Wilke Fights RIAA

Paul H. Wilke, a 52-year-old Illinois man, has decided to fight back against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for alleged copyright infringement. Wilke declares that he’s never used Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing programs, or, and the RIAA has it all wrong. On February 24, 2006, he received a letter saying he’d been sued for copyright infringement by numerous record companies. Dumbfounded by the...

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Dell Bails From Portable MP3 Player Market

With the recent discontinuation its flash-based Ditty players, Dell has now completely withdrawn from the portable MP3 player market. The Ditty, first unveiled in September of last year, was designed to compete with the iPod shuffle. But the Shuffle, and the rest of the iPod family, have dominated the playing field forcing extremely poor sales of the Ditty. (A really dumb-ass name –ED.) The Ditty was the last MP3 player holdout...

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