Rdio: Great Music, for a Price

The founders of Skype and Kazaa have moved onto their next digital venture: Rdio, a streaming music service. Will listeners subscribe? In 2008, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the Scandinavian founders of Skype and Kazaa, started working on Rdio because they were convinced that music listening is shifting permanently from a download model (like iTunes) to one streamed on-demand from the cloud ...

Using other people’s

In reply to iiNet Decision Good News For ISPs : Using other people’s intellectual property without their permission or payment is stealing. Mere ownership of a computer does not exempt anyone from ethical conduct. The judges’ semantic dancing is dismaying, while the ISP may be likened to “a fence”—a distributor of goods knowing them to be stolen.

The Internet at the Dawn of Facebook

Back in 2004, the "World Wide Web" was dominated by Microsoft, AOL, and Jeeves.Facebook launched in 2004. Today, it has more users than the entire Internet had in 2004 . Before Facebook roamed ...

BitTorrent Is Suing a German Company for Pirating Its Trademark

Chris Whetzel, Seattle WeeklyTrademark pirates have plundered BitTorrent.Remember that episode of The Wire when Avon Barksdale filled out a police report after Omar jacked his stash?No? You're right,

Verizon stands up for its users in copyright lawsuit

Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it's not a big surprise to see Big Red ...