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yer back?/
(+) & (-); but on
a more practical plane (0)'s & (1)'s
Oh,
It's all just pulsating light.
Lois: Re: "My only point in this is that there are alot of companies working on DRM and the one that comes out with a foolproof product and can effectively market it will do VERY well."
"Foolprof" is an unattainable and probably undesireable goal. The potential for success in this new way of marketing entertainment content is dependent on how happily consumers swallow a bitter pill. Making it more bitter won't increase the chances for success.
This is REALLY gonna piss off
a couple 'o guys I know who've been "selling" this tech to labels!
Yeah, Missy
Grrrrreat selections!
A LOT!/
Maybe boccardi knows/
try "shelf shares"/
I had it as a "78"
They were A&B sides of the same single, in fact/
Depends on the terms, newe/
Since that article appeared
in the local Tacoma newspaper, and a very similar one appeared in an Alaskan paper, it seems to me that they were both based upon info provide by either PR's from APS or Alaska Airlines. The fact that edigital received no mention by name is typical, IMO.
Regarding whether or not they (FF) has the ability to close a deal with a company of the size and scope of Dell, it is my opinion, and I presume HH's opinion as well that they don't. The Toshiba/DataPlay "deal" typifies that lack of competence.
Bill Boyer; the local legend!
A great story.....I bet that he picked Falk's teeth.
Go on, please.....
these partisans who are not necessarily long think that all of those "issues" were well known and accepted when they were first revealed. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Why is the stock price holding?
High expectations for the future on the part of current shareholders as well as the combined and concerted efforts of investing syndicates and the market makers such as PERT who work with them. When they announce the further dilution of value by issuing more shares, it will drop again.
Why did the price hold at five dollars for so long? IMO, it was the unrealistic expectations for a NASDAQ listing.
Ya know, Ron
the APS press release from the IFE show in Seattle is a good example of the gap between edigital shareholder expectations, and reality.
The entire edig story
is yet to be revealed, especially the relationship between Elwood Norris and the "friendly financeers" in Nevada and offshore, johny.
Several: The demise of epac,
the Lanier decision to go with a PDA, DataPlay's lack of acceptance into the music market by the labels, objective analysis of the SEC filings, the rejection of the NASDAQ application, the problems in the Hango/R.S relationship are six to start.
Given the partisan/protective/defensive nature
of most sharholding posters here and expecially on the Agora board, I believe that some of the best "information" has come from non-shareholders, or atleast those with an interest in learning the entire story, without sugar coating, about the company.
The satisfaction in a job
well done?
I couldn't agree more chwd.
When I came back from dinner, I found that there were several replies to my post. When I tried to open them, they had been deleted, as had mine. If those points made by murgirl, sans the personal attack on Cassandra, could be reposted, I think that they would make an excellent starting place to air our differences about what "everybody knows."
Thank you, Missy!
Nunya, Joeey/
Why wouldn't they, Fred?
It's been their M.O.
Can you back that up?/
Are you in Lahore?/
Benedryl/
OZ: Off the top 'o my head
31/2 to 4 hours minimum. Personally, I like red-eyes. When I used to fly more, I would carry a walkman, but the urge to sleep on a plane is very strong for me. One thing I can't stand these days is the canned crap from CNN that is sprinkled throughout the programming.
Alaska is not a low cost carrier.
Can you name any that fly transcontinental routes that don't already have existing IFE systems? Distance and duration of flights determine how attractive the rental of these portable devices will be.
Exactly, lickily.
For Alaska, it is an efficient option to upgrading their service to meet the needs of their newly expanded transcontinental routes. For those airlines that already have hard-wired systems, i.e. those that have long established four plus hour flights, the need and political expediency to utilize portable IFE systems like the digeplayer are not very great.
Those cushy relationships with big-time IFE providers, not unlike those seen in the music business between labels and distributors, should not be underestimated; lots of "gifts" and payoffs/kickbacks are involved.
Crackdown May Send Music Traders
Into Software Underground
By SAUL HANSELL
Some people may well be intimidated by the 261 lawsuits that the music industry has filed against Internet users it says are illegally sharing songs.
But hundreds of software developers are racing to create new systems, or modify existing ones, to let people continue to swap music — hidden from the prying eyes of the Recording Industry Association of America, or from any other investigators.
"With the R.I.A.A. trying to scare users around the world, the developer community is pumping up to create networks which are safer and more anonymous," said Pablo Soto, a developer in Madrid who designed the software for two file-sharing systems, Blubster and Piolet.
Some experts wonder if the industry's efforts will create more trouble for it than ever. "The R.I.A.A. is breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria," said Clay Shirky, a software developer who teaches new media at New York University.
Blubster, which has an estimated quarter-million users, already uses technology to make eavesdropping more difficult, Mr. Soto said. Its next version will encrypt files so they can be decoded only by their intended user.
Other systems are sending files on more circuitous Internet routes instead of, or in addition to, using encryption. And some developers hope to replace the current systems, which connect millions of users, with private file-sharing networks — speakeasies that may be too small for the industry to find.
The developers of the new systems say there is nothing illegal about writing software that helps people keep secrets. United States courts have held that file-sharing software may not be banned if it has both legitimate and illegal uses.
The Recording Industry Association of America has said that it is unconcerned about the increasing anonymity of file sharing. The stated purpose of its lawsuits is not to catch every hard core music pirate, but to show millions of casual file sharers that what they are doing is illegal.
In addition, none of the new methods offer perfect anonymity, experts say. Yet many of the new systems are likely to make the recording industry work harder to find file traders.
Private file sharing stems from academic work on encryption and data security over the last decade. One system is Freenet, introduced in 1999 by Ian Clarke. It allows people to publish files to be used by others, with technology meant to keep the source anonymous.
"Everyone said the Internet was an anarchistic thing through which anyone could say anything," Mr. Clarke said. "But in reality it is incredibly easy to monitor what is going on on the Internet. I was interested in creating a system that would preserve anonymity."
Freenet is similar to other file-sharing services in that users make part of their hard drives available to hold content to be downloaded by other users. But all the files are encrypted so no one knows what files are on a given machine. Requests to download a file are also encrypted.
Freenet has been a way to disseminate banned political tracts and has been used by people who want to share illegal content like child pornography. Mr. Clarke says he is willing to help people send files illegally if he can also prevent political censorship. "I am an absolutist on free speech," he said.
Freenet, however, is slow and hard to use, and it requires knowing a specific file name. As a result, it has not been a viable alternative to music-sharing services like KaZaA. Developers in Germany are creating a program called Frost meant to make Freenet easier to use.
Another file-sharing model is for business users who want to collaborate while protecting secrets from competitors. "The needs of businesses and the needs of file traders are the same," Mr. Shirky said. "I want a secure way to send you a three megabyte PowerPoint file with no way for anyone else to see it. That is not different from an MP3 file."
Software by companies like Groove Networks creates private file networks for specified users. Groove, which can cost $69 or more per user, is not widely employed by music sharers. But a program called Waste is attracting the interest of music traders who want to create "darknets," as private file-sharing communities are known.
Waste was written by Justin Frankel, who works for the Nullsoft unit of America Online. It was posted on Nullsoft's site one day last May and removed the next , although not fast enough to keep copies from circulating on the Web. (AOL's corporate cousin, Warner Music, is a backer of the R.I.A.A.'s campaign against file sharing.) Frankel and AOL did not return calls seeking comment.
Investigators for the music industry acknowledge that some of these technologies may make their jobs more difficult, but they suggest that users may not want to take advantage of them.
"The thing about darknets is that the users show more culpability than people who simply use peer-to-peer," said Randy Saaf, referring to peer-to-peer sharing systems like KaZaA. Mr. Saaf is chief executive of MediaDefender Inc., a music technology company that does work for the record industry. "When people are found to be using them, they will face stiffer penalties."
Meanwhile, older file-sharing services do not want to lose users to darknets or other newcomers. Many of them are trying to add features they say will protect privacy. Streamcast networks, the creator of Morpheus, introduced a feature this summer that lets users relay files by way of intermediary computers known as proxy servers — a technique that can help obscure the path between the source of the file and the person who downloads it.
Proxy servers and similar methods can be an effective way to hide, said Stuart Schechter, a Harvard security researcher. But, he said, there is nothing to stop the recording industry from creating proxy servers as so-called honey pots to serve as decoys and gather information on users. "The problem with any of these systems is how do you decide who to trust," he said.
Is this a new mm for edigital,
or am I just getting feeble?
CRWN 0.35 5000 0.44 5000 O
I knew you'd ask.....
first assault, rebuffed. Blame it on 9-11 security, but I noticed a copy of that picture of me from the dinner in Port Chester, at the main reception desk. Anyway, I'm still trying to get up with Boyer, himself. What was that cell phone # Cassie called? MH
If you fly 1st class,
it's free. I like this Boyer thing; maybe a movie in the making. Lou Diamond Phillips?
she's funny......
that wayyyyy.
Is it
HyTek & DataPlay, all over again?
Get on board and don't fall off the wagon.
Girls? Check. Cristal? Check. iPod? Check.
By NEIL STRAUSS
FOR the first 30 seconds of his recent video "Pimp," the rapper 50 Cent lovingly caresses an iPod portable digital music player as three scantily clad women lovingly caress him. The rapper and the women are dressed all in white, a perfect match for the sleek white design of the iPod, which has exactly as many close-ups as 50 Cent does in the video's opening scenes.
Whether it's a paid endorsement or not is beside the point. The iPod looks like it belongs in the video. As Microsoft has been cast in the role of Goliath in the personal computing wars, Macintosh has been playing David. And right now the stone in its slingshot is music. Not only is the iPod the top digital music player in the field, but earlier this year Apple's iTunes Music Store became the first legitimate music downloading service viewed as a success in the business, with one million songs downloaded (at 99 cents each) in its first week. The figure is impressive considering that less than 1 percent of the country's home computers are Macintoshs that are compatible with the iTunes Music Store.
This season, the iTunes service will be faced with several competitors in the PC world, among them an industry-sanctioned incarnation of Napster. But so far, its imitators (like Buymusic) have only made it look better by comparison. Its main appeal has been simplicity: an elegant interface, its usefulness as a source of music for the iPod and a lack of restrictions on the music. Once customers buy a song, it is theirs to do with as they wish — a basic concept that few other online retailers (with the notable exception of the eMusic subscription service for the PC) seem to comprehend. This fall, Apple plans to release a PC version of its iTunes Music Store. PC users may be less likely to start downloading music on iTunes than Macintosh users, because the music store is built so seamlessly into the architecture of the Mac. In addition, iTunes Music Store has its flaws: it's not much cheaper than buying a CD, and it largely neglects independent music. But if the iTunes Music Store on the PC experiences success anywhere near that of the Macintosh version, more than just rap videos will be paying homage to Apple — the entire music industry will be.