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Will more sophisticated p2p replace physical music storage? What is the future of music delivery systems, and the fate of our beloved CD? Paul Sanders, of the highly cool state51 site, offers these thoughts: I sometimes suspect that the answers to questions like these lie buried in arcane fields such …

Matt at Scrubbles is an unabashed fan of Disneyland. Matt brings us glad tidings: Paul Pressler has stepped down as CEO of Disney’s theme parks, accepting an offer at the Gap. For those who don’t know, Pressler has been a thorn in the collective sides of Disneyland fans for years, …

Steve Rhodes’ piece on Joe Pantoliano reminds me that Joe played Bob Keane in the film La Bamba, which I loved though Bob didn’t. Here’s a profile of Bob. An archetypal Southern California figure, Bob Keane’s fascinating career in music extends over 60 years from the ’30s to the present. …

The Onion: The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation’s radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music. “It’s criminal,” RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. “Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters …

The LA Times reports on movie studios hyping their own films on Internet movie sites: earlier this year, Chris Parry, a 32-year-old writer and ex-production manager who runs the site efilmcritic.com, began noticing a lot of very inauthentic postings. They read like outright publicity plugs, or what Net denizens call …

The US government is funding the next step in P2P: A team of government-funded US scientists is building a Peer-2-Peer (P2P) network that they say will solve technical problems with existing P2P networks, such as Gnutella and Kazaa, and might even one day supercede the web. The network, dubbed the …

Since Eric Lindholm brought it up: ABC News has learned that the New Jersey Democratic Party will announce that Congressman Frank Pallone is their choice to replace Senator Bob Torricelli. Pallone, an eight-term congressman from Middlesex County, is popular with Democratic constituencies, and will likely be favored to hold the …

Prince’s career has been frought with erratic zigs and zags, but over the last few years, it has also taken on the whiff of blatant hypocrisy. Prince’s production company just sued (another) fan, the operator of an Internet site that allegedly offered pirated recordings of the rock star’s live performances …

MSNBC’s terrific Jan Herman runs through a shameful list of actions taken by the Bush administration to keep artists out of this country: Fortress America and the arts: The U.S. State Department’s visa war against foreign performers and artists is wreaking havoc not just in high-profile places like New York …

I feel much better knowing Kristy Swanson’s opinions on the following (click on “Expressions”): I am a huge football fan, and I am very psyched that the new season is finally underway. I don’t have a particular “team,” per se, but I like to follow the Rams and the Steelers, …