Science and Technology

This guy is GOOD. You want to learn how to beatbox? You just want to be amazed? No need for a drum machine with Max around.

Our good pal and ex-Clevelander Scott Andrew LePera of Scott Andrew and the Walkingbirds, a former Radio Free Blogcritics artist has a very cool new CD and an interesting concept: Fresh from the oven: Where I’ve Been. This will be the record I’ll be pushing at my live shows from …

This is just crazy and thought-provoking at the same time: Scott Matthews of Andromeda fame has come up with a program called Baudio that can convert any kind of digital file into an audio file. Think about that for a minute: What it does Baudio converts any type of computer …

On September 23 we mentioned that Arista released an album by singer Anthony Hamilton in a new “secure digital” format. Here now is an analysis of the technique by computer scientist John Halderman of Princeton: Abstract – MediaMax CD3 is a new copy-prevention technique from SunnComm Technologies that is designed …

Interesting look at the morality of file sharing in the NY Times: IMAGINE that you sell newspapers on the honor system. You put some papers out on a table, along with a can for the money. It would surprise hardly anyone if, at the end of the day, more papers …

At least they didn’t mention blogging – More addictions: More and more people are succumbing to so called “technology addictions,” spending hours tapping on mobile phones or surfing the Internet, one of Britain’s best known psychiatric clinics said on Saturday. “There has been a huge rise in behavioral addictions,” including …

Current federal law on regarding electronic and digital privacy is contradictory, aribitrary, unconstituitional and in need of a drastic overhaul. The DMCA and the Patriot Act are the worst culprits: consumers’ cable-television records enjoy more legal protection than just about any other sort of electronic media or communications records: more …

The new “legit” Napster will be reanimated in time to lurch around and scare all the kiddies on Halloween: Napster, the pioneering song-swap service that was shut down for copyright infringement, is coming back next week to face the music as a paid site in a vastly changed online music …

Jim Griffin is a super smart guy, a virtual poet on the “digital delivery of art” – here is his take on the digital content future: It is a simple concept: replace pay-as-you-go or pay-by-the-piece pricing models with flat fees, one price for roughly all you can eat. Essentially the …

Clearly, the real motive behind the RIAA’s lawsuit campaign isn’t to systematically shut down file sharers one at a time, to extract “justice” from those unlucky enough to get caught up in the net – the real motive is to intimidate and frighten as many sharers as possible into altering …