Eddie Stubbs – now that’s a gol dern country music name – plays classic country from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s on the radio: Country music has its share of wild characters, but old-fashioned, clean-cut, suit-and-tie-wearing Eddie Stubbs isn’t one of them. He abstains from bad habits (“dadgummit!” is as …

BuyMusic.com? MusicMatch Jukebox 8? The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro says, um, hell no: After years of chances for developers to get this stuff right, digital music on the PC remains a “yes, but” proposition. Yes, Microsoft provides free music software — but its Windows Media Player can’t save your CDs …

Billboard thinks the digital music market is ready to go mainstream: What a difference a year makes to the maturation of the digital music market. In the past 12 months, the major labels have opened the content floodgates, authorizing hundreds of thousands of tracks for Internet distribution. Apple Computer has …

Elements of this sound like they may actually be making some progress toward a blanket license of some kind for file sharing – this could be a big step: The administrators and music executives are trying to solve the piracy problem because both suffer from it. Universities have to deal …

EFF offers an invaluable service whereby file sharing service users can search the RIAA subpoenas to see if they are a target: Concerned that information about your file-sharing username may have been subpoenaed by the RIAA? Check here to see if your username is on one of the subpoenas filed …

Clear Channel under Department of Justice Investigation: Department of Justice antitrust chief Hewitt Pate told a House Judiciary Committee yesterday that DOJ attorneys have conducted “a number of interviews” as part of probes into Clear Channel and has “undertaken significant efforts to find additional evidence.” Pate said that the Clear …

This is an amazing sea change reflecting a desire for interactivity and active control above passive reception of one-way communication: The Internet has surpassed television in overall time usage to become the primary medium of choice among teens and young adults. That was one finding from a research study commissioned …

The Protecting Children from Peer-to-Peer Pornography Act would require parent’s permission for minors to download P2P software in an effort to protect them from pornography – but what about every single search engine? Besides requiring parental consent, the bill would allow parents to install “beacons” on their computers that signal …

The RIAA gets serious: Citing lackluster results in its aggressive Subpoena-the-Family campaign, The Recording Industry Assocation of America, or RIAA, announced today it was escalating the war against music file sharing even higher by opening its massive detention facility in the high desert of Movaje, CA. The facility, designed to …

Director of Midnight Cowboy, The Falcon and the Snowman dies at 77: The British-born filmmaker had a debilitating stroke in December 2000, and his condition deteriorated significantly in recent weeks. He was taken off life support at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs on Thursday and died early Friday, …