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We just mentioned the psychological front of the War on File-Swapping, where the RIAA is set to aggressively confront university swappers, and the technological front, which is self-explanatory. The legal front sees a major confrontation today as well, with the studios and labels confronting Morpheus and Grokster in an LA …

So it was Thanksgiving night at our place. The whole family was over for dinner at our new house: 13 people with a very broad spectrum of (musical) tastes, ranging in age from 3 to 70. What to do about the music? There were voices quietly agitating for the sound …

The Naval Academy has cracked down hard, on P2P file-sharers – most other colleges have not. For now, the RIAA seems committed to its PR-disaster rear guard campaign to go after nodes of users. Scott Carlson writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education: The recording industry plans to increase the …

We have been following the Miss World hell with great interest and disgust: sometimes the news is so awfully absurd that you have to either laugh or cry and laughing is less messy and intrusive (unless you blow milk out your nose or something). Mark Steyn has taken the humor …

So we’re in the middle of that extended, sort of oblong, Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Other than the obligatory Thanksgiving eve night out (the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is often the biggest night of the year for bars, clubs, bistros, etc) and the Thursday stuff-fest itself, the rest of the weekend …

Strange and serendipitous confluence of time and space: Paul Frankenstein (we forget that real people are named “Frankenstein” and “Mummy” too, though I’m not sure how many “Wolfman” or “Creature From the Black Lagoon’s” there are running around) just picked ten movies we should check into. Local Hero was one …

PBS’ Robert Cringely on the suprising report by Microsoft researchers saying file-swapping cannot ultimately be stopped: The story is interesting, that it came from Microsoft is even more interesting, though the authors carefully disassociated themselves from their employer in the paper. But this all pales in comparison to the implications …

Are ringtones the way forward for the music industry?

It was the attack that failed that is most troubling – as insensitive as that sounds to the sixteen people killed and injured in the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel attack in Mombasa, Kenya. The failed attack was the missile attack on an Israeli charter jet as it was taking off from …

Just a reminder that you only have a few more days to let the FCC hear your voice regarding your ability to make copies of digital-broadcast television programs. This post has the details and links.