Airports given the power to scan your media player for copyrighted material?

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Good lord, imagine the queues this would cause.

Global world-controlling power-consortium G8 is, apparently, looking at plans to give airports the power to scan portable media players for copyrighted material when you fly, under its upcoming Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement…

Shiny Video Preview: Airremote application for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch

Yesterday I had an opportunity to check out the Airremote application that’ll be launching in the App store in July, for both the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’ll cost $99, or £50, and will act like a universal remote control for your home, allowing you to control your Sky TV service, lighting, iTunes and Kaleidescape systems.

The potential to add more home systems and services to control is definitely there, too – the representative I spoke…

Kilpsch launches RoomGroove "Zero Grief" wireless multiroom iPod system

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Kilpsch has announced its RoomGroove audio system, designed to be used with the iPod, and expandable to cover every room in the home.

The system features horn-loaded tweeters and high quality woofers for accurate sound and rich bass, and can be wirelessly linked together with other RoomGroove units. Each unit acts as a receiver and transmitter, so music from one connected iPod can be sent to different rooms…

Sub-£50 iPod speaker-system-dock-thing from GEAR4 released, BlackBox 24/7

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GEAR4 is on a roll of late, launching their fourth iPod docking system in the last month. The BlackBox 24/7, announced today, will join their first BlackBox product, with little discernible differences between the two.

Today’s product can dock, plus play from, your iPod, and has FM radio and an integrated alarm clock. As with most of these plastic boxes, it can wake you up with your choons, otherwise the radio or alarm buzzer. Getting…

(Only!) Half the music stored on MP3 players is stolen

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According to a survey from British Music Rights, only half of the music on the iPods/Zens/Sansas of the nation’s 14-24 year-olds had actually been paid for legitimately.

The average musical youth has 1770 tracks stored on their MP3 player of choice, but half of that lot’s been nicked off the internet or, more likely, copied from the hard drive…