Another week, another lawsuit, and some weird soda
Well finals are over and I've gone through my usual end of semester celebration, hooray for random drunkenness. In either case that also means that this my last posting for the year, since it'll be pretty hard for me to post anything else during the holidays, stupid dial up. In either case I've been slacking a bit on my perusing of the happenings on the web but have no fear I've managed to kinda of get caught up thanks to bloglines.
In case your wondering what the hell is bloglines, its basically a web based RSS reader with a bunch of features. Such as the ability to bookmark your favorite articles or save them so that you can blog about them. It's a cool little free service that I've started to use and helps me keep track of my ever growing web surfing addiction.
If you know what file sharing is, odds are that you know that if you do it companies such as RIAA and MPAA are willing to shake the big preverbal finger at you in the form of a nasty lawsuit. Well apparently a college student has gotten one of these things and has a started a website to raise money to cover his settlement cost, around $5,000 dollars. So far this story has gotten a good bit of coverage but I first spotted it on boingboing.net and you can check out the original article here. My whole problem is that the RIAA is just suing everyone they can in the hopes of eliminating file-sharing, which is ridiculous since I think they'd make a lot more money taking advantage of it and creating a business model around it. This is where the MPAA might go with its good standing relationship with the popular peer to peer file sharing application Bittorrent, it may eventually establish a new distribution system that already has a pretty strong user base. Now I know there are many issues to this whole thing like DRM and users rights to the media they purchase. In short I think that they would make a great deal of money without it since, the distribution is very fast and reliable and tends to generate a lot of attention for their media, however, the whole idea of lets stop piracy by attacking the little guy, just seems wrong to me.
It seems Halo fans, are getting a new Halo game this year but just not what you'd think. Halo Zero is a 2D side scroller made by a french developer. I haven't had a chance to play it yet but the screenshots look kind of cool and definitely worth checking out if you need to get your Master Chief fix.
Coca-Cola is going to release a new drink that will mix coffee and soda. The new beverage called Coca-Cola Blak will see a US release date sometime in 2006. Now I like coffee and really love my soda, but I'm not sure if they'd be all that great together, but I guess I'll have to wait and see if its any good but until then I'll continue to be both curious and confused about this new soda.
Well since, I'll be heading home this week my next posting should be after new years, so happy holidays (Merry Christmas .... if you really care) and have a happy new year.
In case your wondering what the hell is bloglines, its basically a web based RSS reader with a bunch of features. Such as the ability to bookmark your favorite articles or save them so that you can blog about them. It's a cool little free service that I've started to use and helps me keep track of my ever growing web surfing addiction.
If you know what file sharing is, odds are that you know that if you do it companies such as RIAA and MPAA are willing to shake the big preverbal finger at you in the form of a nasty lawsuit. Well apparently a college student has gotten one of these things and has a started a website to raise money to cover his settlement cost, around $5,000 dollars. So far this story has gotten a good bit of coverage but I first spotted it on boingboing.net and you can check out the original article here. My whole problem is that the RIAA is just suing everyone they can in the hopes of eliminating file-sharing, which is ridiculous since I think they'd make a lot more money taking advantage of it and creating a business model around it. This is where the MPAA might go with its good standing relationship with the popular peer to peer file sharing application Bittorrent, it may eventually establish a new distribution system that already has a pretty strong user base. Now I know there are many issues to this whole thing like DRM and users rights to the media they purchase. In short I think that they would make a great deal of money without it since, the distribution is very fast and reliable and tends to generate a lot of attention for their media, however, the whole idea of lets stop piracy by attacking the little guy, just seems wrong to me.
It seems Halo fans, are getting a new Halo game this year but just not what you'd think. Halo Zero is a 2D side scroller made by a french developer. I haven't had a chance to play it yet but the screenshots look kind of cool and definitely worth checking out if you need to get your Master Chief fix.
Coca-Cola is going to release a new drink that will mix coffee and soda. The new beverage called Coca-Cola Blak will see a US release date sometime in 2006. Now I like coffee and really love my soda, but I'm not sure if they'd be all that great together, but I guess I'll have to wait and see if its any good but until then I'll continue to be both curious and confused about this new soda.
Well since, I'll be heading home this week my next posting should be after new years, so happy holidays (Merry Christmas .... if you really care) and have a happy new year.
posted by Steve at 2:19 AM
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