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walktalker · 08-06-01, 10:59 PM

Thanks TankGirl...

My headache teared my brain apart lately, but fortunately I feel better now... plus the Weather Channel foresees an entire week of sun and warm winds, so I've got enough energy to go through all this

Allright, time to get the lost time back

Real Artists Paint by Numbers
Sometimes, a commercial software program like Flash or Photoshop doesn't offer artists all of the creative tools they need. So some, like the duo of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, write their own programs -- and along the way arguably turn the tedious task of writing code into an art form. "There isn't a shortage of visual and sonic effects offered in commercial programs. But when we want to combine different processes to achieve a certain aesthetic or performative effect, we often can't," said Jennifer McCoy.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44377,00.html

Hot on the Scent of Information
Animals hunt for prey using, among other things, scent. It turns out that humans searching for info on the Web use, among other things, scent as well. So say Xerox PARC researchers.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,44321,00.html

IBM claims chip speed breakthrough
International Business Machines Corp. said Friday it made a breakthrough in semiconductor technology that can boost chip speeds by as much as 35 percent, while also reducing power requirements. The new technology takes advantage of the natural tendency for atoms inside compounds to align with one another. When silicon is deposited on top of a substrate with atoms spaced farther apart, the atoms in silicon stretch to line up with the atoms beneath, stretching — or "straining" — the silicon.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/584407.asp

A spam cop goes AWOL
Spam fighters all over the world have lost a controversial weapon in the battle against unsolicited e-mail. Since June 1, the Web site for ORBS -- the Open Relay Behavior Modification System -- has been gutted. Visitors to the site now find nothing more than a gray blank page and a simple message: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer available."
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...rbs/index.html

MP3 Goes Pro
MP3's creators ready a better-sounding version of the ubiquitous online music format and finally reveal their licensing scheme for streaming MP3. MP3Pro is backwards compatible with MP3. Threatened by the growing success of competing audio formats like Microsoft's Windows Media, Thomson Multimedia will debut MP3Pro on June 14 and detail its long-awaited plan to charge royalties for streaming MP3.
http://www.techreview.com/web/kiang/kiang060701.asp

Microsoft 'Smart Tags' Could Violate Law
Technology embedded in the upcoming version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser could run afoul of the law by placing unauthorized links on privately owned Web sites, an intellectual property attorney said today. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Robin Gross said today that the Microsoft "Smart Tag" technology could violate both copyright law and federal rules prohibiting deceptive and unfair business practices.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166676.html

Music-Swap Services Lean Away From Napster Model
Napster founder Shawn Fanning may be the father of peer-to-peer music swapping, but the embattled company's imitators are increasingly rebelling against Napster's model in favor of what they say is a superior technical architecture. In recent months, many of the most popular alternatives to Napster have repudiated the centralized system pioneered by Fanning and are building purely distributed systems.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166674.html

Napster Suits Up Legal Team For A New Line Of Business
Hiring legal muscle is getting to be old hat for Napster, which has been defending litigation over its music-sharing network for more than a year and a half. However, the company says its latest hire, Jonathan Schwartz, a former advisor to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, will be on staff and general counsel in charge of legal affairs for a born-again Napster with legitimate content and a fees-paying membership. Schwartz, who was most recently an Associate Deputy Attorney General in Washington, also will oversee Napster's attempts to comply with the terms of court-ordered injunctions in copyright-infringement lawsuits still being played out in a San Francisco federal court.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166669.html

Senate Passes Bill To Ease Copyrights For Net Learning
The U.S. Senate Thursday passed a bill that would ease copyright restrictions on Internet-based content to allow more opportunities for distance learning. S. 487, which unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, passed the Senate in a voice vote. Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Ranking Republican Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, extolled the measure, which they sponsored.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166653.html

Power shift: The digital media lobby grows up
A story about the Digital Media Association, a lobbying group that would represent them in Washington, D.C., against old media conglomerates, who were fighting to strengthen copyrights. These days, the association has more than 60 members, including digital media titans like AOL Time Warner (AOL) and Yahoo (YHOO), and is an emerging force in the nation's capital. It is a central player in the battle over how dotcom broadcasters should pay for music they stream across the Internet and an advocate for copyright reforms to encourage or even force record companies to open their catalogs to broad, online licensing.
http://www.upside.com/DigitalMedia/3b1c1c37280.html

Record Industry Sues MTVi as Part of Flurry of Suits Over Webcasting Fees
Add to MTV to the record industry's ever-growing rogues' gallery of digital-music abusers. The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday, acting on behalf of a variety of music labels in Federal District Court in Manhattan, sued three webcasters -- San Diego-based MusicMatch, Denver-based Xact Radio and, most notably, MTVi, the interactive division of the Viacom-owned music channel. The action was largely retaliation for a series of lawsuits involving the webcasting industry.
http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...2625&pod_id=13

In Cybersquatting War With AOL, File-Sharing Service Aimster Has One Last Chance to Keep Its Name
Though Aimster lost its domain dispute with America Online last month, a recent federal court ruling would indicate that the Napster-esque file-sharing service is not quite dead yet. Aimster offers its users a way to swap files within AOL's Instant Messaging system. The service -- already bogged down in a pair of federal court cases with the Recording Industry Association of America over whether its service facilitates copyright infringement -- has also been scrapping with AOL over whether its URL ''cybersquats'' on a domain name that AOL says it ought to control.
http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...2604&pod_id=13

Survival of the losers
The revolution is over. Or so it might appear to anyone reviewing the wreckage wreaked in the past month in the digital music industry. As chronicled in Salon, the purchases of MP3.com by Vivendi Universal and Myplay.com by Bertelsmann were only the latest in a series of sad stories about Scour, Launch Media, Liquid Audio, Emusic, CDnow, Listen.com, Aimster, Gnutella and even Napster. The revolution has choked on litigation, drifted toward bankruptcy and sold out to the establishment at rock-bottom prices.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...web/index.html

If restaurants functioned like Microsoft...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/19583.html

Sony, MusicMatch form CD burning alliance
Sony's peripherals division has followed 'big five' recording company EMI's lead and signed a deal that effectively legitimises copying music onto blank CDs. Sony Electronics today said it has licensed online music company MusicMatch's Jukebox software and will bundle it with internal and external Sony CD-R and CD-RW burners. Initially, seven models will ship with Jukebox, but all of them will include the code by the end of the year.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19571.html

SDMI crack team launches preemptive suit
The Princeton University team which rose successfully to the SDMI challenge is asking the US District Court in New Jersey to issue a declaratory judgment absolving them of liability before releasing the results of their research into cracking several anti-piracy technologies. Arrangements had previously been made to release the results, but legal threats from the music industry citing the dreaded Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) caused the team to withdraw. In this case, the team is asking the court to rule before the fact that they have the right to release their paper.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19555.html

08-06-01, 10:59 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Thanks TankGirl... My headache teared my brain apart lately, but fortunately I feel better now... plus the Weather Channel foresees an entire week of sun and warm winds, so I've got enough energy to go through all this Allright, time to get the lost time back Real Artists Paint by Numbers Sometimes, a commercial software program like Flash or Photoshop doesn't offer artists all of the creative tools they need. So some, like the duo of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, write their own programs -- and along the way arguably turn the tedious task of writing code into an art form. "There isn't a shortage of visual and sonic effects offered in commercial programs. But when we want to combine different processes to achieve a certain aesthetic or performative effect, we often can't," said Jennifer McCoy. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44377,00.html Hot on the Scent of Information Animals hunt for prey using, among other things, scent. It turns out that humans searching for info on the Web use, among other things, scent as well. So say Xerox PARC researchers. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,44321,00.html IBM claims chip speed breakthrough International Business Machines Corp. said Friday it made a breakthrough in semiconductor technology that can boost chip speeds by as much as 35 percent, while also reducing power requirements. The new technology takes advantage of the natural tendency for atoms inside compounds to align with one another. When silicon is deposited on top of a substrate with atoms spaced farther apart, the atoms in silicon stretch to line up with the atoms beneath, stretching — or "straining" — the silicon. http://www.msnbc.com/news/584407.asp A spam cop goes AWOL Spam fighters all over the world have lost a controversial weapon in the battle against unsolicited e-mail. Since June 1, the Web site for ORBS -- the Open Relay Behavior Modification System -- has been gutted. Visitors to the site now find nothing more than a gray blank page and a simple message: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer available." http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...rbs/index.html MP3 Goes Pro MP3's creators ready a better-sounding version of the ubiquitous online music format and finally reveal their licensing scheme for streaming MP3. MP3Pro is backwards compatible with MP3. Threatened by the growing success of competing audio formats like Microsoft's Windows Media, Thomson Multimedia will debut MP3Pro on June 14 and detail its long-awaited plan to charge royalties for streaming MP3. http://www.techreview.com/web/kiang/kiang060701.asp Microsoft 'Smart Tags' Could Violate Law Technology embedded in the upcoming version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser could run afoul of the law by placing unauthorized links on privately owned Web sites, an intellectual property attorney said today. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Robin Gross said today that the Microsoft "Smart Tag" technology could violate both copyright law and federal rules prohibiting deceptive and unfair business practices. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166676.html Music-Swap Services Lean Away From Napster Model Napster founder Shawn Fanning may be the father of peer-to-peer music swapping, but the embattled company's imitators are increasingly rebelling against Napster's model in favor of what they say is a superior technical architecture. In recent months, many of the most popular alternatives to Napster have repudiated the centralized system pioneered by Fanning and are building purely distributed systems. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166674.html Napster Suits Up Legal Team For A New Line Of Business Hiring legal muscle is getting to be old hat for Napster, which has been defending litigation over its music-sharing network for more than a year and a half. However, the company says its latest hire, Jonathan Schwartz, a former advisor to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, will be on staff and general counsel in charge of legal affairs for a born-again Napster with legitimate content and a fees-paying membership. Schwartz, who was most recently an Associate Deputy Attorney General in Washington, also will oversee Napster's attempts to comply with the terms of court-ordered injunctions in copyright-infringement lawsuits still being played out in a San Francisco federal court. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166669.html Senate Passes Bill To Ease Copyrights For Net Learning The U.S. Senate Thursday passed a bill that would ease copyright restrictions on Internet-based content to allow more opportunities for distance learning. S. 487, which unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, passed the Senate in a voice vote. Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Ranking Republican Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, extolled the measure, which they sponsored. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166653.html Power shift: The digital media lobby grows up A story about the Digital Media Association, a lobbying group that would represent them in Washington, D.C., against old media conglomerates, who were fighting to strengthen copyrights. These days, the association has more than 60 members, including digital media titans like AOL Time Warner (AOL) and Yahoo (YHOO), and is an emerging force in the nation's capital. It is a central player in the battle over how dotcom broadcasters should pay for music they stream across the Internet and an advocate for copyright reforms to encourage or even force record companies to open their catalogs to broad, online licensing. http://www.upside.com/DigitalMedia/3b1c1c37280.html Record Industry Sues MTVi as Part of Flurry of Suits Over Webcasting Fees Add to MTV to the record industry's ever-growing rogues' gallery of digital-music abusers. The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday, acting on behalf of a variety of music labels in Federal District Court in Manhattan, sued three webcasters -- San Diego-based MusicMatch, Denver-based Xact Radio and, most notably, MTVi, the interactive division of the Viacom-owned music channel. The action was largely retaliation for a series of lawsuits involving the webcasting industry. http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...2625&pod_id=13 In Cybersquatting War With AOL, File-Sharing Service Aimster Has One Last Chance to Keep Its Name Though Aimster lost its domain dispute with America Online last month, a recent federal court ruling would indicate that the Napster-esque file-sharing service is not quite dead yet. Aimster offers its users a way to swap files within AOL's Instant Messaging system. The service -- already bogged down in a pair of federal court cases with the Recording Industry Association of America over whether its service facilitates copyright infringement -- has also been scrapping with AOL over whether its URL ''cybersquats'' on a domain name that AOL says it ought to control. http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...2604&pod_id=13 Survival of the losers The revolution is over. Or so it might appear to anyone reviewing the wreckage wreaked in the past month in the digital music industry. As chronicled in Salon, the purchases of MP3.com by Vivendi Universal and Myplay.com by Bertelsmann were only the latest in a series of sad stories about Scour, Launch Media, Liquid Audio, Emusic, CDnow, Listen.com, Aimster, Gnutella and even Napster. The revolution has choked on litigation, drifted toward bankruptcy and sold out to the establishment at rock-bottom prices. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...web/index.html If restaurants functioned like Microsoft... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/19583.html Sony, MusicMatch form CD burning alliance Sony's peripherals division has followed 'big five' recording company EMI's lead and signed a deal that effectively legitimises copying music onto blank CDs. Sony Electronics today said it has licensed online music company MusicMatch's Jukebox software and will bundle it with internal and external Sony CD-R and CD-RW burners. Initially, seven models will ship with Jukebox, but all of them will include the code by the end of the year. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19571.html SDMI crack team launches preemptive suit The Princeton University team which rose successfully to the SDMI challenge is asking the US District Court in New Jersey to issue a declaratory judgment absolving them of liability before releasing the results of their research into cracking several anti-piracy technologies. Arrangements had previously been made to release the results, but legal threats from the music industry citing the dreaded Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) caused the team to withdraw. In this case, the team is asking the court to rule before the fact that they have the right to release their paper. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19555.html Last edited by walktalker : 08-06-01 at 11:18 PM.