Hip hop is making waves in the music industry. Now, there is an online social networking site for hip-hop fanatics. Through Hip-hop.net, you can let the world know what your favorite music is or you can even post your own, original music. Hip-hoppers all over the world could converge in this social network. Just like […]

The next time you pick up that cease and desist letter to copy it and reproduce it for your use to stop other sites from copying your content, take care! You might be violating copyright, as crazy as that may sound.
In October 2007, a lawyer claimed that the cease and desist letters originating from his […]

SonyBMG is slowly realizing that music in the future may have little to do with the schemes of DRM being pushed nowadays. The distribution of music online has been revolutionized by the Internet. However, a host of companies are still crying for more regulation over illegal sharing of music.
SonyBMG and Midem, in response to this […]

Good news to people sharing music. QTrax has just been launched this week. For the uninitiated, QTrax is a peer-to-peer music sharing program. This platform is perfectly free, and perfectly legal. It is supported by ads. QTrax boasts of 25 million songs in its repertoire. That is a huge collection! Even five times more than […]

MoveOn appears to be moving on in trying to provide a better take on politics through Web 2.0. At least from what they have been doing, they are able to provide web applications and gadgets that do not smack of propaganda or partisan politics. They now have a semblance of being non-partisan.
Recently, the Senior Editor […]

In its efforts to extend its online presence, Gannett decided to bring in Chris Saridakis as its Chief Digital Officer. Interesting title, don’t you think?
No matter how interesting the title is, what’s important is the move of Gannett to expand digital operations. Currently, Gannett holds more than 80 newspapers in the United States. Through the […]

Torrents are really making torrential waves in the world today. People from either side of the issue are doing every possible way to turn the tides to their favor.
MediaDefender is on the side of the Anti-torrents. It seeks to protect the copyright of content by all means possible. “By all means possible” means putting fake […]

To the consternation of the members of PlanetOut, which caters to LGBT, the company has admitted that it is on the way out and is now looking for another orbit to connect itself to, figuratively speaking. The easiest way out for this social networking site is being sold off.
PlanetOut has already sold RSVP Vacations a […]

Google thought that if it cannot control the weather, then it could at least control the weatherperson. To seal the deal, Google has signed a deal with The Weather Channel so that Google Maps can tell the weather on a map. Their relationship, however, goes deeper than that.
Google Earth can now make use of the […]

Torrents are hot these days. A lot of people enjoy them so much. But big companies are flexing their company muscles nowadays. The Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent tracker located in Sweden has literally been slapped by tons and tons of legal documentation seeking to stop it from operating.
According Ars Technica, the Pirate Bay has […]