We reported last week that MP3.com has been bought out by CNET, and that all of the music was to be rather unceremoniously dumped into the digital dumpster. This is no longer true: MP3.com Artist Announcement A message from CNET Networks, Inc. (CNET) Dear MP3.com artists: Last week CNET Networks, …

With my finger to the wind, I’d say this time around the public is leaning against innocent until proven guilty, which though it may be unfair regarding these particular charges, is a result of the last 15 years of serious peculiarity and his chipper admission on camera in the Bashir …

There are still a lot of very strange laws on the books, and Kentucky has more than its share of them: A state law mandating that people take a bath once a year is just one of many unusual – some bizarre – statutes that are or have been on …

There is some truth to the accusation from some anti-war partisans that those who argue for the War on Terror in general and the war in Iraq in particular – myself included – think only in generalities and don’t pay enough attention to the very real human beings fighting and …

If these guys can get access to “millions” of songs, why is it that none of the authorized digital music services in the U.S. have been able to do better than a few-hundred -thousand? It sounds like the pubs are the place to be, luv: Internet terminals offering instant access …

The dangerous, outrageous behavior of Michael Jackson and Phil Spector (some just alleged, some not in dispute), in court on the same day last week, has been enabled by the money and power generated by their wild success. Be careful what you wish for. I discuss this at MSNBC: Hidden …

The Bronfman deal for the Warner Music Group we discussed last Friday has gone through: Time Warner agreed today to sell its Warner Music business to Edgar Bronfman Jr. and a group of investors led by Thomas H. Lee Partners for about $2.6 billion in cash. The purchase creates one …

Right here in sweet little Portage County, Ohio: Ravenna- A man who impregnated his 16-year-old stepdaughter with a syringe should not get custody of the boy who was born as a result, an appeals court ruled yesterday. ….Shenna Grimm gave birth to the boy in 1999 after she was inseminated …

New vocal technology called Vocaloid: Developed at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and financed by the Yamaha Corporation, the software, which is due to be released to consumers in January, allows users to cast their own (or anyone else’s) songs in a disembodied but exceedingly life-like concert-quality voice. Just as …

We stumbled blindly onto Death to Smoochy last night on one of the HBOs, having no idea what it was about. Though bitterly caustic in its depiction of the children’s show racket, Danny DeVito’s black comedy reveals a core of optimistic idealism under the vile doings, and instead of the …