-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 8:06 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> The following quote came from a newsletter published by: > > IT INSIGHTS FROM META GROUP --- July 25, 2002 > Published in association with ITworld.com > http://www.itworld.com/newsletters > > "The information on prerelease popularity of The Eminen Show CD, for > instance, came from Berkeley, Calif.-based Gracenote, which has software > embedded in several popular MP3 software solutions that captures > information on what recordings users listen to on their computers and > reports this information back to the company." > > Has anyone heard of this before? Forgot to mention that the open source equivalent* to cddb is freedb, which almost every open source application uses. It's the old OGG vs MP3, PNG vs GIF issue yet again; the open source equivalent is independent of either a (possibly capricious or unsound) owner or patents, either floating or submarine. Alastair * To change the old cliche about the Internet and nuclear war, Open Source skips over holes caused by asteroids ... - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9QFfPXzGCRjP1DsMRAvYSAJ9esB0kiF78rpo5f1GXWMjHOJ0+9gCcC4NQ IgWTfmEY7nv9ie2IJhz68lo= =SwlS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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