Aug 30, 2007 | audio, business, DRM
Sony is killing ATRAC, its proprietary format for music files. Here’s a brief news article about today’s death notice.This isn’t important – no one every downloaded any files from Sony’s store in the ATRAC format. (The store is being...
Aug 28, 2007 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law, video
The world of copyright protection is a mess, and each day brings new craziness. A Federal District Court judge granted a ruling for summary judgment against a family that had run Kazaa on a computer with copyrighted material in a shared folder – with no evidence...
Jul 23, 2007 | audio, mobile
I had my first experience with noise canceling headphones on airplanes and was impressed by how effectively they cut down the effects of jet lag and made the flights more pleasant.This isn’t news – the technology has been around for years – and...
Jun 19, 2007 | audio, business
If you listen to online radio – Yahoo! Launchcast, Pandora, Live365, streaming radio stations, smaller webcasters – be prepared for a Day of Silence on June 26, when thousands of webcasts will go dead as a dramatic illustration of the likely effect of...
Feb 7, 2007 | Apple, audio, DRM, video
WalMart announced a movie download service with the obligatory noncritical media coverage, focused on how darned exciting it is that all of the major studios have signed up to supply a few titles. The details were glossed over – namely that the downloads are...
