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POPSLaw, Privacy, Wetware, Hardware, File Sharing - Hardware, Electronics, Radio Etc. - Hackers And The Law - About Napster, Gnutella, And Other File Sharing Schemes - About Your Dwindling Privacy - The Scariest Directory On This CD - Wetware Hacking! - Physical Security, Scams Etc. - Stuff That Just Didn't Fit Anywhere Else!
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POPSGiuliani flattens temple Obama I mean really. I have NEVER seen this guy so fired -up. He tore the Obamination a new rear end. They won't be able to sit for a week! Next up was VP nominee Sarah Palin and she finished off the pieces of Temple Obama that Rudy didn't obliterate. THE BEST LINE- "Hope, is NOT a strategy!"
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POPSDemocrats have done what in 2 years? They can lambast all they want about the 'past 8 years' Truth be told the Democrats have effective control of the house and senate as well as a majority of the governorships in the U.S. since November, 2006. We already know that the 'Speaker of the House' is a sad joke. And Congress actually has as low (if not lower) approval rating than the current president. So, I ask- democrats already have control, now what have you done with it? Nothing. Same as usual.
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POPSRIP Music Business 1.0 1876-2008 Today in New York, 500 music company executives gathered for a historic conference at which the music business as we have come to know it was declared dead. Born in 1876 with the introduction of player piano rolls, the recording industry has fallen on rough times in the face of digital competition. Consider that the following statements were made at this gathering which were uncontroversial and would have been considered heresy mere months ago: * DRM on purchased music is dead * A utility pricing model or flat-rate fee for music might be the way to go * Ad-supported streaming music sites like iMeem are legitimate players * Indie music accounts for upwards of 30 percent of music sales * Napster isn't losing $70 million per quarter (and is breaking even) * The music business is a bastion of creativity and experimentation The recording industry was 132 years old and is survived by thousands of digital music companies, independent musicians and geeks lik
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POPSNo Freedom of Speech on NET in US? The Wikileaks case is part of a larger cat-and-mouse game being played between file-sharing sites and dissidents on the one hand, and corporations and governments on the other. As Napster has shown, lawsuits have their effect, but "I don't know that the end result was any different," says Ben Gross, an expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Essentially things are redesigned in reaction to censorship," he says.
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POPSYour Tech Weblog: Hear something cool on the radio? 'Nabb' it. Ever hear something on the radio you want to remember, but can't write it down? Nabbit is a free, interactive application that lets you tag or “Nabb™” information about songs, concert announcements or advertisements on the radio by pressing a key on your cell phone. For example, if you hear a song you want to know more about or even download later, just press the key programmed on your phone that corresponds to the station you're listening to and ‘Nabb-it’. Then log on to your personal page on Nabbit.com to see the song title, download it using services like iTunes, Napster, Wal-Mart or Amazon.com, check for concerts, download ring tones and view song lyrics. If you Nabb an advertisement, you can click on the item at Nabbit.com to take advantage of promotions or purchase the product from the advertiser’s eCommerce site.
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POPSThe Music Industry: Old-Fashioned, Sharecropping Piracy This is clipped from an salon.com article by Courtney Love in which she brilliantly analyzed the rip-off that is the music industry. In the beginning she demonstrates how a band with a million dollar contract ends up owning the industry 10x the amount. Don't cry for the industry. Save your tears for the artists.
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POPSCanadians soon to pay taxes on legal music downloads Yes.. so let's punish the people who are legally downloading our content.. that'll make them want to continue to do so... You know what? Forget it. I'm going back to pirating my music. I've been paying for Napster pretty much since it was avaialbe in Canada as a legal service. And yes, the tax would only amount to a few cents a month, but that's not the point. Your punishing me, your loyal client. And that excuse about Oh, i may make a copy fo rmy {device anme}. Is BS. I PAY EXTRA ALREADY to legally copy these tunes to my mp3 players..($15/moth for the to-go service as opposed to $10/month). FUCK YOU RECORDING INDUSTRY! You won't get another cent from me until you smarten the fuck up. And I thought will all the big labels starting to switch to DRM-Free, that you might have gotten a clue... The funny thing is that apparently CRIA (our version of RIAA) may have been in opposition to this tax...
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