EvilMagnus - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Lovely, but... (Score 1) 79

by EvilMagnus on Monday December 29, 2008 @05:49PM (#26262035) Attached to: Early Praise For <em>Empire: Total War</em>

And I have a lot of hope for this one, since a good chunk of it will deal with American history which many of the developers probably know a bit more about than Roman, Japanese, or medieval European history.

Creative Assembly is based in the UK; their developers probably know more about Roman & European history than they do American. ;-)

Comment Last year I would have cared (Score 3, Insightful) 444

by EvilMagnus on Saturday February 23, 2008 @05:45PM (#22529504) Attached to: Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project

I used to use Hymn to make copies of my legally purchased iTunes songs. It was only because I *could* make m4a files out of iTunes downloads that I purchased music from Apple in the first place.

Now that Amazon is in the mp3 business I've been buying all my music from them. I've bought more music from Amazon in the last two months than I did in the last year from iTMS. iTunes was great when there was no other legal way to get a large selection of artists. That's changed now.

Submission + - RIAA Secretly Tries to Get ISP Subscriber Info

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @01:30PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA secretly went into federal district court in Denver, Colorado, the home town of its lawyers, and — in an attempt to change the rules of the game — made an ex parte application to a federal judge there, asking him to rule (pdf) that the federal Cable Communications Policy Act does not apply to the RIAA's attempts to get subscriber information from cable companies. ("Ex parte" means application was secret, no one else — neither the ISP nor the subscribers — were given notice that this was going on.). They were, in effect, asking the Court to rule that the RIAA does not need to get a court order to be able to force an ISP to disclose confidential subscriber information. The Magistrate Judge declined to rule on the issue (pdf), but did give them the ex parte discovery order they were looking for."

Submission + - iTunes sales 'collapsing'

Submitted by Alien54 on Monday December 11, 2006 @07:03PM

Alien54 writes: via the register

The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to analyst company Forrester Research. Secretive Apple doesn't break out revenues from iTunes, but Forrester conducted an analysis of credit card transactions over a 27-month period. And this year's numbers aren't good.[...] And it isn't just Apple's problem. Nielsen Soundscan has grimmer news for prospective digital download services, indicating three consecutive quarters of flat or declining revenues for the sector as a whole.

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