Musical Youth finally get paid...

Does this look familiar? A little pseudo-spam floating around the Internet – it’s pretty funny if a tad heavy-handed: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED : HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH DEAR SIR / MADAM, I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE …

We have been active in the DMCA-reform movement, participating in the public comment process a few months ago (Ernest Miller of LawMeme did the heavy lifting – Ernie rules), insisting that consumers should be able to make backup copies of their own DVDs, and that news and reviews entities (like …

The Video Software Dealers Association says DVD is rental king for the first time: DVD rentals generated more revenue than VHS rentals last week, announced the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA). For the week ending March 16, 2003, DVD rentals generated $80 million in revenue, and VHS rentals yielded $78 …

For a fraction of the cost and inconvenience of actually attending the legendary Berklee College of Music in Boston, you can take exciting courses in music production, writing, business and theory online: Production “David [Franz] was able to make an online music class come alive and teach a topic that …

No – not in Iraq, with the major labels, forced to compromise in all directions: Meeting with legislators behind closed doors in Sacramento, Warner Music Group officials on Wednesday disclosed an overhaul of its royalty accounting process — a move the company hopes will quell mounting claims that record labels …

Memo leaked from MTV Europe about programming during the war: In the light of the outbreak of war in Iraq in the last 12 hours, our recommendations for the scheduling and content of videos and programmes are as follows: 1. Video recommendations Obviously, there will be heightened public sensitivity to …

As the surgical airstrikes against Saddam were beginning last night Iraqi state radio suddenly broadcast this: “The facilities of the Iraqi regime have started to be hit… This is the day we have been waiting for… The attack on Iraq has begun,” the United States jammed and then obliterated Baghdad …

I am a moderate environmentalist – this is where my views diverge most sharply from those of oilman George W. Bush. I am all for alternative energy, against global warming (even though Cleveland stands to become a resort town eventually), drilling in protected areas (ANWR), etc. I think wind power …

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has been acknowledged for its cultural impact with a new definition in the online Oxford English Dictionary, along with over 2000 other changes and additions. Muggle, n. In the fiction of J. K. Rowling: a person who possesses no magical powers. Hence in allusive and …