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...news for video-game execs: there's a whole new piracy threat on the horizon that is set to make McLaughlin's scam look like a parking violation. It is now possible for you to go online and--for a price ranging from nothing to $50--download software known as emulators, which can transform your computer into just about any gaming platform that ever existed. These include today's top-line consoles, the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64, which retail for about $130. Once you've done that, it's a cinch to find literally hundreds of thousands of sites...
KARL TARO GREENFELD, one of our New York-based business writers, this week reports on the threat that computer-savvy college students are posing to the record industry. "Many people, but primarily students, have found a way to download free songs off the Internet, even though it's illegal," says Greenfeld. "The industry has not yet found an effective way to prevent it." Unless it does soon, a generation of kids will get out of the habit of buying...
Audible has a proprietary formula for compressing sound into a digital form that can move from its website over phone lines into your modem and computer. It takes only eight minutes for a 56K modem to download an hour of audio. To do this, you'll need Audible's software, which comes with a nifty 3.5-oz. rechargeable MobilePlayer ($199) that holds two hours' worth of stuff. A newer model that holds 7 1/2 hrs. and costs $299 is supposed to ship next week...
...hardware business: its money will come from programming. To that end, the company has been partnering with book publishers, newspapers, magazines and broadcasters to put their narrated words online at www.audible.com There you can buy the MobilePlayer and shop for programming, including current best sellers that you can download to your PC, then listen to or transfer to the portable device. (Mac-compatible software is expected by year...
...Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues for 75[cents] each. The opportunity to cherry-pick content and exchange small sums of money online will become more and more attractive, to both consumers and authors. (I would happily read my columns to you if I got, say, a dime a download...