Just caught this on Ars Technica, first pirated HD DVD movie has been spotted on BitTorrent. Coming on the earlier news that HD DVD keys had been compromised this is huge. The pirated movie is Serenity made available as a .EVO file of approximately 20GB. What next? Will they revoke the keys? The implications of [...]
Wired has a very interesting review of the Zune. The net is, don't believe the negative reviews, the Zune is actually a well-done piece of hardware & software as long as you can overlook a few minor flaws. It would be great if the product actually provides some competition to the iPod.
Some early Zune numbers are coming in. Amazing the Zune is number 2 portable device at its debut. Read all about it at Zune reaches No. 2 in its debut week. The "consumer experience" should start filtering to blogs shortly…
The RIAA's Cary Sherman has a Nov 13, 2006 must-read editorial on CNet. In it Sherman calls CEA's President Gary Shapiro statements "extreme", Sherman goes on and describes what he sees as the limits & definition of fair use. Why all the brouhaha? The just recently launched digitalfreedom.org site sponsored by the CEA. [...]
Looks like there is some trouble brewing in PS3 land, NY Times reports the game console is a big miss. This is EXTREMELY bad news for Sony, they have lost the battle in the music player space and are now poised to lose the battle in video games.