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Digital Media Winners and Losers of 2006
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Zonk
on Sun Dec 24, 2006 06:20 PM
from the there-were-many-of-both dept.
from the there-were-many-of-both dept.
An anonymous reader writes "MP3 Newswire released its annual list of winners and losers in digital media for 2006. Winners include Azureus, the Pirate Bay, and YouTube. The losers list includes Streamcast, Captain Copyright (and his sidekick Lieutenant Lame), and the Online Guitar Archive. At the bottom of the post are links to past year's winners and losers lists."
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OLGA Shut Down
Sean McPherson writes
" OLGA (the On-Line
Guitar Archive) has been harassed by the Harry Fox Agency
once again, and has (at least for the moment) shut the
site down. As a full mirror, ntr.net has always kept daily
updates available to the public, but we're complying with
the request from the OLGA admins to close ours off as
well. This kind of things REALLY needs to be brought to
the attention of the public. HOW far does legal ownership
of ideas and such go? If you need any more info, just
contact me directly, or email the people off the site at
www.olga.net. "
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Check out the Captain Copyright site now. (Score:5, Interesting)
Seems that they've picked up on how dumb their idea was.
I can understand asking for more text books, smaller classes or new equipment
I'm still not seeing it. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm sure they do. But I'm not seeing why any of them would list it as something to spend money on teaching it to kids.
To me, it sounds like their "independent consultant" wasn't as independent as was advertised. Particularly since Access Copyright
http://www.accesscopyright.ca/ [accesscopyright.ca]
was involved in the production.
...DRM wasn't #1 Loser?! (no text) (Score:1)
(http://www.dayid.org/)
Easy answer... Bleep.com. Go there, it rocks! (Score:3, Informative)
DRM == looser!
If you like coffee-table electro then visit bleep.com [bleep.com]. Non-DRM'd, MP3'd, cool music from Warp Records and associates. If you like the Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Plaid or that kind of stuff, then consider that link a Christmas present from the Gods!
Merry Christmas all!
DRM'd music? I'd rather feed their bones to pigs...
DivX Stage6 (Score:2, Informative)
(http://stage6.divx.com/)
I'll throw in a shameless plug for DivX Stage6 [divx.com]. It's in alpha, but you can publish DivX and XVID video files in their original quality all the way up to 1080p with 5.1 MP3 Surround. Stage6 also allows you to easily download the videos directly with no DRM (so long as the publisher permits it), and it's focused around building high-quality content communities.
A couple of example channels launched recently:
http://stage6.divx.com/BT [divx.com]
http://stage6.divx.com/Witness [divx.com]
DivX Web Player [divx.com] is required for in-browser playback on Windows and Mac (supporting all common browsers on each), and Linux users should be able to play most files in VLC or the like pending direct support for the platform.
OLGA (Score:1)
Next year's BIG loser -- the Zune (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:No response.. (Score:2)
God, I hate Christmas.