Sonos is the first and only digital music system that lets you play all your digital music, all over your house—and control it all from the palm of your hand. Best of all, you don’t need a PC in every room, a music server or a wireless network. Just a Sonos ZonePlayer and speakers in the rooms of your choice and a Sonos Controller in hand to access all your digital music, no matter where it’s stored—on your PC, Mac or Network Attached Storage box.
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Alex Moskalyuk Online – BLOG
On February 2004 the Computer Crimes division of Moscow City Police recommended that prosecutors initiate a criminal lawsuit against AllofMP3.com, a Russian music site selling MP3 downloads by the megabytes. The investigation was initially launched at the request of IFPI Moscow. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry previously sued a similar Spanish project, with PureTunes.com settling with the industry for $10 million.
The case of AllofMP3.com was further complicated by compulsory licensing, adopted by Russian legislature. Compulsory licensing stipulates that licenses should be issued in non-discriminatory manner to anyone who wants to get one on reasonable terms. Russian Multimedia and Network Society was in charge of establishing the reasonable terms, and according to Russian legislation, anyone could distribute music, provided they track downloads and pay back some nominal fee. This is very different from the legislature in the United States, where a music distributor would have to gain a license before selling any music online, and furthermore, could be denied such license for whatever reasons.
On March 4th prosecutor’s office of Moscow’s Southwestern region refused to charge AllofMP3.com in a criminal lawsuit. What’s interesting is that AllofMP3.com did not win the case due to the compulsory licensing legislated in Russia. The prosecutor’s office affirmed that the Russian music site was distributing copyrighted music from its site, and in many cases did not have a proper license to distribute them. Russian criminal law severely punishes attempts to distribute copyrighted music without proper licensing procured first. However, Russian law is quite specific about distribution of material goods, as the law usually applies to CD and DVD pirating.
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Designed in Copenhagen our “Smart Touch” stereo gives you over 30 different sophisticated looks and memorizes 100 of your favorite CD’s. Walk into any electronic retailer and you’ll find nothing but rows of gaudy stereos with speakers designed to look like bazookas and jet turbines. Our mini “Smart Touch” vertical stereo CD player gives the sound you’re looking for but in a more refined minimalist package.
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By A. Omar Sharpe
In the 80s, there was the Walkman. During the 90s, it was the Discman. Today, there is the iPod, Apple’s new gadget that is widely considered a version of the portable MP3 player.
According to http://MP3newswire.net, Apple’s iPod accounted for almost half of all the MP3 sales in 2004.
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The Dell W2600 26″ LCD TV delivers a wide-aspect, high quality television experience to your home. Large enough for your den and a perfect size for your bedroom, the W2600 is also a great complement to an office. The Dell W2600 offers full PC connectivity and full picture-in-picture functionality so that you can watch TV and work on your PC at the same time! Additionally, with dual tuners, you can watch two TV channels at once.
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Finally, a screen for your home theater that’s completely hidden when it’s retracted. It gives your home theater a nice touch of class. Ideal for a living room, media room, or any room with multiple functions-the screen will go unnoticed when not in use. The In-Ceiling Projector Screens are one of the most economical models on the market, but still produces an outstanding picture.
At the touch of a button, the projection screen drops out of the ceiling. For the ultimate in aesthetics, install this unit flush with the ceiling. A trapdoor neatly conceals the screen and mechanism. When the mechanism is activated the trapdoor opens and the screen drops down. The motor is mounted inside the assembly on special rubber vibration insulators; operating noises are dramatically reduced and running smoothly and silently, even after years of service. The motor features internal thermal overload protector, electric brake, and its gears are lifetime lubricated.
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It’s the flagship model of Sony’s entire line of universal remotes! The Sony Touchscreen Universal Remote Commander offers features including pre-programmed operation, learning ability and macros, but adds a widescreen LCD display that responds to your touch. Select which device you want to control by pressing one of the seven glow-in-the-dark function buttons, and the control screen changes to reflect the device you’re controlling. Hit the DVD button, and the DVD control panel appears. Hit the CD button and the CD controls appear, etc. And thanks to an elegant, blue backlight, the highly-visible screen is easy to read day or night.
Making it even better is the fact that the LCD display is fully customizable to match your system. You can assign labels to 258 virtual control keys, and give custom, 8-character titles to components, macros, learned commands and individual controls. The titles can be any words of your choice, in any language that uses the Latin alphabet. And if you like to keep your control panel clean, re-assigning or removing unused buttons is easy.
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In this compact and complete DVD system with its high-resolution 7� screen, you can enjoy your favorite movies on your desktop or when you’re on the go. The 16:9 LCD display shows video with crystal clarity, and you can hear audio through the unit’s built-in stereo speakers, or through headphones (two sets of folding headphones are included for the two headphone ports in the system). Our DVD travel pack also comes with a 12-volt power adapter for use on cars or boats, as well as mounting straps to secure the unit to automobile headrests for back seat viewing. The DVD player operates from a rechargeable battery pack with three-hour playing time.
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Most of us don’t think much about the images we look at on a TV, flat-panel display, or on a laptop or desktop computer screen; that is, we don’t think about what comprises the image—because our eyes and brain merge all the elements of color, brightness and contrast into a “picture” we immediately see. The process is similar, but not exactly analogous, to what happens when we watch a movie. We don’t sit there and dissect the 24 still pictures presented sequentially every second (in the case of a TV program, 30 frames per second). Our visual system and brain merge the rapidly moving images into motion, and if the TV show or movie is any good, we’re happy.
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Expansive, room-filling sound from an easy-to-use CD radio is now possible in this compact Bose Wave Radio/CD II. With powerful sound comparable to expensive rack systems, it has an audio range one-half-octave lower than the original Bose Wave Radio CD player. Tapered waveguide speaker technology makes deeper, more expansive sound reproduction possible so favorite CDs sound more like concert-hall performances instead of the tinned sound from traditional small speakers. The space-saving unit has a front CD loader so you can place it on a bookshelf, under a cabinet, or in other tight spaces and still change discs with ease, and plays CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and MP3 CDs.
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