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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...

I thought I had plumbed the depths of the UK newspaper industry's stupidity when it came to digital. The idea that putting up paywalls ...

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'm sure most people remember DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - that later rebranded itself as the singularly unmemorable “Digital” ...

Here's an interesting move : Britons will be forced to apply online for government services such as student loans, driving licences, pas...

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...

Users of free software are nothing if not passionate. Most of them care deeply about the code they use, and will happily plunge into the fla...

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

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...