This season, a notorious pirate gives the music industry an expensive gift | Ars Technica Sunde's point is obviously a satirical one—he knows that he's not really costing the music industry that much money by copying a bunch of files to /dev/null. But he wants to draw people's attention to the absurd claims made by copyright holders who are "putting a value to a copy," and trying to prevent people from sharing the music they love.

Labels: bittorrent, sampling

Apple Music may get higher-res audio in 2016 Apple users may get a music quality upgrade in 2016, with a new report claiming that the company has been developing hi-res audio streaming up to 96kHz/24bit.

Labels: ALAC