Check out the title of this “feature,” which strongly resembles an opinion piece: “Digital duplication dragging Japan’s music industry down” The ease with which music CDs can be saved in digital format and copied has made getting hold of the songs you want to hear much cheaper than a few …

NY Times op/ed on the ramifications of copyright law: Every night before I go to bed I take one of my music CD’s and insert it into my computer. While I sleep my computer translates the music into a compressed digital format onto my computer’s hard drive. Over the course …

GlobeTechnology.com columnist Jack Kapica takes on the record industry with a blowtorch: The following are 10 rules of e-business failure, a list inspired by the recording industry’s imaginative approach: 1. Refuse to change: Computers are just tools, and useful only in making your existing marketing model more efficient. Give word …

Legendary Sugar Hill Recording Studio destroyed by fire: An early morning fire on West Street in Englewood, New Jersey, destroyed the Sugar Hill recording studio, which is believed to be the place that the Sugarhill Gang recorded “Rapper’s Delight” in the late ’70s. The fire began at 2 a.m. ET …

Boones and Osbournes: tight. According to the Osbournes, Pat Boone is the best neighbor one could ever have. Boone believes they feel that way about him because “I’ve visited with Ozzy and Sharon, and nights when they had loud music playing, they never heard any complaints from me.” He says …

As someone with a hand in two different 9/11 books, I am going to ignore the following report: Veteran New York City fireman John McCole has faced many challenges in his career but he is now undertaking a particularly daunting task: getting people to read his book about September 11. …

A couple of days a go we mentioned that South Korea’s youth have become video game zombies – the nation is troubled. What an inconvenience democracy is: look what China was able to do about its digital concerns: China has barred minors from going into Internet cafes, issuing new rules …

Traffic to Major League Baseball’s website increased by 51% for the playoffs: The New York Yankees page attracted 17.2 percent of MLB.com’s audience, while the St. Louis Cardinals drew 12.4 percent of MLB.com’s total visitors. Visitors to the San Francisco Giants page comprised 11.2 percent of the total traffic, while …

Did you miss the hidden track, cute furry creature’s version of Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women” on the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack? Here is your chance to redeem yourself.

If you can wade through the Dutch, the Club Lek site is mighty cool. They have archived concerts dating back to 2000 all over the cool-guy musical map. Wednesday, October 16th VPRO’s Club Lek is organizing another live webcast in audio and video. This week’s line-up is: 22:00 – 23:00 …