Gadgetory

hi I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report this week Microsoft back just like I said also we have fun with math but first it's the gauge of the week the gadget of the week is the ESPN ultimate remote it just went on sale for delivery in time for Father's Day and it is a red Wi-Fi equipped remote controlled that not only you know remotely controls your TV and stereo it also gets on the Internet to give you a program guide for TV listings whether browsing email and text messaging you can check your fantasy sports teams and even shop online with this thing it is sick it's for like the super ultra manly men who can't be bothered to leave the couch or use any other device other than his amazing $300 remote control also I would not mind having one myself and now for the news did I or did I not tell you that Microsoft would be back anyway you know the news Microsoft now says it just wants some kind of partnership with Yahoo not to like buy them it's like k-fed coming back around and Britney it's just for stability and to control the money not to like get married again huh who do you think is Brittany's pregnant little sister in this oh we have a deal with Yahoo could it be us yeah I don't think I like this metaphor anymore in other news of the week Napster announced that its entire catalog of 6 million digital songs is now available as DRM free mp3s for 99 cents each I think we can all agree that this is pretty much the end of digital rights management on music and that only took almost 10 years yeah really let's take a little walk through memory lane shall we Napster launched in 1999 and peaked with 26 point 4 million users by 2001 but it was sued out of existence by 2002 then the music industry fought digital distribution until they finally let Apple sell digital songs on iTunes starting in 2003 the songs were wrapped in DRM and wouldn't play on lots of other devices and then other people sold DRM songs that wouldn't play on iPods and everybody got annoyed by DRM but even so the iTunes store alone sold four billion socks so using some math from the RIAA let's see how much money the record industry could have made if they just started selling DRM free songs back in 1999 let's say over nine years they sold an additional four billion songs that's like if each of the 26 million people on Napster bought one CD apiece so let's say the record industry gets 70% of the profits of the song they get 70% of the four billion songs that equals 2.8 billion dollars for them not bad at all but that's not all when the RI EE sue someone for pirating music they say they lose nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per song so if they'd started selling DRM free songs in 2000 they wouldn't have lost all those pirated songs and they would have actually made nine thousand two hundred fifty dollars for each of the four billion additional songs that they would have sold right sure well it works when they say it so let's see what's four billion times 9250 I'm going to carry a bunch of ones here I come up with 3.7 times 10 to the 13th power that is roughly about a quadric Goga lilian additional dollars that they would have made and people would still like the music industry I bet they wish they had a time machine right now that's a lot of money okay my friends next up enjoy the awesome fury that is what the help with Brian Cooley what the hell I didn't think grand theft auto could get any more vulgar then along come these that I got an email about this from a co-worker and mind you not the wilting Willy type she's one of those indie filmmakers who vacations in the third world and has a tattoo of Boris Yeltsin and a bra on her ass so I figured what could shock her you know this is really just a toast if you think about it a toast to you mister sitting on the edge of your sofa in your boxer shorts mouth a gate dumb glazed look in your face as you're awash and reflected television light monotonous ly pulling the trigger and killing prostitutes and pigeons and policemen and uttering a half-assed grunt every time you hit the mark she's not a character in Grand Theft Auto that's a game publisher big old giant whore preying on your baser instincts to separate you from 50 bucks while telling you if it feels good it's okay thanks Brian well said as always I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for watching