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A recent issue of The New Yorker had a fine essay by Mike Spies about the joys of discovering and listening to music . But its overall to...

A post on The Next Web reminds us that the CD is thirty years old this month . As the history there explains, work began back in the 197...

As I've noted before, one of the tricks used in the current ACTA negotiations is to blur the lines between counterfeiting and piracy, a...

I've been writing about all kinds of openness and sharing on this blog nearly five years now. Before that, I had been covering free sof...

As regular readers of this blog will know, free software has an importance that extends way beyond the world of software. But for most peopl...

For some months now, I've been touting "Avatar" as a good example of how the film industry should be concentrating on enhancin...

Two quotations from James Murdoch's speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival: So talking about a coming digital future...

Steganography is about hiding stuff in such as way that it isn't even apparent stuff is hidden. For example, you might change predeterm...

Fascinating stuff : We usually think about technological improvements in productivity as benefiting the highly skilled and educated, and dis...

As I and a few other enlightened individuals have been banging on about for some time, allowing digital files to be copied is not the end of...

I've been rabbiting on about this for some time; now The Economist is saying it too, so it must be true: Seven years ago musicians der...

Peter Suber has long been recognised as the official chronicler of the open access movement; now, with the publication of this paean , it s...

Given the convergence of thinking about the digital and analogue commons that is taking place, the news that EarthTrends is releasing its o...