Tag Archives: Software

I’m not sure what to make of this yet: Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today the most far-reaching and aggressive enforcement action ever undertaken against organizations involved in illegal intellectual property piracy over the Internet. Beginning yesterday morning, law enforcement from 10 countries and the United States conducted over 120 …

A German computer magazine and software company have created a new program to help consumers take advantage of the “analog hole” to make copies of “copy-protected” CDs, according to New Scientist: Music companies have introduced a range of “copy protection” technologies as part of a drive to stop unauthorised CD …

An entire article from the BBC about empowering individuals to both publish and find local, niche and eccentric information that doesn’t even mention the technology and movement that has been doing just that for several years now – astonishing: By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than …

New update to RealPlayer 10 supports every major content format and online music download service. Hey, all the trains can run on this track: The latest version of the RealPlayer 10 music-playing software offers consumers the ability to use all the content delivery systems the company’s competitors developed, including Microsoft’s …

Information wants to be free and all of that: When Apple opened the iTunes Music Store, they licensed a technology called “FairPlay” from a company called “Veridisc”. FairPlay is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that limits a users rights on a digital media file that they’ve purchased and presumably …

FlashMob Computing is a fascinating concept and the first attempt on April 3 was at least partially successful: Results: FlashMob I was very successful and a lot of fun. Over 700 computers came into the gym and we were able to hook up 669 to the network. Our best Linpack …

In July Microsoft will offer technology – code named “Janus” (this article will now self-destruct) – that will bring all-you-can-eat digital music service songs to portable players: Janus would add a hacker-resistant clock to portable music players for files encoded in Microsoft’s proprietary Windows Media Audio format. That in turn …

Educate yourself and get it the hell out of your computer. The Washington Post has a good primer on the increasing peril: Broadly speaking, it describes hundreds of different programs that are often surreptitiously installed on people’s computers. The most benign forms, known as adware, display advertisements based on the …

As users quickly become aware, the worst part of using the major file sharing services is the crap they clog up your computer with: pop up ads, spyware, even viruses. If you are using Kazaa, this program will help – Kazaa Cleaner: Kazaa Cleaner is a free and tiny Adware …

AGAIN, we are at the cutting edge of the zeitgeist – USA Today notes that the “adult” entertainment industry often leads the way in technology: Online pornographers have been among the first to exploit new technology for more than a decade – from video-streaming and fee-based subscriptions to pop-up ads …