Last night I ended up staying awake way too late because, as I was about to go to bed, I came across these two posts by Salon’s Farhad Manjoo over at his Machinist blog. Apparently J.K. Rowling is suing some fan over his attempt to publish a print version of the Harry Potter Lexicon, an […]
Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, has gotten lots of press recently, mainly because the album can only be purchased directly from the band’s website, and is being sold at no specified price. Should you go to the site and click download, you will be asked to name your own price, enter your payment information, and […]
BitTorrent is a way of downloading and sharing files over the internet. It’s the name of both a file sharing protocol and a program that uses the protocol. Many, many people use BitTorrent to download copyrighted content, but about half the time I mention it to “a non-computer person” they don’t know what it is, […]