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...PC is connected to a TV cable; an inexpensive video card allows him to watch TV on his monitor. Using a free application called VirtualDub, he digitizes any show he wants and saves it to his hard drive. He then spends about five minutes editing out the commercials and an hour compressing the file until it is small enough to swap online. Then he uploads it to a friend who makes it available for others to download...
...Jobs says, "[Apple is] the only company that owns the whole widget--the hardware, the software and the operating system." But what Jobs sees as Apple's biggest advantage is also the barrier that will block the company from reaching its goal. There is a reason that the Windows/Intel PC is the standard in personal computers and that its makers control 95% of the personal-computer industry: the PC platform is open to all. Anyone can provide new hardware or software for it. Apple must stop being a control freak and open up to outside software and hardware developers. JACQUES...
...PC is connected to a TV cable; an inexpensive video card allows him to watch TV on his monitor. Using a free application called VirtualDub, he digitizes any show he wants and saves it to his hard drive. He then spends about five minutes editing out the commercials and an hour compressing the file until it is small enough to swap online. Then he uploads it to a friend who makes it available for others to download...
...Napster's heyday, pirated TV shows were a rarity on the Net. But that changed with the advent of broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that...
...goose the process along, Wagner decided to write a program called Replayer that lets people hack into their Replay 4000 and transfer files to their PC. Once the shows are in the computer, users are free to squeeze them down further, burn them onto a CD or dvd or trade them online. It took Wagner less than a week to crack the box's coding...