There has been a vast amount of handwringing about the Hutton report on the BBC, including by some of our own fine writers, who seem to feel that the report is somehow a threat to the independence of the BBC. As far as I can tell, it just says the …

Nielsen and TiVO have signed a monitoring deal to see what the heck people are doing with those things, or something: Nielsen Media Research has signed a deal with TiVo that will allow the media-monitoring firm to track consumers’ digital video recorder use, according to the companies. DVRs are computer-based …

More on Australian Kazaa raids begun last Friday: The man behind the raid is Michael Speck, the head of ARIA’s Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) unit. “We started an investigation six months ago and it was based on technical and physical changes in the infrastructure of Kazaa,” Speck said. ….Although …

Eisbecher, a German “‘progressive electronic-trip rock” band are doing their part to preserve and promote the consumer’s right to fair use: The band has decided to make a statement for its fans and for music consumers in general and is releasing the album including a bonus DVD with 2 blank …

Dumbasses plunge down elevator shaft: Two men fighting over counterfeit compact discs at a Midtown Manhattan office building fell through the broken doors of a fourth-floor elevator entrance Friday afternoon, plummeting three floors and hitting a stopped car, police said. Robert Haynes, 34, and Mohammad Bahr, 26, suffered leg fractures …

An interesting but long and meandering story in the NY Times looking at how the online porno industry is dealing with copyright infringement, in pointed contrast to the actions of the msuic and film industries: HOUSANDS of Web sites are putting Playboy magazine’s pictures on the Internet – free. And …

I linked to a personally nostalgic story in the LA Times last week about the status of Marineland in sunny SoCal. The staff of the Marineland of the pacific Historical Society saw the post and sent me this link to their very cool website: The Marineland of the Pacific Historical …

I had a good time watching the Grammys last night – I will do a detailed recap later – but I had a weird feeling throughout the show that something was missing. I slept on it for about four hours before getting up at 4:30am to get my thoughts on …

I had an experience Friday night, the strangeness of which approached out-of-body: my 16 year-old son’s thrash metal band, Blood Omen, played its first gig at the Kent State Student Center. I had not previously heard them play in that they (thankfully) rehearse at another kid’s house. They brought about …

We have a welter of Grammy-related posts leading up to the biggest night of the year for the music industry. There is much to chew upon this year regarding the awards themselves and the television show around them on CBS: Grammys: Plenty of Mammys Grammy gossip from the New York …