2002 – Page 2 – Rocknerd

Latest dispatches from the war against the consumer

11 June, 200226 December, 2016 mp3, Your rights 2

As forecast in Suck two years ago, Interscope appear to have been using flooding p2p networks with 30-second loops of the new Eminem album

Sony tweaks Key2Audio

8 June, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, mp3 1

According to CD Freaks (highly recommended to those following the copy-prevention wars), Sony has reportedly patched Key2Audio to get around the marker hack. Meanwhile,

The Finest Computer Audio Known To Mankind

4 June, 200223 August, 2016 Audio 4

So your PC is a dual two-gigahertz beast machine with a gig of RAM and a soundcard with 5.1 Dolby output. You even claim

Radio: the future?

3 June, 200220 May, 2017 Media, Opinion, Radio 3

Imagine a post apocalyptic radio world, where there are multiple stations all sounding the same, acting the same – there is no choice, no variety, no difference anywhere across the country. Everything and everyone has been blended down to core stereotypes, and the people seem happy with this… and of course the advertisements, who can forget the advertisements.

Original KaZaA BV crushed, Morpheus to follow, KaZaA network continues

24 May, 200218 November, 2016 mp3 2

The KaZaA network is alive and well, but the original KaZaA BV in Holland has collapsed under the financial pressure of the lawsuits being

More Sony discs to wreck your Mac: boycott urged

14 May, 200229 December, 2016 Audio, mp3, Your rights 2

Congratulations, Sony: your customers are now actually afraid to buy the legal product rather than download a free pirate copy. A report from the

Review: Rock Wars, Duke of Windsor, Prahran, Friday 26th April 2002

7 May, 200223 August, 2016 Live 0

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.

This week, filesharing increases CD sales.

4 May, 200215 August, 2008 Industry 0

Jupiter MMXI, the media survey organisation that two weeks ago released a report claiming that “the European record industry must act now to curb

Review: Baise-Moi

2 May, 200218 November, 2016 Film 8

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.

NSW Parliamentary tribute to The Ramones: “I named my dog Joey Ramone in his honour.”

2 May, 200219 December, 2016 Punk 1

No, really – late on the evening of Wednesday April 10th. You can read the original text on the NSW Parliament site, or from

KaZaA adware defeated

25 April, 200223 November, 2016 mp3 4

KaZaAlite, a version of KaZaA minus the Brilliant Digital Altnet ad trojan, has been put together by a Russian programmer and made available at www.kazaalite.com.

Nicola Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks, has claimed that Sharman will “take action against parties engaged in misrepresenting our software,” despite KaZaAlite’s author being … in another country with differing laws.

24 Hour Party People.

18 April, 20022 January, 2017 Film 0

(2002, dir. Michael Winterbottom) Factory Records and its bands occupied thirty to forty percent of my brain between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.

New Darkwave/EBM/Synthpop quickies

13 April, 200219 December, 2016 Industrial, Record 0

It seems that maybe the muse has been getting around in EBM and Darkwave circles of late, or maybe just the right drugs are being taken … whatever it is, there is some fantastic new music on its way, and here are some short reviews of some of the current and future releases …

Icon Of Coil ‘The Soul Is In The Software’

12 April, 200219 December, 2016 Industrial, Record 1

Scandinavian act Icon of Coil have been plying their brand of boppy EBM for a number of years now, wowing European audiences with their reputedly spirited live shows and dancefloors everywhere (including Australia) with club-friendly tracks like “Shallow Nation”, “Former Self”, “Floorkiller” and “Situations Like These.” Ironically, it’s often been their less dancefloor-oriented tracks that have stuck out more, and, thankfully, new album The Soul is in the Software (due out later this month) has quite a few of these, as well as toying with new vocal styles and rhythms more often employed by other stalwarts of the EBM scene, Covenant and VNV Nation.

Queen Of The Damned: The extras speak.

10 April, 200220 December, 2016 Film, Goth 3

First, let’s get into character. Go find a mirror. Look into it. Go “grrrrrrrrrrruff!” Now hold that look. Hold it … hold it …

Review: Queen Of The Damned

10 April, 200222 July, 2023 Film, Goth 1

As part of a culture, any culture you care to name on the planet, the concept of ‘respect’ is seen to have inherent value. In fact, people throughout history have been acculturated to believe that people must seek the approval and approbation of others. Earning other people’s respect is seen to be inherently worthwhile and worthy of pursuing.

Allow me to destroy what little goodwill and respect I have garnered with the good people of this site, both wonderful posters and vile, mailbomb sending lurkers, with the following review.

More Clear Channel bashin’ fun

27 March, 200223 August, 2016 Industry 2

“Mr. Alan also used phone calls he had recorded during his live show in San Diego, editing out local references to make them usable in Boise.”

Such a terrible thing to happen to such a talented young lady

14 March, 200223 August, 2016 Pop 5

It’s one thing to read the horrifying tale and shake your head in dismay at the unspeakable traumas our modern pop youth are forced to work through.

It’s quite another to have actual pictures of the incident.

Lawsuit over crippled Charley Pride CD settled.

22 February, 200216 August, 2008 Industry 0

The suit brought by California woman Karen DeLisle against

Pressplay to pay 0.23 cents per download.

20 February, 20029 May, 2018 Industry 0

The recording industry, that fine and upstanding community institution of unimpeachable repute, has put its usual sort of deal on the Pressplay and MusicNet