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Monday, December 27, 2004

Wave of Silence, 5 PM Pacific Standard Time [Tsunami victims mourned] 


Music lovers,

We will be observing a minute of silence at 5 PM Pacific Standard Time in respect of all the world citizens who lost their lives in the sea as the single, un-named tsunami (or "tidal") wave came ashore on December 26.

For those with relatives living on the coast of that part of the world, and any Westerners with friends or family that are on surfari thereabouts, our hearts go out to you.

Turn-off your iPod, CD-player, PC sounds, and all at:













8 AMJakarta
9 AMKuala Lumpur
10 AMTokyo
12 PMSydney
2 PMWellington
3 PMHonolulu
4 PMAnchorage
5 PMLos Angeles
6 PMDenver
7 PMNew Orleans
8 PMNew York
1 AMLondon
2 AMParis


Many souls passed without warning in mere moments...


The Cove



The iPod is in jeopardy from Samsung & Microsoft 

Urgent Warning to Apple iPod Users: Aliens have landed and are attacking. Take evasive action.


The iPod remains cool, but both the hardware and software platform are under attack. Can Apple do with the MP3 player what it failed to do with the personal computer?

If Treo shaped phones appeal to you, check out SamSung's 1.5 Gb MP3 Phone. More devices like this are certain to come, though I think a couple gig's of non-volatile memory will produce the better look and feel. Maybe a phone could be built on top of one of those tiny Creative MP3 'cigarette lighters'?

David Haskin of Personal Tech Pipeline thinks Microsoft is out to eat Apple's lunch, and I'm sure he's right, aren't they out to eat everyone's lunch?


Microsoft is behind the scenes pulling the strings with its new digital rights management scheme, which it calls PlayForSure. That scheme allows the music services and record companies to control how the songs are used. Apple, for its part, remains publicly certain that its buck-a-tune approach is the way to go.


However, the following bit caused me some puzzlement:

Besides being an obviously powerful value for consumers, there are at least two more reasons why Microsoft's PlayForSure could eat Apple's lunch....


David speaks well about the battle, but just what is the "obviously powerful value for consumers" of any DRM system, especially one that gives more rights to the music industry? Imagine if you video taped something off the TV, but the video tape would go blank when the show producers dictated - would that be a "value" to you?

It sounds like someone (or a whole industry) wants you to buy into the DRM line of B.S.

Digital is great, but the trend in human societies, and of the Internet, is to give more freedom to the individual. DRM is commercial Big Brother.

Get sucked into the PlayForSure vortex of marketing here, or get an outside view from Jupiter Research.

Really, how hard is it to let my player play MP3, WMA, AAC, etc., etc.? There is no technical challenge, just a money grubbing one.

I'm putting my headphones on, later.

Fight the power.



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