From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Tue 30 Nov 2004 - 05:51:33 EET
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High-Definition Radio at Michigan State
Screen Saver to Fight Spam
Major Labels Back New P2P Service
HIGH-DEFINITION RADIO AT MICHIGAN STATE
The campus radio station at Michigan State University now broadcasts
digital, high-definition signals, making it one of the first university
stations to use the emerging technology. Currently there are about 200
primarily commercial stations around the United States broadcasting
high-definition signals, which are much clearer than analog signals.
High-definition receivers are finding their way into homes and cars,
and major broadcasting companies are reportedly considering upgrading
another 1,500 stations to use digital transmitters. Digital
transmissions also add a data component that can include information
such as song title or cover art from a song's album. Gary A. Reid,
general manager of Michigan State's station, said he looks forward to
experimenting with the data signal to learn what uses might be
appropriate or valuable to the community, such as campus news, sports
scores, or weather. Michigan State bought the digital transmitter when
its analog transmitter was failing, and Reid said the digital
transmitter, which cost $90,000, only cost about $20,000 more than a
comparable analog unit.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 December 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i15/15a03102.htm
SCREEN SAVER TO FIGHT SPAM
A new screensaver by Internet portal Lycos is designed to fight spam by
running up the costs of operating Web sites that sell goods commonly
advertised in spam e-mail. Rather than targeting the e-mails themselves
or their sources, which are often spoofed, the new tactic focuses on
the Web sites where spam directs consumers. Using blacklists--from
organizations such as Spamcop--of companies that profit from spam, the
screensaver sends repeated requests to those companies' Web sites for
information about their products. The goal, according to officials at
Lycos, is not to overload the sites to the point of failure but to
drive up the costs for companies to respond to so many hits on their
Web sites. The screensaver also has been shown to slow traffic on some
targeted sites by as much as 85 percent. The hope, according to Malte
Pollmann of Lycos Europe, is that there will be a general decline in
the amount of spam sent if the vendors who benefit from spam are forced
to pay much higher costs to maintain their Web sites. The screensaver,
which can be downloaded beginning in December, is available to all
users, regardless of whether they are registered users of Lycos.
BBC, 29 November 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4051553.stm
MAJOR LABELS BACK NEW P2P SERVICE
In another gesture that record companies are looking for ways to join,
rather than fight, P2P services, three major labels will begin offering
music through a new service called Peer Impact. Starting early next
year, users of Peer Impact will be able to purchase music from Sony BMG
Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group,
either through a download store or directly from other users'
computers by purchasing a digital key to allow such transactions. Files
on the network will reportedly use digital rights management software
to prevent unauthorized distribution. Meanwhile, Universal Music Group
recently announced a deal to put the company's music collection online
with a company called Snocap, which was founded by Shawn Fanning, the
creator of Napster. Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research said that
legal music download services are not likely to compete well against
services such as Kazaa, which allow users to freely browse music on
millions of users' computers. Gartenberg believes that "simply
creating a music store and creating peer-to-peer technology for users
to share protected files that have to be purchased isn't going to
change the landscape dramatically."
San Jose Mercury News, 24 November 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/10261238.htm
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