As we go into our fourth week of coverage of Sony BMG's digital rights management debacle, it's a good time to review what all the fuss has been about. On October 31, Mark Russinovich <A HREF="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-righ…; his discovery of a root kit&mdash;a cloaked file that had been inserted on to his computer's hard drive. Cloaked root kit files are popular tools used by malevolent hackers, so Russinovich was curious about how the files he detected had entered his computer. It came from <I>Get Right With the Man</I>, a Sony DRM-protected disc Russinovich had purchased and played on his computer. When he attempted to remove the hidden files, Russinovich lost the ability to use his CD drive.

On November 7, four months after a Supreme Court decision determined that file-sharing services could be held liable for the actions of their users, Grokster agreed to stop distributing its software and to pay $50 million in damages.

More, I think, than any other link in the audio chain, loudspeaker designs tend to reflect the personal preferences, opinions, and philosophies of their creators&mdash;think Henry Kloss, Paul Klipsch, Rudy Bozak, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/478">David Wilson</A>, Jon Dahlquist, Arnie Nudell, and Amar Bose (just kidding). Consider, if you remember, where <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/232">Ken Kantor</A> took Acoustic Research when he took over AR's design reins. Might as well have called AR NHT, for all that the new designs followed the old.

More, I think, than any other link in the audio chain, loudspeaker designs tend to reflect the personal preferences, opinions, and philosophies of their creators&mdash;think Henry Kloss, Paul Klipsch, Rudy Bozak, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/478">David Wilson</A>, Jon Dahlquist, Arnie Nudell, and Amar Bose (just kidding). Consider, if you remember, where <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/232">Ken Kantor</A> took Acoustic Research when he took over AR's design reins. Might as well have called AR NHT, for all that the new designs followed the old.

More, I think, than any other link in the audio chain, loudspeaker designs tend to reflect the personal preferences, opinions, and philosophies of their creators&mdash;think Henry Kloss, Paul Klipsch, Rudy Bozak, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/478">David Wilson</A>, Jon Dahlquist, Arnie Nudell, and Amar Bose (just kidding). Consider, if you remember, where <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/232">Ken Kantor</A> took Acoustic Research when he took over AR's design reins. Might as well have called AR NHT, for all that the new designs followed the old.