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83 Real0ne blends video streams, music file

31 Web's buzz power remains untapped, Forrester reports

88 Windows XP preview: Upgrading and fine tuning

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tify its relevance in the of face competition on both the free and paid sides of the marke expect Napster will actually offer tiered servplace. "I wonder if you can argue why th ices,much like those oi'fered by cable televi-world should still care what Napster is up to,

over its file-sharing network, operators, with premium services a reporter from the MTV Interactive service while paying music publisherssion offered to those willing to pay more. asheL On the announcement of the ded in late "I'm convinced of the power of theNapster US$10million in advance September, Hilbers was less specific about

itor copyright compliance and «offect and brand name," Hilbers responded. "I'm condistribute royalties from Napster under the againSt future royattieS. pricing. "We' re still working on the ultimate vincedthat people willcome back and check agreement. pricing model," he said. "It is going to beouta what Napster hai to offer next." "It's a very, very important day, I think, for However, he said, Recording Industry consumerolfering that we are very convinced If it has gained nothing else, Sinnreich said, songwritersand publishers,"NMPA'sMurphy Association of America (RIAA) president will survive in the marketplace." He addedwith the announcement, Napster is generatsaidat the news conference."We have much Hilary Rosen has confirmed that she wants tothat the service will reappear "later this year."ing headlines, which. alter a long period of to be thankful for when you consider aff of settle the labels' cases with Napster. Analyst Sinnreich said the agreement may intensehype, have grown scarce recently. the problems that we had in reaching this Napster previously reached settlements be most important I'rom what he called "a "One could posit that free newspaper space particular agreement... I think we' ve over-with gmups representing more than 150 political standpoint." is going to be the main benefit that Napster come most or aS of these obstacles." independent record labels in the U.K. and Music publishers, he said, were keen to getreaps from this announcement." Sinnreich Under the deal's terms, Hilbers said, Europe, as well as with rock artists MetaSicain front of the market so they can play a role said. Napster will pay songwriters and publishers and Dr. Dre. in determining the amount of money they

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access, until standards-based, wireless The earliest generations of handheld full-sized Microsoft Of6ce equivalents the PC c— omplexity, high cost of manWeb service with at least SGICbps speed is devicesconcentrated mainly on personal (they were only quasi-compatible, agement, and long learning curve and— cheaply and widely available, along with information management (PIM) pro- despite having similar names). but theyexploit its virtues, among which are ea handhelds with the high-resolution grams that included scheduling. calendar, showed Microsoft's intention to includehigh-speed Internet connectivity, and

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LOS ANGELES — To a student desperate "The second is, it is hard to catch people almost 80 percent of college studentsInternet, but also to a database of collec to get a good grade, the Internet is not doing it. Third, there is such a competitive admit cheating at least once. A study by papers, literary works and other sources. merely a source of research information, environment these days." US ¹ws and WorM Report found 90 per- "The way it works is, an institutio it is, "a 1.5 billion-page searchable, cut- Students. and even parents in somecent of students believe cheaters either arewhich «ould be a high school, college and-pasteable encyclopedia." cases, figure the end justifies the means.never caught or never have been appro-university, licenses the service. The pro That is the message from fohn Barrie,he said. The theory is, if one has to cheat priately punished. fessors tell the students tn turn in a pa the developer of software used to catchto get into a prestigious high school, uni- Surveys «ondu«ted by Barrie's company version of their paper to them, and a online plagiarism. Barrie. who earned a versity or professional school. the impor-discovered 30 percent of UC Berkeley stu-ital version of the paper to the profess doctorate in biophysics at the University tant thing is to get there. dents were plagiarizing directly from the account with Turnitin.corn," explained it, of Califnrnia at Berkeley. said students "There is a lot of, 'everybody's doing Internet. Barrie. tndaysee cheating as necessary for keepso even if you catch me, don't make an Barrie said he "stumbled" into the field ofThe company then checks the contents ing up with fellow students in pursuit of example out o f m e' attitude today," anti-plagiarism software. "I had no inten-of th» paper against its database by pa academic goals. assessed Barrie. "You see it in doctors, law tion of becoming a crusader for ethics." he paragraph and even sentence, he said. T "There are three factors that make students, everyone." joked. In college he studied how the brain professor then gets an annotat«xl version cheating more prevalent today. The first is N umerous studiesback up Barrie's encodes the sensory environment, or what the paper, and if any portion looks lik the unprecedented amount of informa- assertions. A survey by the Center for we see, hear and smell. into the neural envicame from another source. it is colou tion available on the Internet," said Barrie.Academic Integrity in the U.S. found thatronment — memory and perception. coded and matched with either the addre "It is quite a stretch to go from that of to the Web page where it came from, or anti-plagiarism software." he said. name of the book, if applicable. In the l994-95 a«ademic year, Barrie "If a Harvard student plagiarizes from was a teaching assistant at UC Berkeley.Stanford student's paper, we give th He thought it would be "cool" to let stuHarvard professor information about the dents read other students' term papers. Stanford student's instructor. including His logic — professional academi«s is afithe e-mailaddress so they can confer," ig»', about peer review, but 95 percent of unisaid Barrie."B works the same way fo xcz Aibrtts' versity students get no practice in readinghigh school papers. It is like one teac and critiquing other students' work can walk across the hall and ask anoth Barrie posted his students' papers to ateacher if a student turned in the sa class Web site, with authors' names paper for two different classes." stripped, and required each person to read Turnitin.corn claims a lengthy list of b at least two other papers and post anonyname schools throughout th eU.S., tuuwale 1aeaw IutatauavaIvaa 0lilulstl z salsa azllktstsa tat ta mous reviews online. He wrote an article including Georgetnwn, Duke, Villanova, hperiusatat asstu zutl twsrtzaaaa wite, zsn about the process for a Science magazineRutgers, and the U.S. Military Academ study in 1996." It was about how the West Point. Users outside the U.S. includ World Wide Web would extend the modelthe University of Western Ontario, th Hack Attacks gnqt«Iapadht of education in the future," he recalled. University of Leeds in the U.K., and t A fzuupletta NIatzupof Ntt«ku,Cradts, Manakau Institute of Technology in Ne Phreaks, and Spies over Time Zealand. Written by the security expert John Chinlla, this According to Barrie, Turnitin.corn ha RePOrtfOund 90 PerCent Of is the nest comtgeta library ever compbled of 20.000 registered clients around the the tats, tttogram files, and code snippets used s tudents bel i e ve cheat er s u crH • • lw ozvwswav a t4eeeece world, including 25 percent of the com by ha«tuts, ctactsas, phtaatis, and spies. aart~ l 4 st4.50 azllessu.l slats either are neVer Caught Or munity colleges in California. %0tv. xM in tv. Ãto o4714558$1 $97.50 asopa. assur/I.R0M ztxtl O ne school t hat w i l l m ake t h e Turnitin.corn software available to all fac I i • • ulty members on its campus starting th The editors at Sci«ncc noted that Fall is the University of California at L Barrie's article discussed only the positiveAngeles (VCLA). etTects the Internet might have on the lohn Sandbrook, the assistant provos future of education, so they asked him tofor UCLA's College ofL etters and predict some negative scenarios. He cameScience — which includes 800 faculty up with two: if students put informationmembers, 3,000 graduate students, and on the Web. someone might take it, and 20,000 if undergraduates said — the departa professor accepts work from a student, ment it of c hemistry and biochemistry might not be from that person. began using the software last winter qua "ln 1997, I was doing a follow-up to my ter. He said the faculty members who us it were quite laudatory. study,and I read hundreds of articles about digital cheating and how wide- "It was not pan of a master plan, spread it was. No one had a solution tn the chemistry department served as a be problem," he said. test. Sometimes that is the best way," s The n ext y ear, B arrie f o unded Sandbrook "Unfortunately, they had a Turnitin.corn (www tumitia.com). a company couple of cases of plagiarism they had that purports to compare student papersreport to the dean of students office." not only to material available on the Cantina«it on page 30

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The only program that comes close sampler is tools that allow for precise conUlead's Photo Explorer and I use it fortrol i n T one Curves, Sample/Target Media Center Plus is iasc's photo albumsure and other camera settings for images creating calendars, screen savers, hnd WebBalance, Contrast Enhancement, and software. Redundant you say, because I have taken. catalogues — but that is another review. Replace Colors dialogues in Photoshop Paint Shop Pro already has a built-in But the most important feature of all is thumbnail browser. Well yes, but Mediathatone or more images can be dragged and PhotoPaint. The bottom line is that Paint Shop Pro Center Plus has several features that makefrom Media Center Plus and dropped into has a fast, easy-to-use, built-in image In addition, both Adobe and Corel supjust about any program, including Word, it very useful in its own right. browser coupled with an increasingly port more colour types, and it's hard for WordPerfect, Visual Page, Photoshop, First, its albums can span several direcPaint Shop Pro to match the convenience powerful graphics program. So the browsPhotoPaint, Dreamweaver, and of course, tories and folders. Second, users can er brings me in to manage my photo and handy Corel colourt ools like iasc's own Animation Shop and Paint choose which images to load from folders assets and the power of the graphics proBrightness/Contrast/intensity, Color Tone Shop Pro. It is a keeper. Ct either manually or by extension (all IPEG and Color Hue dialogues with three pregram now has me using it for a lot more Bleu, or no BMP 6les, for example). Third, of my editing tasks. view modes. a tant andphotographer The browser deserves full credit, with Likewise in the arena of layers, PaintMedia Center Plus loads the images evenJacquesSuweyer is consul currently working on hi s photo Website faster than Paint Shop Pro's browser, the copy, move, delete, rename, get infoShop Prohas made greatadvancements www.thephotofinishes.com.Youcanreach himat on, and arrange and print multiple copies,now offering vector layers, nine types ofwhich is no slouch. Fourth, users can add features making it easy to manage all the adjustment layers, and greater blend con-keywords to each image, then search andjbsuw@thephotofinishes.cnm. images in a folder. For its thumbnailtrol between the layers. But again Adobe browser alone, Paint Shop Pro is worthand Corel stay two steps ahead with many the price of admission. more adjustment layer types and, in the case of Adobe, much more precise interPaint Shop Pro innovations layer transparency and grouping effects. Some wags would say Paint Shop Pro In the arena of masking out areas for competes on price and by approximatingprecise editing, painting, and blending the tools perfected by Adobe Photoshopcontrol, Paint Shop Pro has a long way to and Coral PhotoPaint. Wen, in the soft-go to match the power and ease of both o • • • • ware business, imitation of others' ideasPhotoshop and PhotoPaint. and tools is one of the keys to survivaL So Paint Shop Pro can't compete with And lately the big boys are copyingother top-of-the-line image processing Paint Shop Pro. In Photoshop 6 and the p rograms in specific areas, but t h e new Photoshop Elements, for example, improvements in effems, brushes, layers, Adobe is touting its vector shapes —a feaand colour control are more than enough All servers areaot the same. In ment rpC-C tesuug,' compaq pronoat servers aot only ture that Paint Shop Pro has included and to give the product a great price/performout perform continued to polish since version 5. ance advantage for the legion of digital edthe rom petuioa, we aeeinewrecord, carrying out ONE altuON traniaetfoas per dan The results confirmed that Proiiaat severs wite • twauumo Intel III processors can Paint Shop Pro's library of shapes, and its camera, Web graphics, and business illusdeliver a consistent cost-twr-traoeeeuoa from small to large environments. Whichmeans ability to move, scale, rotate, and have them trators who need a robust and versatile your costs stay the same while the amount of Jrusl n ess you can handle increases. Streaking of interact with bitmap images has caused atool for image finishing. costi, we' lowered ve our server p iving you alt this speed aud sea l a J rn ny for less.Forthe rices,g recent wave of imitators, including Deneba These users don't have the time to come Com part OmVoat server that's right for your business. visit compaq ealyroliaat/facts. Canvas JJ and Ulead Photo Impact. up to speed with all the bells and whistles of Paint Shop Pro is not resting on its lautop-of-the-line image processors; but Paint rels. It has extended shapes processing byShop Pro's many wizards, tutorials, and adding the ability to apply styles andbalanced set of tools will make for a useful arrange shapes layers, thus bringing theand very approachable graphics program. benefits of precise vector drawing and scaling to bitmap photo imaging in anAnimafio n Shop effective way. Animation Shop is to Paint Shop Pro what In addition, no other graphics vendor ImageReady is to Photoshop. Animation has seen fit to include a v'ersatile screen Shop is devoted to producing GIF and capture tool as convenient as the oneother animations for the Web. True, it can embedded in Paint Shop Pro. Finally, process Microsoft AVI movie files and Paint Shop Pro is now innovating in the Autodesk FLC files, but those are really use of printing options, allowing multipleonly practical for short animated inserts ot the facts before you buy: images and output to the Web, combiningand captions, not for robust editing. vvvvvv.cornpaq.ca/proliantlfacts them in clever ways to enrich the user's For GIF animations, Animation Shop penuum4II output choices. really shines by offering handy tools for At the same time, the basic graphicsloading, editing, and enhanring animaprocessingfeaturesofPaintShop Pro have tions, especiaUy with strong transition oau Omauuaarrreraa gtamrra emaieeumelue.ouaeeemrarrremuaeereerrardurerqiaeura~ notable improvements in colour process- tools and special effects. ore, errre urrer our ere,aereua ur rrameu a rueuu raueee urer Orrraa a u eeureer a eru ea e ruererarr 'irrel aleraeeuereuruv rvlmuaauolurmrek mst, reurea iwl ea s u r e le mr eaa. ing, layers and objects, and help wizards. However, unl i k e l ma geReady However, a big gap still remains betweenAnimation Shop has few masking, brush, Paint Shop Pro and top-of-the-line prod-colour touch-up and text-editing tools. .ucts like Adobe Photoshop and Coral Users will find that they' ll be using PhotoPaint. Animation Shop in conjunction with

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In some cases if there the extreme right of the main menu is a the bottom line is that output to the Web boxes for overllow is very useful in this was another graphic or text box on the welcome plus eliminating — two steps to in both programs fell far short of WYSIsituation. page, I simply could not position the two getting help. But both vendors could beef The second problem I encountered WYG (what you see is what you get), until graphics relative to each other in a satisup their help features by allowing for PDF output was used, in the case of with both programs is the strong deparfactory manner. WordPerfect, which supports PDF output more synonyms to key topic items. For example to find out about collaboration out of the box (Word does not). Printed output was much more faithfulfeatures I entered "collaboration," group," than Web output to HTML, but there"team,""review," and "workgroup" in both were always annoying differences between Help systems but only one term in eachon screen and printed output with both"review" in Word and "workgmup" in WordPerfect — produced the relevant products. Word seems to have more idiosyncrasiesabout borders, table sizing, fills, help. Users may be justified in feeling that and drop shadows, while WordPerfect they have to fight to get help. could unleash some real corkers in line WordPerfecthas Reveal Codes and Word has a Reveal Formatting Task Pane spacing and justification. l I I t I elf folo wtzoe 9aosuo But with WordPerfe«t I could alwaysto get users out of serious formatting publish to PDF, then get CorelDraw ortrouble, but again, WordPerfect's Reveal Adobe Acrobat to print the documentCodes proves to be easier to usewith improved fidelity but — at the cost of Wordperfect is just easier to use than MicreseROfffceXP Carel Werdperfect Office a$2 Word. much longer print times. From: Micmsat From:Catel Corp. Among the distinctive features of the Both programs support a long list of www.miaasa(tram www.carel.corn word processors, spreadsheets, and even two word processors. Word translates text Street price:5921,5516(upgtade) Street price:5450,5240(upgrade) database programs for import and export. into other languages, has a helpful word Out of thebox:Long,bat simple install. Be Ost of the bore Easyiaslal, samesetof options but after that, integration is confined tocount dialogue, Smart Tags, a more powcareful on attivafaa. printed Na manual, but as Offce XP bat single, rather thankmstep, programs in their own suites. Both pm-erful mailmerge wizard, the Clipboard newTaskPaneshelp. act ration. Ptialed manual, PerfectExpetls are grams have roughly equivalent program-Task Pane, Style and Formatting Task excellent combo for getting slarted.Vwy easyta Pros:Addsnewutilities andaaw haswidest (esmatic connections through Visual Basic Pane, and application repair and recovery. ture set of oNce suites. Integratingmorestrongly vseaadre(rashknowledgeof hawta use. for Applications (VBA), but for integra- WordPerfect has the word correction with Exchange, ShatePaiat, SQLServer, aad Pros:Em phasizescore teals-WatdPerftxk tion with other programs, the advantagesynonym pulldown, an insertion point Windows2000. Qusttta Pro,Presentations,Carel Central, and arrow, a w hole new XM L P roject goes to Word, Cons:Brenwith TasksPanes, il is complesui x te Paradox-alongwith easeof aseaad everDesigner,and realtime preview of some . As we pointed outi n P ar t I , improvingWebdelivery. la leamandget all benefits from. Needsla WordPerfect Office earns better marks formatting and font changes. Cons:Still na tool for Web pagedevelopment, improve Wardcoreengine,WYSIWYG and than Microsoft Office XP with a tried and In the balance of things. WordPerfect's maaa problems, sluggish XMLadoption, price esktap publishing features inWatdPetiect will true range of support systems for users.support for XML (it has an excellent inoease,Activation Key. weak,macroproblems,sluggish XMLadoption. including Perfect Experts, a context-sensi- online tutorial) is probably more signifiOverall rating: 27/10 Overall rating: 75/IO tive property bar, right-mouse click cant in the longer term. Continued on page38 menus, plus a help system that is chock

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ons that use the spreadsheet as a workmeans the same in both programs. Bothous tables in a spreadsheet, the two pro space for scientific, engineering. and other now havewizards for making sure argugrams again are quite similar. For exam lhe sppesdlheeN analytical processes. ments and formulas are syntactically cor-ple, they both have the abiTity to outlin Ralings: Quslt/0 Pro 8/10 Like the two word processors, Microsoft rect. (hide and then show columns or row Excel8/10 Excel and Corel Quattro Pro look a lot Quattro Pro has more formulas, espe-with a click), sort, and filter tables (eac If you say "spreadsheet" to most usersalike, displaying the same menu items andcially for finance and engineering, butcolumn has a smart fi(ter of pulldown va today it means more than financial tablesmany identical submenu items. Yet theyExcel has its own unique database andues). These are particularly useful in look and numeric calculations. Spreadsheets differ, and in some interesting ways. OLAP pivot table functions. Both pro- ing at tabular data with repeating fields have become the primary method of ana- Excel and Quattro Pro present usersgrams sport nice wizards and third-party like regional, periodic, location, or prodlyzing, evaluating, graphing, and other- with the same menus (Excel has an extra macros/add-ons for quickly creating all uct type breakouts.Each program can wise presenting tabular data. Data menu), as well as spreadsheet layoutssorts of specialized spreadsheets for quiddy and automatically chart all or Many analysts import data &om a vari-and basic navigation. everything &om home budgets, to inven-parts of a table using 2D or 3D charts. ety of sources, including databases, to creFortunately, the naming and formula tory forecasts, to ROI financial investment Both have powerful chart-editing capaate tables. Spreadsheets, particularly conventions are also reasonably similar- calculations. bilities, including rotating and resizing, Excel, have become targets for lots of addthe formula = (Q+C3)aA3, for example, For formatting and organizing the variContinued oo page40

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Rnd requiresa device called e hub. The improved the way in which they deal A simple wired network can beup set in network hub, like a wheel hub, is the cenrequests forinvestorinformation. u thought your small business wasyour home or small office using Ethernettral «onnection point for the all the com- "Coca-Cola is a classic example of th already wired because it's connect- network interface cards (NICs) and puters on your network As soon as the inquirer has sent off h ed to the online world. But now it'wiring s to connect the computers together. The cable and connectors are called RI-her message, up pops a little animated growing and you need to share informa- One simple network type uses NICs 45, which resemble RJ-Ii t elephone to tell the Web user how their request tion with co-workers, so being wired callsand coaxial cables (similar to cable-TVpieces but are wider. When you pur«hasebe dealt with," he said. for a new de6nitionl network. wiring) to connect computers together in a NIC. you may 6nd that it has both aEarl added that this year's research su linking your office computers together series (A to B to C, etc.). The computers coaxial at and RJ-45 connector. geststhat some companies that previously creates a network through which you caneither end of t his chain have to be So. To create a simple network, you were responsive to information requests share the printer, 6les, and other informaequipped with devices called terminators. need: have actually reduced their services on W tion among the people in your small Another type of Ethernet network uses NICs for each computer. sites and started ignoring email entirely group. A computer network can be wirednetwork cabling (similar to the lines run-• coaxial cabling to connect one comput- "Some companieshave dearl y tumed or wireless. ning kom your telephone to the wall jack) Continued on page 63 Continued on page 66 S1 NOIIEMBER2001 THECOMPUTER PAPER GREA TERTORONTOEOlTION wwwcaaacucompuraacom


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Rdventees In netwesh lend MacLAN f ro m Mi ramar Systems Continuedfrom page 62 (www.milamar.corn). er to the next in a chain configuration

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Based on that definition of legitimatecally includes "good faith [use) in associa- Geist and some of his law students sugModeled after a dispute-resolution pol- use, holders of apparently obvious parodytion with a non-commercial activity gested that domain-name holders had icy enacted by the Internet Corporationand protest domains have lost the vastincluding, without limitation, criticism, better luck in UDRP disputes when their for Assigned Names and Numbers majority of their cases. 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If the a ri ghtto an address that seen decisions in more than 3,500 cases, who make use of the name for commerdomain-name holder does not respond to settling ownership rights to more than cial and non-commercial purposes, the initial allegations, a complainant has 6,000 domain names. But critics of the including free speech criticism sites." flve days to apply for a reduced-cost deriUDRP have said the process has some"The list also includes specific provi-sion by a single panelist. times favoured businesses with tradesion on generics, which I think wiU help "I think [that's] reasonable." said Geist. marked monikers over individuals with Beyondthat,the UDRP allows with the specific issue of generic names,"expressing what he said was his personal other potentially legitimate uses those for he said. opinion of the Canadian proposals. "It Only anon-COmmerCial Or fair same words in Internet addresses. 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"It's probably movies," Foster said. "It' sthe Napster days. NEWARK. Delaware — A little more than gesting that people are pulling free movie a year ago, universities ranging from Yaleprobably full-motion video-type down- "In our case, it's about equal to the and software as well as music oif the W to the University of Indiana, from the loads and stuIE" Napster peak," said Steve Cawley, associate Therefore, said senior Webnoize analyst University of Chicago to the University of Foster said that the problem of datavice-president and chief information offi- Ric Dube, it's not surprising that univers Southern California afi reported huge downloads glutting the university's net- c er o f th e u n iversity's Officeo f ties are fiqding themselves in the sam problems with clogged computer net- work is mostly alfecting students in dor-Information Technology."We have a poli- quandary as last year when Napster bega works. And all blamed Napster. mitories. They have broadband access in cy to rate-limit entertainment applica- overwhelming school networks. "Most schools haven't upped their As students return to school this fafi, it'their s dorms that is separate from the unitionsthat take an unusual percentage of been deja vu afiover again.Except now, versity's teaching facilities, she said, and our overall bandwidth." capacity to the same proportion that stu Napster's out of commission. And now it' students s are suffering sharply depleted Cawley said his oSce is seeing new softdents have upped their data needs, i not just MP3 files that are clogging school online availability as a result of peersware names popping up as administratorsthey' re downloading video instead of information-technology systems, it' s downloading what Foster said has to bedetect bandwidth-sucking activity on the audio," Dube said."So if it was a proble "entertainment materiaL" school's network Kazaa is the application a year ago, with people downloading video and software as well. That, sources say, is at least partly the school most often sees used for downsongs, certainly it's going to be an exp because the kids who were sent scurrying loads now, he said, while others likenentially bigger problem with people when Napster shut down this summer Morpheus are also making their presencedownloading movies." have taken to using other clients like known. The school shuts off student Dube sai d the schools have three ways Morpheus, Kazaa and Bearshare. And iII AuguSt, COmPared to 2.79 access to those applications whenever to respond. They can either upgrade the Napster's replacements abnost universally they are detected, he said. systems to allow students to download allow all kinds o( multimedia swaps, not Foster said that her school's responsewhatever they want — which is unlikdy February... PriOr tO NBPStel'S thus far has been to limit student's dailygiven that several universities were pulled just MP3 audio files. bit-transfer allowance to I GB a day, still into a copyright infringement suits bmught At the University of D elaware in Newark, Del., school oScials noticed that lot of data. But she said the school is lookagainst Napster last year. They can limi ing into a process not unlike Minnesota's.daily data transfers for students, which someone recently downloaded a 6le that The problem is much worse than it was was 19 GB in size. Whatever that 6le was, last year when Napster was reaching theemploying softwarethat can detect the what the University of Delaware has done said Susan Foster, vice-president for infor- height of its popularity. Foster said. peer-to-peer clients that are used to pirateOr they can cut otf access to certain W mation technologies at the university, it Delaware is not the only school seeingmedia. Then that school, too, would shutresources; this was the path chosen b was not an MP3 61e. Song 6les typically such problems. At the University of down access to the offending clients. University of Minnesota officials. "The third possibility is the least practi range anywhere kom 3 MB for your averMinnesota in M inneapolis, the same Foster said. age Beatles tune to 19 MB for one of thing is happening, though a school offi- What's h appening in De laware. cal,because it's no longer about Napster, Phish's more aimless jams. cial said it is not yet worse than it wasMinnesota. in and likely numerous other Dube said. "There are dozens of resource universities around the world is n ot for people who want access to medi online." entirely unexpected. A dinosaur, with heart Last week, the Webnoize digital-enterMinnesota's Cawley acknowledges this NB —It was not expected, but a fossilized dinosaur was unearthed last year complete taininent research firm put out a study point. Students know all about the soft with a fossilized heart. The 66-railfion-year-old skeleton of a small, plant.-eating indicating that peer-to-peer downloading ware resources available to them, and 3'hescelosaurus, nicknamed Willo was found in South Dakota last year, anjj the heart '3tructure of the creature turned out to be surprisingly advanced. It also supports theactivity the- i n A ugust passed the levels many are smart enough to evade detecreached during Napster's peak popularity. tion of the clients they are using to dow ory that dmosaurs may have evoived into birds— and thus may stifibe among us in ' The company said it estimates there wereload music, movies and software. altered form: indications in the nature of organ the.suggest Willa may have hadvary high "It's a cat-and-mouse game." he said."It metabolic rates. A Web site put together by the Center for the Exploration of3.05 the billion digital Ses shared in August, takes more policing of the network traS compared to 2.79 billion Ses that moved Dinosaurian World tegs a iot more about Willo (the name comes from the wife of the February. patterns. You have to track it one applic rancher who owned the pro'perty where it was found). It also includes images ofin the Meanwhile, Webnoize said, it detected tion at a time, and I assume it's only go dinosaur — inside and out. larger-than-usual Ses moving over the to get more and more complex." www.dinoheartor — ¹wsbyres Internet through the P2P networks. sug-

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For US$5 a month, may offering tiers of paid service, much in the Truth is. a lot of young people are saythey could get the kind of personalize cable-TV mold, giving subscribers as ing they simply don't plan on payirig for online radio that MusicMatch (wwwzaus icmuch service as they are willing to pay for. digital music, according to Webnoize. matcb.cosN) provides. A US$10 monthly fee The idea with tiers is that you have to For its Driven to Tiers report, Webnoize could support a certain number of son recently surveyed 3,981 U.S.-based col- increase more than just the amount of downloads. And $20 a month could ope lege-age Web users, and also interviewedmusic that a person can access," Dube up tbe Boodgates: "You selectyour favourite senior executives Rom 20 major digitalsaid. "The problem is that there is so artists and they super serve you on much &ee music available that any commedia and technology companies. monthly or an annual basis," Dube said. According to that report, 62 percent ofmercial service is going to have to give There are two bottlenecks for the musi access to more than what people can college-age music listeners say they will industry to making these services work already get for free." continue to access MP3 music Blas for I'ree wdl, Dube suggested. One is the structur So then,to borrow a phrase from the through non-commercial , peer-to-peer of the system. Each song has at online services like Bearshare (www.besr-Recording Industry Association of least two copyrights attached to it — o America's (RIAA's) chief, Hillary Rosen, slute.mm/), Morpheus (wwwm usicolycom) for the composition and one for th Various analysts have talked about such and Kazaa (www.kazoo .com), or even just how do you compete with I'ree? recording. This is why the music industr Dube says his research suggests it is pos-bonuses as virtual backstage passes and through email, with no plans to stop. has lobbied hard to classify songs a At the same time, big media companiessible. Webnoize says some young peopleonline access to the rehearsals of their "works for hire," so that once a recordin favourite artists as two examples of this. are expressing intenwt in paying for sublike America Online (www.ao(cum ), is made, the copyright essentially bdongs Microsoi't (www.mkrusokcom), Napster (www. scription services, pmviding they get moreThere are other possibilities as well, such as providing access to pre-released songs,to the label and the Erm needs only to than just music for their money. They need nspstecmm), RealNetworks (www zea(mm), a flat fee to artists for their work. discounts for CDs, or early access to consupport services, and new kinds of proMP3.corn (www .mp3.mm), and Yahoo (www . 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SEATTLE,Wash.— RealNetworks (wwwrealnetworkscom) has unveiled new software suite, now oilers acaleathat combines its programs for playing @ 1~ dar (lett) ~with moreSeiiS streaming media and managing stored digital music. iactoalstbetow). The new application and related tools for developers, which RealNetworks calls the Reaifine Platform, will also serve as a gateway to subscription music services be. r- ~. x~ < ' that use the Seattle, Wash., company's )Iusicnet hub for secure media distribution. In addition, the company said it will '"" launch its own monthly subscription %5) service for premium content that would be basedon the new platform. ddd d • '«~ RealNetworkssaid that Realone-compatible software development kits (SDKs) are now available, as is a free, pre-beta preview version of the desktop software for consumers. MicrosoftannouncesOflice X 'Todd d dw e« The new software combines the compaMicrosoft's Macintosh Business Unit , en t tim e zo n es i n t o l ny'sReal Dukegox software— which can . ~ account, and e nhanced iwwwmIcrosoit.corn/mac/) has announced the be used to create, copy, and playasCDs official name and pricing for its new Mac i t will have some advanced features that message editing tools based well as to organize downloaded digital OS X suite of business applications,a r en'tevenin the newOfficeXP. on those in Word X. music—with its ubiquitous streaming Office:mac v. X. It will be available in The new suite marks the end of the Ofiice:mac v. X will also include a fully audioand video technoiogy. hlovember. The new suite picks up where r o ad for classic Mac customers OS howev- integrated copy of MSN messenger 2.1 for That combined approach, whichsimis Oflice:mac 2001 left off. )vlicrosoft claimse r . Office:mac 2001 wifi be the last Office Continued onpage 88 Continued onpage 84 '

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The convention also requires the U.S. to participate in an investigation for a crime so-called Convention on Cyber-crime, a global treaty to harmonize laws against does crimenot meet the "dual criminality" standard, where the crime in question is either c WASHINGTON,D.C.— Key representatives forthe CouncilofEurope have signed offon the

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The Councii of Europe's Deputy Ministers approved the treaty without alteration American in Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). mid-september, clearing the way for formal adoption by the Foreign Affairs Ministers"This at treaty will require the U.S. to engage in wiretapping or tracing of electronic co their meeting in Strasbourg on Nov. B.

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a cyber-crime treaty: It's really a treaty aimed at combating any crime committed wi Sources familiar with the process say the Council of Ministers nearly always rubberstampsproposals approved by the deputies.Assuming the ministers sign offon the con- computer."

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The treaty will become binding when five states, at least three of which are members any Internet publication of racist or xenophobic material a criminal offense.

Steinhardt said while the U.S. may sign the treaty, it won't be ratified until appr ofthe Coundl of Europe,have mtified it.Australia,Canada,New Zealand,Japan and the U.S.are expected to be among the firstsignatoriesto the convention. by the Senate. One highly infiuential senator R — epublican JesseHelms—has traditionally opposed mutuai assistance treaties that don't contain so-called "dual criminality" Theconvention wasdrafted as an attempt to set some leveloflegaland ethicalstanclauses. dards for online activity. Ratifying members will be required to pass similar legislation Still, Steinhardt said, given the U.S. Congress's wigingness to extend additional inves to combat a host ofInternet cri m es,including copyrightinfringement,chi ld pornogratigative authority to their law enforcement agenries in the wake of September's terro phy and malicious hacking. istsattacks,the Senate may yetreadily embrace the convention. But the multi-country treaty has thus far come under fire fi om severalconsumer and "It isn't necessarily a slam-dunk, but I think the odds for ratification are higher civil liberties groups, who are concerned that the convention could lead to the ernerthan gence of an international electronic surveillance network, or a kind of "global Bigthey were before [the] horrible tragedy," he said. — Newsbytes

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