You knew it couldn’t be that long until politicians looked at the file sharing issue as a nail for their particular legislative hammer. California Senator Diane Feinstein has apparently been convinced by those in the entertainment industry who have donated quite a bit of money to her campaign. She’s saying that there’s been “rise in [...]
Archive > September 2005
Someone May Want To Explain To Record Execs How They Really Have Very Little Power.
Warner Music is really backing themselves into quite a corner. Last week CEO Edgar Bronfman started whining about how Apple won’t let them charge more for certain songs — which, as we pointed out, isn’t a problem with Apple. Warner is the initial seller. They can set whatever wholesale price they want, but they can’t [...]
Wikipedia Of Cliches it is, it is.
In the online world, everyone loves to describe whatever it is they’re doing in terms of what’s hot right then. Often this comes in the form of combining two hot things (e.g., “it’s like Craigslist meets Flickr” or “it’s like tags meet spam”). However, just as often, it involves a “the _______ of ________” type [...]
Rip, Burn and Return
A record store in New Jersey, tired of losing sales to online download services and file-sharing, has started a “Rip, Burn, Return” policy, according to The Wall Street Journal. Customers can buy a CD, then return it within 10 days and get 70% the purchase price back as store credit. Three guesses — and the [...]
I Hope eBay’s Lawyers Have Read Up On Network Neutrality
Someone at eBay might not be happy about this bit of news today. Just days after spending billions of dollars to buy Skype, a company that makes traffic management technology for broadband providers is offering up a Skype filter that will let broadband providers block out Skype traffic. They’re not the first, obviously, as some [...]
How to Help a Friend Who Gets Arrested in the Middle of the Night
It is 2am and someone you love has just been arrested. You know you need legal help. You do not want your loved one to make a confession or be in a line-up or even get fingerprinted if it can be avoided. It is tough to know what to do or who to trust. Even [...]
Musicians Storm Capitol Hill… Um… For Something
While it seems that the entertainment industry has been able to get much of what it’s wanted from the government with things like copyright extension and having the FBI work as their own private police force, it appears they’re still not satisfied. They’re storming Capitol Hill to… um… that’s not clear. Sure, there’s still a [...]
People are retards! There is no Gas shortage.
I cant believe that we have run out of Gas in Georgia. Only 11% of the gas for the Atlanta is shipped via the pipeline, which is currently down. The pipeline is fine its just there is no power to run the pumps right now. It should be fixed in a few days. The rest [...]