The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project (FUP) today dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films (BNF) against Viacom, citing Viacom’s willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites. […]

Commoncraft has published a short video introduction to RSS and its benefits: Click To Play RSS is a key element in blogging, podcasting and video podcasting.

Blog and podcast pioneer Dave Winer has an interesting take on the future of news: He describes a hypothetical news service where it’s easy to customize the content so that you get the news and information that you’re interested in. By selecting or deselecting checkboxes, you’d determine what news would show up on the page. […]

Apple’s recently announced that they would sell unencrypted audio files from EMI artists in a higher-quality digital audio format – 256 kbps AAC encoding, compared to 128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM. The higher quality will come at a premium, though, as Apple plans to charge about 30% more for the higher quality tracks. The […]

The Utah Grizzlies announced today that fans will be able to tune into Grizzlies Radio all summer long by visiting the podcast center at utahgrizzlies.com. Podcasts include the ECHL AA League team’s scoring highlights and player interviews from the regular season games. “Both on the radio and the internet, we continue to feel that Grizzlies […]

Podcast Hotel, a podcasting events being held April 20-21 in San Francisco at the Swedish American Hall, is offering streaming video of discussions, via UStream.tv. Billed as ‚Äútwo days of discussion around the intersection of technology, indie music and indie film,‚Äù Podcast Hotel will features lectures, concerts and discussions on digital media issues such as […]

Sales of Apple Macintosh computers grew 30% year-to-year in the first quarter of 2007, despite interest in Microsoft’s newly introduced Vista operation system. The growth in units sold for all computer vendors was 2.9%, making the growth in Mac sales 10 times the industry average. Microsoft’s official consumer launch of Vista in January had very […]

According to Will Friedwald, he has the largest iTunes collection in the world, with more than a terabyte of music managed through iTunes. Friedwald is a music writer, and has been described as “The Poet Laureate of vintage pop music.” Friedwald spends much of his day in front of a Power Mac G5 using his […]

Internet radio broadcasters that include traditionally-licensed music in their shows were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out a request to reconsider a recent hike in royalty rates¬†they must pay to record companies and artists. A broad group of public and private broadcasters, including radio stations, small startup companies, National […]

According to an AppleInsider report, the market for iPods is so large that the company will eclipse the 350 million Walkmans that Sony sold in the 80’s and 90’s to sell half a billion iPods. “During Sony‚Äôs 15-year reign with the Walkman, the company sold over 350 million units, and we believe that Apple‚Äôs addressable […]