RIP the Loudness War – apparently
Interesting article from Mix, proclaiming the end of the loudness war, Mastering engineers often aim to make songs sound louder because louder equals ‘better’ when you’re fighting for listeners. Radio…
Copyright, downloading and the Digital Economy Act
After all those scary tales of people being fined gazillions of pounds for downloading music illegally, here’s a rather more enjoyable tale of how a judge threw the book at…
Goodbye Lendle – predictably
One of my chief objections to the Kindle is a suspicion that it heralds the end of owning books that you can give, lend, share or buy secondhand. I had…
Online astroturfing
‘Astroturfing’ is a term for the deliberate infestation of discussion forums by corporations with comments that look like Joe Public shares their view. Robot Wars by George Monbiot is a…
Music, copyright, file sharing & death threats
Interesting article in Intellectual Property Magazine about the decision by ACS:Law to stop chasing illegal file-sharers (Law firm abandons pursuit of illegal file sharers), due to criminal attacks, hacked emails,…
Philip Pullman on library closures
For my taste, nothing to me is potentially more damaging to democracy and freedom than the closure of public libraries. Philip Pullman has said it all more eloquently than I…