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Muxtape's Legal Defense To RIAA: Seriously, You Guys Should Just Leave Us Alone
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Thanks to the always reliable Coolfer for digging up this video from IFC, readmore
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Amazon: No New Kindle In 2008 (AMZN)
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Saving up for Kindle 2.0? You've got some time. New York Times writer Brad Stone interrupted his vacation to pick up the phon readmore
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A Victory For Video Sites: Court Grants Veoh Its DMCA Defense In Copyright Case (GOOG)
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
This won't resolve Viacom v. Google, or any of the other knotty copyright disputes roiling the Web. But it's certainly going to give sites like YouTube (GOOG) legal ammunition: A U.S. Dis readmore
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Bad News For Viacom: Britney A No-Show At MTV Awards
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
A year ago, Viacom's MTV got a not-totally-unexpected bump when Britney Spears made a humiliating/entertaini readmore
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Facebook Spam Getting Worse?
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
We're continuing to hear anecdotal evidence of new spam/virus outbreaks at Facebook, something the NYT picks up on as well readmore
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Righteous Students: We Don't Want Kindles -- We Want Cheap Books
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Yesterday we explained why readmore
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AMC To Twitterers: Please Don't Market "Mad Men" For Us
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
We're not sure if this cool, weird, or both. But someone has been spending a lot of time on Twitter recently pretending to be various character readmore
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Free VC Advice For Startups, Via Twitter
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
Twitter may not be best place for startups to readmore
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Amazon: Kindle Isn't *That* Big A Hit; College Edition In The Works
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
Amazon still won't tell anyone how many Kindles it's sold, or how many it thinks it will sell. But it's distancing itself from blockbuster numbers thrown out by readmore
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Uber-Hacker Kevin Mitnick: Web 2.0 Is Making Hacking Easier Than Ever
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Kevin Mitnick's tell-all book about his hacking exploits, and subsequent jail time, won't be readmore
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How To Get An iTunes Hit: Record The Songs Kid Rock Won't Sell On iTunes (AAPL)
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
The latest in our ongoing tutorial for music acts who want to break into the top of the iTunes chart: There are a handful of popula readmore
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Music Subscriptions Coming To iTunes (AAPL) Next Month? Nope
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
It's late August, which means that it's time for a new round of "What Will Apple Do Next?" rumors, pegged to the new product presentation Steve Jo readmore
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NBC Won't Show You Usain Bolt's Record-Setting 200 Meter Olympic Race. YouTube And DailyMotion Will
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
The readmore
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Yet Another Cool Digital Newspaper Product: Get The Wall Street Journal, For Free, On Your BlackBerry
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
Yes, readmore
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Walmart (WMT) Phasing Out Music Sales...And That Revenue Isn't Coming Back
Peter Kafka via ClusterStock on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
From Silicon Alley Insider: Coming soon to Wal-Mart: The new AC/DC album. Not coming to readmore
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Want The New AC/DC Album? Head To Wal-Mart. Want Any Other Music? Shop Online
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Coming soon to Wal-Mart: The new AC/DC album. Not coming to Wal-Mart for much longer: Most other music. Following in the footsteps of the Eagles and Journey (and readmore
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Who Are This Year's Y Combinator Winners?
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
Team SAI may have been the only people on the East Coast who weren't at the Y Combinator Demo Day in Cambridge yesterday. Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson flew in from S readmore
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MySpace Music Grunts: Please Don't Hire A CEO!
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
MySpace still hasn't been able to find a CEO to run its music joint venture. And the engineers working on the project would l readmore
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E-Mail Service Return Path Buys Habeas
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
Return Path, the NY-based email deliverability service, has acquired Silicon Valley-based co readmore
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Why We Love, And Hate, NBC's Olympic Coverage
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
Some of our readers have suggested that our repeate readmore
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