Live Earth concert videos on Soapbox

Go to Soapbox (soapbox.msn.com) and search for Live Earth to bring up plenty of acts that were performed as part of the Live Earth concerts that began in Sydney on 07/07/07. Here’s Crowded House, for example: http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swfVideo: Live Earth 2007 – Crowded House (Sydney) Technorati tags: Live Earth, concerts, Crowded House

Live Earth 07/07/07 concerts live online

To watch the Live Earth concerts, click here. At the time of posting, Paul Kelly is on the stage at Aussie Stadium, Sydney. Eskimo Joe follows. Technorati tags: Live Earth, Live Earth concerts online

Live Earth concert times on 07/07/07

You’ll find a schedule of Live Earth concerts around the world on the NineMSN Live Earth Concerts page. The Sydney concert is the first of those being held around the world on 07/07/07 and it begins at 11.10 am (AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time). Then follows: Tokyo, 1 pm AEST Antarctica, 7 pm AEST Shanghai, [...]

Australia’s Favourite Album – just announced

ABC TV has just shown the My Favourite Album show on which the No. 1 choice voted by Australians was announced… The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. Yes – that’s the one webDotWiz voted for. You can get the full top 10 list on the ABC’s My Favourite Album site. The Top [...]

Microsoft officially announces Zune, a music and entertainment player

Microsoft has officially confirmed on Reuters that the company will be releasing a music and entertainment player to compete against the Apple iPod. See Zune Insider and Bink for the full details. A release date has not yet been announced. For a quirky video, visit comingzune.com. Tags (Technorati): Zune, music, music and entertainment player

Sony list of infected music titles

Here’s the link to check the titles – now more than 50 – that are infected with Sony’s XCP so-called copy protection software – it’s now become one of the worst attacks of malware on the ‘Net.   If you’ve run these titles on your computer, you need to take measures to make your computer [...]

Talking about TechCrunch » Pandora is Now Free

webDotWiz first saw mention of Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/) somewhere and gave it a try. It’s a free service (apparently it used to cost) so you can choose a selection of your favourite music tracks (by artist or title) and Pandora will play them. On an ISDN connection there are a few jitters and pauses but it’s designed [...]

Talking about Are You Infected by Sony-BMG’s Rootkit?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a complete article to guide us what to look for on the covers of Sony-BMG CDs that may be infected with the Sony-BMG rootkit.   The EFF site also lists those CD titles which have the XCP bug (another name for Sony’s so-called digital rights management):   Trey Anastasio, Shine [...]

More on the Sony-BMG’s rootkit and their notion of Digital Rights Management

More from Mark’s Sysinternals Blog about attempting to uninstall Sony’s rootkit.   Read the full epic of what Mark went through to uninstall – and pity help the rest of us trying Sony’s procedure.   To quote Mark (after the screenshots of what anybody infected by the Sony rootkit is supposed to do):   While [...]

Talking about DRM this, Sony! – CNET.com

On Thu Nov 3, Molly Wood, section editor, CNET.com, wrote the story linked to below after Sony were caught out using what can only be termed "illegal techniques" to enforce digital rights management on some of its music CDs. There are a couple of quotes from Molly’s article below. The man who found Sony’s attempt had [...]