Posts Tagged ‘music’

Suing the Internet

4th July 2006 10:07am by JB posted in Archived

Have a look at some of the big stories about the Internet so far this week. Here are a few headlines and links:
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score
Music industry to sue Yahoo China
UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site
Image-based spam on the rise
Yesterday, I promoted the opportunity for people to tell ICANN, the Internet’s [...]

Without a safety net

9th June 2006 2:59pm by Chris N posted in Archived

I recently moved home and found myself without a toaster, without an ironing board, without a bookcase and - most irritatingly of all - without a net connection. How on earth would I survive?
Reasonably easily, as it turned out. In fact for a while I got used to being netless, just like the protagonist of [...]

iTunes does me a favour

11th May 2006 11:45am by Chris N posted in Archived

This morning I was sitting on the bus, listening to <nme mode>Wildhearts’ frontman Ginger’s confessional rock opus Valor Del Corazon</nme mode> (because nothing says ‘commute’ like a double album about your wife leaving you on account of your heroin habit), thinking about the differences between CDs and mp3s. And how heroin habits are a bit [...]