The Naval Academy has cracked down hard, on P2P file-sharers – most other colleges have not. For now, the RIAA seems committed to its PR-disaster rear guard campaign to go after nodes of users. Scott Carlson writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education: The recording industry plans to increase the …

The digital content wars proceed on several levels, including legal, psychological, and technological. Here are two new tools for the guardians of the gates via Business 2.0: pirating a new movie is a lot simpler than you might think. It usually works like this: Bad guys videotape flicks just as …

We have been following the Miss World hell with great interest and disgust: sometimes the news is so awfully absurd that you have to either laugh or cry and laughing is less messy and intrusive (unless you blow milk out your nose or something). Mark Steyn has taken the humor …

We are in he middle of moving to a new host, and with a site that has over 200 authors, over 2000 posts, over 2300 comments, links to Amazon, etc, etc, this is a major undertaking. Please understand if something doesn’t work quite right today. We’ll let you know when …

So we’re in the middle of that extended, sort of oblong, Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Other than the obligatory Thanksgiving eve night out (the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is often the biggest night of the year for bars, clubs, bistros, etc) and the Thursday stuff-fest itself, the rest of the weekend …

Strange and serendipitous confluence of time and space: Paul Frankenstein (we forget that real people are named “Frankenstein” and “Mummy” too, though I’m not sure how many “Wolfman” or “Creature From the Black Lagoon’s” there are running around) just picked ten movies we should check into. Local Hero was one …

PBS’ Robert Cringely on the suprising report by Microsoft researchers saying file-swapping cannot ultimately be stopped: The story is interesting, that it came from Microsoft is even more interesting, though the authors carefully disassociated themselves from their employer in the paper. But this all pales in comparison to the implications …

Are ringtones the way forward for the music industry?

It was the attack that failed that is most troubling – as insensitive as that sounds to the sixteen people killed and injured in the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel attack in Mombasa, Kenya. The failed attack was the missile attack on an Israeli charter jet as it was taking off from …

Just a reminder that you only have a few more days to let the FCC hear your voice regarding your ability to make copies of digital-broadcast television programs. This post has the details and links.