Word: access
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...years, the Undergraduate Council was split between members who believed the council should take stands on social issues and those who believed it should focus on student services like fly-by lunches and universal keycard access...
...Northeastern University in Boston, hanging out with his bros, drinking a brew and listening to his roommate whine about dead MP3 links. Fanning, whose high school nickname was the Napster (a reference to his perpetually nappy hair), just shrugged. But he began thinking there might be a way to access files without going through a website. He had taught himself Unix programming between his junior and senior years at Harwich High in Cape Cod. And he knew enough to think such a program would have to be possible. "I had this idea that there was a lot of material...
...pressure he felt came from a pent-up demand for digital music in the late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net for the latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from...
...details are still vague, but record companies are talking about offering such extras as bootleg songs, outtakes, early access to new releases and more biographical information than can be squeezed onto a CD's liner notes. They are also talking about doing something about their pricing structure. "It won't be $16.99 an album," promises Jennings. Jeff Alger, who works on e-books for Microsoft Reader, believes bringing down the cost of CDs is key. "The surest protection against piracy," he says, "is to make sure there's a high volume of quality, low-priced items on the market...
...even more is at stake than access to a song. The most promising 21st century technologies--genetic engineering, nanotechnology and robotics--are information technologies. They have the power to create wealth, but these bits of digital information can also be dangerous. If we can't muster the collective will to protect the rights of artists to their books and music, how will we ever control access to the dangerous knowledge provided by these powerful new technologies? Taking both individual and collective responsibility for the consequences of peer-to-peer sharing of digital material is essential preparation for what...