Liberation Musicology Liberation Musicology
The recording industry has been celebrating the supposed defeat of Napster. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction th...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen
Publishers Caught in a Web Publishers Caught in a Web
Jason Epstein's Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future is the third memoir of a major American life in book publishing to reach print in less than two years. It is at ...
Jan 26, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gayle Feldman
Gates Sends a Message: A Wired World Gates Sends a Message: A Wired World
Bill Gates for President--next time. Now that we've gotten used to millionaires running for the presidency, why not a billionaire and a self-made one at that? At least Gates is...
Nov 7, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Threat to the Net The Threat to the Net
Open access to the broadband Internet is essential if we are to insure that a diverse range of voices has a chance of reaching out to citizens in the new era of high-speed communic...
Sep 25, 2000 / Jeffrey Chester
MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright
Once upon a time there was a struggling young California band. Its music was too loud and its image too unpolished for MTV.
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Siva Vaidhyanathan
Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do
The pace of recent events made one of the most significant rulings in the history of American antitrust law seem like an anti-climax.
Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Eben Moglen
What They Do Know Can Hurt You What They Do Know Can Hurt You
This article is adapted by permission from Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly).
Feb 10, 2000 / Feature / Simson L. Garfinkel
Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.
Nov 11, 1999 / Eben Moglen
Media, Inside Out Media, Inside Out
The recent CBS-Viacom-bination--at $37 billion, the largest media deal ever--mirrored previous purchases, like Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner's taking...
Nov 11, 1999 / Feature / Rory O’Connor