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Digital Music Will Cost You
Online music is spurring reintermeditation - more people between the musician and the consumer - rather than disintermediation, as promoters, web hosters, music streamers, and security experts all want a piece of the online music pie. (12/8/1999 at Wired News)

Dot-com Film Critics Are Shut Out
Miramax Studios angered online movie critics when it banned them from an advance showing of the movie "Scream 3." (2/3/2000 at Mercury Center)

Is Indrema Just a Dream?
An interview with Indrema president John Gildred on Indrema's plans to develop a Linux-based, high-end gaming console for $299. (4/6/2001 at O'Reilly Network)

Keep Napster Fun -- Shut It Down!
One reason Napster is so fun to use is that even it is legal, it feels like you're doing something bad. (10/12/2000 at Salon.com)

Mahirmania: Celebrity or Fool?
The press is going wild for Mahir Cagri, a nobody from Turkey who soared to fame after his web page was hacked. Is everybody laughing with him or at him? Does it matter? (12/17/1999 at The Industry Standard)

Napster -- Friend or Foe?
Scott Rosenberg presents 4 possible scenarios for the future of the music "industry," as shaped by Napster and similar technologies. (3/30/2000 at Salon.com)

Nevada Passes Net Gambling Bill
Though Internet gambling is against federal law, Nevada legislators have approved a bill to legalize and regulate online gambling. (6/5/2001 at Wired News)

The Online Housesitting Nightmare
An umemployed dot-com journalist/writer takes over the heavily-webcammed loft of Josh Harris, founder of Pseudo.com, and experiences life lived completely in front of an Internet audience for several days. (2/26/2001 at Salon.com)

Piracy Panic
People pirate music, and movies, not to save money, but for convenience; if music could be bought over the Net, and first-run movies could be downloaded for a price, the entertainment industries could see huge profits. (11/15/1999 at Forbes)

Plug is pulled on Indrema box plans
Indrema, a company that planned on making an open-source video game/DVD/TV/MP3 Linux-based console, is going out of business before releasing a product. (4/9/2001 at Video Business)

Pundits Ask: Who Owns Music?
At the Signal or Noise conference, held at Harvard Law School, Terry Fisher suggested that the best way of dealing with intellectual property online (including music) is to allow unfettered use, for a fee distributed to all parties involved. (2/26/2000 at Wired News)

Wayne's "World"
Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World," a film about a dot-com millionaire who hires a stripper for three days, is a dated movie with telling details about isolation, money, and geekdom. (4/19/2001 at Salon.com)

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