Tag Archives: Internet

It sounds like they’re trying to do it right: By Christmas this year, Napster’s enigmatic cat logo will again lure consumers into downloading music. But this time it will discard its file-sharing heritage and be entirely legal, with a wealth of new capabilities. Chris Gorog, chairman and CEO of Napster’s …

Two former Radio Free Blogcritics featured artists, Scott Andrew LePera and Shannon Campbell got together virtually to make some impromptu music for the Blogathon this past weekend – cool results are here. Congrats to all who participated!

Last week the ARIA relased the results of a survey that claimed file sharing is killing the Australiam music industry. There were questions: Music industry analyst Phil Tripp sent in a long list of queries last week, most of which I thought merited answers. I sent most of them across …

BuyMusic.com? MusicMatch Jukebox 8? The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro says, um, hell no: After years of chances for developers to get this stuff right, digital music on the PC remains a “yes, but” proposition. Yes, Microsoft provides free music software — but its Windows Media Player can’t save your CDs …

Billboard thinks the digital music market is ready to go mainstream: What a difference a year makes to the maturation of the digital music market. In the past 12 months, the major labels have opened the content floodgates, authorizing hundreds of thousands of tracks for Internet distribution. Apple Computer has …

Elements of this sound like they may actually be making some progress toward a blanket license of some kind for file sharing – this could be a big step: The administrators and music executives are trying to solve the piracy problem because both suffer from it. Universities have to deal …

EFF offers an invaluable service whereby file sharing service users can search the RIAA subpoenas to see if they are a target: Concerned that information about your file-sharing username may have been subpoenaed by the RIAA? Check here to see if your username is on one of the subpoenas filed …

This is an amazing sea change reflecting a desire for interactivity and active control above passive reception of one-way communication: The Internet has surpassed television in overall time usage to become the primary medium of choice among teens and young adults. That was one finding from a research study commissioned …

The Protecting Children from Peer-to-Peer Pornography Act would require parent’s permission for minors to download P2P software in an effort to protect them from pornography – but what about every single search engine? Besides requiring parental consent, the bill would allow parents to install “beacons” on their computers that signal …

The RIAA gets serious: Citing lackluster results in its aggressive Subpoena-the-Family campaign, The Recording Industry Assocation of America, or RIAA, announced today it was escalating the war against music file sharing even higher by opening its massive detention facility in the high desert of Movaje, CA. The facility, designed to …