A Great Female Guitarist - Orianthi Panagaris

 
At 24 years old, Orianthi has already experienced what most aspiring musicians only dream of. She's opened for her hero (Steve Vai), backed an Idol (Carrie Underwood), traded solos with a legend (Carlos Santana) and shared the stage with the King of Pop (Michael Jackson). What's left to conquer? The world stage, for one, and this guitar wunderkind has her sights clearly set on the road ahead.

Google Focusing on Online Video Future

As you should remember, Goggle has purchased On2, the video codec company, not so long ago. This made many open source proponents hope that Google is going to release On2’s technology to the public as patent-free and open source. That was determined by the fact that On2 had earlier donated the code from another codec to Ogg Theora, which is a video open source project, and possibly could do that again.
Another thing is that On2 purchase was made exactly in time of the discussion of switching from Flash to HTML5 in the web. There are many proponents of free online standards which would be happy to see web video being delivered via the simple <video> element in HTML5. As Google owns YouTube, everything it does regarding video is going important to the public, and such a move could make video distribution online absolutely free, as opposed to Adobe’s Flash, for example. There is an alternative presented by H.264, which is now becoming an open source standard, but it won’t be free forever, because MPEG-LA promised to keep it royalty free only till 2015.

UK’s Music Industry Hopes “Three-Strikes” Go Global

Entertainment industry outfits like IFPI, RIAA and BPI cheer up the passage of the UK’s DEB (Digital Economy Bill), allowing website filtering, Internet disconnection and banning public Wi-Fi, feeling hopeful that it will force the graduated approach to fighting piracy worldwide.

The Digital Economy Bill has just passed in the UK, but the music industry is already lining up to praise the MPs for entering a new age of anti-piracy legislation.
Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA Chairman, said they welcome the UK government‘s acknowledgment that Internet Service Providers play an important role in defending copyright owners, and perceiving the Internet as a source of economic growth and a basis for new business models. Moreover, the more this regulation goes global, the better the opportunities are for a prospering music industry to satisfy copyright holders and their fans.