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20 views | MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s Source:TechCrunch 2008-08-30 07:30:05 |
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Downsizing EMI spends $50 million a year to destroy unsold CDs [Digital Music]
Source:Valleywag Record label EMI will lay off 2,000 and shift its focus toward digital music, private equity investor and company topper Guy Hands told the Financial Times. Hands said the music ind...read more
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Is Europe a country? Don't ask Apple [ITunes]
Source:Valleywag The SF New Tech Meetup is showing mercifully short 5-minute demos from startups. Just think of all the BlackBerry messages you can catch up on in five minutes! If that doesn't sound...read more
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Ripping CDs still illegal, says the record industry -- but not in so many words [Copyfight]
Source:Valleywag Drew Schutte, the longtime publisher of Conde Nast's Wired, will now run the sales side of The New Yorker and its website. David Carey, publisher of Portfolio, is adding Wired to hi...read more
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Digital music sales surged 50 percent above ... [Digital Music]
Source:Valleywag Digital music sales surged 50 percent above 2006's tally, totaling 844.2 million tracks sold in the U.S. in 2007. Unfortunately, CD sales didn't fare so well, dropping 14 percent. [...read more
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Will the RIAA sue you for ripping CDs? [Copyfight]
Source:Valleywag The Washington Post has reported that the RIAA views the ripping of CDs to MP3s as illegal. Not quite so. The RIAA isn't thrilled with the practice, but that's not why they're suing...read more
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The iTunes effect -- or file-sharing, if ... [Digital Music]
Source:Valleywag The decision by the Australian government to institute filtering of the Internet at the ISP level to protect children from pornography and violent websites is being received with an...read more
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iPod research yields a book full of Bull [Apple]
Source:Valleywag Michael Bull, a film and media professor at England's University of Sussex, has spent three years interviewing more than 1,000 iPod owners -- only to reach the most of obvious concl...read more
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