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MP3.com adds to RIAA's request to overhall copyright laws to take digital distribution into account.
Comics on the net. How to get paid for doing it? Sound familiar? Scott McCloud writes about it... in comic form.
Very nice (Region 1) DVD website with reviews of everything you could think of. www.dvdfile.com. Did you know Wallace And Gromit (all of them on one DVD) and 'Creature Comforts' have both been released on DVD and that Aardman are planing to release a 2 hour section of their stuff in the UK soon. Rad!
Arnie Schwarzenegger takes on prank calls. 'Stop It! You son of a bitch!'
D-VHS
It's the new format. Completely uncompressed video. Double the res of DVD. Recordable. In theory it would blow DVD out of the water. But cost and the head start of DVD will most likely kill it. DVD also has other funky functions like skipping to sections instantly (brilliant for collections of music videos and TV shows. Wired News reports. Most amusing is the claim that because it is uncompressed it will deter internet pirates. Doesn't stop anyone Div-Xing it does it?
Powderfinger selftitled EP
Powderfinger's first EP, the self titled 'Blue EP' is for sale on Ebay. I've been looking for this CD for a LONG time. Last time I looked it was up to US$122.50 or about AUS$221.18. I guess I'll be looking for MP3s. That's just bloody stupid.
Of other Powderfinger note I heard today that PF sold more copies of 'Oddessey Number 5' than any other album by any other band (including oversea acts) last year, except the Beatle's best of "1". That's a lot of CDs. Their new single 'Like a Dog' comes out on the 15th.
Interaction
From experience in various webpages, 99.9% of people on the don't want to and never will send an email, post to a forum or register and log-in to a website, even if they visit it every day. If they do, they're more than likely to do it once and never do it again. It's amazing. But going from reading a site, to actually having to type is a massive jump most people will not bother to do.
I'm asking for your experience in this phenomenon. Weblog owners out there who receive massive hourly/daily hits but rarely receive a message in their discussion forum or an email, even when they're readers are directly asked. Email me.