File Sharing, Piracy and Downloads
Recent coverage of unauthorized and authorized digital distribution.
Scientology feud with its critics takes to Internet
A long-simmering dispute over digital copyrights between the Church of Scientology and its critics has boiled over in recent weeks after video clips turned up on the Internet from a 2004 interview by the church's most famous member, actor Tom Cruise.
9:33 PM EST, January 27, 2008
MUSIC
Major record companies weigh deal with online service
Major record companies may be considering deals with Qtrax to allow music lovers to listen to any tune, anytime, free of charge.
July 1, 2007
WEB SCOUT
A global YouTube
GOOGLE batted an eyelash last month, and nine new YouTubes sprang up around the world.
April 29, 2007
WEB SCOUT
The Internet sure loves its outlaws
THEY may not wield battle-axes or wear horned helmets like their Viking forebears, but today's Swedish pirates are still wreaking some pretty heavy-duty havoc.
February 11, 2007
GRAMMY AWARDS
A deaf ear to the new dynamic
Here we go again. Tonight the Grammys will announce, or at least whisper surreptitiously offstage to a hardly panting press or public, the 2006 classical awards. They won't mean much.
December 3, 2006
WEB SCOUT
They conquered the 'Net in two original minutes
LINING the Strip, billboards the size of aircraft carriers herald the faces of headliners like the battle flags of nations: Elton John, Celine Dion, Toni Braxton.
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