As we had suspected, the early reviews of MySpace Music make it sound like a dud.It sounds, not surprisingly, like the focus was on appeasing the big record labels, rather than actually making a servi...
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Following my post on the makings of the financial crisis, some folks noted that I didn't really discuss the issues of leverage and derivatives, and how they ended up screwing up Wall Street something ...
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Want to know how we know the holidays are coming?It's not the Christmas decorations already showing up in stores; it's the annual ritual of retailers threatening any website that posts the deals from ...
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Last week, in that big post about the financial crisis, one thing I mentioned is that despite all the talk of "moral hazard" -- the bigger fear might be moral hazard's sister problem: adverse selectio...
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We had noted recently that Congress appeared to be moving forward with a bill that would actually re-legalize playing online poker.However, reports coming out now suggest that with Congress so busy pa...
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We've seen it time and time again, where totally bogus stats about the "costs" of "piracy" are floated (usually by lobbyists) and then suddenly accepted as fact.It's even worse when it's government of...
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There's not much in the way of detail, and our UK readers have pointed out in the past that The Times Online is hardly the most reputable of newspapers in the UK, but it's reporting that the UK govern...
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Many people realized long ago, that contrary to what the RIAA (and the politicians it supports) states, the RIAA is not representing the interests of "the music industry," but rather the interests of ...
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In the lawsuit between the movie studios and RealNetworks over Real's DVD ripping software, RealDVD, it appears that a judge has issued a temporary injunction against Real, keeping the company from di...
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Remember back when people first started questioning the reliability of e-voting machines?It was initially focused on Diebold, though later reports have all shown that Sequoia and ESS are equally as ba...
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Despite explaining how the financial crisis will impact everyone, beyond just Wall Street, there are many people who still insist that it will have no impact on them.That's simply untrue.While the imp...
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The EFF has a long and comprehensive look into the RIAA's five year (and running) legal campaign against file sharing.It's a great overview that not only brings you up to speed if you haven't been fol...
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I've been seeing previews of the new movie, Flash of Genius (which opens today) everywhere, and a few folks have asked my opinion of it.Over at Against Monopoly, there's as pretty good takedown of the...
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It's been quite fascinating, over the years, to see how the various "Nigerian" scammers have adapted and evolved their strategies.While variations on the originals exist, over time we keep seeing new ...
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Earlier this week, GigaOM released a new paper on bandwidth caps by Muayyad Al-Chalabi.It's been getting a fair amount of positive attention from around the web.I have to confess that I find this some...
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In my post about the financial crisis earlier this week, I explained the rationales both for and against the so-called "bailout bill."With some of the important indicators getting seriously scary, it ...
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We've written a couple times about lawyer John Dozier's highly questionable case against Ronald J. Riley.As I've pointed out, even though I disagree with Riley on almost everything, and find that he r...
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You may recall that earlier this year, after some serious problems were discovered with Sequoia's e-voting machines in New Jersey, that the state asked a group of independent researchers to investigat...
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theodp writes "Seems there really isn't anything you can't patent these days. It took seven-and-a-half years, but the USPTO awarded patent reformer Amazon.com a patent Tuesday for its invention o...
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Charles Cooper, over at News.com, has a long history of being quite skeptical of business models involving the use of "free" and, at times, likes to poke fun at us who believe such models are a key pa...
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