The KaZaA network is alive and well, but the original KaZaA BV in Holland has collapsed under the financial pressure of the lawsuits being
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Month: May 2002
More Sony discs to wreck your Mac: boycott urged
Congratulations, Sony: your customers are now actually afraid to buy the legal product rather than download a free pirate copy. A report from the
Read MoreReview: Rock Wars, Duke of Windsor, Prahran, Friday 26th April 2002
Friday was night two of the ‘Rock Wars’ at the Duke of Windsor, and I was looking forward to a night of good old fashioned grungy punk rock: KTV, the Spazzys, Porcelain, Moler and Mach Pelican.
I hadn’t seen bands at the Duke before, though they’ve been having some good lineups lately. The band room looked a bit like a suburban RSL (or at least what I imagine a suburban RSL would look like, minus the pokies), but the layout was good for being able to see. I did like the camouflage nettting behind the stage, though I don’t know if that was just for the ‘wars’ this week.
Read MoreThis week, filesharing increases CD sales.
Jupiter MMXI, the media survey organisation that two weeks ago released a report claiming that “the European record industry must act now to curb
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Review: Baise-Moi
Baise-Moi is a MUFF special. A film that’s little more than an amateurish, adolescent exercise in prurience whose stream of apparently-subversive images masks an utterly uncreative, conventional, conservative nature.
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NSW Parliamentary tribute to The Ramones: “I named my dog Joey Ramone in his honour.”
No, really – late on the evening of Wednesday April 10th. You can read the original text on the NSW Parliament site, or from
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