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RIAA, EFF unite to sabotage digital reform
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Andrew Orlowski
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Sometimes, you just can’t win. A proposal to speed up the clearance of mechanical copyright for broadcasters and digital media services has been met with hysteria from lobby groups who complain that copyright clearance today is too cumbersome and slow. It’s an issue that’s been intensely discussed since it was first proposed two years ago…
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Neurosis as a lifestyle: remixing revisited
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Andrew Orlowski
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“We stand on the last promontory of the centuries! Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the impossible ? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed” – Fillippo Marinetti, 1909 When a year ago…
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Junk science – the oil of the new web
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Andrew Orlowski
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There’s a case to made that James Surowecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds is the most influential book of the decade – The Selfish Gene for the noughties. Both have something else in common: the title of each book is profoundly misleading. Crowds aren’t wise, nor can genes be selfish – as one critic famously wrote,…
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Creativity now dependent on machinery, says New Age Judge
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Andrew Orlowski
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Digital music nirvana isn’t impossible, it just takes longer
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Andrew Orlowski
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An early look at on-demand streaming of your own music. The cloud buzzword hadn’t caught on back then… The idea of being able to play your music anywhere, on any device, has become a cliche without quite coming to pass. Viewed from a distance, this looks like one of technology’s greatest failures. If you’re acquainted…