They are quite rare events but on occasion, artists actually encourage fans to share their music online. Singer Joss Stone has no problem doing so at all. In fact, after a recent concert in Argentina she said that piracy is “brilliant”.
@4: Actually using the term “piracy” isn’t necessary such a bad thing. “Piracy” is an invented word, without any historical ties (unless you are referring to the physical theft of CDs and DVDs…
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They’re in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?
Lewis said there are at least a half dozen other governments, besides China's, that have highly sophisticated hacker capabilities. This includes the United States. In fact, he said, attacks are common enough that they're almost not…
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O'Reilly Media is running an interview with Gordon Mohr, Chief Technologist for the Internet Archive (archive.org). If you've ever wondered how pages are selected for archiving, or just how they manage such a huge quantity of data, the answers are here. The interview also touches on the problems of intellectual property in archives.
GM: Absolutely; and that's by a couple of different ways in which that could be covered a whole lot more, one of which is simply anyone's broad crawl including Alexa is very sensitive to sites that are highly in-linked. So things that…
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Totally ignoring the fact that this type of news is becoming the new norm everywhere but in the US, it does present a very serious question - how does Microsoft compete with free? And not just free as in free of cost, but free as in freedom to either pay for support when needed or use an in-house IT team that has seen the coming change…
Mixed Successes With the Linux Desktop. I've been tracking various regions and their overall Linux adoption rates based on Google/trends, among other more accurate means. My findings have been interesting. In China, India and other parts of…
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Article on a few features that have been talked about being part of the iPhone 2.0. Some are more likely to happen while others may be implemented later.
Great article for thos who want to wet themselves even more until the next iPhone is released.
Video Conferencing- The idea of a possible front camera has been tossed around. This would allow the iPhone to not only let people take easier self portraits for their Facebook profile, but also allow video conferencing. With 3G this does seem…
Blu-ray player sales dropped 40 percent earlier this year and do not seem to have recovered yet. Aside from soaring PlayStation 3 sales, Blu-ray is struggling to take advantage of HD DVDs demise.
Upconverting players. HD players from both contending formats have long had to face questions about whether the quality boost they offer is "good enough" to drive users to make a pricey upgrade away from a DVD player. While the…
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Encyclopedia Britannica is used in often case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and category five hurricaned on their parade.
However, marketing agencies have still not had time to incorporate Wikipedia into their efforts. Wikipedia relies on the fact that volunteer contributors are more dedicated than vandals and trolls (and generally more conversant with the…
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The VAR Guy wasnt looking for love, but he found it during a trip to his local CostCo last night. There, he spotted the $299 Eee PC from Asus. Its built on Linux ? but CostCos in-store promotional materials for the device barely mention Linux. That may be a smart move. Heres why.
Notice the checklist above doesn’t mention “Windows” or “Microsoft Office.” More and more of today’s consumers are thinking less about software products by name. The Internet and widely…
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A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier’s systems, exposing customers’ voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.
Aren't we, “conspiracy theorists”, have more proof to back up our claims these days than the happy-go-lucky fools that are calling us bastards?! The wall of denial that these fragile, mentally weak drones put up to protect…
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EA is releasing a separate SKU for a creature-editor edition of Spore even earlier than its September 7 game launch.
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