The “Break it Down” Blog

Amazon S3 Suffers Quick, Massive Outage

Ruh-roh… Marc Chung sends in news that Amazon’s huge S3 storage service went down for 3 hours this morning. While it seems like a petty issue, Amazon uses the service to host most of their own content, in addition to entire companies/websites running off of S3 like Twitter and SmugMug. Looks like things are back up [...]

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DRM’ed Music is Dead – Long Live Amazon!

Todd Swarthout sent in news about the kickass announcement that Amazon’s MP3 service now offers DRM-free music from all 4 of the major music labels as of January 10th! Sony BMG Warner EMI Universal Music This is in a followup to the news we reported on Amazon recently securing contracts with Sony BMG and Sony BMG, before that, decided DRM [...]

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Sony Offers DRM-Free Music on Amazon’s MP3 Service

New York Times reports that Sony continues to lead the anti-DRM charge (did I just write that?!) and has announced that it will start offering DRM-free downloads of it music on Amazon’s MP3 service. The beauty of this decision is that Apple’s DRM-laden music from iTunes only plays on their associated iPod devices (and iPhone), [...]

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Amazon Game Blow-Out Sale (Up to 50%)

VE3D had the scoop on a game blow-out sale, for all platforms, that Amazon was having. Some games, mostly the PC games, are heavily discounted down to about 50%, but there are plenty of games for the PS3, XBox 360 and Wii that look tasty on the list. My quick picks for you guys (this list [...]

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Amazon $199 HD-DVD Player + 10 HD-DVD Movies

Just got this in the mail. Amazon is running a $199 deal which includes a Toshiba HD-A3 ($169 by itself, or $99 from some retailers fufilling the $99 A2-backorders earlier) and 10 HD-DVD movies you can choose with the order. The HD-A3 doesn’t do 1080p, but should serve it’s purpose as a value HD-DVD very [...]

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It’s the little things in life…

… that put a smile across my face: Oh well, maybe if I add a CD or Book I’ll get Super Saver shipping?

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