ContentAs fans of independent music and art, one has to appreciate the DIY mentality of alternative operating systems, such as the open source and passionately free Linux, or the loveable underdog Mac OS X. Breakdown Industries, for example, is written on an Apple Powerbook and hosted on a cheap Linux box. And it really isn’t [...]
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Archive for March, 2004
Thursday, March 25th, 2004
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
A few bits of news from the front on the ongoing RIAA war against file traders. Notably, the RIAA filed 532 more lawsuits, 89 of which were against students, including an NYU student. This brings the total number of lawsuits up to 1977. According to their press release, “by a more than two-to-one margin, the [...]
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
The 83 year-old head of the Motion Picture Association of America has decided to retire after 38 years on the job. Valenti gained notoriety of late with his hard-line stance against piracy, and it is not currently clear whether his departure will change the MPAA’s tactics. More about Valenti’s retirement can be found here.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
A new favourite obsession of ours is Levy. Behind the eponymous Vermonter James Levy (emphasis on the long e’s), this four-piece act has been seen all over lower manhattan in recent months. After short stint at Niagara, a weekly series of gigs at the Mercury Lounge, a phenomenal show at Pianos, and a recent night [...]