Ian Forrester wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/is-the-world-ready-for-the-successor-of-the-mp3/
This is meant to make music piricay less tempting, so they say.
There's an off-putting quote in this report about it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8478310.stm
"We can deliver a file that is extremely searchable and can carry
> up to 32GB of extra information in the file itself. And it will be
> dynamically updatable so that every time the user is connected,
> his file will be updated."
Uh-oh. There goes my bandwidth if I start iTunes and it decides
to check and update my 12,000 tracks.
Never mind the potential for more Kindle-1984 scenarios.
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Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com]
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