Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

AOL files five lawsuits against spammers: AOL, the nation’s largest Internet service provider, with 27 million subscribers, said the targets of its suits were responsible for sending its members an estimated 1 billion pieces of spam that resulted in more than 8 million complaints. The unsolicited messages contained such things …

Fred von Lohman, senior staff attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and attorney for the Princeton student sued for billions by the RIAA, writes in the Daily Princetonian on the digital download miasma: Suing college students. Forcing ISPs to rat out customers. Petitioning Congress for unprecedented vigilante powers. Deploying armies …

Alan Jacobs’ essay on war reportage has the twin virtues of acknowledging the vital role in war coverage of blogs (Command Post, Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan), and of shining a spotlight on the passive aggressive journalistic habit of using “scare” or “sneer” quotes: reading Fisk’s account, I noticed something else, …

Zack Rosen provides an invaluable, brilliant analysis of the file sharing systems developed by the four college students sued by the RIAA for $97.8 billion, which is way more than I made as a radio DJ when I was in college. In fact, slacker that I am, I have yet …

Rapper, rocker, actor Ice-T to sell new album via Kazaa: Users of the Kazaa Media Desktop software (www.kazaa.com) can purchase a downloadable version of Ice-T’s new album, Repossession, for $4.99. The album contains 19 tracks by his band, Sex Money & Gunz. Ice-T also plans to sell physical CDs from …

Rob Pegoraro reviews MusicNow: Buying music on the Internet isn’t as easy as you think. You can order a CD with one-click efficiency — but if you want to download a song instead of waiting for a plastic disc to arrive in the mail, you’ll face a maze of fine-print …

The results of a new survey on e-government reflect a common sense understanding of the Internet in general: the convenience is great, but there is concern about privacy and security issues: The report said that 49 percent of its general American population survey believe it is appropriate for the government …

On the Penguinal Ebullience blog, a fascinating transcript of the DMCA exemption hearings from Friday: The first of several hearings for exemptions under section 1201 of the DMCA took place at the Library of Congress today. Fortunate enough to have a cool boss, I was able to attend ‘on detail’. …

We had a couple of reports yesterday about a possible Apple bid for Universal Music: GERALDINE FABRIKANT with LAURA M. HOLSON see the glass as half empty: Apple, the iconoclastic computer maker, has discussed an investment in Universal Music, the world’s largest recording company, people close to the discussions said …

Our pal Shannon Campbell will soon be our next artist on Blogcritics Radio – boy, is she busy: Don’t forget: Tori Amos Tribute 2003, Saturday April 12 at the Temple Ball Gallery in Carrboro, NC. Doors at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10. There are no …