at JWalk

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  9/01/2005

Helping Creating New New Orleans

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