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<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build:
* Our own Listening Post has some good coverage of Apple's announcement that the company will [license its FairPlay DRM technology][1] to hardware vendors that are part of the "Made for iPod" program.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/apple_opens_fai.html "Apple Opens Fairplay DRM to NetGear"
* Not to be outdone by its stateside equivalent, the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries has [threatened to take legal action against ISPs][2] if they don't stop users who illegally upload and download music. Luckily, the folks at the IFPI don't seem to have heard of [Tor][3].
[2]: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/music-industry-declares-war-internet/story.aspx?guid=%7B0D43D22C-F418-4947-95AE-82A44A2B55DB%7D "Music industry declares war on Internet providers"
[3]: http://tor.eff.org/ "Tor: anonymity online"
* The Choose Your Own Adventure series is coming to the iPod. I don't know if I would get into these anymore, but I loved them when I was kid. Book number one is [now available for download][4] — free of charge until Jan 25, 2007.
[4]: http://www.cyoastore.com/product/show/5773 "Choose Your Own Adventure for the iPod"
* And finally, this Reuters story is just [too amazing not to mention][5]: A New York-based designer has come up with a mirror equipped with infrared technology that sends a live video feed to any cell phone, e-mail account or personal digital assistant device selected by a shopper. Christopher Enright, chief technology officer for digital design company IconNicholson, said putting these mirrors outside store fitting rooms meant women could go shopping with their friends -- remotely. "She could be in Paris, your mom, watching you try on your wedding dress (while you are in New York)," Enright told Reuters on Tuesday as he unveiled the interactive mirror at a retail trade show. Just think of the possibilities for all those one-way mirrors in Italian restaurants...
[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-18T002818Z_01_N17321711_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-MIRROR.xml&src=rss "Mirror, mirror on the wall, is this dress for me?"
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