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Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

Apparently, NBC Universal cannot wait for the launch of Hulu (its joint venture with News Corp.) to offer its full episodes online to viewers.
Via a press release, NBC has announced that it will be offering its top television shows for users to download up to a week after broadcast. The videos will be ad-supported, which will allow NBC to provide the shows for free. Confirmed shows for the launch include Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night [...]

PayPal has been down for two days. TWO DAYS. The PayPal development blog gives Wednesday or THURSDAY as an estimate of when the service might be back to functioning normally: an estimate of 6 or 7 days without service, which includes bringing subscription payments to a halt, actually, a good percentage of payment transactions to a halt.
I'm sure that after such an extended outage, developers are quickly going to be looking for alternate payment methods. Having put their eggs in [...]

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In case you haven't heard, NBC & News Corp. recently received $100 million in venture funding from Providence Equity Partners, a Rhode Island-based investment firm that specializes in the media and communications industries. This money, according to the New York Times, "will allow the companies to accelerate the introduction of their service and the transfer of NBC and Fox films and television shows into Internet-friendly video formats."
Oh, and did I mention that, since its March announcement, the yet unnamed company [...]

It seems to me that iPhoneDevCamp was much more successful than I expected, especially for an event planned at the last minute. Nearly 400 developers, testers and iPhone owners showed up at the event that gathered at the San Francisco office of Adobe. Several photos were taken at the event and a keynote presentation was shown to the attendees. Several sponsors were also present at this event, where not all the programs were finished over the weekend, but several innovative creations [...]

I started to get social networking fatigue a long time ago, yet I have friends who keep asking me to sign up for more sites. They want to know what movies I like on Blockbuster or Netflix. And sure, there's I Heart Movies, but then you also get questions about what software you recommend. What your latest purchases are on iTunes. And your del.icio.us bookmarks. And your book recommendations. And I no longer remember where I have accounts nor what [...]

On Monday Apple made its Safari Web browser available for Windows based PC's. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple made the announcement at the company's World Wide Developers Conference opening up yet another venue for competition with rival Microsoft. Wall Street was not overly impressed at the news and Apple shares dropped by $4.30 after the news. The new Beta version of Safari is available at Apple's home site. Even though Wall Street does not seem to be impressed according to [...]