Rockchip has introduced their new 3D Android tablet this week, one that will be glasses-free while still giving owners full 3D support.
The tablet will use autostereoscopic technology, the same displays that will be available in the unreleased Nintendo 3DS.
Users can adjust the amount of 3D, and even disable it completely.
Rockchip has dubbed their tablet the Supernova x1 but little will be known officially about the device until the IFA in September.
Pictures show a 3.4-to-4-inch screen, a microSD slot, a USB port, SES Astra’s 3D channel and volume controls.
You can view a slideshow of pics here: Rockchip Supernova x1 via Engadget
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According to RIAA President Cary Sherman, the DMCA doesn’t work for the content industry because it doesn’t make service providers responsible for policing copyright infringement.
In statements made as part of a panel discussion at an event hosted by the Technology Policy Institute, Sherman said, “the DMCA isn’t working for content people at all.”
He went on to explain, “You basically cannot monitor all the infringements on the internet,” later adding, “everybody has to do something about piracy.”
This line of reasoning is nothing new for the RIAA, but it remains as flawed as ever. It requires that you accept a number of assumptions which simply don’t hold up to any real scrutiny.
The most obvious is that there’s any way to stop piracy. It’s easy to say somebody has to do it, but there’s no evidence anyone actually can.
According to the Sherman the solution is for everyone from ISPs on up to do get involved. But this creates some significant legal problems.
How does an ISP monitor the content of on their network without violating federal wiretapping law?
And that’s without considering that figuring out whether fair use is involved requires human intervention, which would automatically disqualify the provider from DMCA safe harbor protection.
So if ISPs can’t find infringement what about services like RapidShare? Sure they could use a filtering system like YouTube has implemented, but what’s to stop people from switching to a new service with no such arrangement in place?
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According to the annual financial report for EMI, smallest of the Big 4 record labels, the company lost 624 million euros (just over $800 million using today’s conversion rates) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010.
The report is prepared each year by EMI’s owner, Terra Firma owned Maltby Capital, a Terra Firma owned company which purchased EMI in 2007.
Maltby Capital Chairman Stephen Alexander began the report by addressing developments in recent months suggesting Citigroup, the principal lender in Terra Firma’s acquisition of EMI, might take over the company due to an alleged breach of lending terms.
Alexander wrote, “despite the issues around the financing structure and the related public speculation, both divisions of EMI have shown marked progress in their underlying performance during the course of the last twelve months.”
This translates into losing less money than the previous year, which saw a loss of more than 1.7 billion euros. He also admitted having no actual first hand knowledge of the legal proceedings between Citigroup and Terra Firma.
There is a glimmer of hope for the future if they can survive long enough. EMI’s goal, it says, is becoming “a comprehensive rights management company that can take full advantage of global opportunities in all markets for music to the maximum benefit of its artists and songwriters.”
But are they doing enough to make that a reality? The report’s section on EMI’s recorded music division focused almost entirely on a handful of best selling artists. Diversification into new areas like merchandise distribution and their live recording/distribution service, Abbey Road Live, were almost a footnote.
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