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+EMI Music [announced this morning][1] that it will sell DRM-free downloads of its entire digital music catalog. Apple was also on hand for the announcement as the iTunes Store will be the first online music store to sell EMI's new downloads.
+
+In addition to announcing the removal of DRM from its track, EMI also says that it will sell higher quality song files. The press release doesn't give a specific bit rate, saying simply, "Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads."
+
+Since most iTunes Store Tracks are sold at 128kbps, that would put EMI's songs at 256kbps, not quite the 320kbps that many people (including me) were hoping for, but definitely a step in the right direction.
+
+Naturally the improved sound quality comes at a slightly higher price -- EMI's DRM-free tracks will sell for $1.29, roughly 30 percent more than the price of standard iTunes Store downloads.
+
+Although iTunes has the exclusive deal for the moment, EMI says that other stores will begin offer the DRM-free downloads "within the coming weeks." And the choice of file format has apparently been left up to the retailers, which opens the door for even higher quality recordings -- could high quality FLAC files be on the way?
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+If other retailers offer FLAC or other lossless format files for download, we could see the first real competition for the iTunes Store.
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+Although tracks purchased from the EMI catalog will be DRM free, EMI says in the press release that subscription based services will continue to use DRM.
+
+But will EMI's announcement open the floodgates and bring an end to DRM as many are clamoring this morning? I'd like to think so, but somehow I doubt it. 
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+EMI has been flirting with limited DRM downloads for a while now (check out Eliot's [past coverage on Listening Post][2]) and none of the other major labels have followed suit. Still, it's a nice fantasy to wake up to on an otherwise dreary Monday. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments below.
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+[1]: http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm "EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/11/emi_artists_alb.html "EMI Artist's Album Presold as MP3s"
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+<img height="122" src="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/new_new_orleans.jpg" width="207" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 5px 5px" />Prompted by public outcry over Google Earth's recent imagery update, Google has rushed out yet another image update providing new, improved, high-resolution imagery of New Orleans in its post-Katrina state.
+
+Over the weekend Google replaced its satellite images of New Orleans with pre-Katrina images causing some, including a U.S. senator (PDF), to cry "conspiracy" and accuse Google of trying to rewrite history. 
+
+However, a post this morning on the Google Blog claims that the [updated images were the result of a resolution upgrade][3] and not part of some larger attempt to bury evidence of Katrina.
+
+John Hanke, on of the Product Directors for Google Earth, writes of the Katrina images:
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+We continued to make available the Katrina imagery, and associated overlays such as damage assessments and Red Cross shelters, on a [dedicated site][1]. Our goal throughout has been to produce a global earth database of the best quality -- accounting for timeliness, resolution, cloud cover, light conditions, and color balancing.
+
+Hanke goes on to say that Google was surprised at the reaction to the updated images, but has, as a result, "expedited the processing of recent (2006) aerial photography for the Gulf Coast area" and released another update late Sunday evening.
+
+The new update restores the post Katrina imagery in higher resolution, a change the Google says it was planning on making anyway, but thanks to internet outcry you can now have your high resolution images and your Katrina damage.
+
+Check out 27B Stroke 6 for [more coverage on the initial image change][2].
+
+[1]: earth.google.com/katrina.html "dedicated Katrina images"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/google_rebuilds.html "Google Rebuilds New Orleans Overnight"
+[3]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/about-new-orleans-imagery-in-google.html "About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth"
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+The folks over a Joost have [released a new beta version][1] of the client software for Windows and Mac. I can't find any specific release notes on the Joost site, but the immediately obvious elements include and interface redesign and a fair number of additional content channels.
+
+Additional channels of note include Comedy Central (sorry no Daily Show or Colbert Report yet), Ren and Stimpy, and, my personal favorite, "The Diddy Channel" which is apparently just pretty much P. Diddy all day and all night.
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+If you're already a Joost member the updated client will ask you to choose a username and password which will be your new method of sign in both in the client app and on the website. 
+
+They've also given all Joost user five invite tokens. Which means the first five people to comment on this entry get an invite. Have at it.
+
+[1]: http://www.joost.com/blog/2007/04/it-s-showtime!.html "Joost Update"
+
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+The Lonely Planet, maker of the famed travel guides, has launched [LonelyPlanet.tv][1], an online video community built around Lonely Planet TV programming and user-created travel videos.
+
+LP TV has most of the features you'd expect from someone trying to compete with the likes of YouTube, including related clips, favorites, ratings, and user based-subscriptions. While you can subscribe to another user's video feed through the site, I couldn't find any actually RSS feeds for individual users. All user's have a public URL to share their clips with the world (not just logged in LP TV users), but regrettably the site doesn't offer any embed code for sharing and displaying movies offsite.
+
+Lonely Planet's professional video content is drawn from content aired on the Discovery Channel, SBS, Eurosport and Current TV. Navigation is divided into Channels ranging from Tripcast, a place for user video diaries, to Oh F#@*! Oh Wow! which purports to show the "remarkable" things you encounter while traveling, but unfortunately comes up a bit wanting.
+
+Because the site just launched, user generated content is a bit slim at the moment though that will of course improve with time. 
+
+As for the uploading tools, Lonely Planet claims that the site makes uploading videos while traveling considerably easier. The provided upload tools are indeed simple to user -- registered users just need to fill out the simple form and point to a video file. 
+
+However, no amount of web 2.0 wizardry is going to help you when you're logging in through a dial up in the boondocks of Laos. 
+
+Still, in spite of the technical limitations involved in uploading video from developing nations, Lonely Planet TV is a well thought out site. And, because it comes from one of the biggest names in travel, I have no doubt Lonely Planet TV will find an audience. 
+
+
+[1]: http://lonelyplanet.tv/ "Lonely Planet TV"
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+The documentation site for the popular Linux distro, Ubuntu, has put up [instructions on how to play HD-DVD and Blu Ray discs][3] on the Linux/GNU platform. The short how-to guide walks through the software and steps necessary to get the DRM-crippled discs working with open source software.
+
+U.S. users should note that the process of playing HD DVD or BluRay discs with an open source player requires circumventing the DRM and is thus most likely illegal in this country as per the DMCA.
+
+The Ubuntu site contains the following warning:
+
+>Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending on which country you are in. Please obtain legal advice if you are unsure whether a particular patent or restriction applies to a media format you wish to use in your country.
+
+For those outside the U.S. and not bounded by draconian DRM law (yet), the process doesn't look quite as intimidating as I'd imagine. Here's the instructions from the Ubuntu site:
+
+*	Install a UDF 2.5 filesystem driver. See [Linux UDF project][1].
+ 
+*	Acquire cryptographic keys for the disc player. [BackupHDDVD C++][2] (not the regular BackupHDDVD, which only works on Windows) can perform the decryption necessary to play HD DVD and BluRay discs (a separate player app is also needed, see below). This app uses title keys available in an XML file format distributed at various online sources. This will output .evo files containing your disc's video and audio content. Ensure these files are saved to a filesystem supporting files larger than 4.2GB (ie,. not FAT32 or older Ext2).
+
+*	Play the decoded .EVO video and audio files. This requires a very recent SVN version of mplayer that works with the latest ffmpeg, which includes support for the VC-1 video decoder and H.264 audio. Support for E-AC3 audio format is coming soon.
+
+[1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf "Linux UDF project"
+[2]: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121236 "Doom 9 Forum: BackupHDDVD C++"
+
+The Ubuntu help page doesn't provide for comments, so I thought I'd post it here and see what people think... have any Compiler readers attempted such a feat? Anyone got it working? Does the Linux community even *want* to play DRM-crippled films on open software?
+
+[3]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD "HD DVD and BluRay on Ubuntu Linux"
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+Here's the perfect cure for that case of the Monday's you came down with this morning -- [Universcale][1]. Universcale is a Flash-based web app I stumbled across this morning on Nikon's website.
+
+Universcale attempts to put the universe in perspective using a proportional scale that ranges from the smallest particle to the largest units of measurement in space. 
+
+Here's a quote from [the Nikon site][2]:
+
+>We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.
+
+>Today, using the electron microscope and astronomical telescope, we can see the objects which we have not been aware of its existence before. Are you able to fathom, or even roughly grasp, these sizes?
+
+
+
+There's no Steven Hawking overdub, just some cheesy music, but the app is still a great way to burn some time.
+
+Universcale starts with an extremely fast pan from the femtometer (which I had never heard of) out to the light year and then reverse direction and slowly zooms back in through galaxies, mountains, people, a flea and smaller. 
+
+
+So if the productivity is slipping this afternoon anyway, why not just dive right in and give yourself a sense of your own scale in the perspective of the universe, which, depending on which end of the spectrum you focus on, is either really really big or really really small.
+
+
+Universcale requires Flash Player 6 or higher, JavaScript and a screen resolution: 1024x768 pixels or higher.
+
+
+[1]: http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.htm "Universcale"
+[2]: http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index.htm "Universcale"
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