I covered this last week here, but the full interview is up now and it’s too good to miss.
I spent a little time looking for quotes to pull out, but the whole thing is really worth reading, and really gives a lot of insight into the mystery of just how the music industry managed to paint themselves into a corner.

A few months ago I talked about how a large American distributor of Anime called Geneon was going out of business, and also pointed out that this might be a sign of things to come.
At the time I said this:
Certainly the concept that linear media overlords can spoon feed content to a willing audience is an idea whose time has passed. DRM just becomes a way for the elite to prove how cool they really are, by crawling over each other in their efforts to crack it.  And the concept of …

Surprising no-one but Facebook itself, they’ve changed the way Beacon works.
All in all it’s a good case study on the way things work on the Internet, and object lesson for anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to try and make a business model out of aggregating and disseminating non-anonymous user information without permission.  Although I can’t imagine why you would think that was a good idea…
It’s a social networking site, one that even has the ability to join causes built into the software itself.  What did they really …

It’s odd how the smaller “niche” areas of content, especially print, are managing to be more reactionary and more insane than the big businesses. I can see how they feel more threatened, and unlike the major companies they tend to be earnest in their anger rather than posturing to try and pad a bottom line.  It’s even stranger when it’s people who are supposed to be forward thinkers by definition, like the SFWA.
Warren does a good job of explaining the story so far:
The Science Fiction Writers Of America have occasionally been …

When last we visited Z-Cult they had received a cease and desist letter from Marvel, telling them to stop providing torrents for Marvel comic scans to their users
They also decided to voluntarily wait 30 days before providing new DC issues, but in the meantime they have received similar letters from DC and Top Cow, so all those books are going away as well.
While it’s hard to feel too sorry about a site that is so clearly built on providing other people’s content for free, they’ve obviously put a lot of …