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Why the music industry has nothing to celebrate A great article on Salon about this whole Napster shutdown. My favourite part: “For music lovers, the bad news today is that if and when Napster shuts its servers down, we will have to find our music through other channels. The good news is that the brain-dead,…
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Oh my god… I know exactly what I’m getting my dad for Christmas this year…
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Courtesy of “Outlawyr” on MetaFilter (a great community weblog)- When headlines go wrong, part III: Do they know whose eyes they were?
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Here it is! the best example yet of the phone/palm device convergence. This is why I’ve been waiting to buy a phone: LGI-3000W/TP-3000
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Ok… here’s why I think the whole recording industry is screwed (aside from the fact that they screw artists and consumers on a regular basis): It’s not that I disagree with the fact that they have a right to control their copyrights. Intellectual property does need to be protected to a degree. But they’re the…
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Poor Smokers A conservative Canadian think tank has produced a study asserting that higher income, not legislation, is responsible for reducing the number of smokers in North America. The report observes that people with money are more likely to quit so they’ll be healthy enough to enjoy spending their wealth. A cancer society spokesman, however,…
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Napster is being shut down. Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel granted the recording industry a temporary injunction to pull the service. This is certainly a bad sign of what is to come… Napster still has a shot at trial, but this injunction certainly reflects poorly on their defense strategy. Score so far:…
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Star Trek tech not far off? it seems Force Fields and ‘Plasma’ Sheilds are a near-reality. According to this story on space, “cold plasmas” are capable of shielding satelites and other spacecraft, or making them invisible to radars.
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The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer – yep, that’s right… the guide we’ve all been waiting for!
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So Napster gets its day in court today. The RIAA is seeking an injunction to shut Napster down citing copyright violations. Napster argues that it’s users are not doing anything illegal, but that the file-swapping falls under “fair use”… I think they’ve got a chance- it would be nice to see the music industry on…