Archive for the 'Online' Category


Reality

Joe Mock: "So thru rock and roll diligence I am assembling a decent collection for a CD. I’m not done yet because KLOS is playing more highlights tonight and I need a clean recording of the Who’s set." Its all on the right bittorrent sites – every artist, their entireset.  Dont know how they got […]

Mashboxx

Yeah, THIS is intriguing.  Let me get my copy protected song for 99 cents from some peon in New Jersey or Wyoming rather than instantly downloading a pristine version from the iTunes Music Store. It’s the PRICE stupid.  It’s not the DELIVERY system!  I mean I’ll get it FASTER from the iTunes Music Store but […]

What Doomed Them

Conventional wisdom is the content companies won, P2P lost.  The Grokster decision was heralded as a great day in the fight against file-trading and the establishment of legitimate online services. The only problem is this is not what Justice Souter’s opinion said. Justice Souter questioned whether file-trading was even hurting the labels.  He restated the […]

iTunes 4.9

Used to be you waited a week, maybe a MONTH to upgrade.  But those were the days before OS X.  Having NEVER had a fuck up with an upgrade yet, I downloaded iTunes 4.9, and its companion software, iPod Updater 2005-06-26, TODAY!  You see, I just don’t want to be left out of the podcast […]