Here's a treat for your Labor Day weekend. CinemaNow is one of a handful of web sites that sell or rent major movies in digital form. They are the only one that also provides Burn to DVD, which...

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is baaaack. Sen. Stevens is famous for describing the Internet as it "isn't a truck ... It's a series of tubes." Now he wants to give away your digital...

Last week I complimented AOL Time Warner. I take it back. Way back. It's one thing for AOL to screw up and take action like a grownup in the case I cited. But when the problems are ongoing and...

Welcome to our Consumer Lawsuit Scorecard. It provides a quick highlight of key RIAA court cases and actions. Go to RIAAScoreCard.com for the latest update. RIAA Consumer Lawsuit Scorecard (IDDI =...

Delina Tschirhart was sued by the the recording industry for allegedly downloading and sharing unauthorized music files in San Antonio, Texas. She wiped her computer hard drive. Now that is not an...

But not one on one. The BBC feature on film piracy stages Dan Glickman, MPAA Prez, against John Perry Barlow, of the grateful dead and EFF co-founder. There is little new in the polarized format....

Check out the excellent RIAA parody song from Weird Al Yankovic. Yes, you CAN download the song free. Choice lyrics include support from Metallica's infamous Lars Ulrich and the threat that if...

The DCIA, the trade association for the P2P industry, wrote Congress to argue for support of Internet neutrality. We are increasingly concerned that ISP plans for asymmetric networks will undermine...

Let's consider the children. A recent survey of tweens, teens, and young adults shows that the percent considering an act illegal drops from 98% for stealing a CD/DVD to 80% for buying a bootleg...

While I bash Sony for their colossal ethical lapses (1, 2, 3), they also deserve credit for their strategic vision (social networking, Mylo portable player with WiFi and Skype) Sony continues the...

Recent news highlights that there are good guys and bad guys in the corporate world. Shit happens. No major music companies are pure. All have settled for millions of dollars in the radio payola...

The music industry has attacked developers of P2P file sharing software and web sites that share songs. It is now going after sites that share guitar tablature or tabs, the musical notation that tells...

A current list of casualties and friendlies in the RIAA war against P2P developers follows. RIAA Body Count In active litigation Limewire 8-06 Morpheus 10-01, latest Received cease & desist letter...

The P2P brand BearShare has been purchased by Musiclab, owner of iMesh. Musiclab has cloned iMesh to create a totally new and legal BearShare music service and software. The iMesh and BearShare...

John Dvorak isn't "Missing the point about YouTube." It's still a big fat Kiss, that's "Keep It Simple, Stupid". He makes a great point that while people focus on the...

Sony was denied P2P patents in England, which has the good sense to disallow patents for computer programs. In Sony's proposed invention a P2P user with a file could add personal comments about...

Perhaps sensing that StreamCast Networks is on the way out, Altnet is claiming a piece of its carcass by suing StreamCast for patent infringement. Altnet partner kazaa and StreamCast have had an...

The iPhantom by Phantom Technologies is a full solution for Internet and P2P privacy and security. A small device sits between your PC or broadband router and your Internet connection, such as cable,...

A few days ago we reported "RIAA Goes After Another Dead Person ... And His Children." In a rare moment of munificence, after Larry Scantlebury passed away the recording industry granted the...