Sound off: cyber cops try to get Internet music pirates to change their tune

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Investigators representing the Recording Industry Association of America are involved in an ongoing effort to prevent music piracy on the Internet. The investigators' difficulties in this area, which has them tracking Web sites worldwide, highlight some of the reasons why the music industry remains wary and uncertain about marketing music over the Internet, as well as about using other digital technologies. Generally speaking, music companies are excited about the Web and see enormous potential in it, but they worry about the possibility of a backlash from retailers, and they regard Internet radio with suspicion. Meanwhile, technologies are rapidly being developed to prevent illegal recordings and protect intellectual property. Currently, the $12.2 billion recording industry is in a slump. Sales of compact disks are flat, and cassette sales have been falling since 1994.

Integrated Record Production/Distribution, Prerecorded records and tapes, Records & Tapes, Evaluation, Safety and security measures, Laws, regulations and rules, Forecasts and trends, Industry trend, Science and technology policy, Intellectual property, Music industry, Sound recordings, Recording Industry Association of America, Industry legal issue, Software piracy, Internet radio, Internet audio broadcasting

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System buyers finally value productivity

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Computer buyers for big organizations are trying to figure out whether systems actually make workers more productive. For years, buyers simply based buying decisions on speed and features. But now, interest in human-computer interaction is growing among academics, government officials and business persons. In 1992, federal government appeals boards cited productivity studies in awarding an Internal Revenue Service grant to AT and T while overturning a Navy contract awarded to Intergraph Corp. Makers of personal computer software put high emphasis on ease of use, but that concern has only recently surfaced in the world of big systems. Some researchers say that too many features cognitively overloads users and actually slows them down. Other researchers perform time-and-motion studies on operators.

Research, Column, Industrial productivity, Human-computer interaction, Productivity, User Interface, User interfaces (Computers), Scientific Research, User Studies, Social Science

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