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Gaming

Will Guitar Hero and Rock Band Overpower iTunes?

Earlier in the week on my own podcast I reported that Motley Crue's New Single has been bought more by Rock Band users than iTunes 5 to 1. With over 15 million song Downloads on Guitar Hero, and Rock Band not too far behind with 10 million songs, it's easy to see the potential here. But will it ever replace

A standard by any other name…

...would still be more about marketing than helping consumers. It has always been a stange phenomenon that 'standards' proposed by individual companies can be used to either protect markets or break them open. While they use the same term they are radically different on one important spectrum, openess. A large dominant company will try and propose a 'standard' that at