Digital Songstream maven Brad Hill takes a close look at the upgraded digital music service: On Monday, October 28, Listen.com released v2.0 of Rhapsody, the interactive listening service that now features unlimited 99-cent track burns to blank CD. Rhapsody members must subscribe to the All Access subscription plan to burn …

Cable news seems to be made for crisis coverage: Wall-to-wall coverage of the Washington, D.C., sniper attacks pushed cable news viewing in October to its highest levels since last fall. In October, Fox News Channel notched a 1.5 average in primetime, down 6 percent from October 2001, when post-Sept. 11 …

David Shaw of the LA Times wants to know: If you think about the 10 or 15 things you absolutely have to do today, and the various decisions you have to make about them, how helpful would you say your daily newspaper is likely to be in any of those …

Robert Moore says yes, the DMCA says no: Moore’s wares enable the copying of discs even if they are scrambled to prevent duplication, as are most movies sold on DVD. This sort of product, officials at the Motion Picture Assn. of America say, blatantly violates a 1998 federal law against …

Coolworld announces headliners for the 11th annual Planet New Year 2003 to be held on New Year’s Eve at the Cow Palace and Grounds in San Francisco: A sell out crowd is expected to enjoy over 100 of the world’s greatest DJs and live acts who will perform on seven …

Scientists will touch each other over the Internet, literally: In a technological first, they will use pencil-like devices called phantoms to recreate the sense of touch across the Atlantic, organizers of the experiment said. The phantoms send small impulses at very high frequencies down the Internet using newly developed fiber …

Long New Yorker essay on Ellsberg and his new book on the Pentagon Papers: To anyone over a certain age (forty-five?), Daniel Ellsberg needs no introduction, but it would be quite a challenge to explain Ellsberg to someone who had never heard of him. There was this brilliant young man …

Protest against development of Icelandic wilderness area: The mother of pop singer Bjork says she is frail but determined to continue her hunger strike against a plan to develop the Icelandic highlands. Hildur Runa Hauksdottir stopped eating Oct. 7 to try to persuade Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc. to pull out of …

PW Daily on the lavish new Stones memoir: Bill Wyman has been a great pack rat. In some 40 years touring with the Rolling Stones, he amassed a treasure trove of material, including rare photographs, tour posters and ticket stubs, letters and telegrams. These objects–combined with his surprisingly crystal-clear recollections …

Study shows consumers will avoid them: Music companies thinking of distributing copy-protected CDs to protect their content from piracy will likely raise the ire of consumers while lowering their revenue, a new study warns. According to a survey recently released by GartnerG2, the research service of Gartner/Dataquest, 77 percent of …