We ran a substantial portion of attorney and P2P advocate Philip Corwin’s exceptional testimony before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. Other testimony yesterday was equally explosive: Free peer-to-peer music file-sharing has become larger than the multibillion-dollar recording industry, with a growth trend that has become “fundamentally …

Justin Sodano got behind closed doors at the UN while the “no military action under any circumstances” weasels were rehearsing their theme song: “Appease Me” (Set to the tune of The Beatles’ “Please Please Me”) Al Qaeda plans to nuke our cities, Be sure to note this in committee, Give …

Sony Music, essentially the Columbia and Epic labels, is laying off 1000: Sony Music Entertainment is making sweeping layoffs in the first reorganizational move by its new chairman and chief executive, Andrew Lack. Mr. Lack, who succeeded Thomas D. Mottola about three months ago, plans to eliminate 1,000 jobs in …

Glenn Fleishman decided to offer his book for free over the Internet, people took him up on it: instead of the few hundred downloads Fleishman expected, the book was downloaded about 10,000 times in just 36 hours. And because he’s charged incrementally for bandwidth, Fleishman estimates he could be billed …

Bo Diddley still rockin his ass off to the “Bo Diddley beat” at 74 years young, has a new song out right here called “We Ain’t Scared of You”: “I, Ellas McDaniel aka BO DIDDLEY, throughout the world…would like to share these thoughts with All of You………that Someone is trying …

Brilliant, logical, clear presentation in favor of enabling P2P as the savior rather than the destroyer of the entertainment industry by attorney Philip S. Corwin, as presented yesterday before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry – well worth the time to read if you want to understand …

The horrid little French-Canadian diva twig has dug in for three years in Las Vegas: Celine Dion took the stage Tuesday night at Caesars Palace in the debut of “A New Day,” a multimillion-dollar extravaganza that will test the French-Canadian superstar’s staying power. The diva belted out 20 tunes in …

The Christian Science Monitor examines the impact of new technology on military familes in war time: Certainly ever since the mythic Penelope watched Odysseus go off to Troy, the wives of warriors have been left to fend for themselves, raise the children alone, and hope their fighter someday comes home …

145 years ago, a guy in Philadelphia attached an eraser to a pencil. This was a very American thing to do.

After a very intense week of war and the war on TV, I feel my attention beginning to wander. I find all coverage all the time unnerves me and leaves me drained like too much sugar or caffeine. I want, no, need, to know what’s going on, but to be …