According to German online music retailer MusicLoad 3 out of every 4 (75%) customer service calls are related to DRM or problems caused by DRM.
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In a business where the major music labels expect to be paid well for their source material, the costs of supporting DRM are borne entirely by the music retailers. If [...]
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Some boffins from the State University of New York at Stony Brook have discovered by accident that you can loose fat by simply just shaking yourself.
All they did was to put these little furry mice on a platform, vibrating so lightly that only a few people would notice, for about 15 minutes a day, 5 [...]
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This crow was following me, it seemed to know that I had my camera out that day. Whilst climbing Snowdon in Wales with work this cheeky fellow, I decided adventerously to call him, was pursuing us up the mountain taking great delight in posing for the camera.
Well that was until the boss’s dogs noticed and [...]
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Fancy doing something a little different this Halloween, then send off for your very own kit for making skulls out of sugar…
There is nothing like feeling sick and scared at the same time!
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Quite an interesting yet lengthy review of MAC OS X 10.5 Leopard, well worth a read though.
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That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I’ve gotten my wish and then some. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has gestated longer than any release of Mac OS X (other than [...]
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Apparently my product code is not valid for vista, so if i need to contact
vista support if is going to cost me £46, even though I have a valid copy of
vista home premium.
I have been benchmarking vista against fedora 7 on hardware (aparently
designed for vista) Intel E6600 with 2Gb DDR2 RAM. Fedora 7 completed its
benchmarks [...]
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Well I have had a blog before, but I didn’t really use it that much, but here I am and I am gonna give it another go.
The main purpose of this blog is to just keep a record of anything that interests me really, it could be anything, music to monkeys…
At the time of publishing [...]
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On the first day that Radiohead’s latest became available, around 240,000 users downloaded the album from copyright-infringing peer-to-peer BitTorrent sources, according to Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on the Internet. Over the following days, the file was downloaded about 100,000 more times each day—adding up to more than 500,000 total illegal [...]
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