This NY Times article thinks the Mottola ouster heralds a new wind a-blowin’ in the music biz – you’ve heard most of it before, but this article seems to accept drastic change as a foregone conclusion: The resignation last week of one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, Thomas …

RIAA allies with two computer trade organizations to oppose mandatory anti-copying legislation: None of the three groups — the Recording Industry Association of America, the Business Software Alliance and the Computer Systems Policy Project — would comment on the specifics of the joint principles that are to be released at …

We visited my sister in the Washington DC area this weekend – she works for AOL – things are, shall we say, hectic there right now. Steve Case out as chairman in May – Richard Parsons takes over – no one sad but Mrs. Case: At a beefy 6-foot-4, AOL …

kevin Mitnick’s court-mandated Internet ban is about to lift – he speaks with the NY Times Magazine: You were the F.B.I.’s most wanted hacker — in jail in 1988 and then again from 1995 to 2000 for breaking into and tampering with corporate networks. When you got out, the Feds …

Kazaa’s bobbing and weaving to avoid being dragged into the Grokster-Morpheus lawsuit has been stopped with a body blow: A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that record companies and movie studios can proceed with a lawsuit against the parent company of Kazaa–the most popular online file-swapping service–in the United …

Country Joe was sued for copyright infringement by the daughter of Kid Ory, who claims Joe’s “Fixin’ to Die Rag” is derived from Ory’s “Muskrat Ramble.” Joe replies on his site: I wrote “Fixin’ To Die Rag” in 1965 to warn of our nation’s unwise escalating war in Viet Nam. …

I personally would hold God to a higher standard than a device that digitally records television, but that’s just me: The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a new convert — to the personal digital video recorder faithful. “My favorite product that I got for Christmas is TiVo,” FCC …

Striking back at the ability of viewers to skip commercials via personal video recorders likeTiVO, a new WB variety show will build the commercials in: A leading television producer and two major advertisers have joined forces to present a live variety show with no commercial interruptions. Instead, the advertising messages …

Designers of a personal aircraft are selling their prototype, but you have to agree not to use it: “NOBODY HAS has ever done anything like it,” said Michael Moshier, chief executive of Trek Aerospace, the company that designed the machine. “It is the first aircraft that you can strap on …

The surprise is not that he is gone, but how long he lasted – the judgment of anyone who would marry Mariah Carey is deeply flawed. I wouldn’t marry Mariah Carey with someone else’s body: The 14-year reign of Tommy Mottola at Sony Music is over. According to sources at …