Word: audio
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from TIME's political writers, a reality check on what the candidates say about the issues, an on-line poll, voter reactions in the battleground states, our spiffy online voter game, the Candidator, and a photo album of great presidential-debate moments that will finally reveal who yanked the audio during the second Ford-Carter debate, bringing the whole darn thing to a standstill for 27 minutes...
...album once it's surrounded by all this buzz. I wonder how many people who're currently proclaiming Kid A's use of electronic instrumentation as groundbreaking would say the same if they hadn't known the identity of the musicians before listening to the album? Take the audio equivalent of the Pepsi Challenge...
...late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net for the latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even...
...what Napster lead attorney David Boies, who successfully prosecuted the Department of Justice's case against Microsoft, describes as "the definition of commercial or noncommercial uses." It is perfectly legal for consumers to copy music for their own enjoyment--i.e., noncommercial use. Congress has even declared, in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, that it is legal to make recordings and lend them out to people, provided it is not done for commercial purposes. It is unlawful, of course, if it's done to make a profit. "The law does not distinguish between large-scale and small-scale sharing...
...more than a few billionaires in Silicon Valley--sharing a two-bedroom San Mateo apartment and a 6-ft.-wide-screen Mitsubishi television with co-Napsterite Sean Parker. The tables are strewn with old pizza boxes, empty Coke cans and, Napster notwithstanding, actual digital discs, both video and audio. The furniture is rented, the brown sofa often serving as a crash site for Fanning's 13-year-old brother Raymond, who is teaching himself to code while he stays with Fanning. They have never bothered to get a phone line installed; the cell phone works just fine...