Hey, Steve Jobs, you didn't invent the iPod — I did. So says Kane Kramer, a luckless Briton who claims he developed a portable digital music player way back in 1979.

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Microsoft's Zune portable media player is currently Amazon.com's top-selling digital music device, usurping Apple's iPod for the highest rank in the "Electronics" category.

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When "Mystery Science Theater 3000" was canceled after 11 seasons in 1999, 146 distraught fans bought a full-page advertisement in Daily Variety urging another network to continue the show.

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"It is simply a matter of fairness that the creators of content, the creators of culture actually, should receive some compensation for the large volume of unauthorized and uncontrollable copying onto these media," said collective chair Claudette Fortier.

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Others have already pointed out some of the weaknesses of his reasoning which, by the way, would not achieve full interoperability as buyers of Zune and Connect players would still be left out in the cold.

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Reports are surfacing that EMI is in negotiations with some of the leading music stores to offer a substantial portion of its music catalog without DRM, with an announcement due as early as today.

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Lies, DRMed Lies and Steve Jobs: Interview with Nettwerk Music Group

February 6th, 2006 -- Steve Jobs posted his Thoughts on Music as an open letter on the apple.com "hot news" website.

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Research group Forrester said it was too soon to say whether its findings showed that buyers were "reaching their saturation level for digital music". Apple said the report is "simply incorrect", but will not divulge iTunes financial figures.

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When reached by Fortune, an Apple spokesman responded that the company does not comment on "rumor and speculation." If the deal goes through, it will mark a Nixon-Brezhnev-worthy truce - with the band's record label, Britain's EMI Group, serving as a peacemaker - between Apple  …

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The Good: The general party atmosphere the ads convey: There is a definite "social networking" angle at play and this will definitely appeal to a lot of people. The Bad:

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Ballmer also says the following: I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience. No -- it's sexual misconduct involving pictures of a minor.

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Feature-porn defined: Musings on convergence.

fea·ture·porn (fē'chər pôrn) n.,

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You can lease a T1 line as a highly reliable radio station STL Studio to Transmitter Link or simply lease one cheaply for other business applications.

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Apparently, Roland is now making it standard policy to replace broken r1's with r09's. While this may seem kind of neat, scientific analysis seems to suggest that the r09's mic preamp is noisier, and there is 16-bit digital quantization noise below 50 hz.

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Seriously, the idea that Apple's iPod HiFi is a home stereo system is ridiculous. The speakers are in a single enclosure -- too close together to really be considered stereo. Now Steve-O is trying to take on stereo makers. Lordy.

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