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Everything adapts. Software will be something you rent on the Internet and never resides on your computer.

In your dreams, and Microsoft's perhaps. On *my* computer? I think not.

Music? The situation in China has "evolved" to the point where there is no more recorded music sold (or produced).

Been to China lately? When I was there last April, I saw plenty of Chinese music for sale.

(And my gf, who is from Canton, has boatloads of the stuff.)

In the West check your local radio stations... what is selling there is oldies. What will continue to "sell" will be music from the previous century and the Internet will be dominated by garage bands offering stuff for free in hopes of landing a gig.

I'm sure these guys (whom we listen to in the office nearly every day) will be interested in learning that Miss Li sounds like she recorded her stuff in the 1920s because she actually did...?

Movies? Eliminate digital distribution (DVDs) and you eliminate the problem.

Wrong

and

Wrong.

User generated content? Check out YouTube for that, especially ShayTards and Magibon. This is the height of user-generated content and people are starting to discover (realize?) that it is crap. All crap, all the time. No, that isn't going to be the future of entertainment.

(I am going to burn in Hell for this, but...)

[citation needed]

What most people don't understand is we've grown an entire generation that believes it all should be free and will never, ever pay. This is going to require a major adaptation that most "media" and "entertainment" isn't going to survive, but the adaptation will eventually succeed.

No, only in your fantasy will it really all be free. Someone has to pay, and patronage doesn't work.

No, what we've got is a generation that views the 'Every conceivable juxtaposition of eyes/ears with content entails a licence fee' model with derision. And rightly so.

So we all have to pay for what we consume.

Please tell that to the rich folk who got that way by finding some way not to pay for something (a lot of something). Which would be most of them.

But wait -- that's what *they're* telling *you*, isn't it?

I'll bite. Show me one other country that does this:

Some weeks ago NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting put up one of the most popular shows in Norway on bittorrent. For free, with no DRM, no country restrictions.

SVT in Sweden? Though not by using a tracker:
http://svtplay.se/

For radio:
http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=live&Id=&BroadcastDate=&IsBlock=

Other channels:
http://kanal5.se/web/guest/webbtv
http://www.tv4.se/replay (I guess, flash doesn't work in my Safari 4 beta. I'd believe tv6 got one to.)

Yes, corruption in Sweden is low, and the tolerance for corruption is low, so it is not unusual for an investigation to be opened if there is just a slight chance there could be corruption.

This started with critical journalism at Sveriges Radio (in swedish). Because of the articles, the public prosecutor is now investigating.

Some of the articles are about the etical problems with Honeywell sponsoring. This is not illegal, and I do not think this is being investigated.

The trips to China are being investigated, but I think this will end with the travelers being freed of all accusations.

More problematic is the role of Astra Zeneca. They are also sponsors. And Bo Angelin, who is in the committee that awarded the price in medicine to Harald zur Hausen is also on the board of Astra Zeneca. Harald zur Hausen got the price for research that has been patented by Astra Zeneca.

There has actually been quite a lot of fuss around this law. For example, a seldomly used law paragraph enabled the social democratic minority to delay this proposal for a year, something which gained quite some attention when it happened. If that had not been done, the law would have passed a year ago. An update to what was happening during this period is available at http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.156736 (swedish only). IDG is the largest swedish news agency for technology-related news. At the national swedish radio homepage http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/ekot/artikel.asp?Artikel=1242136 you can read about finlands protests against the law. They also published news about the growing criticism of the law at http://www.sr.se/Ekot/artikel.asp?artikel=1240436 (both links in swedish).

There has actually been quite a lot of fuss around this law. For example, a seldomly used law paragraph enabled the social democratic minority to delay this proposal for a year, something which gained quite some attention when it happened. If that had not been done, the law would have passed a year ago. An update to what was happening during this period is available at http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.156736 (swedish only). IDG is the largest swedish news agency for technology-related news. At the national swedish radio homepage http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/ekot/artikel.asp?Artikel=1242136 you can read about finlands protests against the law. They also published news about the growing criticism of the law at http://www.sr.se/Ekot/artikel.asp?artikel=1240436 (both links in swedish).

More and more music is produced while the old music still is available. The pricing of the CD:s is also a problem. It's so easy to buy 10 CD:s when they cost $5 each, but when they cost $20 each you buy one or maybe two. The internet download of music would have happened regardless of Napster, Gnutella etc. Just an accident waiting to happen.

And - depending on where you are living there are sometimes radio stations that actually provide good music, large variation or different music from time to time too. SR is one example. (Site in Swedish. OK maybe /.:ed now :-)). There are also a lot of internet radios that can provide music for about every taste. Unfortunately the music industry is unable to understand that the music played on radio (internet or wireless) is actually more promotional than a sales loss. If you want quality sound you don't record from the radio unless you actually can't afford buying the music anyway.

One of the advantages with the internet is that it allows the artists to get a much shorter channel to the customers compared to the now old and tired way of going by CD:s. The normal situation today is that when you find a CD shop you go in and look around and find a lot of the music you don't want or already have, but not much of the music you want. And if you ask you will be told that they can order it if you REALLY want it. So the next thing is to go home and download the tracks from some site where they are already available.

Naked, blasted and pissed off...

"London being the great example does not apply to ANY other city in Europe. But then again ignorant Americans with no knowledge of the world is just a stereotype, huh?"

Right! No other EU country does either. It's just the US

I use it almost every day... The Swedish Radio (http://sr.se/) uses Real Audio or Windows Crap Audio to stream their radio stations which really only leaves one choise if you want to listen to them: Real Audio.
Streaming WMA can't automatically adjust its bitrate to available bandwith and over all sounds a lot worse than the real stream on the same bitrate.
BBC also uses Real Audio to stream their radio sations, which I listen to occationally.

On Linux I use the official RealPlayer for Linux and on Windows I use RealAlternative with Media Player Classic.

Of course it would nice if official (state owned) companies like SR and BBC could offer open formats like Vorbis to stream their audio, but neither of them claims to have plans for it...

Swedish state controlled radio are also jumping on the podcasting train:

http://sr.se/podradio

Here's a neat twist: text-to- song

To my understanding, Dolby just "accidentially" works on audio CDs, while DTS CDs are part of the DTS definition. There are only very few DTS CDs available, but I only know of one source of Dolby Digital for CDs, and that's a download from the swedish radio, but only two of the ten downloads are available in DD as well, the rest is DTS only.

The swedish army is about to start using Ghost Recon (ink in sweidsh) as a means of training its officers. The part in games related to tactics and decision making is probably a lot more useful to real life, rather than actual physical skills.

Everyone supports XM, nobody supports Sirius. Just get XM and don't look like a betamax weenie. :-)

Try it out now, using actual singers: http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.asp :)

Swedish radio sent an interview with Alan Kay today. The interviewer tells him that he could have been Bill Gates and Kay responds with "But Bill Gates doesn't know anything important about computers so who'd want to be him?".

Link to real audio clip (click on "Lyssna" and go to the end of the file). The interview is about what he did at Xerox.

In Sweden there is a public radio show called syntax Error that plays Scene, Retro, Game and console music every thurstay at 20:30.

For more information and to download the episodes checkout:

http://www.syntaxerror.nu
http://www.ko2000.nu/syntaxerror/
http://www.sr.se/p3/frank/syntax.stm

/Fredrik

This is old stuff. Even the swedish national radio has done this for more than a year. You can find some of their programs in both DTS and DD at this location: 5.1 CD audio samples

I live in Sweden. We have several Public Service TV and Radio stations. The biggest radio station is Programme 3, P3.

P3 play a lot of top-20 stuff, but fortunately smaller interests are seen to. One favourite is P3 Live, which airs four days a week -- a new band/artist every day. Very good and broad selection of music, and excellent live quality

Look around the playlists. There's everthing from Slitknot, Bob Hund, In Flames and lot's of lot's of bands you've never heard of and would never ever hear on a commercial station.

Tonight is Kittie, and Entombed is coming up soon. Very nice.

A few sys admins at The Swedish Radio
where fired some time ago because they had seti@home running on some machines.
The management said that didn't know what seti@home acutely did.....and of course that it was a security threat....

Just my 0.02

Maybe you should tune in some seriouse channels.
How about Sveriges Radio. Last time I checked they had 1911000 records to choose from.

heck, I'm not even sure if 80gig would be sufficient for the playlist :P