[X Newbies] Itunes...

[Eugene Lee]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:14:05PM -0500, Alex wrote:
: 
: On Friday, Mar 26, 2004, at 22:30 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne wrote:
: 
: >[...] The CDDB is a vast storehouse of information about many audio 
: >discs. The information was freely contributed by many, then somehow 
: >commercialised (not a complaint, I just don't know the details) and is 
: >licensed by/as Gracenote. [...]
: 
: A succinct account of the story can be found at 
: <http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/software/cddb_wsj_12.31.01.pdf>, and it's 
: endorsed by Ti Kan, who started it all. What the article doesn't cover 
: is the fact that a highly significant fraction of the value of CDDB was 
: due to volunteer contributors. In other words, those who reaped the 
: profits of the sale of CDDB reaped the profits of unpaid labour.

Exactly.  Too bad modern-day hackers are more interested in creating
viruses that take down Windoze computers (amusing but unproductive)
instead of doing things that are illegal but moral (like extracting
and releasing the entire CDDB database to the public domain).


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Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/