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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
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"EMI has signed deals with 20 top European websites to sell its music online. According to Reuters, 'Consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives'. This represents a major shift in policy by EMI, who previously went to great lengths to protect their music from copying. Does this mark the beginning of a major change in the music industry?" [SlashDot]
More and more of this is gonna happen. The timing of the above may be forced by Apple's imminent entry into the field. |
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Spammers sue anti-spam groups. [SlashDot]
"The Register reports in a story today that spammers have banded together under the name EmarketersAmerica.org to sue various anti-spam groups- days before a large conference on spam hosted by the FTC(which will be attended by many spammers). Anti-spam groups think the timing is not by coincidence, but believe the move may backfire because they will be able to countersue and get access to spammer's internal documents." |
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An article about spam honeypots by the founder of the Honeynet Project. [ZDNet] 1:36:42 PM 
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Record labels sue VC firm over Napster support. [SiliconValley.com]
Frankly I think this is a very logical thing for the labels to do.
I had an email exchange with Ann Winblad eons ago about funding my venture of the time, which was a music recommendation system. They didn't want to fund it because, she said, they had already funded Net Perceptions and didn't want to fund two companies in the same space. At it's peak, Net Perception had a market cap of $700 million; last time I checked it was around $40 million.
Interesting that Napster never got decent recommendation capabilities given the Hummer Winblad connection. |
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An interview with MySQL's CEO. [InfoWorld]
The fact that MySQL is becoming a viable alternative to mainstream RDB's in more and more cases is interesting to me. The open source model is able to support a small company such as MySQL that leverages a broad community of volunteers to make a competitive product. If you want to be a multi-billion dollar company like Oracle, it may not be your best bet as a business model. But with competition from the likes of MySQL and its current and future equivalents in other markets (such as Linux for OS's), it may not be possible for another Oracle to emerge at this point in the evolution of the software industry. |
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"Recording Industry Goes After Students Over Music Sharing." [NY Times]
This kind of continuing pressure will be part of the reason that free file sharing will, over time, not have the mainstream visibility and convenience of the best paid services. Apple's upcoming service, which will allow purchased music to be played from portable players (Apple's, of course), will be revolutionary in the sense that it will be the first paid service to be at least as convenient as file-sharing networks. Assuming they line up all the major labels, of course.
Eventually the free file-sharing networks will be somewhat marginalized by paid services, although they will still exist. |
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