I've noted this before, but in an effort to be redundant... People who do music would do well to stay out of the business of regulating technology. The people who know technology will always beat them. Case in point: Madonna thought she could teach people a lesson by flooding p2p networks with a fake version of her new single that had the message "what the f--- do you think you're doing." Instead, she unintentionally ended up hosting her entire album on her own website thanks to some creative hackers [ArsTechnica]. Wake up people! 9:37:46 AM    comment []  

I've been working back at Loudeye for the past few months to build a video streaming media product for a Japanese company, DMI. They finally launched our player tonight in Japan [Toshiba EMI] (click the banner that says "TOEMI Channel"). If you have trouble finding the link in the midst of all of the Kanji (which is probably showing up as gobbledy-gook unless you have Japanese support installed), then you can just click on my little back door launch page [back door].

This first product launch features music videos, mostly from Japan. Some of them aren't half bad, for instance, you should check out the track "Slow View" by ACIDMAN. However, many of the tracks are pretty cheesy. Anyway, I'm happy about how the player turned out. It may buffer a little since it is streaming from Japan at 300kbps and don't even try it on dial-up. 12:07:09 AM    comment []