August 1, 2008 - 4:00 pm
, By A.D. - Columbia College
Twist of the year, including last year: The FCC has actually ruled in favor of personal rights over giant corporations.
Comcast, a cable television and Internet provider (and bane of many a customer with no other choice), was trying to stop the usage of peer-to-peer sharing (BitTorrent and other services) by using a tricky combination of hardware and software to stifle that type of Internet traffic. This is speculation but I’ve always believed this was because they were receiving pressure from the RIAA, but whatever. Either way, this practice could render your upload and download speeds completely impotent if you chose to use certain types of data transmittance, regardless of whether or not you were participating in ‘illegal’ activity.
In a ridiculously badass and unexpected decision, the FCC totally fucking facepalmed Comcast by ruling the behavior illegal. Read More »
October 4, 2007 - 4:00 pm
, By Josh - UMASS, Lowell
Statistics show that most Latin-American countries rank highest in a worldwide poll for “personal satisfaction.” Hot weather, nachos, Corona and the hottest women in the world - yeah, I’d be pretty pumped about my life too. (Yahoo)
A teacher in Montclaire gives out homework assignments to his students’ parents on the regular. Start placing your bets now to see how long it will take for this smart-aleck teacher to be “involved in a scandal.” I say two weeks. (NY Times)
Woman gets sued for downloading 24 songs of KaZaa. She originally got charged for 25 songs, but even the RIAA doesn’t consider Nickelback music. (Duluth News)
“The Top Ten Rude Behaviors in the Workplace” (Hopkins)
After the Mayor of Atlantic City turns up missing for over a week, some random dude appoints himself Mayor. First action as Mayor: rename A.C. “Awesomeville.” (CBS3)
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September 12, 2007 - 1:00 pm
, By Josh - UMASS, Lowell
Kanye West and 50 Cent’s ego-tastic battle of the record sales kicked off yesterday, with industry insiders placing Mr. West ahead of 50 in the early runnings. Still, it’s too early to confirm any numbers until Soundscan chimes in.
Further hyping the hype (if that’s even possible) is Kanye canceling his face-off with 50 live on MTV due to his dissatisfaction with the network after the VMAs didn’t go as he planned (no main stage performance, no awards won).
But forget all that: Fiddy isn’t going to quit the music business, and Kanye isn’t going to boycott MTV for very long. All this media hoopla boils down to selling records, plain and simple. Read More »
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July 3, 2007 - 5:00 pm
, By COED Staff
We all know how exciting it is to see a classic hit like “Don’t Stop Believin” by Journey pop up on a list of stealable downloads, saying it will only take 20 seconds until that baby is yours to keep forever. You say, “Dude. I have to download that. I don’t care if I’m stealing. It’s JOURNEY for gosh sakes.”
Tempting, I know.
And even though the government has been warning us to stop illegally downloading music, ever since the beginning days of Napster, we continue to do it anyway. We are such badasses.
Recently, however, there’s been an even bigger crackdown, and it’s college kids they’re after. With the rise of the Recording Industry Association of America, emails have been sent to hundreds of college students across the country and counting, warning them they have been caught in the act and if they don’t settle their cases out of court, they will be fined more money than college kids can afford.
MSN.com reports the case of University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore Sarah Barg, who received an email advising her of the fact she was caught downloading over 300 songs (some of which included songs by the Spice Girls - You’re AWESOME!) on a campus computer using Ares - a site much like Kazaa, Limewire and Bearshare. At first, she brushed off the email, as we all probably would. Some one who downloads the Spice Girls doesn’t exactly scream “evil threat to society” to me. Read More »
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Twist of the year, including last year: The FCC has actually ruled in favor of personal rights over giant corporations.
