Morning Broadband Bytes1) Get Coffee 2) Read Morning Broadband Bytes 3) Start Day ( old news - 05:30AM Wednesday Oct 18 2006) • Around the Industry: UK broadband provider Orange is experiencing a "major" national outage
French ISP Free opens up subscribers' WiFi to each other; Fon killer?
Customer support - the forgotten front in the broadband war
NYC eyes BPL
8,000 more filesharers sued
Washington D.C. to test EarthLink BPL
Value Added Resellers seek faster broadband, fewer regulations• SecurityBits: Apple tries to blame iPod virus on Microsoft
Exploit code released for Nvidia flaw
Toshiba issues fix for Bluetooth driver flaw
Oracle issues monster security patch• TidBytes: Apple Files Patents For iPhones
Vista, Office 2007 To Launch in NY After Thanksgiving
AllofMP3 sends out peace feelers; Enemies prefer Cold War
Symbian forecasts the death of the PC• More news from around the industry, SecurityBits, and interesting Tidbytes inside!Around The Industry:• UK broadband provider Orange is experiencing a "major" national outage: The broadband service run by UK mobile firm Orange is experiencing a "major" national outage. The problem occurred on Monday afternoon, affecting 100,000 broadband subscribers at its peak. A spokesperson for the company said the fault on the service, formerly known as Wanadoo, was caused by a "network equipment failure". Orange said they were working to fix the problem but there is no indication when a normal service will resume. The company said the problem only affected customers within their Local Loop Unbundled (LLU) network.• French ISP Free opens up subscribers' WiFi to each other; Fon killer?: Engadget reports: "In what appears to be a potentially disruptive move, French ISP Free has just opened up its network of 300,000 subscribers' WiFi networks across France to its subscribers. What does that mean? If you're a Free subscriber living in Paris, and you and you come across a Free WiFi network while in Lyon for the day on business, you can log in and use up to 64kbps of bandwidth no problem. All new Freebox HD subscribers will have this feature turned on by default, so we assume that also means you can turn it off if you're concerned about privacy. Some industry watchers like Yannick Laclau are convinced that if companies like France Telecom or Telefonica (Spain's incumbent telco) or Verizon were to make a move à la Free, it would mean better and less expensive service for everyone, and also might wipe out FON in the process.• Customer support - the forgotten front in the broadband war: The success of the 'free' broadband bundle offers suggests that unfortunately too many people are choosing on price alone, and not looking into the costs of calling support and finding out too late that they need to buy a providers own broadband hardware to actually get any support for connection problems, or that 20 minutes on hold at 10p per minute is £2 even before an agent has talked to you. One big problem in the broadband market is that you cannot test drive a provider, and even where providers have a short contract the process of migrating to a different provider has got worse as the number of unbundled options has increased.• NYC eyes BPL: New Yorks's technology committee is holding a hearing focusing on smart metering, which would allow energy consumers to get real-time information about their energy consumption and rates per watt. While the committee is considering that technology, it is taking the opportunity to examine BPL as a solution for niche populations. Though there are limitations to the technology, which is in its early stages, some NYC government leaders see it as an opportunity to extend broadband access to people who otherwise would not have it. "The advantage to doing broadband over power lines is that everybody has electricity. People can get on the Internet immediately without installation. The infrastructure is there."• 8,000 more filesharers sued: More than 8,000 alleged file sharers are facing legal action, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). This latest crackdown targets uploaders. The new cases cover file sharers in 17 different countries who have been allegedly using sites including BitTorrent, eDonkey, SoulSeek and WinMX. For the first time legal action is being taken in Brazil, Mexico and Poland. Parents whose children have been illegally file-sharing have also been targeted.• Washington D.C. to test EarthLink BPL: BPL access is coming to the nation's capital in the form of a test of the service by EarthLink and Telkonet Inc. in 9 apartment buildings where the cost of retrofitting with new broadband-capable wiring is too costly. In addition to broadband Internet access, the installations will feature home networking packages including caller ID, voicemail and three-way calling.• Value Added Resellers seek faster broadband, fewer regulations: Value added resellers want more broadband competition and less government regulation of the Internet, while most are willing to pay more for new fiber offerings, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association. CompTIA said its poll of 42 value added resellers shed light on public policy priorities and indicated the majority of value added resellers would likely resist attempts at legislating network neutrality. All respondents said telcos should be able to compete with cablecos for broadband services and 79% said they were concerned about the government regulating the Internet. 62% said they would pay more for special Internet offerings through new fiber.• FBI chief bangs drum for ISP data retention: FBI director Robert Mueller called on ISPs to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year. Law enforcement groups claim that by the time they contact ISPs, customers' records may have been deleted in the routine course of business. Industry reps, however, say that if police respond to tips promptly instead of dawdling, it would be difficult to imagine any investigation that would be jeopardised. It's not clear exactly what a data retention law would require. One proposal would go beyond ISPs and require domain registrars to maintain records too. And during private meetings with industry officials, FBI and Justice Department reps have cited the desirability of also forcing search engines to keep logs.• Mobile TV fans get Slinged and LocationFree: Phone users interested in mobile TV have a couple of new options, with potentially the most extensive programming choice. Sling Media announced that it plans to offer SlingPlayer Mobile software compatible with Symbian phones. The software will allow Slingbox users to watch TV on their mobile phones over Wi-Fi or 3G connections. Separately, Sony Ericsson Mobile announced a similar service. Users of some Sony Ericsson phones can download new software to watch TV via Sony's LocationFree service, a similar offering to the Slingbox. The companies launching the new services had mixed feelings about whether they will compete with or complement existing mobile TV services.• Intel shares network speedup technology: Intel has begun letting outside companies use a technology to speed a server's network communications, the company announced, and several are already planning to take advantage of the offer. The technology, called QuickData, is a component of Intel's broader Input/Output Acceleration Technology effort to modernize server handling of network traffic. QuickData speeds standard networking by putting networked data directly into memory, bypassing stages in which the processor is burdened as it processes all the packets of transmitted data. Microsoft, IBM and Fujitsu-Siemens endorsed the move, the companies said; network chip rival Broadcom is evaluating ways it can use QuickData; and VMware and Mellanox plan to use it.• Broadband UK needs 'more speed': Three-quarters of UK online households will connect to the web via broadband by December 2006, analysts predict. Jupiter Research says faster speeds will help drive user-generated content such as YouTube and Flickr. But while uptake has helped the UK to the broadband fast track, lack of speed compared to other countries could still see it derailed. Experts warn the UK is falling behind its European counterparts when it comes to speed. In the UK the fastest speed currently on offer is 24Mbps although typically the fastest people will get is about 8Mbps.SecurityBits:• Apple tries to blame iPod virus on Microsoft: Apple is trying to pin the appearance of a virus which has shown up on its video iPods on its rival Microsoft. Apple has found a small number of its Video iPod devices sold after September 12 carried a virus called RavMonE.exe, that affects computers running Windows. According to a FAQ on a technical support page the appearance of the virus is all MS's fault because Windows was not tough enough to prevent such viruses. Although Apple says that it is more upset with itself for not checking its products for viruses before they shipped, it seems to think that it is a Windows fault rather than a quality control problem.• Exploit code released for Nvidia flaw: Exploit code has been published for a security flaw in Nvidia's Linux graphics driver that could let a remote intruder take over a system. The proof-of-concept code shows how an attacker could launch a buffer overflow and then commandeer the system, according to an advisory released by security company Rapid7. The critical flaws were found in Nvidia's Binary Graphics driver for Linux versions 8774 and 8762, and may also affect its Linux drivers for FreeBSD and Solaris, according to the advisory. Nvidia, a major graphics chipmaker that develops both proprietary and open-source drivers, is currently working on a hotfix for the drivers and hopes to have one in place within the next few days, an Nvidia representative said.• Toshiba issues fix for Bluetooth driver flaw: David Maynor and Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch, the two hackers at the center of a Apple MacBook Wi-Fi flaw disclosure controversy, have been credited with helping to fix a "high risk" vulnerability in the Toshiba Bluetooth wireless device driver used by several PC vendors. The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker within wireless range of a Bluetooth device to perform a DoS or execute harmful code at the highest privilege level. The bug affects the Toshiba Bluetooth host stack implementations version 3.x, and version 4 through 4.00.35. All OEM versions are also vulnerable, including implementations in computers manufactured by Dell, Sony, ASUS Computers and other unidentified brands.• Oracle issues monster security patch: In its quarterly patch release Tuesday, Oracle issued fixes for 101 vulnerabilities in several of its products and began using an emerging threat rating system. The patch release covers vulnerabilities in Oracle's Database Server, Application Server, Application Express, Collaboration Suite, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications. Oracle has also begun scoring the severity of its security flaws using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), a rating standard designed to combat the confusion that sometimes stems from proprietary threat rating systems. CVSS has struggled to gain widespread adoption and Oracle's move was hailed by its proponents.• Symantec spurns Microsoft's Vista security proposal: Microsoft's plan to provide limited access to the Vista kernel in the 64-bit version of the upcoming OS is not enough, a Symantec executive said. Symantec's rebuff is the latest in the increasingly antagonistic brawl between MS and Symantec. Since September, Symantec has publicly criticized Microsoft's PatchGuard, a technology it will deploy in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista that locks out all access to the kernel. PatchGuard is meant to stop both malicious code and third-party software from making changes at the kernel level, and has been touted by Microsoft as a defense against rootkits and other malware.Hardware, Software, and other TidBytes:• Apple Files Patents For iPhones• Vista, Office 2007 To Launch in NY After Thanksgiving• AllofMP3 sends out peace feelers; Enemies prefer Cold War• Symbian forecasts the death of the PC• Push-to-Talk Pushes Out• Firefox Co-Creator On The Browser's Future, And More• Great Firewall of China lowers its barrier• Skype on Your Smart Phone
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| Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. There needs to be jail time with this. Apple planted a virus on it's devices to take out a competitors OS. They advertise how OSX is virus free while windows is full of them, so I would consider it criminal to purposely propagate a windows virus to backup your false advertising claims. This could only be worse if it was an anti-virus company that did this. | |
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| Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. Some one at Apple needs to lose their job. how in the hell can they blame Microsoft for something they are selling and making.Microsoft has nothing to do with the production of the iPod. When i first read about this a few days ago i knew Apple wouldn't take the blame for their own mistake and would try to pass it off onto Microsoft. | |
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| Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. Apple needs to punish it's suppliers. Apple did NOT put the virus on the iPod themselvs so no one at Apple should be punished per se, but the manufacturer who is using an infected computer to test brand new iPods on needs to be replaced with a smarter one.
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| Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. It's called Quality Control.
Apparently Apple needs to have it explained to them... if this had happened with MS or IBM, people would be calling for heads. But somehow because it's Apple people want to say it's ok.
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| Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. said by Primis1  : Apple deserves to burn for it... Yeah burn for something that affected less than 1% of the iPods available in the last month or so. Now while I understand that even one is one too many, they've acknowledged the problem, rectified the problem and point users to free steps that they can take in the rare event that they're affected by the problem. Most anything mass produced is going to have the occasional problem child that gets by even with superlative quality control measures in place.
Nonetheless, I'm sure the anti-Apple brigade is going to run with this. Enjoy. | |
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| Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. I can't and won't cry for Apple when the Apple zealots have taken this same attitude towards MS for eons.
If this were MS and not Apple, they'd be the first calling for blood. Just because it's Apple it does NOT just make it ok.
By the way, I find it funny that an infected PC is being blamed during replication. Apparently a Mac isn't good enough to do such a simple process?
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| Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. How is an infected Mac going to cause this? That makes no sense. This is an isolated event in which the manufacturer fucked up some iPods before Apple even had taken delivery of them.
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| If Apple is to be crisped, then MS needs to be atomized. And a good smack at the vendor who infected these ipods.
This has happened before (MacAddict sent out CDROMs that had a trojan on them) and it usually is unknown to the manufacturer. Some thrid party vendor/supplier is responsible.
Apple atleast is open enough to say "Whoa, folks! If connecting this to a PC, make sure it has current AV software. Some of our products were infected by supplier during setup/testing...and yes, via Windows!"
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| said by Primis1 :It's called Quality Control. Apparently Apple needs to have it explained to them... if this had happened with MS or IBM, people would be calling for heads. But somehow because it's Apple people want to say it's ok. It's not. Apple deserves to burn for it... I agree. Apple was obviously testing some iPods before shipping by using Windows PC's that were infected with a virus. That they didn't make sure those PC's were virus free is totally their own fault. Trying to blame Microsoft is just more of the same denial process that Apple has exhibited about their own systems being invulnerable to viruses.
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Savannah, GA | Re: Someone at Apple needs to go to jail. Again: Apple was not testing the iPods -- the testing was done at the manufacturing site by an entity separate and un-related to Apple.
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Oh my GOD that sounds retarded. Seriously do you think before you post? Apple is trying to take out Microsoft's OS through iPod viruses... that sounds like a page right out of MS's playbook to me, not Apple's.
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. said by jwsmiths4 :Oh my GOD that sounds retarded. Seriously do you think before you post? Apple is trying to take out Microsoft's OS through iPod viruses... that sounds like a page right out of MS's playbook to me, not Apple's. How does that sound retarded? Obvious game plan of ANY company is to take out the competition. Especially in the computing game. Nobody's fault Apple is really that stupid to think they could pull it off! 
Although, granted, Apple is not totally to blame here.
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Actually if you think about it the iPod was plugged into a Windows OS based machine during QC. Therefore your post is entirely wrong.
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| Because infecting computers with viruses is NOT going to take Windows down... Windows does a good enough job on their own of getting infected without Apple's help.
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. I agree this is not really destroying the windows OS if you have a anti virus (Big duh for windows users) this wont do anything. Go to jail? No just pay any dammages and that will be enough for me.
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Savannah, GA | Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Could you please clarify what you mean beginning with Got o join?
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| Should McDonalds execs go to jail since a very similar thing happened to some of the MP3 players they were selling or giving away as part of some meal. Probably happened at the same manufacture plant... »www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21665···maleware
Apple said less than 1% of the 5.5G iPods were affected, McDonalds recalled over 10,000 MP3 players in Japan...
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. McDonald's doesn't sell mp3 players and advertise about how insecure windows is. Apple does. Had McDonald's mp3 players had a virus designed to take down Burger King, then I would expect jail time. Affecting a customer negatively is much different than smearing a competitor. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Whatever. You really need to pull your head out of your ass and see that this wasn't Apple trying to take down MS's crappy OS. Both cases (McDonalds and Apple) just demonstrate that these manufacturers in China don't care one iota about quality they just want to make money. I love how you can ignore one company's mess up just to pick on another company..
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. You don't get it.
Causing problems for your own customers is much different then causing problems for someone else's customers for you own benefit. They claim windows is insecure, but it's only insecure when apple hides a virus on it's player to circumvent windows security.
And Apple is a hardware manufacturer, even if they contract construction out to a foreign company, they have full liability over construction as if they made it themselves. McDonalds, makes food, a promotional item with a flaw hardly makes them a criminal organization. Hell, maybe the same company made both devices and apple is responsible for both instances. I would bet that is the case.
Plus I think it's funny how the people defending mac now where probably blasting McDonald's two days ago. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Read my posts - I never blasted McDonalds. These things just happen. Besides there were only 25 reported iPods affected - that's nothing. Apple probably sells 25 iPods/hr. Apple was responsible by acknoledging that the problem indeed exists and reminding Windows users that the best way to prevent against getting the virus is to have up-to-date AV software. Apple I am SURE made several pissed off calls to said manufacturer to redouble their QC.
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. That's nice apple releases a virus and it's the users fault for not having purchased an anti-virus program. Apple should be offering free anti-virus to anyone who got an ipod that could have been compromised. Anything less is crap. And it is a criminal act to purposely attack a competitor with a computer virus. Had microsoft released a linux virus on 25 zunes, they would have been sued for billions and someone would definitely be going to jail. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Do you honestly thing Apple wrote that virus? Noo... It wasn't "Discovered" on new iPods it was accidentally put there by some dumb Chinese manufacturer and not by any employee directly employed by Apple - probably the exact same way those McDonalds MP3 players (400x more of which were infected, yet you don't flame them... maybe McD's should drop NAV into each Happy Meal from now on?). That virus had been in the wild before it was ever on an iPod. If Windows were more secure then the virus that was on the 3rd party manufacturer's computer would never have been able to make it onto the iPod that was plugged into it. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. You still don't get it. McDonald's is not an mp3 manufacturer, apple is. If McDonald's get someone to make an mp3 player from them, it's the manufacturers fault if there are problems. With apple, they can contract out their own manufacturing, but they are still the manufacturer and are 100% responsible for their product.
And telling a consumer it's their fault your product caused them harm is pure garbage. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Oh so just because McDonalds isn't primarily an MP3 maker they shouldn't at all be liable for their product? Right, that makes SO much sense. Let me enlighten you as to something - Apple, Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. all sell a lot of products that are made by a very few 3rd party manufacturers. MOST products that you buy aren't actually made by the company that sells them. I don't see what Apple could have done above and beyond what they've already done in regards to this issue. They put a warning up on their website to warn all 25 people who were affected that they should make sure their anti-virus is up to date before they plug in their iPods or they can plug the iPod into a Mac first and have the Mac restore the iPod and then it won't be contaminated with the virus anymore.
Answer this question though: If Windows weren't such a shitty OS that is so easily infected with viruses why else would this be a problem?
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Apple advertises that windows is insecure, then releases a virus to help prove their case. It's got to be illegal. That would be like advertising a competitor is poisoning their own food, then getting caught breaking in at night poisoning the special sauce.
And yes their is a huge difference between McDonald's and Apple. If a company caterer's a dinner with McDonald's food and everyone gets sick. It's not the company's fault, but the company can cal 911 and get people help, rather than just siting back and waiting for McDonald's to do anything about it.
If apple manufacturer's and sells a product that spreads a virus, it is their fault. Just because they get a cheap manufacturer to make their product, it's still their product and manufacturing issues are still their responsibility. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Oh my GOD you're dense. Re-read all my previous posts I've answered every issue you've raised a dozen times before. For the last time: APPLE DID NOT WRITE OR RELEASE THAT VIRUS IT WAS ALREADY RELEASED AND HAD BEEN DETECTED AND INFECTED OTHER MACHINES BEFORE THIS iPOD INCIDENT.
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Schererville, IN | Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. I know what you are saying, but what I am saying has nothing to do with creating the virus, just spreading it. I guess your stance is based on what your definition of is is. | |
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| Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. And I fail to see your point because less than 25 iPods were infected by the 3rd party manufacturer while 10,000 or more McDonalds MP3 players were infected and yet the iPod issue is a bigger one?
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Schererville, IN | Re: Someon at Apple needs to go to jail. Yes. Apple attacked a competitor, McDonald's supplier did not. | |
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| Symantec Symantec should kiss our asses with their bullshit software. Their utils don't work for shit anyway. Personally I'd rather have kernel level locked out rather then open so that some third party utility can "try" and keep my system safe. That is just BS. Case in point... you don't see Sony opening up kernel mode to users on such propriatery devices as the PSP... why should Microsoft do this for the PC. If the end user make the choice to use MS's OS on their PC then it's their choice and shouldn't be bitching about not having kernel level access to allow other apps to access it. It's called security people... shit. If you don't like it, run another OS.
Third party "requirements" and people's bitching are the number 1 and 2 reasons why MS's OSs have some of these flaws... people want open doors and windows, but don't want people to come in.... you can't have both. | |
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| iPod = Apple, right? So, where ever these iPods were made, why weren't Apple computers used to program them.
Or were they Apple computers that were used?
If the mfgr was using PCs to program these infected iPods... what does that say about Apple?
If they were Apple computers that were used, what was a Windows virus doing on that Apple to begin with?
To coin a phrase - "That does not compute!"
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| Re: iPod = Apple, right? Apple probably doesn't care what brand of computers the mfg. uses as long as it can profit off of the sale of the iPod that is made. If a manufacturer used Macs then Apple would probably be thrilled, but Apple doesn't want to pay more money to force a manufacturer to buy Macs to test the iPods on if that will result in slimmed margin for them.
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| Re: Allofmp3 is a rogue outfit and will be brought under control AllofMP3 said Tuesday that as of Wednesday, its business model would move toward an ad-supported distribution of free content. The company, which previously charged about $1 an album, plans to offer consumers a new software program that allows them to download any song from the site for free. AllofMP3 claims to have a catalogue of hundreds of thousands of albums, increasing at a rate of 1,000 per month.
Users of the new service will only be able to listen to songs by using the AllofMP3 software, and the songs will be usable on just one computer at a time. The interface, called Music for the Masses, will initially be available for Microsoft Windows, with an Apple version arriving in several weeks, Mamotin said.
Consumers who wish to transfer their songs between computers or to a music device like an iPod or another MP3 player, will have to pay for the music.
from: »www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?f···usic.php
As of now, i can still ad money to my account using my mastercard. Visa isn't listed. (via alltunes and via allofmp3.)
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| Re: Allofmp3 is a rogue outfit and will be brought under control said by djdanska : The company, which previously charged about $1 an album, plans to offer consumers a new software program that allows them to download any song from the site for free. AllofMP3 claims to have a catalogue of hundreds of thousands of albums, increasing at a rate of 1,000 per month. Interesting change, but I don't see how offering copyrighted material for free gets them off the hook with the music companies. They are still going to be drug into court.
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| Re: Allofmp3 is a rogue outfit and will be brought under control Is something wrong wrong with allofmp3.com this morning? I cannot get the site to load at all. (It is not my connection, as everything else is zipping along.) Is this happening to anyone else? I am trying to access the site from the US.
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djdanska
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clubs: | Re: Allofmp3 is a rogue outfit and will be brought under control I can get to it fine with opera mini. | |
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Allofmp3 is a rogue outfit and will be brought under control