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MP3 Insider
An opinionated take on MP3 and the audio revolution.

By Eliot Van Buskirk 
Technology Editor, MP3.com

Eliot Van Buskirk covers portable audio and music-related issues for CNET Reviews. Have a question for him? Let him know! 
2006 archive  |  2005 and earlier archive


10/26/05
Good-bye songs, hello videos

9/21/05
Beware the mighty tick

7/20/05
Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

6/6/05
Consumers frustrated by online catalogs

5/18/05
Should you Yahoo your tunes?

4/22/05
The new podcasting tools

3/31/05
Is Prince the prototype?

3/9/05
The iPod phone is here

2/17/05
Hacking Napster with Winamp

2/9/05
Napster's Super Bowl throw-down

1/21/05
Introducing the world's first MP3 player

12/22/04
My iPod beats satellite radio any day

12/17/04
Color me iPod

12/8/04
The legend of the ring tone is way hardcore

11/15/04
Free MP3s from the Creative Commons

11/1/04
Steve Jobs loves you too

10/7/04
Will your next MP3 player be a cell phone?

9/22/04
The secret behind the iPod's scrollwheel

9/15/04
Five bucks says I know what the next
iPod will be


9/3/04
When Microsoft attacks

8/20/04
Jobs and Glaser's chess match unfolds

7/21/04
Apple's report card

7/7/04
Allow me to induce myself

6/23/04
"100% Legal MP3s," my foot!

6/9/04
Digital music without the computer

5/19/04
Bonnie needs an MP3 player

5/5/04
Back to the future with Sony's new online music service

4/21/04
How to take part in iTunes Music Store's success

4/7/04
Shocking facts about copyright

3/24/04
Portable video: predictions for 2004

3/10/04
Is a microdrive MP3 player right for you?

2/25/04
Portable music cuts the cord

2/11/04
The case of the missing DJ

1/28/04
Video iPods on the horizon

11/19/03
What the labels still don't comprehend

11/5/03
Five reasons not to buy an iPod

10/8/03
Next-generation P2P music store

9/24/03
The RIAA lawsuits clarified once and for all

9/10/03
CD price drops coincide with MP3 hardware breakthroughs

8/26/03
Tiny iPod competitors shipping soon

8/5/03
The suits hit the fans

6/24/03
MP3 Insider stops complaining

5/21/03
Apple shows Hollywood the way

4/25/03
Something Apple this way comes

4/16/03
Your dream DAR

3/25/03
DAR to dream

3/7/03
It takes a village to beat the iPod

2/12/03
iPod killers coming soon

1/27/03
The RIAA's hollow victory over ISPs

12/19/02
Audio emergency averted

10/31/02
DVD to the rescue

10/2/02
Grassroots new media lives on

9/20/02
The revolution will be televised

9/4/02
Your dream portable audio player

8/20/02
MP3 Insider's dream portable audio gadget

8/2/02
Thrifty audio ideas for tight budgets

7/22/02
Interview with Mick Fleetwood

6/21/02
File sharing after Audiogalaxy

6/7/02
A roller-skating epiphany

5/24/02
Watch out, Webcasters

5/10/02
Interview with a congressman--part two

4/26/02
Thirty minutes on digital music from Rep. Boucher.

4/12/02
The Artists Formerly Known As Fans

3/29/02
Senator "Fritz" wants your bits

3/1/02
How spyware might help us share files

2/15/02
Preserving the common good to accelerate progress

2/1/02
File-sharing smackdown, part deux

1/18/02
Consumers fight back

12/14/01
Could Linux make our convergence dreams come true?

11/30/01
The record industry's last chance

11/16/01
Why David makes better MP3 players than Goliath

11/2/01
How the iPod will change computing

10/19/01
The RIAA faces the music

9/28/01
Remember what we're trying to save

9/7/01
An industry in denial

8/24/01
Bad laws make for good outlaws

8/10/01
When protection attacks

7/27/01
File-sharing smackdown

6/15/01
The EFF's fight to save the Internet from "Them"

6/1/01
Four digital music news vignettes

5/18/01
How the RIAA is like the DMV

4/20/01
My pinko commie P2P notions

3/23/01
Napster blockades only the beginning

3/9/01
How an open standard could close content

2/23/01
Will Windows XP stop music piracy?

2/9/01
Paying for free music in a post-copyright world

1/26/01
New trends in portable players

1/12/01
The hardware clampdown


Expert Soundoff
4/24/02
Brian Zisk, Future of Music Coalition

2/6/02
Felix Nemirovsky, OSTA

9/21/01
Lisa Rein

8/17/01
Mikael Pawlo, Advokatfirman Lindahl

3/30/01
John Adams, Music Buddha

2/2/01
David Hyman, Gracenote

1/19/01
David McKie, MoodLogic

Eliot Van Buskirk is a senior editor for CNET Reviews.
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