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Goodbye, Liquid Audio?
gosand writes "Yahoo is carrying the AP story that basically says that Liquid Audio's days are numbered. The board voted unanimously in favor of a $57 million stockholder cash payout. They would rather sell the company, but if there is no buyer then they would probably have to liquidate the company. Liquid Audio indeed. There have been other Slashdot stories on this topic, but this could be the last one." -
Liquid Audio: Better off dead?
mgeneral writes "It seems so for the shareholders. Liquid Audio, had only $150,000 in revenue but managed to lose $5.6 million last quarter. Its main asset: A pile of cash. In fact, so much cash, that if they close the doors, they could pay back the shareholders more per share than the current stockprice...and thats exactly what some investors want them to do." We've run stories on Liquid Audio before... -
Liquid Audio Sues In Pitiful Attempt to Appear Relevant
Emily writes: "Another case of patent abuse similar to the PanIP nonsense previously reported in Slashdot. This time, it's Liquid Audio suing geotargeting company Infosplit over patent infringement. I read their patent, it's hilarious! Liquid Audio basically received a patent for saying that a domain ending by "co.uk" is in the UK. More seriously, these lawsuits represent a serious threat to innovation in this country." -
New Copy-Protected Audio Format?
Joshua Hinman writes "Iomega and Liquid Audio are working on a new audio format, similar to the old Liquid Audio format, with compression comparable to MP3, that will be bound to a particular Zip disk's serial number (every zip disk has a unique one) to prevent copying. I think it's a dumb idea (Unless they put a Zip drive in the Rio). It will probably be cracked soon enough, anyway. " remember when every video came had copy protection? I thought we were finally getting past that. Sheesh. Why torture your paying customers by restricting them like this?