Oct
15
Briefly: EU levies, Denon D-C7USB, Free iRiver U10 promo, Napster CEO interview, Motorola’s “Get Heard” launches
- Study: Europeans are taxed twice for online music (you pay an “iPod tax” to compensate the artist for ripping their music off the internets, so why he should get a royalty when you buy that tune from an online music store? it’s like compensating him twice—repeat after me: levies on electronic storage devices are STUPID and LAME; Brad Hill explains why on the second paragraph of this post; the EU tries to phase out the outdated levies system, but the member countries aren’t really moving along)
- Denon D-C7USB minicomponent system (comes with a USB input for your portable audio device; also: line-in, and the CD player will happily reproduce the MP3/WMA you’ve burned on CD-R/CD-RW; goes for $350—why not spend about half and increase your ghetto street cred exponentially at the same time?)
- How to get a free iRiver U10 in Hong Kong? (it’s for the 512MB version, and the cradle and remote control are gone, but, hey, clever marketing from iRiver; get a 10% discount for each of the ten conditions that fit you)
- Interview: Napster CTO Bill Pence [via]
- Motorola’s iRadio “Get Heard” Network Launch (”[...] independent labels and artists shall have the ability to create their very own radio stations that will be made available to broadcast nationwide on one of the most ubiquitous personal technology devices around—the mobile phone.”) [via]
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