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...Then an action that Parker called "deeply troubling" last December - that Lee had told a colleague he was borrowing a computer recording device to download his r?sum? when in fact he planned to copy top-secret files, as was alleged by FBI special agent Robert A. Messemer, the government's lead investigator - turned out not to be a deception at all. The colleague, Kuok-Mee Ling, told a grand jury that Lee only said he wanted to use the recorder to download some files. Last week, Messemer had to apologize to the court, pleading an "honest mistake...
...with your computer is more downscale. Instead of a handy "cradle" that attaches to your PC or Macintosh--so you can just drop the thing in--the m100 comes with a serial cable. It does the job, of course, allowing you to back up your m100 to your computer, download programs and Web pages and all the rest. But it's not as elegant. Also, while the m100's black-and-white screen is crisp and readable, it is somewhat smaller than the one on my Vx. Still, it ought to keep my gadget-hound mom happy. For a while...
...seem to settle on a single one? Multiply that experience a couple thousand times, and you've got a fairly accurate picture of music on the Internet. A lot of musical acts are concerned about how they'll make money in the Age of the Download. But there's another question that merits attention--one of particular importance to consumers. With hundreds of thousands of songs floating around the Net, how does the ordinary fan sort out all the junk in order to get to the good stuff...
Every day Riffage presents a featured artist, offering up downloadable songs from a performer who's usually unsigned or on a tiny, independent label. The acts are chosen by Riffage staff members (they draw from music submitted to the site), and Riffage's users rate the music and post reviews. Last week one of the showcased acts was a San Francisco-based country group called the Court and Spark (a user named Rodco called the band "supercool mood country"). Using a 56K modem, it took a mind-numbing 2 hr. 20 min. to download the band's track Sugar...
...free music it offers. But an even bigger attraction is that Napster actually works--easily in fact. Napster is streamlined, straightforward and self-explanatory. Napster puts power in the hands of the consumer--power to access an incomparable selection of MP3's, power to choose precisely which songs to download, all with amazing speed and ease...