With the legitimacy of file-swapping technology yet to be tested in Australian courts, the music industry have gathered in Sydney to discuss the future of music.
An anonymous hacker known online as "Tron" is Hollywood's latest villain -- the author of a piece of software called SmartRipper, which allows DVDs to be copied fairly easily to a computer hard drive, and from there burned onto recordable DVDs.
Digital music and DVD movie add-on packs for Windows XP could stir controversy around its decision not to fully support the MP3 file format.
Apple Computer came out swinging at this week's Macworld Expo with a battery of new products aimed at boosting performance at the high end of the company's desktop and notebook Mac lines.
iTunes 9 is a natural, yet relatively minor, evolution of Apple's popular media management software and is a required download for new iPod owners.
Nero 8 shows off a new interface for getting started that makes the many tools easier to find from the get-go. Some welcome new features include HD support - although this rich suite can still confuse.
Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.
This double-layer drive is expensive, but it's one of the fastest we've come across thus far.
Lite-On's double-layer SOHW-832S is a very good DVD burner, but double-layer burning technology needs time to mature.
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