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  • After Napster, bringing P2P in from the cold

    “The technology was sort of there. That software was there, and it was good – I wouldn’t do it that differently now. The basic model was just as appropriate then as it is now.” – Chris Castle. Read more at The Register

  • SpinVox carcass laid bare in final accounts

    “Dragon’s Den TV star Julie Meyer described SpinVox as “the first major technology success story out of Europe”, but the company’s final accounts show a business running at a huge loss, spending heavily to acquire customers, and with interest payments alone exceeding income.” Read more at The Register…

  • Obama plagiarist has a legal posse

    Artist Shepard Fairey is facing a Grand Jury probe for falsifying evidence in a copyright case. Fairey was suing Associated Press over the use of an copyright image Fairey had used as the basis for a popular Obama election poster. To the dismay of the Boing Boing crowd, Fairey turned out not to be a…

  • Music biz: get a cluestick from online games

      An answer to the music industry’s woes slipped into the IFPI Annual Report last week, but its significance went unnoticed. Before I get to it, though, here’s a poser. “We screw the struggling artist, and pay the suit,” Nick Carr mused recently. Carr was examining a contradiction: information has never been less free, it’s…