Tag Archives: Internet

Serious and important paper from Jessica Litman on digital music, copyright and the Internet: Abstract: The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation and mass dissemination of a wide variety of works. Until recently, most means of mass dissemination required a significant capital investment. The lion’s share of the …

First of all, Norgies rule, and yes I am biased being 75% Norwegian. This would be a brilliant marketing move for any one of the U.S. commercial music download companies, but you know, “free” can never be monetized, can it? If you are a fan of Norwegian music, or just …

Last week we mentioned people having fun with the email scammers, stringing them along, even turning the tables on them and squeezing some cash out of them. The government of Nigeria has finally decided that being known as the scam capital of the world might not be the ideal image …

We reported last week that MP3.com has been bought out by CNET, and that all of the music was to be rather unceremoniously dumped into the digital dumpster. This is no longer true: MP3.com Artist Announcement A message from CNET Networks, Inc. (CNET) Dear MP3.com artists: Last week CNET Networks, …

There is some truth to the accusation from some anti-war partisans that those who argue for the War on Terror in general and the war in Iraq in particular – myself included – think only in generalities and don’t pay enough attention to the very real human beings fighting and …

If these guys can get access to “millions” of songs, why is it that none of the authorized digital music services in the U.S. have been able to do better than a few-hundred -thousand? It sounds like the pubs are the place to be, luv: Internet terminals offering instant access …

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an anti-spam bill today: Online marketers who flood e-mail in boxes with pornography and get-rich-quick schemes would face multimillion dollar fines and jail time under the measure. It passed by a vote of 392-5 at dawn on Saturday, following an all-night session of the …

I find it amazing how quickly “Google” has become synonymous with with “web search.” For me, it’s as simple as Google was the first search engine to really work. When I was researching The Encyclopedia of Record Producers in the late-’90s, especially the discography database part of it, I used …

Kazaa is urging P2P users to pressure content providers lke the RIAA to license to them: There is a revolution underway which is changing the world of entertainment. It will effect how you discover, buy and share songs, movies, games and ideas. Peer-to-peer technology is driving the revolution and it …

Our own Brian Dear was featured in the NY Times yesterday for the smackdown he laid on former Red Herring publisher Tony Perkins: Evisceration is not pretty, especially on the Internet, where the verbal slicing and dicing can be done before a potential audience of millions. Which is pretty much …