links for 2008-01-10

• BBC NEWS | Business | Warner agrees to use MP3 format
  Warner Music Group is making its music available for US downloads from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection.
  (tags: music warner copyright digital downloads mp3 amazon)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Web icon set to be discontinued
  Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.
  (tags: news software web netscape internet browsers aol)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Open source search effort starts
  Billed as an open source search engine Wikia Search launched on 7 January backed by Wikia
  (tags: google search wikipedia wikia)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony drops locks on music albums
  Sony BMG is set to launch a service that will let consumers buy some downloadable albums that are free of copy protection software.
  (tags: music downloads drm sony)
• Search Wikia – search – a Wikia wiki
  Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine
  (tags: search wiki searchengine opensource wikipedia community)

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This entry was posted by Simon Scullion on January 10, 2008 at 11:20 pm, and is filed under Links. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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  Vitor Pereira (1486 days)

  Simon, did you read the article about Sony dropping DRM? It’s hilarious, you have to buy a gift card in the store and then go home and use the code on the back of the card to download the tracks.

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  Simon Scullion (1483 days)

  Yes saw that, made me chuckle too!

  Though interestingly Sony BMG has gone in with amazon now too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7182706.stm

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