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Tenth Anniversary of First Commercial MP3 Player
Pickens writes "The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was launched in March 1998 — the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems with 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. In the US, local supplier Eiger Labs wanted $250 for the F10, though the price fell to $200 the following year prompted by the release of the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300. The Rio was released in September 1998, but by 8 October had become the subject of a lawsuit from the RIAA which claimed the player violated the 1992 US Home Recordings Act. It was later ruled that the Rio had not infringed the Act because it was not responsible for the actions of its customers. Thanks to its lesser known name, the F10 avoided such legal entanglements, but at the cost of all the free publicity its rival gained from the lawsuit."
No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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At about 10,000$ of damages per song, 32MB doesn't seems that small!
;)
In fact, it should be "engough for everybody"
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Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday dear mp3 player.
Huh, is that the RIAA at the door?
In the obsolete technology museum otherwise known as my house, I have two RaveMPs, one of the first MP3 players... and they both have the expansion chip to expand the memory to a full 128 meg! Almost enough for an entire CD! And the expansion chips only cost me like $150 each! (I got a good deal.)
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It was an innocent time on the internet, when you could download mp3s from the web, and nobody cared if you didn't upload.
The iPod hasn't been out for 10 years. Stop trying to rewrite history.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
You're one step ahead of yourself. You need to marry a gf before you can get a DIVORCE.
So, if you live in TX where gun laws are pretty much liberal, would u probably feel the urge to buy an ICBM just to stay on the illegal side? ;-)
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And seeing as how this is /. you'll likely also need to take step 0, get girlfriend. Wait scratch that, I forgot step -1, find female willing to stand your presence.