Thursday , March 28 2024

Science and Technology

When Harry Met Hulky

Frank Rich finds that the American public’s attention span, sense of quality and critical independence are longer and stronger than the entertainment industry gives it credit for: Here’s what’s wrong with kids in the digital age. They live in front of their TV and PC screens. They steal music online. …

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“RIAA – Really Ignorant Assholes Always”

Hey, that’s pretty funny. The real problem, though, is that none of them are ignorant, they’re really smart people in fact, who seem to think the consuming public owes them something. This new campaign to scare the public “straight” regarding file sharing could in fact alienate such a large percentage …

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“I think that’s the largest one … “

I understand the seriousness of this for the satellite and cable companies, and the for-profit element removes most of my sympathy, but, um… A man who schemed to steal satellite television signals now has something much bigger than a cable bill to pay — a whopping $180 million restitution order …

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Talking Tough, Anonymously

File sharing traffic has changed little since the RIAA threat of last week, and users are talking tough but not revealing their last names to reporters. What we need is an overt deep pockets challenge to the suits. The NY Post: Catch us if you can! That seems to be …

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Keep it To Yourself

The moral of this story is if you get hold of a prerelease copy of a film, keep it to yourself. If you make that unfinished copy available, and people respond negatively to it, you will be hunted down like a dog: Kerry Gonzalez, a 24-year-old New Jersey insurance underwriter, …

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New Gateway “Connected” DVD Player

Gateway hopes to return to profitability with the help of home electronics: The Poway, Calif., company has crafted the new device to look and act like a regular DVD player, but it will also be able to access and play multimedia files stored on a PC. Gateway plans to begin …

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Glastonbury Webcast

The famous Glastonbury Festival is online for your dining and dancing pleasure, including webcasts of a number of acts: The virtual festival gates are now OPEN! If you haven’t managed to snag a ticket, there’s no need to fret (and there’s certainly no need to jump the fence – that …

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Grokster’s Rosso Speaks

We just mentioned that many users are looking to methods other than the big systems like Kazaa and Grokster for P2P. Grokster president Wayne Rosso spoke yesterday at a copyright conference: The Recording Industry Association of America’s plan to sue individuals for distributing “substantial amounts” of music files on peer-to-peer …

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Kazaa and Grokster Are So 2002

Between spyware, pop-up ads, mislabeledfiles, spoofed files, and now the threats of doom from the RIAA, people are looking to alternatives to the main file sharing systems: I think there is going to be a natural recession where people will find other, more secure networks where they feel more comfortable, …

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Google Toolbar 2

This is pretty cool, but my God does Blogspot suck worse than ever. I find it hard to believe I used that random, unreliable, unattended, disfigured jumble of insect shit for six months. Hey Ev, you are a worthless, soulless prick and now that you have the cash I would …

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