Podcasting Changes Broadcasting Model
"Just the other week, a San Francisco radio station — KYCY AM, owned by Infinity Broadcasting — announced that it was going to become ‘the world’s first-ever podcasting radio station.’ It would broadcast (and make available online) listener-created content.
"It’s an interesting idea, although one that will likely fail. You don’t hear of a lot of people tuning in to late-night public access TV for a reason. And radio stations cost a lot to upkeep compared to Web sites, so it’s unlikely KYCY will make enough money to keep the station going.
"But that’s fine. First efforts often fail, but smart people will learn from the arrows in the pioneers’ backs."
Andrew Kantor. Podcasting a Noteworthy Alternative to Plain Ol’ Radio. USA Today. May 6, 2005.
Hackers Bypass PSP Copy Protection
"It was never going to take very long, of course, but hackers have at last worked out how to bypass the copy protection scheme used by Sony to lock down content on the PlayStation Portable’s Universal Media Disc (UMD).
"Piracy doesn’t appear to be an issue yet, since there’s no way of copying games pulled from an official 1.8GB UMD onto a fresh disc, UMD being, for now, a read-only medium."
Tony Smith. PSP Disc Protection Cracked. The Register. May 6, 2005.
Yahoo Preparing Music Search Engine
"Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet, CNET News.com has learned.
"The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company plans to introduce the music search engine within the next couple of months, according to a source familiar with the service.
"The specialty engine will let people search on an artist’s name, for example, and retrieve all the available songs from other music services, as well as album reviews and band information from Yahoo Music."
Stefanie Olsen. Yahoo Developing an Audio Search Engine. News.com. May 5, 2005.
DRM Costs Effect Mobile Music Services
"A tussle over antipiracy technology is looming over the young mobile phone content business, with big phone companies claiming that new music and video services could be derailed as a result.
"At issue is a set of technologies aimed at protecting music and other content from being indiscriminately copied after being sold through mobile phone networks, a critical component of the new content services if record labels and movie studios are to sign on."
John Borland. Anticopying Fight Mars Mobile Music. News.com. May 5, 2005.
Hong Kong Offers Anti-Piracy Scout Badge
"Boy Scouts in Hong Kong now can earn merit badges for learning about the wonders of copyright law–at least the version described by the Motion Picture Association.
"The MPA, the Hong Kong Scout Association, and the Hong Kong government announced the program this week. It’s the first of its type anywhere in the world."
Declan McCullagh. Hollywood Creates Boy Scout Merit Badge on Copyright. News.com. May 3, 2005.
Newspapers Launch Podcasts
"Recently, I noted our modest initial podcasting effort. We’re in good company: More and more newspapers and newspaper-run sites are jumping on the bandwagon all the time."
Brian Chin. Papers That Podcast. SeattlePI.com. May 4, 2005.
Blog Discusses iTunes Affiliate vs. AdSense
"It’s been a little over 6 months since we started up this iTunes Super Filter site, and it’s been more successful than I could have ever hoped! I have always struggled to maintain a blog regularly just like everyone else out there, so thanks so much for reading what we write.
"We signed up for Apple’s iTunes Affiliate Program early on in the Fall of 2004. I thought, “What would happen if all we did was post music recommendations and point to the iTunes Music Store?” It’s been half a year now, and we have gathered enough data from this project to report some interesting results. Today I would like to share some statistics from our experience with the Affiliate Program."
Asian Mack. AsianMack Half-Year Review. No date.
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