DaveNet: Anthems.
News.Com: MP3Board countersues RIAA. They're not doing anything that AOL isn't already doing. Why doesn't RIAA sue AOL? That would be interesting. There are lots of Time-Warner subsidiaries on the RIAA member list. (AOL will even store the MP3s it finds in a free three gigabyte "locker".)
The Nation: It's Only Rock and Roll and the Kids are Alright.
John Perry Barlow: "Speaking as someone who has created a lot of intellectual property, I can assure you that my primary incentive was the possibility that what passed through my heart would be heard. I want it to be available to my great grandchildren. But they will never hear it unless it's stored in some other medium than the material objects the record industry manufactured, all of which will be as mute as stones by then."
Salon (1/19/99): Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Bowie loves MP3. "Of course a lot of artists are absolutely terrified by the idea, but I love it because I love process. To me, the end result is not nearly as interesting as the process of getting involved in something."
LA Times: "It's a Hail Mary shot that few executives believe will work."
LA Times: "The 46-year-old executive is sick of corporate bureaucrats compromising the industry's future by obstructing online initiatives and tying the hands of entrepreneurs who are trying to figure out how to compete on the Web. If the industry doesn't get moving and start making music transactions easy online, he says, it will soon relinquish control of a valuable distribution channel to innovative upstarts such as Napster."
About.Com has a list of MP3 search engines.
The Phoenix Trap is a Philadelphia rock band with a Manila site. Imho, they're the vanguard of the new way.
ZDNet: "We don't need Napster anymore," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of culture and communication at New York University. "There are enough other file sharing systems out there to make it irrelevant."
Misc
Standard: Why Jim Clark Likes Microsoft.
InfoWorld: Microsoft Casts its .NET.
WSJ: Arrogance, greed, optimism fueled Internet bubble.
AppleInsider has a picture of what they claim is the Apple cube. I still like the Cobalt Qube. It's prettier, and it comes without the attitude. (As of 5:52PM, AppleInsider is not responding. If one were paranoid, one might think Apple's lawyers had something to do with it.)
Reading AppleSoup's press release, I wondered if there's a connection betw P2P and Push Technology. "These technical advances allow content owners to control, distribute and even sell their content via AppleSoup痴 extremely scalable and viral peer-to-peer network." Oh it's not push, it's viral. I get it.
Maybe Dave Sims' friend works at AppleSoup?
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