PerfectDisk 2000 update
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"As part of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), Raxco Software maintains a close relationship with Microsoft throughout Microsoft's beta programs, including the Windows XP beta program," said Jim Williams, Windows(R) product manager for Raxco Software. "We learned early on that, with the release of Windows XP, Microsoft has moved the placement of the MFT to maximize Windows XP's performance. PerfectDisk 2000 is now extending this improvement and will move the MFT on all NTFS volumes, even in non-XP environments, to the most efficient and peak performing location. This gives even more performance benefits to our users' experience from PerfectDisk 2000."
The latest update for PerfectDisk 2000 is available immediately. For new users, PerfectDisk 2000 pricing begins at $44 per workstation and $219 per server, and is available at Raxco's web site at Raxco.
When a customer buys a prereleased CD, that person is sent an encrypted URL, which links to Speedera's streaming area, Smith said. The buyer can then listen to the music featured on the CD as often as desired. But once the CD is released to the public and presumably delivered to the customer, Speedera will block the Web address.
This also serves to protect the property of the music industry. After Napster, music companies grew hypersensitive to any offering that distributed copyrighted materials to a mass audience. They worried that the technology could be cracked and thereby allow the music to be copied, pirated and spread over the Web.
With Speedera's technology, listeners are kept from copying or recording the streamed music. Smith said there is a secret key embedded into the encryption that prevents anyone but the buyer to access the URL. He declined to offer specifics on how that is done.
"You can't record the music; nor can you e-mail to a friend. And it can't be accessed if someone posts it on a Web site," Smith said.
The technology is easily accessible for other kinds of media, such as video, and through different software, such as Microsoft's Windows Media and RealNetworks' RealMedia.
Sources close to Amazon said that if offering prereleased music over the Web proves successful, the e-tailer will likely extend the feature into other digital content.