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Friday, March 1, 2002 |
Apple releases DVD Player 3.1 for OS X [MacCentral] - It looks like it will take some patience to grab this update though. I just ran the Software Update application and came up with nothing on my first attempt a few minutes ago...
4:05:58 PM 
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Disney boss accuses Apple of fostering piracy [MacCentral] - This ties in with the Grammy comments and my recent relaying of commentary about the copy protection schemes for CDs. Music and movie executives cannot get it through their heads that once someone purchases a product, that they should be able to copy it, alter it by compressing it onto a hard drive or even let a friend borrow it as they please. At the rate the industry seems to be going, we face a future where we have to own multiple copies of the same music in order to listen to it where we want, when we want and how we want.
2:02:24 PM
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OmniWeb 4.1sp50 is available now. The sneaky peek version continues the improvement of OW's handling of CSS pages.
9:00:42 AM
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JD Lasica comments on the Grammy lecture:
"Was anyone else put off by the strange five-minute lecture midway through the Grammys last night by a music industry exec who basically scolded the entire nation for being CD-burning, MP3-playing thieves who caused a 10 percent decrease in the recording industry's profits last year?"
8:27:28 AM
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Undress Your Mac for Thrills. It's common for geeks to post pictures of computer hardware being disassembled. Apple's new iMac, heating up a kind of technolust, has spawned several websites of photo essays that show them being unpacked and set up. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
8:16:22 AM
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