Following up this story from yesterday, forces are mobilizing: The fierce negotiations between Hollywood and Silicon Valley over Internet piracy spiked Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers pushed new legislation barring the entertainment business from dictating new technology that will make it tougher for buyers to copy digital TV, movies and …

Apple still fair use friendly: I recently discovered that Apple’s DVD Player software, which came with my Powerbook G4 laptop, gives me flexibility in a way I hadn’t expected. Sometimes I like to watch a movie while I’m on a plane, but the DVD drive in my machine drains my …

Glenn Reynolds, besides being the most prolific and successful blogger on the planet, is a law professor, writer, author, science and tech buff, musician and composer. Since he began blogging in earnest around a year ago, the music had taken a back seat, but no more: he is now scoring …

Whether his ultimate legacy is viewed as one of innovation or intellectual property perfidy, Shawn Fanning has already had an enormous impact on the world: HIS MUSIC-SHARING SOFTWARE PROGRAM Napster caused panic in the recording industry when it showed up on the Internet in 1999, only to be shut down …

British firm recognizes the struggle for what it its: In a fight to win back fans from the “gray zone” of online song-swapping services, the music industry is borrowing a trick from its nemeses: free music downloads. For one week beginning Thursday, music fans in Europe will be able to …

Check this monster out: Watch the morning news, download recipes, send and receive e-mail, or leave video messages for your family with a refrigerator? You can if it’s the LG Multi-Media Refrigerator. It combines leading-edge refrigerator technology with digital connectivity and control and brings you an unprecedented degree of convenience, …

We were just talking about the Haunted House at Disneyland, and now we have word that Universal Orlando’s Hard Rock Hotel is taking the haunted house concept one step further: Universal Orlando’s Hard Rock Hotel will bring to life (or death as the case might be) beginning October 4 as …

RIAA’s Rosen tells House that P2P undermining warning system: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) chairman/CEO Hilary Rosen told lawmakers yesterday (Oct. 1) that the industry’s parental-advisory labeling program is being undermined by massive downloading of unauthorized music files from peer-to-peer networks. Speaking at a House hearing reviewing music marketing …

John Mutter and Edward Nawotka report for PW Daily for Booksellers on cautious optimism among booksellers for the holiday season: The sagging stock market, rising unemployment, bellicose talk in Washington and a dragging economy continue to make many Wall Street analysts and general retailers pessimistic about the holiday season. Booksellers …

Silicon Valley strikes back against Hollywood: The battle being waged in Washington over copyright in the digital age ratchets up a notch this week as new legislation is introduced aimed at clarifying consumer rights. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, plans today to introduce the “Digital Choice and Freedom Act,” Silicon …