When Daddy’s well bought–and anti-Net
Reality: "The recording industry, following through on its promise to take legal action against ordinary computer users who share music on the Internet, is filing hundreds of subpoenas, demanding the...
The campaign cash behind the 5Y/$250K file-sharing penalty
"A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a...
Content ain’t king of the Net–and what that means for e-books and libraries
Don't get me wrong--I love books, I love movies, I love music. But in cold dollars-and-cents terms, how much do they figure in the grand scheme of things on the...
Beware of Chinese Valentis
Is China secretly preparing to clone native versions of Jack Valenti or his counterparts from the pharmaceutical industry in the States? Well, maybe not. But you'd almost think so if...
E-books and the file-swapping decision: Some gradual progress toward TeleRead?
"In a huge setback to the big record and movie companies, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled in favor of two online services that allow people to share music,...
Sen. Edwards and Libraries
My mother-in-law the retired textile worker grimaced this week in her livingroom in Statesville, North Carolina, as she watched Democratic Sen. John Edwards utter the standard Man of The People...
Bought pol wants to legalize attacks against file-sharing sites
"Copyright holders would receive carte blanche to use aggressive tactics to stop the illegal distribution of their works on online services like Morpheus and Kazaa under legislation outlined today by...
Gatsby, 1984, Animal Farm, others go cyber–but not for us Yanks
At least some surfers outside the United States can legally download The Great Gatsby, 1984, Animal Farm, To the Lighthouse and even Gone with the Wind for free--because copyright laws...