Speaking of the Velvets, I bought tonight the just-released deluxe reissue of their first album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. The new disc contains both mono and stereo mixes of the first disc, along with tracks from Nico’s CD Chelsea Girl. Although billed as a solo album, Cale, Reed, and Morrison do backing vocals. Extensive […]
Is it possible to copyright silence?
Note to self: Hey, dummy, John Cage is not the guy from the Velvet Underground.
cnet has an editorial about the Audiogalaxy closure. Eliot Van Buskirk supports an idea I asserted here–nuking file sharing across the board removes access not only to illegally distributed works, but legitimate files as well.
He also looks at reasons behind the shuttering of Audiogalaxy and possible implications for future filesharing. Well worth a read.
Metropolis! The Fritz Lang classic has been restored and will soon be rereleased on the arthouse circuit. Happily, it opens in New York during my July visit. Oh, but look: It’s coming nowhere near Indianapolis or Bloomington. Further proof that it’s about damn time I move from where culture isn’t to where culture is.
In other legislative news, COPPA (the Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act) has passed the House. If the Senate approves, it will be illegal to create or possess any computer-generated image that appears to depict a minor. In other words, no minor needs to have actually been harmed in the creation of this image. The […]
Gleaned from Metafilter: There’s a bill before Congress that would allow copyright holders to launch denial of service attacks on peer-to-peer networks. Again, we’re seeing that the only way that Hollywood and Washington know how to deal with file sharing is with the bluntest instruments possible. Denial of service attacks would block not just illegal […]
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Some comments on blog linguistics, because several people have asked me what the term means or whence it arises: Peter Merholz coined the term in early 1999. Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg defends the use of the word [RealAudio file]. And now there’s news that the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary have drafted an entry for […]
To balance the serious with the scatalogical, here’s a link for my beloved friend, Anne Pepper.
The New York Times ran an item this morning [registration required] about a new report, looking at the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, an arbitration system set up to resolve domain name disputes. What happens when two people or organizations battle for control of a certain domain name?
Domain names are those strings in the […]
