New study says more searches for porn than for music on P2P networks: While much has been reported about the billions of free music and Hollywood movie files on the file-sharing services, there’s been far less attention paid to the abundance of pornography available for download. According to a study …

Copyright industry congressional nipple-biters are SHOCKED by prevalence of P2P: Three members of the House of Representatives are creating a new congressional caucus devoted to combating piracy and promoting stronger intellectual property laws. A letter sent to some members of Congress on Friday by Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., warned of …

“Literary wastrels” he calls them: The explanation for the mystery was right there, on either side of block-long Jack Kerouac Street in North Beach. At 6 a.m. Sunday, Vesuvio Cafe was open and serving liquor, as it is every day, while City Lights Bookstore wouldn’t open until 10 a.m. City …

Eminem and Mariah Carey have been playing a dangerous game of nookyular brinkmanship, as I am very excited to discuss in my first MSNBC commentary: They’re well-armed belligerents firing musical salvos at each other, nasty cluster munitions packed with “hoe” bombs and “tears-of-a-clown” gas. Tensions escalated between them – two …

We mentioned a couple of days ago that Roxio might buy Pressplay – it’s happening: Software maker Roxio Inc., the new owner of Napster, has acquired the music service pressplay — laying the groundwork for a competitive Windows-based offering against Apple Computer Inc.’s online music store. Roxio, best known for …

School librarians side with Verizon in their court case against the RIAA: Academic-library groups have joined 33 other organizations in filing a legal brief in support of Verizon Communications. The company is trying to conceal from the recording industry the names of music fans who have used Verizon telephone lines …

My son has an Xbox – he likes it already, but with this information he may end up REALLY liking it: Microsoft’s strategy of selling the Xbox, its video game console, at a loss has wrought an unforeseen consequence. Some users increasingly view the Xbox as a cheap appliance easily …

Major Media Figure, cool guy, Detroit Free Press tech writer, and Blogcritic Mike Wendland is featuring Blogcritics on his NBC-TV High Tech Talk segment that goes out to all 215 affiliates tomorrow! The segment will be running at various times throughout the week on local newscasts. Here’s part of the …

The headline of Dan Ackman’s consideration of The Matrix Reloaded in Forbes screams, “How The Matrix Ruined Movies.” As far as I can tell, he hasn’t seen it yet – that’s backlash, after only four days: The Matrix Reloaded generated $93.3 million at U.S. box offices over the weekend. That’s …

Broadband usage up 50% in the last year, but cost and availability may slow growth: Roughly 31 million Americans — about 31 percent of whom use the Web at home — access the Internet through cable modems, digital subscriber lines (DSL) or satellite dishes, according to the study, which surveyed …