Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

Phillip Winn has working maniacally – he even has a real job (freak) – to incorporate suggestions for improving the site, and we have ended up with a hybrid of the old and new designs, with some very cool new features. He had to deal with the Exporer 5.5 issues …

New Free Trade Agreement with Singapore would lock in most ass-sucking aspects of DMCA, writes law student: On May 6, President Bush and Prime Minister Goh of Singapore signed the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (the “FTA”). ….It is the first international trade agreement to demand that the signatories implement anti-circumvention …

A music service that launched yesterday offers “universal” selection of P2P with claims to legitimacy: A new all-you-can-eat music download service that claims to take advantage of a loophole in Spanish copyright law will launch on Tuesday [no mention of it on the Grokster sitye yet] and piggyback on a …

In testimony before the House Government Reform Committee May 15, Center For Democracy and Technology Associate Director Alan Davidson raised concerns about the privacy and security of popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks: P2P programs such as Kazaa, Grokster, and Morpheus are among the most downloaded computer software today. P2P …

The Internet, and now the NY Times, dig on the sometimes deft, but more often lurching light saber action of a 15-year-old chunky kid from Quebec, known as Ghyslain: In the video, Ghyslain brandishes a golf ball retriever in a series of maneuvers that are both painfully awkward and unmistakably …

New study says more searches for porn than for music on P2P networks: While much has been reported about the billions of free music and Hollywood movie files on the file-sharing services, there’s been far less attention paid to the abundance of pornography available for download. According to a study …

We mentioned a couple of days ago that Roxio might buy Pressplay – it’s happening: Software maker Roxio Inc., the new owner of Napster, has acquired the music service pressplay — laying the groundwork for a competitive Windows-based offering against Apple Computer Inc.’s online music store. Roxio, best known for …

School librarians side with Verizon in their court case against the RIAA: Academic-library groups have joined 33 other organizations in filing a legal brief in support of Verizon Communications. The company is trying to conceal from the recording industry the names of music fans who have used Verizon telephone lines …

My son has an Xbox – he likes it already, but with this information he may end up REALLY liking it: Microsoft’s strategy of selling the Xbox, its video game console, at a loss has wrought an unforeseen consequence. Some users increasingly view the Xbox as a cheap appliance easily …

Major Media Figure, cool guy, Detroit Free Press tech writer, and Blogcritic Mike Wendland is featuring Blogcritics on his NBC-TV High Tech Talk segment that goes out to all 215 affiliates tomorrow! The segment will be running at various times throughout the week on local newscasts. Here’s part of the …