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September 15, 2006
The recording industry fires a warning shot across the bows of YouTube and MySpace. "We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars," says Universal Music Group chief executive Doug Morris. "How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly." Reports the Associated Press: "Universal's talks with YouTube Inc. have deteriorated and the recording giant is set to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against the video-sharing company if no agreement is reached by the end of the month." A Los Angeles Times reporter notes the difficulty of removing copyrighted content from sites like YouTube: "On Wednesday, a search for 'Black Eyed Peas Video' on YouTube returned 553 results. Many were copyrighted materials."
Martin Banks believes that parallel processing's time may have finally arrived: "the move towards service-based architectures and even dedicated, applications-specific virtual servers, means that there is now an architectural approach available that will allow the few who do understand the intricacies of parallel processing to service the needs of the many who don’t but are very likely to need it."
In yet another sign that computing's PC era is ending, Esther Dyson has iced the venerable PC Forum. The conference had its origins, back in the mid-70s, in the rise of the personal computer.
Posted by nick at September 15, 2006 08:23 AM