[IP] Farber talk yet again
You might enjoy a short interview I did at the .kmb conference in St Beach Beach. It is titled ARE TODAY'S ELECTRONIC NETWORKS ADEQUATE FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS? http://www.kmbvideojournal.com/fall_2006_electronic_network.htm - You are subscribed as archive@mail-archive.com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
[IP] Net] AllofMp3 fights back
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 19, 2006 10:09:26 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Dewayne-Net] AllofMp3 fights back Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Note: This item comes from reader Steve Schear. DLH] From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 18, 2006 10:28:23 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AllofMp3 fights back Mediaservices, which operates the popular and controversial allofmp3.com music site, is convinced that its business model is legitimate and that it maximizes demand for music and spurs consumers to buy more music. The company believes that everyone wins, record labels, artists and distribution companies when the market is broader and deeper. Relying on a handful of artists for the majority of sales is an outdated. One October 17th they held an on-line Press conference to address issues related to on-line music distribution and erroneous piracy characterization by U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab. Although the RIAA and IFPI, their international equivalent, have tried to portray music purchases from allofmp3.com by U.S. and Western consumers as illegal (in order to dampen demand) there is no creditable evidence fort this (see Background, below) [There are widespread rumors that there are Interpol warrants for the arrest of Mediaservices executives.] http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/13/309-10132006.html A transcript of the press conference. http://www.musictowers.com/features/ViewArticle1813.aspx Of note is the substantial alleged penetration of allofmp3 into U.K. on-line music sales. Although it may be risky to extrapolate, I estimate that allofmp3's U.S. music sales are easily several times that U.K. and may be up to 5% of U.S. on-line music sales. BACKGROUND Since November 2003 the web music merchant www.allofmp3.com, operated by the Russian company Media Services, has been openly selling some of the most popular western music at a fraction of the cost of widely touted American sites, such as Apple's hugely successful iTunes, Rhapsody, MusicMatch, Napster, Sony Connect. Clients can select from a wide variety of encoding options (e.g., AAC, MP3, OGG, WMA 9 Lossless, Monkey's Audio, OptimFROG and FLAC) starting at rates of 128kbps all the way to full CD (.wav files). Unlike its major competitors Allofmp3 sells the tracks by the megabyte. Beginning in January rates were doubled to USD 0.02/ MB. Instead of paying USD 1.00 per track AllofMP3 users pay less than USD 0.10 and less the USD 2.00 per album. Currently the site boasts almost 30,000 albums from all genre and it all appears legal for the moment. The legal skinny How does ALLofMP3 prevent being shut down? They do it the old fashion way: legally. There is a loophole in the Russian copyright legislation that makes services like Allofmp3 possible. Apparently this loophole cannot be closed easily. Allofmp3 has signed agreements for this with Russian Organization for Multimedia Digital Systems (http://www.roms.ruwww.roms.ru). According to their license http://www.allofmp3.com/index2.shtml? affiliate=nl13allofmp3, has the right to use musical compositions by providing downloads. Under the license agreement Allofmp3 pays out fees to ROMS for downloaded materials that are subject to the Russian Federation Copyright And Related Rights Law. ROMS is a member of CISAC (http://www.cisac.orgwww.cisac.org) - the International confederation of authors and composers societies. ROMS manages intellectual rights in the Russian Federation. All third party distributors licensed by ROMS are required to pay a portion of the revenue to the ROMS. ROMS in turn, is obligated to pay most of that money (aside from small portion it needs for operating expenses) to artists. Both Russian and foreign. This license is only supposed to allow content to be sold to Russians. The site doesn't appear to do non-Russian advertising and promotion, though they do have an English version of the site available (they say its to address problems with Russian language- encoding standards which existed they launched but that many Russian nationals living outside of the country prefer to use the English version for browsing). They claim its a site created for Russians but those who come to their site from abroad are welcome and are provided with full service. Sales to non-Russians are said to be 'insignificant' but I rather think its because their management has wisely chosen a Russian processor www.cyberplat.com that does not offer AllofMP3 direct access the information from user credit cards. They get only notifications about successful transactions. Plausible deniability is as smart in business as politics. The Music Industry claims that Allofmp3 is illegal but their own lawyers tell them ... the music industry doesn't have much chance in
[IP] MSFT releases privacy 'best practices' - including 'don't retain user data'
Begin forwarded message: From: Ethan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 19, 2006 6:26:23 PM EDT To: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MSFT releases privacy 'best practices' - including 'don't retain user data' Greetings Dave, IP readers may be interested in this recent MSFT release, ostensibly a 'developer's best practices' guide for protecting user privacy. In light of recent calls for mandatory data retention for law enforcement purposes, it is interesting to see a major software author (and ISP/online service provider, for that matter) suggesting that data be deleted as soon as practical. MSFT doc: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? FamilyID=c48cf80f-6e87-48f5-83ec-a18d1ad2fc1fdisplaylang=en Ars Technica coverage: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061018-8015.html WaPost coverage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/ AR2006101600817.html - You are subscribed as archive@mail-archive.com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
[IP] [SupportTGen] Breaking News from TGen]
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 19, 2006 8:28:18 PM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: [SupportTGen] Breaking News from TGen] Dave Perhaps for IP. Exciting news from Phoenix! I'm personally excited because in addition to having supplied a blood sample to the Banner Alzheimer's Institute, and Mayo Clinic Scottsdale collaboration, both my father his father had Alzheimer's (so, you know what my concerns are)! Now, that light at the end of my tunnel may well be something other than an onrushing train! Bob Rosenberg P.O. Box 33023 Phoenix, AZ 85067-3023 Mobile: 602-206-2856 LandLine: 602-274-3012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - Subject: [SupportTGen] Breaking News from TGen From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, October 19, 2006 11:57 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear TGen supporters and friends: I am pleased to inform you that researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) will announce today the discovery of a gene that plays a significant role in memory performance in humans. The findings, reported by TGen and research colleagues at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Banner Alzheimer's Institute, and Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, will appear in tomorrow's (October 20th) issue of Science. Several local and national media have already shown interest in covering this announcement, including a local CBS News piece airing tonight on KPHO Channel 5, the Phoenix Business Journal, New York Newsday, the Wall Street Journal and others. The study details how researchers associated memory performance with a gene called Kibra in over 1,000 individuals. The memory discovery was made by comparing the genetic blueprint of people with good memory to people with poor memory; memory performance was based on a series of gold-standard tests for all individuals. The researchers then validated their discovery by replicating the Kibra gene finding in two separate and distinct groups of subjects. Besides the fact that it gives the research community a new and important handhold into truly understanding the process of memory, the Kibra gene is likely a modifier of severity of several other disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, memory loss due to chemotherapy treatments, and others. The ramifications of this report are that scientists may ultimately be able to develop new and effective medicines that can combat memory loss, and that might also help improve memory in people with memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease. The team has already begun working on new drugs to restore memory function in age-related memory loss and diseases that have a memory loss component. If you'd like additional information, please feel free to contact me. Michael Bassoff President, TGen Foundation ___ SupportTGen mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - You are subscribed as archive@mail-archive.com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
[IP] Patent Law going tax mad?
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 20, 2006 12:26:27 PM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com Subject: Patent Law going tax mad? Dave, Perhaps no one else has noticed this, but look at http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/19/business/norris20.php IPers can discover that the PTO has gone mad and patented a number of tax methods. Or, rather, methods for avoiding taxes. Welcome to the world of insanity. Peter - You are subscribed as archive@mail-archive.com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
