AOHell!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
I just saw this on MSNBC and was astonished! When Vincent Ferrari went to cancel his AOL account he was met by a bit more than a little friction form the AOL representative on the line.
Heres the vid form Vincent’s appearance on NBC’s Today Show…
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RIAA: P2P no longer as big an issue as it was.
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
It seems like the RIAA may be letting up on it’s stronghold on P2P and piracy (yeah right). “USA Today is reporting the RIAA now claims that the issues surrounding P2P and piracy have been contained and are no longer as big an issue as they once were. From the article; ‘The problem has not been eliminated,’ says association CEO Mitch Bainwol. ‘But we believe digital downloads have emerged into a growing, thriving business, and file-trading is flat.’”
Source: Slashdot
iPod vending machine… :/
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
Wow this is one amazing vid, have a look…
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“Longhorn” Builds 4033/3706 leak!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Alpha/Beta News, Windows
You can pick up the torrents from my tracker!
Thanks to my good friend Utaks!!
Source: In-House
Windows Media Player 11 for now available for download!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Windows
Today, Microsoft released WMP11 for XP for public preview. The build string should be: 11.0.5358.4826.
Download: here. (English)
Source: MSBlog
No open Darwin for Intel.
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Free BSD/Open BSD, MacOS
Apple has announced that they will not make an open source version of Mac OS’ subsystem Darwin; witch is a form of Open BSD, for Intel.
Source: Macworld
My take on the whole DRM/music piracy/99¢ iTunes stuff
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
It seems to be a bit out of control with all of this bullshit, ok sure if you pirate music the there is on money to be made on said music. The only thing is that the people that are responsible for the making the music responsible (artists, producers, engineers) are not being paid all the money for the music, but rather the industry execs (RIAA) are "stealing" the most of the money. IMHO the RIAA are the true thieves. The ones that are really getting hurt in this; pirates vs RIAA; are the people actually responsible. We have no need for a third party such as the RIAA, the bottom line is that one pays for music (buying a CD or downloading an iTunes M4P) that money should go to those responsible and no other party. As i have stated before on my other website I refuse to pay for any of the music I acquire unless at least 3/4 of my money is going to the right people. As for the 99¢ iTunes music remaining 99¢, I consider it a victory for not only us (the consumers) but for the music industry as a whole. There is no need to charge any more for such content and thus further pad the RIAA’s pockets. On to DRM, I am not for it heres why: If I pay money for a song, I should be able to do what ever I want with that song. I should be able to play it on any mp3 player not just ones that support the encryption method used to secure it. Not only that but share it with anyone who wants it (via P2P or burn it to a CD to give to someone). I think DRM just restricts what I can do with the item I legally paid for. Imagine for a moment that you buy a car and Ford or maybe GM used something like DRM; you could only drive it on approved roads or could not let your friend or your kid drive it unless you got permission form GM or Ford first. Pirated defined: (source: Oxford American Dictionary) pirated use or reproduce (another’s work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright : he sold pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters The blog post that inspired this one Slashdot Source: In-house
