DRM

After months of hard work, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and its SDK are now available for download! The best overall description of what's in it is in this post from Scott Guthrie. Media Features in Silverlight 2 Beta 2Of course, my focus is on the media features. New to Beta 2 is:Hooks to enable…

NAB was a blast, as always. We had a great turnout at the booth and at our sessions relating to Silverlight, and the Compressionist Party was delightful as ever. My voice is still shot, though... We had a couple of big announcements around Silverlight I wanted to mention here. First, we…

O serviço se chama Qtrax e será lançado hoje. Com participação e "benção" da Sony BMG, Universal, EMI, e Warner (as principais detentoras das músicas de hoje), a idéia é fornecer downloads gratuitos para usuários em troca de propagandas. Os artistas seriam compensados pelo número…

A Microsoft revelou hoje para um grupo de jornalistas e bloggers os detalhes sobre os novos Zunes. As grandes novidades estão nos novos modelos - um de 4GB, um de 8GB e um de 80GB - e nas novas funcionalidades que estes modelos, tanto como o modelo original de 30GB, terão a partir de…

The third and last part of my interview with Halstead York is now up.It covers our days in the bleeding edge of CD-ROM multimedia, how the economics of production is opening up filmmaking to a whole new kind of carreer, and DRM.One thing I should expand on a little more on a big reason why URGE is…

At the Mix n' Mash event in Redmond last year, Bill Gates acknowledged the problems with the DRM employed with digital music, and that there is no easy solution. Now in a rare release that has been described by our trusted tipster as the, "best blog platform ever..." Steve Jobs has…