Allofmp3.com has been selling unrestricted music downloads in a variety of formats for about 4 to 10 cents per song for a few years now. It’s a Russia-based business which claims to have legal rights to sell the music in this way to Russian citizens for personal use. Of course, they don’t do anything to verify that their customers are Russian and the site is available in English and fully usable by any English-speaker. It looks like the Russian authorities may drop the proverbial hatchet on the service and force them to pay copyright fees for the music they have sold. It will be interesting to see how this plays out!
February, 2005
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A Parent’s Primer to Computer Slang
If you feel like you are falling farther and farther behind your children in your understanding of technology and the Internet, you probably are! The first step in understanding the kids of today is learning to communicate with them. This guide should help you get started by revealing some of the common slang used in reference to computers and the Internet. It explains the meanings of coded words like !337$p34k and pwn3d and provides a clear description of key ways to decode other words and make up your own new ones.
