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Although media deregulation would appear to have not served the public interest, almost incredibly, the FCC is considering EVEN MORE deregulation. The TV creative community, usually at odds with itself, has banded to fight further deregulation: The coalition combines directors, writers, actors and producers — groups more often known for …

As we mentioned last week in reference to Amoeba Music in the Bay Area, there will always be room for a smart, niche-oriented retailer: leave the current hits to the malls, find a specialized segment that isn’t being serviced and service them well. Duh: If you’re looking for the latest …

A fine analysis of what’s going on with the recording industry by Jeanne A. Naujeck of The Tennessean: digital downloads break albums down into songs, which has refocused attention on singles, which the industry phased out in an effort to drive more lucrative album sales. A large number of music …

Note what I wrote here yesterday about the price of CDs: File-swapping and the rise of DVDs have combined to expose the outrageous rip that are retail CD prices – people will buy more if they think they are getting a good deal: paying more for the soundtrack than the …

This NY Times article thinks the Mottola ouster heralds a new wind a-blowin’ in the music biz – you’ve heard most of it before, but this article seems to accept drastic change as a foregone conclusion: The resignation last week of one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, Thomas …

RIAA allies with two computer trade organizations to oppose mandatory anti-copying legislation: None of the three groups — the Recording Industry Association of America, the Business Software Alliance and the Computer Systems Policy Project — would comment on the specifics of the joint principles that are to be released at …

We visited my sister in the Washington DC area this weekend – she works for AOL – things are, shall we say, hectic there right now. Steve Case out as chairman in May – Richard Parsons takes over – no one sad but Mrs. Case: At a beefy 6-foot-4, AOL …

kevin Mitnick’s court-mandated Internet ban is about to lift – he speaks with the NY Times Magazine: You were the F.B.I.’s most wanted hacker — in jail in 1988 and then again from 1995 to 2000 for breaking into and tampering with corporate networks. When you got out, the Feds …

Kazaa’s bobbing and weaving to avoid being dragged into the Grokster-Morpheus lawsuit has been stopped with a body blow: A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that record companies and movie studios can proceed with a lawsuit against the parent company of Kazaa–the most popular online file-swapping service–in the United …

I personally would hold God to a higher standard than a device that digitally records television, but that’s just me: The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a new convert — to the personal digital video recorder faithful. “My favorite product that I got for Christmas is TiVo,” FCC …