We have covered what you can do if your laptop has been stolen, but with the proliferation of other portable gadgets–cameras, cell phones, e-book readers–theft recovery applies to more than just your computer.
Never ones to let a good deed go unpunished, scammers quickly learned to take advantage of a user-friendly policy that allowed a misregistered domain name–perhaps due to a typo–to be withdrawn at no cost.
I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we’d all used in office jobs. “You know, I’ve been using Word for over 20 years,” I said, and immediately felt older than dirt. But it was true.
When Wal-Mart announced in 2008 that it was pulling down the DRM servers behind its (nearly unused) online music store, the Internet suffered a collective aneurysm of outrage, eventually forcing the retail giant to run the servers for another year.
Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has?
Just how many file-sharers has the RIAA gone after?
In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean.
There was a time in my life during which I left Richard Marx’s “Paid Vacation” album in my stereo system for weeks at a time. This was not because I felt a spiritual craving for the music so strong that only repeated listenings would satisfy. No, it was the single worst CD I could dredge up out of my music collection.
File-sharing, to the (very large) extent that it involves copyright infringement, has affected the music business.
Don’t mess with Texas, especially if you’re a blogger on somebody’s bad side.
It is a fascinating and challenging time to work in the music business.
It’s a well-known story by now: Europe, the US, and plenty of other countries have made it generally illegal to circumvent DRM, even when users want to do something legal with the content.
Amazon has unveiled a new service called AWS Import/Export that is designed to “accelerate moving large amounts of data” to and from Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage solution.
US consumers are more likely to have played video games over the last six months than gone out to see a movie, though neither activity is as popular as listening to music.
A congressional commission that reviews economic and security relations between the United States and China held a hearing last month on Chinese intelligence activities that impact national security.
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