Now this sounds interesting (but therefore also frightening). Some guys at MIT have invented (are inventing?) a fingerprinting technology for music. The theory is that however you munge a track, so long as humans are going to listen to it, you can uniquely identify it. Is someone doing the same for video?Class! AOL vs Eliza. Five is very good indeed.Great article looking at how the software industry fought piracy in a reasonably successful manner. Lessons for the record industry.Four little words. The whole record industry / RIAA in the US are getting way scary. These people think they own the world. The worst thing is that they probably do.
Archive for August, 2000
2600 article about the DeCSS farago. Interesting, depressing, and reminds me of the evening I spent in a 2600 van in NYC. Those were the days!
It’s official - the Earth is warming. Scientists saw clear water at the North Pole recently.
The US has ruled that gambling on US events over the internet is no different than gambling over a phone, and therefore illegal.
Optical networking is today’s big thing. Corvis is a company with no revenues, a secret product and a $33bn market cap. That’s bigger than GM!? Forget multiple of sales, multiple of revenues, think “multiple of concept”.
Interesting ruling. To remove porn from the internet you’d have to physically delete it everywhere. This would restrict free speech, so it can’t be done.
So the White House is the largest user of porn in the US? Hehehehe
“Thus, the plaintiff (Ford) is prohibited from selling motor vehicles to consumers by mail, phone calls, leafleting, skywriting or drum signals, As well as on a plane, on a train, in a house, or with a mouse.”
Yet another way of looking at the exchange marketplace. Platitude of the day is that there will be two to four exchanges per sector. They don’t define which sector…
Stephen King looks set to net a pleasant $1m from his online publishing venture. Glad to see it’s working.
