On Monday, August 11, NetCoalition, a trade association of ISPs, sent a letter to the RIAA questioning its tactics in litigating against Internet users and the companies that serve them. The group pointed out that file sharing is not illegal, and expressed fear that the RIAA's efforts could lead to "an attack on the legitimate uses of peer-to-peer technology."
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These were among the questions addressed by a panel of audio industry luminaries at a discussion entitled High Resolution Audio in an Age of Universal Playback, held the first day of the 117th Audio Engineering Society convention, October 28–30 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Chaired by audio signal processing…
Next, from August 1995, Robert Deutsch adds the pricey Jeff Rowland Design Group Model 2 power amplifier to his system asking "How do you define value in an audio component?" For most audiophiles like RD, it is not always a matter of "price:watt ratios."
From the June 1996 issue, Robert Deutsch explains why the YBA 1 Alpha HC power amplifier is an example "of auteur theory in audio." As Deutsch notes, not only do YBA…
Under the new agreement, Liquid Audio says it plans to license the digital rights management (DRM) technology from IBM's Electronic Media Management System (EMMS) for integration into Liquid's music…
The report indicates that the primary drivers behind the popularity of this "booming market" include the flexibility that it gives users to compile the music they prefer, its accessibility through the Internet, and the…
Unlike the SACD/DVD-Audio format struggle, which has passed largely unnoticed by the mainstream press for the last five years, the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray battle has already gained prominent notice around the globe, and strategic hardware and software alliances for both formats are quickly gelling.
Frost & Sullivan researcher Rajesh Kannan recently declared, "The…
"The death of Rudi Gassner is a tragic loss," Bertelsmann chairman Thomas Middelhoff said Sunday, describing Gassner as "a successful media entrepreneur and a great hope for us all in view of the necessary development and reorganization of our…
Stern had suffered from heart disease in recent years, even as he kept to a busy schedule of performing, teaching, and working as president of Carnegie Hall, the 110-year-old venue he helped save from the wrecker's ball more than 40 years ago. He performed at Carnegie more than 200 times, beginning with his first performance there on January 8, 1943. During his peak, Stern often gave as many as 200 concerts worldwide in a single…
The idea is to combine JamTV's technical prowess with Rolling Stone's cachet. The new service, to be called Rolling Stone Network, will compete against MTV and several other companies for the attention and dollars of online music fans.
Technology is rapidly improving for the distribution of audio and video…