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...Musicians and audiophiles, who swear by the warmer sound of older, analog equipment, are also up in arms. Hiroki Kimoto, manager of a shop selling secondhand music gear in Tokyo, says half of the guitar amplifiers in his inventory fall under the PSE. "We don't know what we're going to do. It's ludicrous. I have never heard anyone having safety problems with these machines, but the whole music culture could be affected." Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan's most famous musicians, has moved to the forefront of a group lobbying for the law to be revised...
...written on computers, movies are released on DVD, artwork is photographed (though this certainly can’t capture all of its nuances), and television and radio programs are recorded and streamed online. Accessibility is certainly a concern, and copyright a closely related one, but the bits, which unlike analog media can be perfectly preserved indefinitely, are safely stored.The intellectual output of mankind in the three or so millennia leading up to 1995 is not faring as well. Google announced last year that it planned to begin digitizing material in university libraries such as our own, but the initiative...
...there was any doubt of Cory Doctorow’s place on the digerati A-list, New York magazine ranked his blog, BoingBoing.net, as the number one most linked-to blog on the web. Analog recognizing the triumphs of digital? The times really are a-changin?...
...end”—the idea, in some sense, that the intelligence of a network ought to be pushed out to the edges, to the computer on your desk, your cell phone, or your new Internet-enabled toaster. Not all networks are built this way. The original analog telephone system had complex call-routing hardware in the middle, while the phones themselves were little more than converters between audio and voltage signals. The Internet, though, wasn’t designed to carry just phone calls or just instant messages—it’s a general purpose...
...your TV screen, a simulated iPod screen with all of your songs, and the familiar Playlists/Artists/Albums menu structure. Scroll through and play whatever you want, whether you bought it from iTunes or ripped it from CDs. The reason the Denon can play iTunes purchases is that it takes the analog audio straight from your iPod, unlike the Xbox 360, for instance, which digitally accesses your musical content...