I’ve been talking a lot, both on this blog and off (mostly off, believe it or not), about issues of piracy and how the RIAA and MPAA deserve the horrible, slow death they’re both dying. One of my most recent examples of the utter evil these organizations emanate was the creepy traffic analysis toolkit the … Continue reading
OK, forget that last post. I don’t care what anyone says, Web 2.0 is the shit and it’s not going away anytime soon. The Pirate Bay has recently hopped on the 2.0 bandwagon, adding spiffy Last.fm integration to retrieve similar artists, as well as discography information. As TorrentFreak so delicately put it: Here’s a screenshot … Continue reading
Speaking of toolbags, I just read a post by Jermaine Dupri called A Good Album is More than Just a Collection of Singles. It is so wrong, backwards, and stupid, I don’t even know where to begin. The man does not argue coherently. Fortunately the post was at least copy-edited, because the punctuation is by … Continue reading
Just read an article that says Canadian police are now officially looking the other way on copyright infringement for personal use. That’s right, you can download all you want, and the cops won’t come a-knockin’. Turns out that ensuring the cash flow of major corporations just doesn’t contribute to the welfare of society as a … Continue reading
I don’t have enough time to make a post about the concert last night before my next class. My bandwidth also hasn’t been sufficient to get pictures up yet, so that’ll have to wait. In the meantime, I wanted to throw out an article in the New York Times about students at Brown University getting … Continue reading
In the last post, I focused more on the possible benefits of the site Anywhere.FM than on the legal implications of digital music storage. This needs to be discussed separate from the streaming issues I touched on last time. There are certainly lots (103,000,00 hits on Google) of digital music storage websites out there. From … Continue reading