Word: downloading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Once jeered as the most starry-eyed start-up ever, the $9 billion Teledesic project has lately won some respect. Early this year the venture launched a test satellite--a long way from the total of 288 needed for its massive data-transmission needs. Eventually, however, it will offer download rates as speedy as 64 mbps, some 2,000 times as fast as today's modems...
Some 3 million people have downloaded MP3 players from such sites as www.winamp.com (The player is the software program that allows you to listen to MP3-encoded music, and a dozen different flavors are available, free, for PCs, Macs and UNIX machines.) Countless search engines like mp3search.com are devoted to finding the vast archives of MP3 music that exist online. A lot of the music, from the Beatles to Beethoven, is on underground "pirate" sites, which specialize in the illegal practice of giving away copyrighted music. The recording industry employs an army whose job it is to root out pirate...
...eager to get radio airtime. In fact, a new band that he represents, Swirl360--pop rockers who are 23-year-old identical twins--released a few MP3 songs online at swirl360.com last week. "We think of it as an advertisement," Sabec added. Besides, while it's possible to download a band's entire CD, it takes too long--on a 56.6K modem, figure 10 minutes a song. So maybe the recording industry isn't dead...
...explain the insanity that is the media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed on this story and it's fast forward with too few editors who press the pause button." In a realm where the impatient reader can download the relevant information (say, the Starr report) within minutes of its release, the multimedia corporations live and die based on whether they can attract consumers quickly and refer them to the other resources and media outlets they...
Notice something different? This week, we've launched a newly designed TIME.com site that we think will give you more for less. Our aim was to make navigation simpler, content deeper and download time faster. We also tried to integrate the best of the magazine's weekly content with online-only features and TIME Daily's hugely popular "what it means now" approach to breaking news. As usual, we're open to suggestions and bug reports. How are we doing? Let us know at daily@pathfinder.com...