Month: May 2003

A bit surprisingly, there was a fairly enthusiastic response to Apple’s offer. A bit more than half of those who responded said that they were willing to bite. While I wouldn’t take the percentage too seriously, there was far more

There’s an interesting article in Wired about an attempt to stop RIAA and Company from seeing what P2Pers are stealing. This program is simply a modified spam filter. It blocks IP addresses. This might work very well against anybody who

I got a few comments about yesterday’s article, most particular this quote from a linked article: “For example, a hypothetical desktop processor using 70 watts will run an AMD bulk silicon processor with about 40 million transistors. Our 64-bit desktop

In File Wars, people talk about the two sides “compromising.” Trouble is, the only compromising I’m seeing is on the RIAA’s side. Rather surprisingly, they’ve made at least some good faith efforts to provide legal online music. They haven’t been

News Item One: RIAA Gets Into “Sharing,” Too College students “share” files; now they’re going to “share” between $12,000-$17,000 each with the RIAA. News Item Two: RIAA To Chat With You Shortly? RIAA plans to send a million IMs a