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...industries brought about by the Internet and digitization. I’ve always held that the worst-case scenario would be one in which competing record labels, unable to come to agreement on a Napster-like service for digital subscriptions to music, would fracture into a handful of incompatible download sites. Yet I could never have imagined just how bad the situation would...
...their users from sharing content. Now, everything is changing. As former Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig has written in Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, on the Internet, owners of intellectual property can enforce their one-user, one-payment dreams. They can architect the format and means of downloading such that you simply cannot e-mail or Instant Message an MP3 file to a friend. Even worse, they can extend the per-use model of the public performance companies to end users, forcing individuals to pay miniscule amounts—say 10 cents—every time they want...
According to Jinger Zhao ’04, projects coordinator of the Harvard Computer Society, each computer on a network has its own unique IP number. When a computer seeks to download a file from another computer, it sends a request from its IP address. The IP address of the computer from which it seeks to download can also be tracked...
...songs played with O’Rourke are any indication) still develop into something wonderful, if wholly unlike previous musical ventures. Due in large part to these recent hardships, Wilco’s forthcoming album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, has been indeterminately postponed. For the time being, fans can (legally!) download the album off of Wilco’s official website, www.wilcoworld.net...
...smart bot, an interactive agent that answers general news questions. Send a message to the screen name SmarterChild, for example, and the bot created by ActiveBuddy, based in New York City, will deliver headlines and stock quotes in less than five seconds. It takes a little longer, however, to download a cute little robot icon from the company's website...