Amie Street proves lucrative for Ashley Alexandra Dupré, earning her $204,000 post-Eliot Spitzer scandal

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I mentioned last Thursday that Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the prostitute embroiled in the Eliot Spitzer scandal over in New York, has seen the price of her single on the MP3 site Amie Street soar by 415%.

Things continue to look up for Ashley, as it appears she’s hooked herself a huge amount of cash via downloads on the site. Since the scandal broke out, her song has been sold 300,000 on the demand-priced site, making her a tidy $204,000 profit. Due…

Over at SXSW, Lou Reed had a Perfect Day moaning about digital music

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The curmudgeonly Lou Reed Walked On The Wild Side yesterday at the Texas SXSW conference about digital music, shocking no-one with his audiophilic opinions about how “technology is making things worse”. We always knew he was a moaner.

He went on, telling the audience of tech-savvy hanger-ons that “if you are one of those people like me who like ‘good sound,’ you need good speakers, a good stereo, and (as an artist) your price of recording goes up, because you need a good mic, good cables…If you don’t like good sound, go with MP3.” Ouch, Lou, you really do have a Rock And Roll Heart, eh?

According to Lou, “people have…

Shiny Video Preview: Samsung YP-S2 pebble MP3 players


Last night Zara and I went along to the Samsung 2008 product showcase, where we feasted our eyes on all the products…we’d already covered. Still, it was news to the print media journalists there, and there were even a couple of new toys we hadn’t seen nor heard of yet.

The YP-S2 MP3 players are bizarre little pebble-shaped devices, quite similar to the Creative Zen Stones, and will…