Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

  • Record labels seek DMCA-style takedowns

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Exclusive Record label trade association the BPI wants sweeping changes to UK online copyright practice in 11th hour amendments to the Digital Britain bill. The amendments would grant copyright holders injunctions against websites and service providers similar to the US DMCA act – but with no ‘safe harbour’ provision to verify whether the claim is…

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  • Nu Lab’s favourite boffin

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    New Labour’s favourite boffin has lost her job – for a very New Labour reason – and has responded with a classically New Labour riposte. Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield was made redundant from her post as the Director of the Royal Institution after failing to balance the books. The full-time post itself is being abolished.…

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  • Google to mobile phone industry: ‘Fuck you very much!’

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    "It’s Google’s autistic approach to relationships," one senior phone exec told me this week. "They don’t know what hurt they’re doing, and they don’t care." It’s nothing personal, guys. Today, some of the biggest tech companies in the world, who thought they were Google’s closest partners, will begin to understand how, say, copyright holders have…

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  • Google abandons Search

    Google abandons Search

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    It’s hard to explain to people new to the web since 2004 – the Digg kids – the effect that Google had on the internet at the turn of the decade. They can’t conceive the Before and the After. Google was miraculous, and so much better than the competition that they effectively gave up trying…

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  • On Climategate

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    at The Register This piece originally had a much longer section summing up the state of climate “science” – which the CRU leak has verified. The peculiar nature of the problem is why anecdote and modelling play such an important part in the persuasion business. Scientific theories fall by the wayside when they fail to…

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  • On the occasion of the Pirate Party’s first UK address

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Opening Comments for the In The City P2P Panel, Manchester, on Sunday 18 October: Although Rik [Falkvinge]’s in front of us in flesh and blood, he wouldn’t exist – the Pirate Party wouldn’t exist – without enforcement policies being the primary goal of the music business. The programme bills this as “two sides of a…

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