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[ AdGlobe Tech Blog] BitTorrent (the company) has its own plans to become a content distributor which has signed deals with 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Paramount, and Starz that will allow it to offer their content for download in the new year. This is a sign that investors still have confidence in peer-to-peer distribution models (or that they desperately want to create a YouTube-style success story).
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[Hdforindies.com] HD For Indies: At a recent conference held by the Consumer Electronics Association, Anderson said the industry desperately needs a successful high-def DVD format. But he said the competition between Sony and Toshiba is making it difficult for retailers like Best Buy to promote the new technology."It makes it impossible to get behind one format and introduces so many problems,'"
[Techdigest.tv] Tech Digest: October 2006: The HAL 5 Robotic Suit, by Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, is a vaguely Tron-looking outfit that is so powerful that it allowed a man to carry a quadriplegic nearly up an entire mountaintop, and is marketed for "walking assistance and rehabilitation, nursing, factory work and disaster relief." 20 units are slated for production in 2007, at £30,000 each, with 400-500 projected for 2008. Cyberdyne, Sankai's development company, reports that someone who could normally press 100 kilos would be able to press around 180 kilos if they were wearing the suit, with results that it is expected to show up soon inhospital wards in Tsukuba city.
[Weblogs.macromedia.com] JD on EP: Web sociology Archives: P2P loves KellyC: Spencer Critchley asks an obvious, yet rare question: "File-sharing advocates often argue that they're furthering a grassroots rebellion against the corrupt corporate music machine. That sounds good, but if it's true, why do the tops of the traditional radio charts and the download/file-sharing charts feature the same artists?" He then starts asking whether different types of human organizations naturally produce different types of goods...
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