They may call it “fingerprinting,” but they are after your ass: For months, the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming’s network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or “Friends” episode. The technology, provided by Los …

DK Matai, Chairman and CEO of mi2g, on the unintended global consequences of the war with Iraq re cyberspace: “Disaffected groups are beginning to acquire the means to execute asymmetric attacks on the West through CBRN-DS means blended with conventional physical attacks. Whilst we may think in the local context, …

Songwriters file class action suit against Bertelsmann for supporting Napster: Two world-renowned songwriters and two independent music publishers sued Bertelsmann for $17 billion Wednesday, accusing the German media conglomerate of deliberately helping users of the wildly popular Napster song-swapping service violate millions of copyrights. Opening a new front in the …

New Sony Music chief Andrew Lack set to slash jobs, restructure. This first report of this came out in Australia: Sony Music Entertainment is readying a restructuring plan that would slash an estimated 1,000 jobs, trim its roster of artists and combine back-office operations in a bid to cut costs, …

Pass the traffic, please. Happy 1-year anniversary to Blogcritic Tom Shugart, a cool guy with a cool blog. One year is a few lifetimes in the blogging world and no small accomplishment. I guess I’ll mention that’s this month is my year anniversary as well – we launched my old …

It’s ORRIN KEEPNEWS’s 80th birthday!! Who is Orrin Keepnews, with his clangorous name that hardly rolls off the tongue? This from the estimable Terri Hinte at Fantasy Records: On March 2, producer ORRIN KEEPNEWS will mark a major personal milestone–his 80th birthday. To help him celebrate that “incredible fact,” as …

We mentioned the upcoming Digital Music Forum a couple of weeks ago. Here’s an update: DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM The Impact of Technology on Music Business Today technology►transforming►entertainment March 3, 2003 | 9:00AM – 7:00PM | New York City The Association of the Bar of the City of New York 42 …

A look at the British recording industry from the Independent: But many believe the industry is exaggerating the effects of piracy to wring concessions from the authorities and deflect attention from its inability to compete. The boom in sales of DVDs and computer games is eating into the disposable income …

More cogitation on power law, this time as regards to the music business by Tim Oren. My head may explode from all of this analytical thinking. So, why can’t the big dogs just go away and leave the little guys and us customers alone? Or even try the trick themselves? …

Is copyright justified?