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The Guardian has a brief piece wherein philosopher Nick Bostrom suggests we should be thinking ahead about what rights we will need to grant to our sentient machines. Which is very well-meant, I suppose. But science fiction author Peter Watts takes a rath
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Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell
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Orbit, publishers of Iain M. Banks’ new novel, Matter, have posted the book’s action-packed prologue on their Web site — it introduces you to one of the book’s coolest heroes, Seriy Anaplian
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Und genau das, genau diese Einschliessung der Inhalte, dürfte der Grund hinter dem scheinbar so konsumentenfreundlichen Abschied von DRM sein, denn das Monopol von Apple lässt sich so lange nicht brechen, so lange nicht DRM aus dem iTunes Store verschwi
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Is the RIAA as we know it about to disappear? As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operatio
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The album, the first in four years from the closely watched British rock act, sold 122,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That represents a mixed result for the band. It’s a sharp drop compared with the debut of Radiohead
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In the confusion following the Washington Post’s RIAA story, and its subsequent “correction,” journalists and advocacy groups alike are missing an important fact: the RIAA has repeatedly taken the position that ripping MP3s from CDs you own is illegal, an
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“Larry Lessig’s magnificent book The Future of Ideas is now available as a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licensed download. Future of Ideas is a grim and prescient look at the way that corporate interests have rigged the system so that they c
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Regardless, this interview depicts the RIAA exactly how they want to be perceived–a group that relies on (and enjoys) lawsuits. It’s an organization that has little idea of what we truly want as consumers and, for some reason, has a severe distaste for c
