Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

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 …

Moby isn’t digging the RIAA lawsuit campaign: so apparently the riaa are suing one of our very own moby.com board members, liquidlevel, for file-sharing. personally i just can’t see any good in coming from punishing people for being music fans and making the effort to hear new music. i’m almost …

The P2P networks, minus leader Kazaa, have revealed a new “code of conduct”: Several Internet “peer-to-peer” networks unveiled a code of conduct on Monday to encourage responsible behavior among the millions of users who copy music, pornography and other material from each others’ hard drives. The networks also asked Congress …

We mentioned yesterday a new organization founded to assist the targets of RIAA lawsuits, Downhill Battle. Here’s a word from founder Nicholas Reville: We really think that the major label lawsuits are just intimidation followed by extortion: the record companies scare people with a suit for hundreds of thousands of …

MusicMatch hops into the online music fray: MusicMatch … is launching an a la carte download service for the Windows Media platform. The service, which goes live today, will be integrated into the MusicMatch jukebox software and will feature 200,000 tracks, including music from all five major labels and more …