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Evan Roth Is Using Ghost Hunting Gear to Make Us Analyze How We Use the Internet
He believes that a slew of massive corporations have boiled things down to one click, thereby taking away our power.
'Deep Web' Director Alex Winter on Silk Road Boss's Harsh Sentence: 'A Stunner'
The fall of Silk Road hasn't deterred anyone, he says.
Please Use This Awesome All-Girl "Enter Sandman" Cover, Joakim Soria
Joakim Soria should use this version of "Enter Sandman" by three badass young Mexican girls as his entrance music.
If Eliminating Piracy Couldn't Save this Country's Record Industry, Why is Downloading Still the Enemy?
Illegal downloading is no longer a real threat to record labels and their bottom lines.
Even iTunes Don't Understand How Their New Refund System Works
Anyone can get a refund on a record they don't like and they don't even need to return the album. But who is losing money here?
The Canadian Music Industry Wants to Censor Google Searches
If you believe the chief lobbyist for the music industry in Canada, it's a sad fact of life that honest, hard-working Canadian artists just aren't making money anymore because of all the illegal downloading and the Google. Is this true? No. Is it a...
A Tequila-Laced Conversation with Perry Farrell
We talked to Jane's Addiction frontman about his decision to become a tequila spokesman, why he's bored with entertainment industry people in favor of abstinence, how he's been drinking tequila since the third grade, and why he doesn...
A Tequila-Laced Conversation with Perry Farrell
We talked to Jane's Addiction frontman about his decision to become a tequila spokesman, why he's bored with entertainment industry people in favor of abstinence, how he's been drinking tequila since the third grade, and why he doesn't want to be like...
How the New York Times Trained Us to Pay For News
The Times is dealing with a generation of consumers who grew up with Napster and BitTorrent and every major newspaper was readily available online.
The $8 Billion iPod: Rhapsody Founder Rob Reid on How Copyright Math Doesn't Add Up
The inevitable backlash over the online uprisings that foiled controversial pro-copyright bills SOPA and PIPA earlier this year is slowly rising to a boil. Last week, the content industries managed to strike a "backroom deal":https://www.eff.org...
For Independent Artists, Streaming Online Isn't Much Better Than Piracy
The demise of infamous P2P music service Napster last week -- the most recent in a 10 year history of "death and rebirth":http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/12/napsters-seven-lives-are-finished/45646/ -- didn't seem to surprise or distress...
Nap(ster) Attack!
Napster 1.0 was one of the best things that ever happened to the internet. It wasn’t just a file-sharing site where college kids stole Snoop Dogg songs. It was more a massive bazaar where anyone could access practically every kind of music ever...