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The bigger question is why anyone who sees no investment value in a stock would call investors of said stock registered with the SEC.
All readers of this board should be careful reading anything from someone so obsessed imho
Good Trend Detector you are.eom
NO you are wrong again....
Qtr Loss for the three months ended Dec 31, 1996 was
$2,975,343 (and I did not check all for the past 15 years like you claim you did)
You might want to read a little more carefully before attacking someone.
And your original post was in response to a post regarding revenue, who knows why you changed the subject to Loss.
But since in your attempt to deceive you do in fact change the subject to your liking, you are right I should check your posts closer.
You are Wrong again!!!!
How many times in one day?
Revenue for the 3 months ended June 30, 2000 was $125K
How can anyone expect to believe you when you just throw statements out without doing 2min worth of DD?
Looks you are Wrong Again.eom
e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today reported revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2003 (the Company's second quarter for fiscal 2004) totaled $1,097,914, a 278% increase over the quarter ended September 30, 2002.
And the Dow.eom
How does the size/Wt compare to the iPod?
imho it's Digitalway (since it looks just like the O-1000)
Fred said they did a major redesign, so imho the new OEM still has something to offer beyond this imho Digitalway/Gateway venture.
just my 2 cents
we all know the company has not told us anything for sure yet.
I like that picture!!!! Thanks.eom
Voiceage is a file format used for voice recording, and Audible is another type of format
Specs from one of e.Digital's old competitors core os...
Dharma II features layered architecture for flexible, cross-discipline development. The Fullplay Media Manager is a modular middleware layer that supports leading codecs and digital rights management systems for audio and video, including MP3; WMA; AAC; Ogg Vorbis; Audible; Voiceage; MPEG-1, -2 and -4; and InterTrust. It also incorporates auto features for playlist management, content recognition and smart encoding. The platform supports Ethernet, HomePlug, Wi-Fi and Home RF networking standards. A modular UI layer enables custom-designed user interface development to LCDs, TVs and PC monitors. Price of the entire reference design, including development kit, is $5000. (www.fullplaymedia.com/)
It's too late to start thinking Fullplay is working with Gateway imho You can't even get on their website
Could you please give me a link to the PR from Creative on that bit of news?
tia
Since we are well over our avg daily volume with over 2 hrs left, "Low Volume" is not a good description imho
rstring~ I plan to add a few before the outsiders show up.eom
EDIG 0.42 +0.02 0.41 0.44 53,822 09:47:24
Sony Music Sings New Copy-Protection Tune
Mon Nov 10, 1:13 AM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Derek Caney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Music, home to such artists as Beyonce Knowles (news) and Bruce Springsteen (news), on Monday said it plans to introduce new CD technology in Germany that prevents users from copying songs to file-sharing sites, but allows them to make copies for their personal use.
The record industry blames its recent sales slump on file-sharing services like KaZaa, which it says are havens for piracy. Last year, major labels issued "copy-protected" CDs that prevent them from being played on computers.
The copy-protected discs faced a backlash from customers and music fans, and several lawsuits emerged from some customers that complained these CDs caused their computers and other devices to malfunction.
But Sony thinks it has an appealing approach: Give customers added incentives to buy copy-protected CDs.
On Monday, Sony will release rhythm & blues group Naturally Seven's new CD in Germany with a so-called "second session." The disc can be played on almost any device conventionally, said Sony Music Chief Technology Officer Phil Wiser.
It also contains a compressed digital copy of the music that can be quickly copied onto any computer. From the computer, users can copy that music onto Sony portable digital music players.
The CD's also allow users to connect to Web sites with exclusive features such as bonus songs and concert tickets. The features are only available if you have the original CD.
Such features are already available with Sony artists like Tori Amos (news) and AC/DC. But the new discs combine the "second session" copy protection with the bonus features, which Sony has dubbed "ConnecteD."
Sony will evaluate customers' reaction to the new technology before introducing it in other countries. Wiser declined to specify a timetable for which the technology will be available in the United States.
"We believe we can deliver more value by delivering more immediate content, an interactive experience, a better experience. Even if you could go to a (file-sharing) site and download a single song, you won't get the kind of content that we can deliver."
A label on the disc will say it includes the new copy protection software features.
There are several limitations. The digital files will only play on Sony-licensed digital music players. Wiser said Sony is working on "plug-in's" that will allow the files to be played on more popular players like Microsoft's Windows Media. He expects the plug-ins to be available early next year.
To copy the music to the Sony portable player, the technology requires an extra step to copy the files to a separate program to transfer the music to the portable player.
At this point, music can be transferred only to Sony portable players, although Sony executives note that Apple Computer's popular iTunes service works the same way with the Apple-branded iPod.
Earlier this year, BMG introduced similar technology with its hip-hop performer Anthony Hamilton.
BMG, which announced plans to merge with Sony Music last week, is using software from SunnComm Technologies to restrict the amount of copies that could be made of Hamilton's music. The software, however, did not work on some operating systems and was quickly hacked.
"All copy-protections can be hacked," Wiser said. "But if give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
Reuters/VNU
Job Growth...
8:30AM U.S. Oct. job growth surges by 126,000
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The U.S. economy added 126,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October after a revised gain of 125,000 in September, more than double the 57,000 originally reported, the Labor Department estimated Friday. August's 41,000-job loss was revised to a gain of 35,000. The unemployment rate sank to 6 percent, the lowest rate since April, the department said. Total hours worked in the economy rose 0.4 percent to the highest level since January. Economists were expecting a gain of about 56,000 in October, according to a survey conducted by CBS MarketWatch.
Napster, Penn State ink music deal
Students will have free access to digital music, limited downloading from relaunched Napster site.
November 6, 2003: 2:41 PM EST
http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/06/technology/napster_penn.reut/index.htm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a move aimed at stemming wide-scale online piracy on college campuses, Penn State University on Thursday reached a deal to offer thousands of students free access to the Napster music service.
Penn State President Graham Spanier said in a statement the school will offer students free access to digital music and limited downloading from Napster's newly relaunched music service.
Students can also buy permanent downloads that can be burned to CDs or transferred to portable devices for 99 cents each, the company said.
Napster, the song-swap pioneer that revolutionized online music and turned the music industry upside down, was bought last year by Roxio Inc. (ROXI: down $0.63 to $9.19, Research, Estimates) in a bankruptcy auction.
A new legal version of the service was officially relaunched late last month which offers individual songs for 99 cents each, albums for $9.95 or unlimited monthly subscriptions for $9.95.
"There will be no additional costs to students for this service," Spanier said, adding that the program will be funded as part of the information technology fee that Penn State already has in place.
How much Penn State, which has about 83,000 students on several campuses, paid was not immediately known.
A number of universities are expected to launch pilot studies similar to this with various digital music providers in the coming months, Napster and Penn State said.
The deal is significant in that the song-swap revolution had its roots on university campuses, where Napster first took hold in 1999 and turned the record industry on its ear.
Penn State was one of several universities which banned the use of Napster on university computer networks in the midst of the record industry's legal battle that eventually shut down the service.
"This will be the first step in a new, legal approach designed to meet student interest in getting extensive digital access to music," Spanier said.
Penn State said it had already set up focus groups of students who have been testing the service. In the spring, it will provide access to Napster for about 18,000 Penn State students and plans to make Napster available to all eligible students, as well as faculty and staff, next fall.
At its peak, Napster attracted over 60 million users before it was idled by copyright infringement litigation in 2001. Several similar unauthorized services, like Kazaa and Morpheus, have sprung up in its absence.
The music industry has blamed such file-sharing services for its sharp decline in music sales over the past three sales.
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A hard-drive based model is on the way, though, according to Gateway's director of digital audio Rick Griencewic.
"It takes a little bit longer to develop a hard drive player," said Griencewic 8/5/03
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/gateway.html
Why do you need to harass the accountants for a company you don't even wish to invest in?
Directly from the APS website...
http://www.digeplayer.com/release01.php
The digEplayer™ uses the latest technology licensed from e.Digital Corp.
OT~thanks rstring I feel much better now, I was starting to see "Dots"
"Powered by tax cuts" Sounds a lot like...
"Powered by e.Digital" could the economy be using Mos?
LOL
Copyright Office Upholds Copy-Protection Law
Wed Oct 29, 1:06 PM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Copyright Office has opted to leave a controversial software-protection law largely in place, despite protests that it interferes with consumers' rights to watch movies and listen to music as they wish.
The Copyright Office late Tuesday created four narrow exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (news - web sites), which makes it a crime to hack copy-protection measures on software, DVDs and other products.
Academic researchers and consumer-rights activists had pushed for wider exemptions, saying it is overly protective and inhibits legitimate activities such as security research or making personal copies of digital products.
The Copyright Office said the law should not apply to lists of Web sites blocked by Internet filtering software, or video games and computer programs made for obsolete systems.
Users can also hack copy-protection systems on digital "ebooks (news - web sites)" in order to have them read aloud by speech-recognition software or converted into Braille, the office said.
But hacking for other purposes -- such as to fast-forward through advertisements on DVDs or make personal copies of copy-protected music CDs -- are still not allowed.
Several software groups praised the ruling, saying it would not interfere with their ability to prevent unauthorized copying of their products.
But one group that has been critical of the DMCA said consumers would still suffer.
"Consumers are the real losers in today's ruling, because the librarian of Congress is ignoring the rights of nearly everyone who has purchased CDs and DVDs," said Gwen Hinze, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco consumer-rights group.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association, an industry group known for its criticism of software giant Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), said the Copyright Office should have OK'd software that would allow consumers to play DVDs on alternative computer operating systems such as Linux (news - web sites).
EDIG 0.43 +0.005 0.43 0.44 384,000 14:52:39
About 100K shares in the past 15-20 min
Be heating up imho
You know I didn't ask, we were on the phone about 2 min.
According to a discussion I had with Robert, regarding financial numbers, todays call will include only preliminary numbers for the Quarter Ended Sept 30, 2003
They will give us other updates on ongoing projects...
He was more tight lipped then I can ever remember.
Dell Digital Music Offering Blends Longevity, Simplicity and Value
Monday October 27, 9:08 am ET
Digital Jukebox Beefs Up Battery Life to 16 Hours, Works Seamlessly With Windows-Friendly Software and Download Service
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2003-- Listen up music lovers!
Dell (Nasdaq:DELL - News) today introduced the Dell Digital Jukebox (Dell DJ) music player and announced details of a partnership with Musicmatch® to provide customers an easy, legal way to download their favorite songs and albums.
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Both the Dell DJ and Dell Jukebox powered by Musicmatch software will be available through the Dell Music Store (www.dell4me.com/music) starting Tuesday, Oct. 28.
'Carrying around thousands of songs(a) on one small device is a nifty idea, but not if you have to recharge it every few hours,' said John Hamlin, senior vice president and general manager of Dell's U.S. consumer business. 'The Dell DJ packs terrific battery life and tons of features into a small, sleek package for a great price.'
Dell Digital Jukebox
The 7.6-ounce(b) Dell DJ comes with a choice of 15GB(c) or 20GB(c) capacities ($249 and $329, respectively) and features industry leader Hitachi's Travelstar hard drive.
A built-in rechargeable lithium-polymer battery provides up to 16 hours(d) of continuous music playback, enough for a round-trip flight from New York to London. The included USB 2.0 cable connects the device to desktop or notebook computers and can charge the battery in lieu of the standard slim-line AC adapter. A 2-inch backlit LCD display serves up file information while users browse with a front-mounted scroll barrel for true one-handed operation.
'We heard two things loud and clear from consumers when it came to digital music players: flash memory is too limited and hard drive players are either too expensive or stripped down to hit attractive price points,' Hamlin said. 'With the Dell DJ, our customers no longer have to choose between what they can afford and what they really want.'
In addition to high-fidelity playback of MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) files, the Dell DJ serves as a digital voice recorder or a way to back up critical data. Each unit is backed by Dell's around-the-clock toll-free technical support and a one-year Advanced Exchange Service.(e)
Dell Jukebox Software Powered by Musicmatch
The Dell Music Store also features Dell Jukebox software powered by Musicmatch, which provides a simple graphical interface between the computer and Dell DJ and access to Musicmatch Downloads. This no-subscription service allows users to legally download their choice of more than 250,000 songs for only 99 cents each and most albums for $9.99. Musicmatch plans to offer more than 500,000 tracks by the end of the year.
'Offering consumers a convenient, legal way to purchase music online is important to both Dell and Musicmatch,' said Bob Ohlweiler, Musicmatch senior vice president of business development. 'We've developed one of the easiest ways to find and purchase music, and now we're excited to see it combined with a high-quality portable music player at an incredible value.'
The Dell Jukebox also enables access to Musicmatch Radio and the ArtistMATCH(tm) feature, which compares customers' musical tastes to other users to recommend new artists. The Dell Jukebox software is tested and qualified on Dell notebooks and desktops and works seamlessly with both the DJ and many other digital music players.
For more information on the Dell DJ or Dell Jukebox software, visit www.dell4me.com/music.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL - News) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. The company's revenue for the past four quarters totaled $38.2 billion. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com.
About Musicmatch
Musicmatch Inc. is a leader in personalized music software and services, helping people find, manage, enjoy and buy music that best matches their unique tastes. The company invented the digital jukebox concept in 1997 and since then has registered more than 40 million users of its best-selling Musicmatch Jukebox. The Musicmatch Radio network, launched in 2000, now features the world's most popular Internet radio station, Artist MATCH(tm) Radio. The Musicmatch Downloads service is the easiest way to find, buy and enjoy music. For additional information, visit www.musicmatch.com.
EDITOR'S NOTE: See attached product fact sheet for key technical features of the Dell DJ.
Key technical features of the Dell Digital Jukebox (Dell DJ) include:
Capacities: 15GB(c) and 20GB(c)
Hard Drive Model: 1.8' Hitachi Travelstar C4K20
Battery life: 16 hours(d)
Display: 2.0' liquid crystal display
Navigation: Scroll barrel
Microphone: Integrated
Volume Controls: Hardware buttons
Synchronization / PC interface: USB 2.0
Charge time: 3.5 hours(f) (AC adapter)
Music Formats: WMA, MP3
Voice Recording Format: IMA (8 kHz mono WAV)
OS Supported: Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 2000
Supported Media Players: Dell Jukebox by Musicmatch, Windows Media Player 9, RealONE Player
Additional Features: Record and playback functionality, data backup via included software application, ear-bud headphones included, inline remote and carrying case (20 GB model only)
Dimensions (HxWxD): 105.3mm x 69mm x 22mm (4.1' x 2.7' x .86')
Weight: 7.6 oz.(b)
One-Year Next-Business-Day Advanced Exchange Service(e)
(a) Assumes audio format is 128kbps MP3 encoding with average song length of four minutes.
(b) Weight is for unit only.
(c) One GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity will be less.
(d) Battery life is based on continuous play.
(e) Replacement system or replacement part will be dispatched, if necessary, following phone-based troubleshooting, in advance of receipt of returned defective part or system. Replacements may be refurbished. Defective unit must be returned. Availability varies. Other conditions apply.
(f) Battery charge time is based on using standard AC adapter with device turned off.
Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc.
Musicmatch® is a registered trademark of Musicmatch Inc.
Artist MATCH(tm) is a trademark of Musicmatch Inc.
Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.
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Contact:
Dell Inc., Round Rock
Cody Pinkston, 512-723-3593
cody_pinkston@dell.com
or
Jennifer J. Davis, 512-723-3091
jennifer_j_davis@dell.com
The Lowdown on Downloads
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15017-2003Oct25.html
By Rob Pegoraro
The Washington Post
Sunday, October 26, 2003; Page F07
More than five years after people got their first easy way to download music off the Internet, they're finally getting a reasonable opportunity to pay for it.
That it's taken this long for an otherwise functional capitalist system to go after this market is an embarrassment.
But here we are in October 2003 anyway, and three online services are prepared to sell major-label music to Windows users on terms that wouldn't be laughed out of a regular music store: 99 cents a song and $9.95 or $9.99 an album, with no subscription fee required.
Apple's iTunes Music Store opened for business in April to Mac OS X users, and it added support for Windows last week. Musicmatch Inc.'s Musicmatch Downloads service launched Sept. 29, and Roxio's Napster (the name is the sole remnant of the pioneering file-sharing service that debuted in 1998) arrives on Wednesday.
Fine-print warning: None of these downloads come in the popular MP3 format, and all of them come with usage restrictions that CDs never required you to think about.
Apple's MPEG-4 AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) files and Musicmatch and Napster's Windows Media Audio files can be copied to audio CDs and to some digital-music players an unlimited number of times but can only be stored on three computers at any one time and can't be shared over a network with any of the new crop of digital-music receivers. And you can burn a playlist to CD only 10 times in a row (five in Napster's case).
They also can't easily be lent out to friends, nor are they even available for sale outside the United States. And except for Musicmatch, which supports Windows 98 Second Edition and newer Microsoft operating systems, their PC compatibility only extends to Win 2000 and XP.
In exchange, though, music listeners can choose only the songs they want instead of having to buy an album's worth of filler. They can browse among hundreds of thousands of songs and hear brief samples of each. Each song includes a thumbnail image of the CD cover, but not lyrics or liner notes.
So which service deserves your business?
By inventory alone, Napster does best -- it says it will stock more than 500,000 songs, compared with the 400,000 Apple plans to carry by the end of the month and the 250,000 Musicmatch offers. But you're probably going to find that all these services miss at least one song you desperately want, especially if that song was by a minor-label artist or one of the remaining name-brand artists (for instance, the Beatles) who have yet to allow their work to be sold online.
Finding and buying songs is easiest on iTunes and Napster; both offer multiple ways to dig through their collections beyond simple artist/album/song searches and genre-by-genre browsing. Napster offers the intriguing option of looking through other users' playlists (the only way it evokes memories of the old Napster, with which it shares neither personnel nor programming code). Musicmatch's store, by contrast, is an ugly, poorly organized mess.
Apple is the sole service to let you shop for other people: You can e-mail gift certificates and set up spending allowances.
All three programs burn audio CDs equally well, but Musicmatch will brake your CD writing to a glacial pace after the first four discs unless you ante up $20 for the "Plus" version of this program.
For transferring purchased music to a portable player, Apple can't be beat -- provided that player is an iPod, the only kind Apple supports.
Napster claims to duplicate that experience with a new Samsung player, which I didn't try. Its downloads are compatible with 25 other players, but the Napster software can't talk to any of them -- so I had to switch back to the program bundled with a Rio Nitrus player to load songs. Musicmatch supports fewer models, 19 in all, but can copy music to all of them.
The big differences between these services crop up when you put your music on multiple computers. With iTunes, you just copy the songs over as you wish, then authenticate the other Mac or PC once by typing in your account ID and password.
Better yet, if these computers are on the same wired or wireless network, iTunes can share your music library from the first machine's hard drive. (In one case, however, a ThinkPad on a WiFi network couldn't play any of the songs shared off an iMac.)
Musicmatch failed completely at this job. When it wasn't forgetting that I'd already logged in to authorize a song's playback on a second PC, it was constantly stalling and freezing, if not crashing the entire computer.
Napster doesn't even allow computer-to-computer transfer. You must download a new, free copy of each song off the Napster server for each other computer.
Last, but most important, Apple simply provides a better music program, whose sole (but not surprising) shortfall is its lack of Windows Media compatibility. In iTunes, Apple has accomplished what has eluded the entire PC market -- it's shipped a free, elegant, easy-to-use program that copies CDs in either AAC or MP3 format, offers numerous, thoughtful ways to organize a music library, lets you buy music conveniently, plays back Web radio and burns CDs and even DVDs -- and does it all without turning your desktop into a billboard for other products and services.
Living with technology, or trying to? E-mail Rob Pegoraro at rob@twp.com.
Your first mistake is reading what she posts.
Looks like it's time to LOAD up,
we may not see a deal like this again imho
It looks like the mms are looking to shake some cheap shares prior to the big news.
They must know something!!!
(I have seen that used before)
You ask... how does one exercise a "share"??
First off it has nothing to do with weights at the gym...
You see, there's a whole vocabulary when dealing with stock options but in simple terms, a stock option (also known as a "share option") is a contract that gives an employee the right to buy or sell ("exercise") shares in the company at a set price ("grant", "strike" or "exercise price") within a certain amount of time ("the exercise period").
For example, upon starting employment with Company A, you may receive 2000 stock options at a strike price of $1. Therefore, you have $2,000 worth of shares in the firm.
The term “exercise” is used to describe the action of buying those shares at the strike price so they may be held or sold by the employee. In this example the employee would have to produce the $2,000 to take possession of the shares.
Hope that helps with your education. Good luck, the markets can be hard to understand until you grasp some of the basic terms.
Apple tweaks iTunes for PCs to fix bugs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) --Apple Computer Inc. said this week it had made available an update of its just-introduced iTunes digital music jukebox software for Windows personal computers.
"A few customers reported conflicts with specific PC configurations and we quickly updated the iTunes software in response," Apple said Wednesday.
"iTunes 4.1.1 addresses an isolated incompatibility with Windows 2000 and older third-party CD burning software as well as problems caused by corrupt MP3 files on some users' PCs."
Some of the bugs with the Windows version of the iTunes software, which incorporates access to Apple's online music store, caused some Windows 2000 machines to freeze after installing iTunes, an Apple spokesman said.
In less than a week since its launch, Apple said that more than 1 million Windows computer users had downloaded iTunes. In the same time period, Apple and Windows iTuners user bought more than 1 million songs at a cost of 99 cents each from its online music store, the company said.
Apple said that 14 million songs have been bought and downloaded since the original, Mac-only iTunes software and store launch in April. The latest version of iTunes is available on its Web site.
Deal puts EMI Music's catalog online
By MICHAEL MCDONOUGH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LONDON -- A file-sharing network on Friday said it has signed a deal with EMI Music to put a "majority" of the music publisher's catalog online for users in Europe.
British company Wippit Ltd. said the deal with EMI will boost the number of tracks it offers online by about 100,000.
Wippit's chief executive and founder, Paul Myers, told The Associated Press that his company signed a deal last month with EMI, whose artists range from the Rolling Stones to Coldplay.
Myers said the Beatles, who are part of the EMI family, were not included in the deal, but refused to specify which acts were included or say how much the deal was worth.
No one at EMI was immediately available for comment Friday.
Wippit distributes authorized copies of songs on its file-sharing network, allowing subscribers to download an unlimited number of tracks for an annual fee of $49, or $6.50 a month.
Consumers can burn the songs onto CDs, transfer them to an MP3 player or store them on a computer, and can keep them after their subscription ends, he added.
Major record companies have balked at that model, worrying that people would download large amounts of music and then stop paying the monthly fees.
Myers would not say whether EMI had imposed any restrictions as part of its file-sharing deal, other than limiting its availability to users in Europe. The subscriber's credit card indicates where the user is based, and Wippit plans to restrict the EMI catalog to European users.
Wippit has about 165,000 registered users but only 5,000 subscribers who pay to access the service's 60,000 tracks from nearly 200 independent labels, Myers said. He added that EMI was the first major label to sign with the service, 77 percent of whose users are in Britain.
The deal will be officially announced next month and Wippit will offer EMI Music products "before the end of the year," Myers added.
Tracks are downloaded from Wippit in Windows Media Audio format and encrypted using Microsoft's Digital Rights Management, meaning they cannot be shared on other file-sharing networks.
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Top Acts Set To Play Napster 2.0 Launch
Artists from major and indie labels are showing their support for Napster 2.0 by performing at an event to launch the service on Oct. 29 in Los Angeles. Ludacris, Dashboard Confessional, Interpol, Metric and DJ Melo-D are on the bill. Fans can win tickets through local radio stations and other outlets. Musician Ahmet Zappa will emcee the show.
"Napster has always been synonymous with music," says Chris Gorog, chairman/CEO of Napster parent Roxio. "October 29th is a cause for celebration for music fans everywhere as Napster comes back. This great concert is a way for us to bring the cutting edge artists of the day to the fans that make it all happen."
The new Napster will feature an a la carte download store with 500,000-plus tracks. Individual tracks will cost 99 cents; albums on average will cost $9.95. The service also will offer a subscription package of unlimited monthly tethered downloads and on-demand streams for $9.95.
In addition, it will stress "community" elements, such as message boards and the ability to view the music collections of other subscribers. Subscribers will be able to "share" music through E-mail. Napster users will also be able to E-mail 30-second clips of tracks to non-subscribers.
Napster subscribers will have access to 40 interactive radio stations. Radio playlists will be burnable to CD. Usage rights for purchased downloads are in line with those of other services: individual tracks can be burned an unlimited number of times, but a playlist can be burned only five times.
Good point...
are they already Launched?
Good question