Science and Technology

The RIAA and friends threaten one and all with an ad in the NY Times: NEXT TIME YOU OR YOUR KIDS ‘SHARE’ MUSIC ON THE INTERNET, YOU MAY ALSO WISH TO DOWNLOAD A LIST OF ATTORNEYS. By now, most people know that distributing copyrighted music over the Internet without permission …

Cornfield Commentator, Blogcritic, good pal, David Hogberg has moved to a plush new green spot – check it out my friends. Ooh and I like the running ticker across the top.

Cynthia Webb has it all in the Washington Post: The Recording Industry Association of America yesterday announced that it will start patrolling the Internet today for evidence to use against individual peer-to-peer network users and other file swappers suspected of trading “substantial” amounts of copyrighted music online. Expect users of …

A quixotic quest? Like an ice salesman setting up shop in Anchorage, an online music service plans to start recruiting paying subscribers today on the leading outlet for free music on the Internet. Dallas-based Streamwaves is the first music service backed by the major record companies to cozy up to …

More creative use of the web – the glammy Dandy Warhols are moving their new website, called “The Odditorium,” around to various hosts in advance of the domestic release of their Welcome to the Monkey House album: The Odditorium will feature short films (both live and animated), rare and unreleased …

I am deeply gratified to see this development, with electronics manufacturers choosing to service their customers and refusing to be intimidated by the copyright industry: Seventeen of the largest computer, consumer electronics and mobile phone companies on Tuesday said they have agreed on common standards to make it easier for …

The Harry Potter rollout last weekend required almost as much planning as Gulf War 2: As if by magic, more than 400,000 families across the country opened their front doors Saturday to find a neatly packaged “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” book on their doorsteps. But the …

A short, sweet summary of the digital copyright issues we are always babbling about, from Robert MacMillan in the Washington Post: Buying an album or watching a film used to mean going to the music store or the movies, renting a video, maybe checking out the Columbia House catalog. Those …

There is much to be learned from internecine warfare – cartels never hold in the long run – look at what the baseball owners have done to each other over the years. The major labels are even more stupid and greedy: Two years after music industry lawyers pounded Napster Inc. …

RIAA suit victim Jesse Jordan has received 100% of the $12,000 payment to the RIAA his settlement required through donations – not exactly the “lesson” the RIAA wanted to impart: Thanks to the many generous people out there, I have recovered my savings. Please don’t send me any more money. …