Word: downloaders
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Palfrey said he hopes to institute an “artistic co-op” where subscribers could pay monthly fees in order to download songs from an online music library, without mediation from record labels...
...give Packer students a new set of rules to break. The school's entire culture has changed. The place feels different, and not everybody is comfortable with that. Everybody you meet at Packer is carrying a laptop. Kids in the hall wave wireless cards and argue about where to download drivers. When teachers talk, there's a low, collective clicking sound in the background--the sound of hundreds of fingers taking notes via keyboard. "It was painful for me," admits Elissa Krebs, who heads the English Department at Packer. "Inevitably you would just have lines of seventh- and eighth-graders...
...cable television network for free. But by the end of the week, the idea had been withdrawn; apparently, it would have illegal for MIT to broadcast the files—3,500 CDs worth of music—that had been purchased for this purpose. As file-sharing download systems continue to flourish on the web, however, it is clear that the music industry needs to abandon the methods it has used in the past—regulation and litigation—and develop new ways to generate revenue in a world of high-speed Internet connections. The plan developed...
Media giants and telecom companies are still trying to figure out how to exploit the new markets offered by the shift to broadband and video-on-demand. TiVo and systems like it, being rolled out by cable and satellite-TV providers, allow viewers to download TV shows and movies and watch them when they want, skipping ads if they choose. U.S. networks haven't figured out viable revenue models for that. The BBC has no such roadblock, since its shows are financed by the citizenry and broadcast in Britain commercial-free. That means it can get on with digitizing...
Though these days Zuckerberg has other projects on his “to do” list, the sophomore anticipates Synapse’s future success. He says he and D’Angelo are considering making Synapse open source, which, for the technologically illiterate, means that downloaders can see the program’s code and improve upon it. It is currently available for free download on the website. Zuckerberg’s software populism goes beyond simply turning down big-money corporate offers. “It’s important to us that people are able...