Wolf Richter

£8.25 – Pride of Calais, Sep 10, 2007. Late. More to follow…

John Perry Barlow’s vision of an autonomous cyberspace outside the control of national governments has to take another blow. After the much-hyped online community Second Life has recently hit the news primarily in relation to very First World problems like theft, gambling, and pornography, the much hoped-for emergence of structures of self-organisation within the community [...]

Offering a product with the goal of getting sued by a major company and enjoy the 15 seconds of free marketing fame has become an increasingly popular go-to-market strategy. A refreshingly new approach has been taken by the so far unknown company MediaRightsTechnology, which instead of waiting to get sued by a major sent out [...]

After the initial controversy about the introduction of the Napster service at PennState University in November 2003 had ceased, it got remarkably silent on legal music download services at university campuses. Similar silence surrounded the announcement of the termination of the agreement between PennState and Napster earlier this month and the switch to the ad-based [...]