Tag Archives: Internet

The combination of inexpensive speedy computers with burgeoning storage capacity, the wide availability of high-speed Internet connections, and the public’s growing familiarity with digital music formats (like MP3) and the portable hardware on which to play them (such as Apple’s iPod) have set the stage. Add to that the recording …

Being American, I don’t give a damn about the rest of the world, but this is significant: The Supreme Court of the Netherlands today reaffirmed that it is lawful to make the filesharing software KaZaA publicly available. This court is the first Supreme Court or other national high court ruling …

It’s funny how the marketplace sorts itself out – the net result of this activity isn’t all that dfferent from what we’ve seen for the last few years: free music via the Internet. The great digital music giveaway is about to begin. In the new year, some of the world’s …

This kid has more teflon than a Ronald Reagan convention: Norway’s most famous computer whiz got an early Christmas present on Monday. An appeals court in Oslo upheld Jon Lech Johansen’s earlier acquittal on all counts of alleged copyright violations. A verdict in the case, which has caught international attention, …

The Wharton School takes at look at the digital music biz for 2004: Indications are strong that the companies behind the services have reason to think that profits can be made in online music. iTunes sold 20 million tracks in its first seven months of operation. Rhapsody’s 250,000 subscribers paid …

The Downhill Battle org continues its amusing campaign against the RIAA record labels: Do you really want to deal with this? “I got that on the computer like two months ago” Kids today are so good at downloading music from the internet that most of them already have all the …

Any attempt to modify the reprehensible DMCA is to be applauded no matter how unlikely its passage. The more times someone makes the effort, the more aware the public becomes and the greater the outcry will be. Look at how FCC media ownership deregulation finally roused the public to indignation …

Most excellent Blogcritics reader Dan Cordella sends on a link to a hysterical and oddly moving pseudo-Bollywood musical short from ABSOLUT that traces the origin of the mullet – like that of the gypsies – to India. Doubt not the babe-osity rampant in India. The production numbers are worthy of …

In addition to all the companies building their own digital music stores, Loudeye now offers a prepackaged program that companies can brand. When middlemen start popping up, you know a business is maturing: Seattle-based Loudeye and the software giant said Monday that they will work together to handle the infrastructure …

At the World Summit on the Information Society organised by the UN, 170 countries found common ground on the notion that the Internet is good and poverty is not so good, and that acces to the Internet may make for less of the latter: The declaration of principles and action …