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| (hx) 12:33 AM CET - Jan,15 2004 |
- BPI to follow RIAA's war on file sharers -
The UK recording
industry is considering legal action against people that share copyrighted
music files online. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said a healthy
music scene is only possible if creators and investors have the protection of
copyright law. It added that copyright law is clear, and people who engage in
the unauthorised use and distribution of music over file-sharing networks are
in breach of copyright.
- Microsoft Warns of VoIP Vulnerability - Microsoft was just one of
many companies that
issued warnings about the H.323 vulnerability on Tuesday. Cisco Systems
also issued software patches for versions of the Internetwork Operating System
(IOS) that contain the vulnerability. Attackers would not necessarily have to
be using voice over IP to trigger the security hole, as long as the vulnerable
service was enabled and listening for incoming H.323 traffic, says Craig
Schmugar, virus research manager at Network Associates.
- Browser security takes off in VPNs - At stake are gateways allowing
secure access to corporate networks based on a browser security technology
known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Analysts and makers of
SSL-based networking equipment say that large numbers of corporate
users are starting to implement virtual private networks (VPNs) using SSL
technology.
- Transforming Thoughts Into Deeds - Lots of people wish they could jack
their brain directly to their computer and toss out those annoying keyboards
and joysticks -- especially people who can't use keyboards or joysticks. Five
quadriplegic patients might be months away from testing a brain-computer
interface created by Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro,
Massachusetts. The company's system, called
BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot
or eventually their own rewired muscles, using only their thoughts. If the
trials go well, a product could be on the market by 2007.
- PlayStation 2 passes sales milestone - Electronics giant Sony
announced on Wednesday that worldwide sales of its
PlayStation 2 game console have surpassed 70 million, despite a
year-to-year drop in holiday sales. The company sold 7.83 million PS2 units
worldwide in November and December, according to a Sony statement, below the
8.5 million sold during the same period last year. The drop was most
pronounced in North America, where holiday sales totaled 3 million, down from
4 million a year ago.
- Kodak to Stop Selling Traditional Cameras in U.S. - Eastman Kodak
Co. on Tuesday said
it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and
Western Europe, another move by the photography company to cut lines with
declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products. With sales
of digital cameras poised to overtake film cameras for the first time this
year, Kodak is redefining itself in an effort to keep pace.
- Taiwan notebook makers develop modularized models for display
flexibility - Some
Taiwanese notebook makers are developing modularized designs that allow
shipments of a single model compatible with different display sizes, sources
in Taiwan’s notebook industry said. Asustek Computer’s recent launch of its
M6000N notebook is a response to this production trend, according to the
sources. The M6000N notebook, which is based on Intel’s Pentium M processor,
offers vendors the option to choose display panels ranging from 14.1-inch XGA
to 15.1-inch XGA/SXGA+ and 15.4-inch WXGA/WSXGA+.
Jacket Features Built-in MP3 Player - The European division of
sports gear retailer
O'Neill will sell a snowboarding jacket with an MP3 player and a Bluetooth
module, for those all important mountaintop mobile phone calls, integrated
into the jacket. The snowboarding jacket, called The Hub, features a chip
module containing a full-featured MP3 player and a Bluetooth module for
controlling a mobile phone, built by Infineon Technologies. Electrically
conductive tracks woven into the fabric connect the chip module to a fabric
keyboard and built-in speakers in the helmet, Norbert Pollemans, a
spokesperson for O'Neill Europe, says. The jacket will be sold throughout
Europe for about $638 by the end of August or the beginning of September, for
O'Neill's 2004/05 winter collection, Pollemans says.
NVIDIA's GoForce Graphics Finds Home in Mitac, Mitsubishi Mobile Phones
- According to
X-bit Labs, the GoForce 2150 chip may be found in MiTAC’s Mio 8390
smartphone based on Microsoft Windows Smartphone Edition. NVIDIA GoForce 2150
has 1.3MP camera support, 64-bit 2D graphics accelerator, embedded memory for
LCD frame buffer and flexible CPU interface. The versatile LCD controller also
allows for fast-switching dual screen interfaces, typically implemented as a
large active-matrix colour screen inside the handset and a smaller LCD located
outside. NVIDIA GoForce 2150 supports over 70 different display interfaces
(including CSTN, TFT, OLED and LTPS technology) at up to HVGA (320x480)
resolution.
Xerox Phaser 8400 Series Color Printer First Look - What's faster
than most laser printers, prints much like an offset printing press, and costs
$1,000? It's the
Xerox Phaser 8400 Series Color Printer. This solid-ink printer melts its
resin-based ink, sprays it on a drum, then rolls the drum against the paper to
transfer the image—all at an engine speed of 24 pages per minute (ppm) for
color or monochrome output.
Microsoft Boosts 32-Bit Performance - Intel and Microsoft on
Tuesday
released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications
designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel's 64-bit
Itanium 2 processors. Several years in development, the IA-32 Execution Layer
software is slated for inclusion in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack
1, which is expected in the second half of this year. But it can now be
downloaded for Window Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows Server 2003
Datacenter Edition, and Windows XP 64-bit Edition.
KDE 3.1.5 -
The
KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.5, a
maintenance release for the third generation of the most advanced and powerful
free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.
NetPing 1.2 -
NetPing (requires
.Net Framework 1.1 installed) is a .Net Ping utility with many useful
features such as PingAll, BreakOnReply, Wildcards, IP Ranges, and more.
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| Comments from NA | posted - 05:29 PM CET - Jan,15 2004 | | Im sick of the riaa.. yes i download music... among other things... and no i wouldnt bother to buy it in the first place (even if there was no other way to get it)... when they charge 20-30$ AU for a single CD.. i would rather and go and buy a new pc game or playstation game at that price... and i do... what about people tapeing songs off the radio.. taping rage... ect... and one things for certain.. if the BPI start getting heavy handed i will never buy a british record again... |
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| Comments from | posted - 07:03 PM CET - Jan,15 2004 | | THE RIAA is stupid to go after file downloaders cause.
1.Thats not even where most of the piracy comes from. Everyone knows its the manufactured fake cd's that cause the most piracy. Criminals buy the orginal CD and manufacture hundreads of thousands to millions of fake identical ones. And sell them at lower prices.
2. They can't ever win or stop internet-piracy unless they shut down the internet which probably won't happen. The internet is simply too big to police even with AI programs.
3. They are just alienating themselves towards the general public and making people not want to buy cd's by attacking file swappers and people who download from the internet. If you sue someone who has downloaded music off the internet and win do you really expect them to BUY CD"S from you? umm no.
4. They are probably more people who pirate music from the TV and radio then the internet at the current time.
They are more people on earth who have TV's and Radio's then internet access.
Out of everyone who does have internet access only a certain percentage of those users download music which reduces the ratio even further.
4.people download music from the internet is like FREE ADVERTISING FOR THE CD. Just like when they show video's on music station on TV and the radio.
WHY The hell would you want to give up free advertising of your product.
5.CD ARTISTS MAKE ENOUGH MONEY ANYWAY. THESE PEOPLE ARE RICH AND COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT BEING RICHER THATS DISGUSTING.
WELL IM SORRY BUT YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE COMPARED TO THE REST OF SOCIETY.
SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS ARE THE ONES THAT ARE WORKING TO IMPROVE LIFE AND THE SURVIVABILITY OF OUR HUMAN RACE YOUR NOT
CD ARTISTS SO SHUT YOUR TRAP CAUSE YOU PROBABLY MAKE MORE MONEY THEN THEM AND YOUR DOING SOMETHING NOT NEARLY AS IMPORTANT. then they are others who work to keep society running there ok.
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| Comments from | posted - 04:10 PM CET - Jan,16 2004 | | I agree with the both of you... i wont buy cds because they are to expensive. there are so many more things i get get for that price, including games and movies, and the legasy of games last much longer.
when the music industry start to attack prospective customers, how can they expect people to do the right thing and be loyal.. since the riaa have started sueing i havent bought a single cd... and mind you i use to.. i also downloaded a lot of music, but if i liked what i heard i would buy the album...
another things is the riaa seem to be looking after themselves and only themselves.. not a cent that they have gotten from sueing people has been passed on to the musicians themselves... and some musicians are in the RIAA's hitlist...
and finally what about live music DVDs, a lot of bands have them and in most cases its cheaper than the CDs... no joke.. and i would rather buy a dvd and be able to watch it and listen then go and pay more for a cd... |
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