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HACKER WANTS TO MAKE iTUNES EVERYBODY'S TUNES [More below in Edupage section] Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker who gained notoriety for developing DVD encryption-cracking software, has created a software key that unlocks the encryption Apple uses for its AirPort Express -- which lets users broadcast digital music from Apple's online iTunes Music Store on a stereo not plugged into a computer. Johansen, who posted the key on his Web site (mockingly named "So Sue Me"), is an open source advocate critical of Apple for using a proprietary system to ensure that its products work only with each other. Apple has not yet reacted to this new intrusion. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Aug 2004) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9385704.htm and in a related story THE NEW MEANING OF OWNERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE When you buy a CD from a store, you "own" that music, and as long as you don't bootleg it or charge lots of people money to listen to it, it's yours. But if you purchase that same playlist online, in most cases you're purchasing the "rights" to the content which is "locked" by some type of digital rights management software. Not only that, but those rights may change over time, dictated by the whims of the music company you get them from. For instance, Apple Computer recently upped the number of computers on which its iTunes music files can be concurrently installed from three to five, but there's nothing stopping it from making its DRM more restrictive in the future -- although the company says that's unlikely. Meanwhile, customers of RealNetwork's Rhapsody music service "rent" their songs for a monthly fee but can play them only on their PCs, not their MP3 players. All these variables mean that consumers will need to be better informed in the future about what it is they're actually getting for their money, says Alan Davidson, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology: "DRM underscores the point that consumers are going to have to become a lot more sophisticated about what they're buying." (Wall Street Journal 16 Aug 2004) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109260940215891895,00.html and in yet perhaps an even bigger related story REALNETWORKS UPS THE ANTE, SLASHES PRICES In a strategy to undermine Apple Computer's dominance in the online music market, RealNetworks is cutting its prices at the RealPlayer Music Store to 49 cents per song and $4.99 per album. Apple's iTunes Music Store sells songs for 99 cents apiece and albums for $9.99. The discount will prove a losing proposition for RealNetworks in the short term, because it will be charging less than it pays music companies in royalties, but RealNetworks hopes its radical move will help to unseat Apple, which by some estimates commands a 70% share of the music-download market. RealNetworks also seeks to draw attention to its Harmony technology, which enables users to listen to songs purchased from RealPlayer on Apple iPod music players. Up until now, iPods have played only music purchased at iTunes. (Wall Street Journal 17 Aug 2004) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109269116575992799,00.html (sub req'd) You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan@NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html@NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html *

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FCC TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF WIRELESS OUTAGES The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that wireless carriers must submit reports to government officials concerning significant outages in service, though those reports will be kept from public view. Disclosure of outages had been in place for wireless carriers since 1991. After September 11, 2001, however, the information in the reports was deemed potentially useful to would-be terrorists, and the reports ended. Noting that emergency services increasingly depend on wireless communication, and that disclosure of outages promotes a more stable wireless network, the FCC will again require the reports from wireless carriers. The Department of Homeland Security and wireless telecoms argued that the reports pose a security risk and that a voluntary reporting system would be preferable. In a concession, the FCC agreed that the reports will be confidential and will not be subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Wired News, 11 August 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,64528,00.html and in a related story FCC EXEMPTS HIGHER ED FROM CALEA The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a preliminary ruling that exempts colleges and universities from costly projects to reengineer computer networks to comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). CALEA requires telecom companies to build their networks in such a way that federal officials can eavesdrop on phone conversations and e-mail exchanges with proper authority, and some have called for the FCC to rule that CALEA should also cover computer networks that carry Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone service. The FCC will not make a final decision on CALEA until late this fall, but in the meantime it has issued a ruling that identifies certain entities that would be exempt from CALEA for the purposes of VoIP phone service. Aside from higher education, exempted entities include libraries, hotels, and coffee shops. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 August 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/08/2004081301n.htm DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO COPYRIGHT EDUCATION Citing what it calls one-sided information about copyright presented by groups including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to school students, the American Library Association (ALA) will release its own educational materials to schools. ALA officials said that copyright information given to schools from industry groups neglects to address such issues as fair use and that the bias of industry groups doesn't serve the best interests of school kids. A representative of the BSA said his group's materials are not biased and that they focus simply on right versus wrong rather than on covering the range of relevant issues. Darrell Luzzo, vice president of education for Junior Achievement Worldwide, which last year cosponsored a program with the MPAA on copyright education, said that if his organization were going to repeat the project, it "would want to talk more about fair use." Discussions with educators later convinced Luzzo that the program should have been more broadly based rather than focusing on just one side of the issue. Wired News, 13 August 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64543,00.html [iTunes Restrictions Continue To Fall] DVD JON GOES AFTER AIRPORT EXPRESS The Norwegian hacker known as DVD Jon has published a software key for Apple Computer's AirPort Express, a wireless device that allows users to transmit songs from iTunes on a computer to a stereo. Jon Johansen, now 20, found himself the subject of criminal prosecution as a 15-year-old when he published a key to the encryption for DVDs, allowing users to make copies--legitimate or otherwise--of encrypted DVDs. Ultimately, Johansen was acquitted of those charges. Johansen has been an outspoken critic of proprietary software and voiced his support on his Web site for a recent announcement from RealNetworks that they had developed an application to allow their content to be played on Apple's iPod music player. The software key that Johansen published this week for the AirPort Express is the third time this year he has defeated Apple's copy protections for music files. The new key, according to some experts, could allow development of a range of products from companies other than Apple that will work with the AirPort Express device. San Jose Mercury News, 12 August 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9385704.htm MICROSOFT TO OFFER BASIC WINDOWS XP IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [Linux Forces MicroSoft Prices Downward In Competition] Microsoft will distribute a slimmed-down version of Windows XP in five developing nations beginning this fall as part of the company's ongoing efforts to facilitate computer use and literacy. Consumers in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia will see the so-called Windows XP Starter Edition on PCs starting in October; the other two countries in the program were not named. The Starter Edition of the operating system has fewer features than the standard package, and versions are customized for each country, including appropriate languages and items such as screen saver photos that reflect the local landscape. Also part of Microsoft's initiative is a program that offers free operating systems and inexpensive Office software packages to certain schools in 67 developing countries. Prices for the Starter Edition were not announced, though some reports indicated it might be about $36. According to a spokesperson from Microsoft, the low price allows the company to compete with Linux and may also discourage piracy, since buyers of inexpensive, legitimate copies of the software are eligible for patches and updates. CNET, 11 August 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5304023.html UNLISTED PHONE NUMBERS PUBLISHED [Ooops!] Officials at Verizon Communications said this week that due to a computer problem, phone numbers of as many as 12,000 Verizon customers who asked that their phone numbers be unlisted may end up published in phone directories. Verizon published at least 9,000 of the numbers in its own directory that includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, but the company, which is required to disclose its customers' numbers to competing directory services, inadvertently released as many as 12,000 unlisted numbers to other directories. Verizon has offered to refund the fees that consumers pay to have their numbers unlisted or to change customers' phone numbers free of charge if they so choose. Officials from Verizon said the problem resulted from a conversion to a new computer system. 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They are making it look as if it were a promotion on paper, no longer an hourly wage to be ashamed of, but the truth is that it's really a demotion, when it comes down to the bottom line. It's going to be put to an interesting test soon, as apparently waitresses aren't going to be hourly wage earners any more, but salaried, just to keep from having to pay them overtime. . .as if they ever got paid enough to be of any concern to their employers. Apparently the medical industry is one of the leaders in the effort to re-interpret the meaning of this bill, staging the movement of their hourly wage earners including nurses to an underpaid salaried position to avoid hourly overtime pay. 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