Culture and Society

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …