The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing.

Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Edgar Bronfman told mobile operators that they must not make the same mistake that the music industry made.

“We used to fool ourselves,’ he said. “We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong. How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.”

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube’s goal, he said, is to make the site’s vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer’s Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if they want it.

Why wouldn’t they? Because the need to buffer the video before it starts playing will change the experience. Hence the experiment, rather than just a rapid rollout of this technology. On stage, he said the current resolution of YouTube videos has been “good enough” for the site up till now.

Chen told me that he expects that high-quality YouTube vids will be available to everyone within three months.

Michelle Kratschmer’s family was craving the usual — a large pepperoni pizza and a small pie with black olives and cheese — but how she entered the phone order was entirely new.

The Godfrey, Ill., woman ordered dinner by sending a text message to her local Papa John’s restaurant. A half-hour later, the pizzas were delivered to her home.

“I got exactly what I ordered, so that was a good thing,” Kratschmer said. “You send it off and you’re not sure if they’ve gotten it on that end, because you don’t talk to them.”

Louisville-based Papa John’s International Inc. this week rolled out its text message ordering option at its 2,700 U.S. restaurants. It’s a progression from the pizza maker’s online ordering, which began in 2001 and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of its U.S. sales.

Domino’s Pizza Inc. has taken it another step, recently starting a system that lets customers place orders from Web-enabled mobile devices. The new ordering system, launched about 2 1/2 months ago, is now available at about 3,000 Domino’s locations and will spread to all of the chain’s approximately 5,100 U.S. restaurants next year, said Rob Weisberg, a marketing vice president for the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company.

Bear Stearns restaurant analyst Joe Buckley said the new ordering methods could help the chains win brand loyalty among people who will be eating pizza for decades to come.

“The high-technology ways of reaching customers probably appeal to younger people, who live with their text messaging and their BlackBerry,” he said.

Video game consoles, which are increasingly being used to surf the Internet, aren’t generally equipped with antivirus protection like PCs.

Security vendor Trend Micro Inc. thinks they should be, though. It has launched software for Sony’s Playstation 3 that promises to block malicious Web pages and those dealing in sex, drugs and violence.

The company bills the software as the first of its kind for a home gaming system. It was released earlier this month as part of a PS3 upgrade and will be free until April.

There are scores of eligible Google millionaires, but as of next month, both its famed billionaire founders appear to be taken.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, co-founder Larry Page will marry his girlfriend, Lucinda Southworth, at an undisclosed location during the weekend of December 8.

Guests have been advised to have their passports available to travel internationally, the newspaper said.