Microsoft's answer to iPod: a Clunky-looking Zune?

An obesely proportioned digital media player, confirmed to be Microsoft's upcoming Zune device, has turned up in photos and documentation filed with the FCC. The filing, published on Thursday, was made by Toshiba Corp... According to a draft user manual accompanying the filing, Zune will include a 30GB 1.8-inch Toshiba hard drive, 3.0-inch low temperature polysilicone TFT LCD display, high quality FM tuner with RDBS, headphone jack and USB 2.0 connectivity...

http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1993

Fugitive exec nabbed after Skype call

Kobi Alexander, the founder of Comverse, was nabbed in... Sri Lanka yesterday by a private investigator. He is wanted by the US government in connection with financial fraud charges. He is accused of profiting from some very shady stock-option deals, to the detriment of Comverse shareholders. Once the deals became public and he was indicted, he resigned as CEO and fled the US. Alexander was traced... after he placed a one-minute call using Skype. That was enough to alert authorities to his presence and hunt him down...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060824-7582.html

Is Nettwerk reinventing the music business?

To all appearances, Nettwerk is just a midsize music management company with an indie record label on the side. Many of the artists on its client roster – which includes Avril Lavigne, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, and Stereophonics – are mainstream acts. But McBride, the company's cofounder and creative force, is quietly carrying out a plan to reinvent the music industry, including legalizing file-sharing and giving artists control over their own intellectual property...

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/nettwerk.html

Enforcing net neutrality with a two-by-four

About ten years ago, as the Internet soared in popularity, consumers and businesses began to attach new devices and create new services for the network. The reaction of the broadband carriers was decidedly ugly: - AT&T warned customers that using Wi-Fi was a 'federal crime' - Cox Cable disciplined users of virtual private networks - Comcast blocked traffic, which hampered government telecommuters...

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/05/enforcing-net-neutrality-with-two-by.html

BitTorrent How-to Roundup

Here’s a roundup of some of the how-to articles that appeared on torrentfreak over the past few months. Might be useful to some of the new readers...

http://torrentfreak.com/9-bittorrent-how-tos/

Intel says HD should be wired

Current wireless networking standards aren't fit for streaming high- definition (HD) content between a media centre PC and multiple extender devices, according to Intel and Microsoft...

http://cnet.com.au/hometheatre/mediacentres/0,39035725,40092181,00.htm

Hacker Coalition Releases Lawsuit Proof P2P System

The OFF System does not require storing or transmitting copies of creative works. This simple bit of mathematical and computer science wizardry supposedly renders traditional copyright laws moot. The system relies exclusively on multi-use randomized blocks for its storage and transmission needs. Each stored OFF block is used to represents multiple works simultaneously...

http://www.gnutella.com/news/20582

Internet Is Seizing the Spotlight in the Live-Music Business

Years after the breakup of the Bogmen, a highly regarded New York underground band, Billy Campion, the group’s lead singer, still attracts a core of followers. So when he asked fans planning to attend a performance at the Boogaloo club in Brooklyn to bring their digital cameras and camera phones, many listened. Less than two months ago, a video cobbled together from fans’ films had its debut on YouTube, the hugely popular video-sharing site. Since it appeared — and landed a spot as a featured video — the clip for his performance of “Hi on Wade” has been viewed more than 120,000 times...

http://www.gnutella.com/news/20537

Man gets Six Years for Software Piracy

A Florida man who made millions of dollars selling illegal copies of computer programs was sentenced Friday to six years in prison in one of the nation's largest software piracy cases... Danny Ferrer, of Lakeland, Fla., pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy and copyright infringement charges after an FBI investigation of his Web site, BuysUSA.com. Ferrer also was ordered to pay more than $4.1 million in restitution to software makers Adobe, Autodesk, and Macromedia...

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Aug25/0,4670,SoftwarePiracy,00.html

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