Tag Archives: Internet

The capitalist in me says why not to this – why should brokers and scalpers be able to get what the market will bear but not the venues or the performers? Yet I don’t trust Ticketmaster any farther than Pearl Jam could throw them. I fear it will help drive …

R.E.M. began their six-week North American tour last Friday at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver, where they have been working on their next studio album. They have a new collection, In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., 1988-2003, coming out in October. The second show of the tour, tonight in Missoula, Montana, …

The FBI arrested a Minnesota teen for creating a variant of the Blaster internet worm: Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota, a middle- class suburb west of Minneapolis, was arrested on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer, according to a St. Paul …

The RIAA is providing fodder for conspiracy theorists for a generation to come – you think the Blackout of ’03 was caused by a catastrophic chain of grid failures begun in northeast Ohio? Ha ha, duped again!: The recording industry is providing its most detailed glimpse into some of the …

Our friends at the RIAA seem hell-bent on ramming their worldview down every customer, former customer, or potential customer’s throat. I see this as a problem from a marketing, customer service and legal standpoint since their methods infringe upon the privacy and civil liberties of everyone who uses the Internet, …

It’s ALL ambiguous right now. Hollywood asked that the DVD decryption code be declared a trade secret and banned from the Internet – they got part of that: The case has pit freedom-of-speech arguments against an entertainment-industry effort to protect what it says are trade secrets. Hollywood is happy because …

Don’t look now, but the woman in the sidebar ad over there on the left for FriendSurfer.com just grew antennae with Christmas bulbs attached to them. I think I am more than six degrees separated from her.

Into the ring to take a swing: The first individual to fight back against a flood of subpoenas issued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lodged a motion in the name of ‘Jane Doe’ with a Washington court on Thursday, seeking to prevent her ISP handing over her …

Since the president relies on aids to do everything but wipe his butt, (one assumes, no pun intended), it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that he doesn’t have much hands-on experience with tech gadgets: No pager or PDA hangs off his belt and there’s no cell phone in his suit …

Sobig.F shrivels and fizzles: The fast-spreading Sobig.F e-mail virus slowed on Sunday and failed for a second time to launch a remote data attack using thousands of infected personal computers, computer security experts said. Sobig.F, which first emerged on Aug. 18, was programmed by an unknown creator to unleash a …