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The Gobbles security advisory about the RIAA was a hoax, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t messing with you: For two years Warne worked for the global version of the RIAA, the IFPI which represents 1500 labels in 76 countries, with headquarters in London. The IFPI’s primary mission is to …

Glenn Reynolds, who is ubiquitous this week, now has his own MSNBC blog because he has nothing better to do. Glenn remarks on the ramifications of a little-discussed aspect of the Eldred decision on the new blog, dedicated to “technology, culture, politics and the law”: In passing the Sonny Bono …

Charges dropped against the “Racine 441″ (somehow reduced to 440), the ravers arrested in November under the city’s “inmate of a disorderly house/controlled substances” ordinance. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the story: The 440 multi-pierced, electronic-music-loving party-goers who were stung with $968 citations for attending a rave party gained a …

In his Wall Street Journal column, Daniel Henninger both excoriates the bulk of mass pop culture output as exemplified by “cross-market synergy,” yet celebrates access to the idiosyncratic outposts afforded by the same technology that shovels the sludge: To put any one “product” (film, singer, or characters created by a …

Tom Moon waxes philosophical in the Chicago Tribune on the almost-infinite interchangeability of music facilitated by the iPod, where mixing and matching can turn into a sophisticated exercise in music appreciation: Something radical happens when you disengage from physical discs and tapes, when you collapse the distance separating “rock,” “jazz” …

Gary Farber has an interesting post on being interviewed, edited, reinterviewed, reedited, condensed, then eliminated from the NY Times’ profile on Glenn Reynolds that ran yesterday – very fine article by the way, capturing both the quotidian rhythms of Glenn’s day, and the awe most of us feel at his …

Tattooed love boy Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit seems to think he has something going on with Britney Spears, according to an enigmatic post on the band’s website dated 1/11: and all this stuff about britney and me is everywhere. its like WHOA!! anybody out there who has a serious …

This will do it: Baseball owners unanimously approved commissioner Bud Selig’s proposal to have the league that wins the All-Star game get home-field advantage in the World Series. Selig came up with the plan following last year’s All-Star game, which ended in a 7-7, 11-inning tie when both leagues ran …

MTV’s TRL has been featuring punkish rock bands performing live all week under the banner of “Spankin’ New Bands Week.” They’ve already run through the Donnas (if ten years is “spankin’ new”), The Used, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and tomorrow Good Charlotte storms the stage. I don’t know Simple …

That is the motto of the Power Line Communications Association. What is power line communication? The new generation of Powerline Communication utilizes the latest in modem and chipset technology to deliver high speed data transmission and broadband communications across an electric utility’s medium and low voltage distribution systems. The services …