As Chris just reported, the Nine Inch Nails album released independently via download has garnered $750,000 so far. A similarly released Radiohead album made about $10 million recently. The recording industry is unsure what to do, but thus far has mostly seemed to ignore these successes and continued to focus on music piracy, which they […]
Yesterday, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School released a statement to all other schools. It was entitled “Universities to RIAA: Take a Hike.” For those too pure to know what the RIAA is, let me explain. The Recording Industry Association of America is a company that works all kind of […]
I am concerned not many people know what DRM is. DRM really stands for digital rights management (not delirious RIAA material) and it is a way for people to control how and when you can listen to music you have already bought the rights to. The problem with DRM is that it only hurts people […]
Would you steal a car!? If it was as easy as downloading a movie, yeah. There is a big difference between piracy and stealing. The biggest problem with piracy is how easy it is to do it. There is also relatively low risk of getting caught due to the high number of individuals who do […]
College Being has just gone over the 200-article barrier. This will be the 202nd article on our site. I hope you guys have been enjoying all the totally awesome things we write about. Here are ten of our top articles thus far (Note: Our About Page, Home Page, and RSS are the most viewed): 10. […]