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Educate yourself and get it the hell out of your computer. The Washington Post has a good primer on the increasing peril: Broadly speaking, it describes hundreds of different programs that are often surreptitiously installed on people’s computers. The most benign forms, known as adware, display advertisements based on the …
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TV Singing the Young Man Blues
The drop off in television viewing among young men appears to be a trend that is not going to reverse: Note to the television networks: Pete Brandel is not missing. He’s right here, but like a lot of other 20-something men he’s just not watching as much TV. Mr. Brandel, …
Read More »Whose Entertainment Is It?
The Chicago Tribune interviews leading copyright liberalization advocate Lawrence Lessig and Ken Waagner, who runs Wilco’s Internet operations: Have you both heard “The Grey Album”? What do you think of it? Ken Waagner: I think it’s interesting. I don’t think it’s an amazing album, but I think the concept is …
Read More »P2P Criminals?
It appears to be impossible to pry the lips of selected Congressional assplows from the entertainment industry sphincter: A draft bill recently circulated among members of the House judiciary committee would make it much easier for the Justice Department to pursue criminal prosecutions against file sharers by lowering the burden …
Read More »Nazi File Sharers
No ambiguity here: German police raid neo-Nazi file sharers (quite an image, isn’t it?). German police raided the homes of more than 300 people on Wednesday who they suspect of posting neo-Nazi music files on the Internet for others to download, the Federal Crime Office said in a statement. Police …
Read More »Banned Music
In the wake of Grey Tuesday, BannedMusic.org: Downhill Battle, the group behind the landmark “Grey Tuesday” online protest has created BannedMusic.org, a virtual record label for sample-based music that the major record labels try to suppress. BannedMusic.org, which launches today, features a new, one-click system for p2p downloads and “The …
Read More »Deja Vu in the Echo Chamber: More RIAA Lawsuits
And so it goes, so it goes, so it goes: The recording industry sued 532 people Tuesday, including scores of individuals using computer networks at 21 universities, claiming they were illegally sharing digital music files over the Internet. The latest wave of copyright lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association …
Read More »The Art of Smelliness
Given all the chatter about art and museums, it is only fitting that we turn our noses in the direction of the Perfume Museum of Barcelona. In the words of founder Ramon Planas Buera: The Perfume Museum of Barcelona, installed in the Paseo de Gracia 39, it was inaugurated in …
Read More »MLB Signs With MSN and AOL For Webcasts
Microsoft confirmed that it will offer audio and video of Major League Baseball games via its MSN service, and AOL will offer live audio streams and 20-minute video clips for each game. The Microsoft deal, worth as much as $40 million over two years, according to sources, is one of …
Read More »Ronald McDownload
Sony and McDonald’s pair up for a new music download campaign: Hungry for a taste of the online music business, Sony Corp. is aiming to line up McDonald’s Corp. to market the Japanese conglomerate’s new download service, according to people familiar with the deal. The two companies have been hammering …
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