AudioMill says it can search internet radio stations for song titles you are interested in, and then download that song to your computer. Interesting idea, but the quality of streaming audio only lies between 40 and 128kps, and the fact that you can't turn their format into MP3's or burn them to a CD may turn off a good number of their target audience.

The record companies are running about with arms flapping wildly in the air to get filenames to Napster to be filtered. Because of a major loophole in the injunction, there needn't be any changes users obtain MP3's if everyone were to use my simple filenaming/directory structure.

Weeks after the movie industry shutdown 2600 magazine for publishing the DeCSS code, a couple of MIT students have found a way to descramble DVD's using only 7 lines of Perl.

Judge Patel's March 5th ruling may look to favor the RIAA, but Napster can claim victory on the sole basis that they didn't get shut down.

While the RIAA continues to be short-sighted in their thinking about digital distribution, the deal on the table from Napster gives them a sure-fire way of breaking out of their 50 year old business model and an easy way to take part in the digital download market, which they have failed at horribly up to this point.

The next challenge for Gnutella developers involves a different way of thinking about scalability.

Real Networks will begin streaming NBA games live, helping solidify a future for them selling sports package deals over the internet much like the cable packages we see today.