Word: mp3
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This year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed suit against hundreds of college students nationwide to crack down on copyright infringement. A dozen Harvard affiliates, mostly graduate students, grooved their way into legal trouble for sharing an average of 2,300 mp3 files apiece. This was the year the music died...
...cannot wipe out piracy. But you can minimize its bottom-line impact. Just as music companies, rightly or wrongly, made peace with MP3 file-sharing services like Napster, so must manufacturers from the U.S. heartland learn strategies for coping?by developing new revenue models that emphasize service offerings around intellectual property. Such models may include lowered pricing for a developing market; universal licensing schemes to sell music, films, games and software on a subscription basis; or emphasizing revenues that flow from service and support rather than product, a model that has been successfully exploited by the Linux community...
Attach the circular Nike Philips MP3 Run ($299; nike-philips.com to your elbow and stick a wireless pedometer to your shoelaces, and the device will show how far and how fast you've run. Or hit a button to switch to music mode, and the MP3 player will let the Chariots of Fire theme inspire...
...living room--or a PlayStation3 or a Nintendo whatever-they're-calling-it--and that you could be using it to videoconference with your brand-new gamer buddies while grooving on a Mahler symphony, think of all those iPod owners who, five years ago, didn't know what an MP3 was. Jaded as we are, the future can still surprise us. It might just be both nerdier--and cooler--than anybody expected...
Scan your favorite torn or faded prints, upload them to 30minphotos.com and the site will fix flaws and mail you new prints for $20 ? Gateway's MP3 Photo Jukebox, the GCM-6, $250, has a color screen and storage for 1,500 songs or 2,000 images ? Clear up clutter by sending your photos, slides and negatives to digmypics.com for digital scanning, starting at 59¢ a scan