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walktalker · 30-03-01, 09:46 AM

Mark Van de Walle on the pencil-drawn, low-fi video game that's kicking ass in the industry
In spite of the fact that the video-game industry's earnings now rival that of every other entertainment industry, there's a lot of malaise and gloom. "The attorney general and Senate are after us," developers say. That's the talk on one side. On the other side, you have Lonnie Flickinger.
http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1678

Napster: Inducements, Not Royalties
In keeping with its penchant for giveaways, beleaguered online music service Napster is offering a free T-shirt and a ticket to a concert to draw bodies to a D.C.-style spontaneous demonstration of support at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163879.html

File-Sharing Is Not Just About Napster
Napster made it famous. But P2P (peer to peer) computing, or file sharing, is about a lot more than just grabbing tunes off the Web. It's a new way to communicate by allowing Internet users to hook up directly and share files — computer to computer — without going through the elaborate network of servers.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163836.html

China's NetEase To Open Music-Swapping Service
One of China's leading Web portal operators NetEase.com Inc. has announced plans to set up a Napster-like peer-to-peer music swapping service for Chinese Internet users. In partnership with music Web site Kuro, NetEase will invite its 16 million registered portal users to swap songs via the Internet.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163877.html

Who needs Napster when you have Windows?
The courts may be well on their way to killing Napster, but neither the Recording Industry Association of America nor intellectual copyright advocates have any hope against the technology that drives it: peer-to-peer file sharing, the cooperative method of swapping files among computers. So far, file-sharing utilities such as Gnutella and Freenet have been mentioned in the news as alternatives to Napster, but little attention has been paid to the most obvious way to share files -- by exploiting a notorious security hole in the Windows operating system.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...fer/index.html

Hackers hit DoubleClick
Internet advertising network DoubleClick Inc. acknowledged that its computers were attacked by hackers this week and that its advertising and marketing services have been "minimally disrupted."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/552114.asp?0nm=C14O

Be getting ready to open source BeOS?
Is Be planning to release its BeOS operating system to the open source community? It's something it has discussed in the past but never come down on the issue one way or the other. Until recently, perhaps. Be has registered the domain name openbeos.com (and .org and .net) - and thanks to Register reader Jim for alerting us to the fact.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17975.html

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walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Beware, the following post may contain clues of intelligent lifeform Mark Van de Walle on the pencil-drawn, low-fi video game that's kicking ass in the industry In spite of the fact that the video-game industry's earnings now rival that of every other entertainment industry, there's a lot of malaise and gloom. "The attorney general and Senate are after us," developers say. That's the talk on one side. On the other side, you have Lonnie Flickinger. http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1678 Napster: Inducements, Not Royalties In keeping with its penchant for giveaways, beleaguered online music service Napster is offering a free T-shirt and a ticket to a concert to draw bodies to a D.C.-style spontaneous demonstration of support at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163879.html File-Sharing Is Not Just About Napster Napster made it famous. But P2P (peer to peer) computing, or file sharing, is about a lot more than just grabbing tunes off the Web. It's a new way to communicate by allowing Internet users to hook up directly and share files — computer to computer — without going through the elaborate network of servers. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163836.html China's NetEase To Open Music-Swapping Service One of China's leading Web portal operators NetEase.com Inc. has announced plans to set up a Napster-like peer-to-peer music swapping service for Chinese Internet users. In partnership with music Web site Kuro, NetEase will invite its 16 million registered portal users to swap songs via the Internet. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163877.html Who needs Napster when you have Windows? The courts may be well on their way to killing Napster, but neither the Recording Industry Association of America nor intellectual copyright advocates have any hope against the technology that drives it: peer-to-peer file sharing, the cooperative method of swapping files among computers. So far, file-sharing utilities such as Gnutella and Freenet have been mentioned in the news as alternatives to Napster, but little attention has been paid to the most obvious way to share files -- by exploiting a notorious security hole in the Windows operating system. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...fer/index.html Hackers hit DoubleClick Internet advertising network DoubleClick Inc. acknowledged that its computers were attacked by hackers this week and that its advertising and marketing services have been "minimally disrupted." http://www.msnbc.com/news/552114.asp?0nm=C14O Be getting ready to open source BeOS? Is Be planning to release its BeOS operating system to the open source community? It's something it has discussed in the past but never come down on the issue one way or the other. Until recently, perhaps. Be has registered the domain name openbeos.com (and .org and .net) - and thanks to Register reader Jim for alerting us to the fact. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17975.html The Garfield comic strip of the day ! The Dilbert strip of the day ! The Boondock strip of the day !