Thank you, eMusic: DRM-free Audiobooks
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| An interesting recent move by emusic: Audiobooks in mp3 format.
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http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/thank-you-emusic-drm-free-audiobooks/
Re: X-FI Linux Driver?
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| Hi guys,
|
| Just a quick update on this, I can confirm the driver will be going online
| very soon, I couldn't give you an exact day at this point but it should be
| out by the end of the month, on our Download page.
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http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=31220&view=by_date_ascending&page=85
Bloody hell. 86 pages for this thread.
Related;
[Openal-devel] Creative Labs and OpenAL
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| According to a schedule I saw it appears that a basic public beta Linux
| driver (64bit only) may be available in Sept / Oct time-frame.
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http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal-devel/2007-August/004945.html
[X-Fi Drivers to Linux]
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| Creative plans to make proprietary (closed source) drivers available
| for the X-Fi series of sound cards. SEE Soundcard Support for
| updated details. These drivers should have full support for ALSA
| (playback, recording, mixer, MIDI, synthesis) and OpenAL 1.1 (with
| EAX effects).
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http://opensource.creative.com/
Creative ALchemy (Audigy Edition)
http://www.buy.soundblaster.com/_creativelabsstore/cgi-bin/pd.cgi?frompage=category&page=product_detail&fromcategory=%20Software&category=Software&pid=F2222X767VHL73GYR38
[10 dollars for a driver... only if you use Windows Vista.]
Bird Song: A requiem for DRM
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| DRMs are often designed by ambitious, well-funded consortia, with top-notch
| engineers from every corner of the industry. They spend millions. They take
| years. They are defeated in days, for pennies, by hobbyists.
|
| - Cory Doctorow, Guardian Unlimited
| Tuesday, July 31, 2007
|
| Sure, it’s probably too early to dance on the grave of Digital Rights
| Management (DRM), but we can certainly continue pounding nails in its coffin
| after Wal-Mart drove a stake through its heart this week.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/24/birdsong-a-requiem-for-drm/
Paramount: DRM may not (at least right now) please consumers
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| "Interoperability (presents) an impediment to digital distribution," he said
| during remarks at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit. "I'm
| pretty confident that in the end solutions will be found. It's just a
| question of how much heat and pressure we feel before we see the light."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9764237-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
World's largest music retailer ditches DRM, not censorship
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| DRM isn't yet dead in the music business, but it has a nasty, hacking cough.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070821-worlds-largest-music-retailer-ditches-drm-not-censorship.html
Music DRM in critical condition: Universal tests DRM free music sales
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| Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling
| DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6939807.stm
EMI has DRM free sales boom
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| Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd's Dark
| Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40443
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