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America's Askmen.com recently caught up with Pete Tong during his recent US tour. Here's what was said...

Richard Menta over at MP3newswire.net just posted his annual winners and losers list in digital music for last year. The big winner is Apple for dominating MP3 portable player sales and the dramatic success of its iTunes service. Napster savior Roxio and the small independent record labels also made the winners list. The losers list include SonicBlue and MP3.com.The 2001 and 2002 winners list are worth a look too and each have links to that year's losers list.

"According to this Toronto Star story, the Canadian Copyright Board may approve a 20% levy on electronic media tomorrow, including MP3 players and hard drives."

"Finally it has happened. Zeropaid is reporting that the Kazaalite K++ project has been shutdown by Sharman Networks.

In a sign of the growing importance of DVD sales to Hollywood, 20th Century Fox is considering a plan to resume production of Family Guy, a sometimes crude animated comedy that the Fox network took off the air more than 18 months ago.

"Professional DJs and House-Party Beat Masters alike, will certainly be interested in a new product that the folks at Hercules Audio are bringing to market shortly. Although you may remember Hercules for being one of the first in PC Graphics, HotHardware has a review and showcase up that takes a look at the new Hercules USB DJ Console. This little deck comes with dual mixing pads, for blending and scratching of your favorite MP3s etc. It also takes over as your main PC sound system, with full Dolby 5.1 capabilities, when plugged into any PC via USB."

Available Tuesday, Dell's 15 and 20GB DJ adds to the growing field of iPod wannabes.
Is it worthy or is it just another player that falls short of the iPod's greatness?

optics.org has an article about how Japanese scientists have demonstrated a system that detects the presence of illicit drugs that are concealed within an envelope. Tests to date have shown that the imaging system can successfully detect and identify a range of substances including ecstasy (MDMA) and methamphetamine. The researchers are now working with companies to develop a mail screening system that could suit use in post offices and airports.

The Wall Street Journal has just posted a comparison of the three main legal music download services: Apple's iTunes Music Store, MusicMatch and Napster v2. The review covers the pros and cons of each of the services, and concludes with: "I'm sure all three services will evolve and get better, and others will enter the fray. But, for now, iTunes is the best choice on Windows."

An amber alert has been issued in regards to the young girl's disappearance from her residence.

The Toronto Police Service is requesting the assistance of the public and media in regards to locating a missing 9-year old girl from the area of Don Mills Road and Finch Avenue East. 

The missing girl has been identified as Dong-Yue (Cecilia) ZHANG a 9-year old grade 4 student at Seneca Hill Public School. Her parents last saw the child when she went to bed on Sunday night (October 19th, 2003). Her disappearance was not noticed until Monday morning shortly before 8:30 A.M. She is described as; female, Asian, 9 years of age, 4’11”, 70lbs, thin build, shoulder length black hair with blond highlights, brown eyes, wearing unknown clothing.

Anyone with Information is asked to contact 33 Division at (416) 808-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

Check out this article over at Stereophile.com for a preview of the upcoming heavy weight battle between the iTunes, and the newly resurrected Napster. For those interested, we had an article a while back about the return of Napster.

I just ran across this article over at Stereophile regarding "ravers against the RIAA".
For more information on this, you can go here, or click "more" to see the flyer.

For those of you who are interested in buying your music online, but haven't been able to because they all target Americans, you'll be happy to know that a new service called PureTrack is now available to Canadians, with singles going for $0.99 each, and albums at $9.99 and up. Currently they offer about 175,000 tracks with content from all five major record labels as well as most independent labels. 250,000 will be on stream by next month and 300,000 by year-end.
For more information on this, you can either go to the CBC, or the Globe and Mail.

Well, here it is. DJ Kamikaze has replied back to your questions, with a few lengthy answers. To view the interview, just click below.

From Nick McKay @ Slashdot.
"Tech Central Station is carrying a story on how Canadians are legally allowed to copy music not only in the home environment, but also on P2P networks such as Kazaa."