The Register - Music and MediaBiting the hand that feeds ITBBC's Today Programme shutters message board- May 19, 2008 Flagship radio news organ enrages pants-wearing web commentariat BBC Radio 4 news flagship The Today Programme said today it will axe its online message boards at the end of this month, prompting anger and charges of censorship from users.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/today_programme_message_bo... P2P soars, licensed music flatlines- May 16, 2008 Today is a good day to die download Freeloading music is more habit-forming than paying for legal downloads, according to polling in the UK.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/musically_p2p_survey/ RIAA ordered to shell out $100k for P2P witch hunt- May 15, 2008 Pigopolists pay for 471 hours How many work hours does it take to fight off a false accusation of copyright infringement from the Recording Ass. of Americahttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15/tanya_andersen_attorneys_f... Wake up and smell the Doritos - Avril Lavigne's manager- May 15, 2008 Mmm. Doritos. Copyright is over, and musicians should make themselves as pretty as they can for big brand advertisers, says top music manager and label boss Terry McBride.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15/terry_mcbride_interview/ Top-slicing the Beeb: Clueless execs get busy- May 15, 2008 Smelling the Ovaltine, swirling down the drain Some quangos, like jellyfish, seem to be able to reproduce asexually. It's what they live to do. What this means is that without any contact, parthenogenesis occurs and they simply spawn off a little version of themselves, which may grow as large as its parent. Britain's uber-regulator Ofcom, I learned this week, definitely falls into this class. I just hadn't realised how badly it longs to plop out lots of baby Ofcoms.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15/westminster_forum_bbc/ When flash mobs go bad- May 9, 2008 Facebook water fight soaks up thousands of pounds of damage An open invitation on Facebook to hold a massive water fight in Leeds has resulted in thousands of pounds worth of damage to its prize winning public garden.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/09/leeds_water_fight_damage/ MySpace revs profile transfer engine- May 8, 2008 Down with the walled garden MySpace has launched an initiative that will one day allow its social-networking-obsessed users to automatically shuttle their profile data to third-party web sites.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/myspace_data_trumpet/ MEPs deny sports 'intellectual property' landgrab- May 8, 2008 Own(ing) goals Updated MEPs today voted against a bigger role for intellectual property in sports, stoking a copyright head-to-head between the powerful governing bodies of world sport and the media organisations that seek to report it.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/sport_ioc_intellectual_pro... Hollywood awarded $110m against TorrentSpy- May 7, 2008 Once beaten, twice fined Operators of the once-popular TorrentSpy tracker have been ordered to pay more than $110m to Hollywood for facilitating illegal downloads of movies and television shows.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/mpaa_awarded_110m_from_tor... Sky plays the victim over Ofcom pay TV rights probe- May 7, 2008 Clinging on to Premiership and movies Sky has complained to Ofcom that a probe of its dominance of UK pay TV is too one-sided, ahead of a decision that could see the market for football and movie rights opened up to more competition.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/sky_pay_tv_rights/ |