ISPs in losing battle against P2P: Increasingly peer-to-peer (P2P) software, which allows surfers to share music and video files, is dodging the defences of internet service providers. It is becoming technically harder and harder to win the battle against file-sharing, said Sandvine, a firm that provides equipment to manage networks. …

Okay, so Billboard viewed the NARM opening this way; Andrew Orlowski saw things through slightly different colored glasses: Departing RIAA chief Hilary Rosen yesterday invoked the name of slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King as she defended the music oligopolies’ right to prevent people sharing music. She also …

The great punk/funk pioneer bassist Dave Allen has not been idle since veering from the public eye, founding the terrific but overlooked World Domination label, and now pushing the cutting edge artist development-marketing monster, Overland Entertainment. Allen was a founder and the rhythmic heart of one of the most important …

As war looms – I feel like we’re in a state of suspended animation at the moment – there is some very interesing action being taken by metaphorical rodents in the region. In typical survivalist manner – say what you want about their hygiene and eating habits but rats WANT …

Toby Keith, ass-kicker, thinks Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, the short one singing between her willowy bookend compatriots, has a big mouth: Keith, who was responding to a question about Maines’s recent negative comments about President Bush in London, said, “She’s come after me before. She’s got a big mouth.” Maines …

Microsoft’s Internet service is shifting marketing efforts toward broadband and away from dial-up: After launching a $300 million marketing campaign last year to promote its Internet service and take market share from AOL, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc., MSN is shifting its focus to the fast-growing high-speed, or …

She must be on her way out: listen to the new Hilary Rosen: RIAA chairman/CEO Hilary Rosen’s keynote address reflected the need to focus on buyers. “It’s time to come together. Now is our opportunity to put [consumers’] interests first,” she said. In what was likely her last speech at …

The RIAA going peer-to-peer with 300 corporations, informing them by letter that their computer networks are being used for file sharing: The music industry’s leading trade group has sent letters to 300 U.S. companies complaining about alleged acts of piracy and copyright infringement in their corporate computer networks and warning …

Nothing will stop the pageant of rampaging egos and accouterments this Sunday: Organizers of the 75th annual Oscar awards say the impending war in Iraq won’t derail Hollywood’s biggest event on Sunday. ….Show producer Gil Cates has acknowledged that war would change the tone of the production, but as of …

New phones introduced at the CTIA Wireless industry confab in New Orleans: These data-centric handhelds, more closely resembling PDAs than phones, reflect Microsoft’s continued push into the wireless market with both the Pocket PC and Smartphone operating systems. They use the CDMA version of Pocket PC software and operate on …