Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle- HAHAHA!
"Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle"
New York Times (11/20/05) P. 3-1; Hansell, Saul
"File-sharing service Grokster plans to introduce peer-to-peer technology by the end of the year that will monitor the file-trading of copyrighted works, and force the file-swapper to pay for a song or block the attempt to download the content directly on another computer. The technology that Grokster will use was been developed by Snocap, the new company of Shawn Fanning, 25, who developed Napster seven years ago while he was a student at Northeastern University in Boston."
These guys have about as much of a chance of stopping peer-to-peer file sharing as a cow does of flying over the moon.
New York Times (11/20/05) P. 3-1; Hansell, Saul
"File-sharing service Grokster plans to introduce peer-to-peer technology by the end of the year that will monitor the file-trading of copyrighted works, and force the file-swapper to pay for a song or block the attempt to download the content directly on another computer. The technology that Grokster will use was been developed by Snocap, the new company of Shawn Fanning, 25, who developed Napster seven years ago while he was a student at Northeastern University in Boston."
These guys have about as much of a chance of stopping peer-to-peer file sharing as a cow does of flying over the moon.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Wireless fidelity co-ops are on the rise
"A few weeks ago NOW ran a story about the absence of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) community groups in Toronto.
It turns out that there are a few nascent groups just itching to provide wireless access for the masses.
Every month at the Bishop and Belcher on Queen West, Toronto's digirati gather to discuss the newest applications of wireless technology. Members organize through www.meetup. com, and are the largest Wi-Fi meet-up group in the world.
Damien Fox, organizer of the meetup crew, is vice-president of Wireless Nomad, a new company dedicated to bringing Wi-Fi to entire neighbourhoods at a time.
"The idea behind this co-op is that it's run by the people, for the people," he tells me..."
LINK: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-11-03/goods_next.php
