The End of Studio Recordings?
Tyler Cowen points us to an interesting post on the future of the classical music market. Bill Stensrud predicts that the major record labels will soon exit the classical music business, leaving...
View ArticleBrian Eno Explains How The Recording Industry Is Like Whale Blubber
Just before I sat down to write this post, I was having a very interesting (and fun) conversation with someone about the recording industry (someone very deep in the industry, who's been there for...
View ArticleLomax Jukebox Going Digital Is Great News... But Let's Not Forget That He...
The NY Times recently reported on the excellent news that "technology has caught up to the imagination of Alan Lomax." In case you don't know, Lomax was something of a global folk music archivist and...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel On City's Illegal Recordings Of Conversations With...
Chicago city hall officials are in a bit of trouble for recording phone conversations with Chicago Tribune reporters without their consent. A city attorney is downplaying the incidents, insisting that...
View ArticleDid FBI Counterterrorism Agent Reveal That Feds Now Record All Phone Calls?
It's long been assumed (or hinted at very strongly by a variety of evidence) that the feds have been making and collecting copies of pretty much every digital communication available. A whistleblower...
View ArticleMN Judge Refuses To Throw Out Case Against Citizen Recording Police, EMS
Back in January, I wrote about an exceptionally odd case in Minnesota in which a private citizen had his recording device liberated from his person by police after he recorded them patting down a...
View ArticleThe End of Studio Recordings?
Tyler Cowen points us to an interesting post on the future of the classical music market. Bill Stensrud predicts that the major record labels will soon exit the classical music business, leaving...
View ArticleBrian Eno Explains How The Recording Industry Is Like Whale Blubber
Just before I sat down to write this post, I was having a very interesting (and fun) conversation with someone about the recording industry (someone very deep in the industry, who's been there for...
View ArticleLomax Jukebox Going Digital Is Great News... But Let's Not Forget That He...
The NY Times recently reported on the excellent news that "technology has caught up to the imagination of Alan Lomax." In case you don't know, Lomax was something of a global folk music archivist and...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel On City's Illegal Recordings Of Conversations With...
Chicago city hall officials are in a bit of trouble for recording phone conversations with Chicago Tribune reporters without their consent. A city attorney is downplaying the incidents, insisting that...
View ArticleDid FBI Counterterrorism Agent Reveal That Feds Now Record All Phone Calls?
It's long been assumed (or hinted at very strongly by a variety of evidence) that the feds have been making and collecting copies of pretty much every digital communication available. A whistleblower...
View ArticleMN Judge Refuses To Throw Out Case Against Citizen Recording Police, EMS
Back in January, I wrote about an exceptionally odd case in Minnesota in which a private citizen had his recording device liberated from his person by police after he recorded them patting down a...
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NSA Has Capability To Record And Store ALL Foreign Phone Calls In Certain...
The latest scoop from Barton Gellman, reporting for the Washington Post on documents Ed Snowden leaked, highlights an NSA program known as MYSTIC, with some snazzy clipart... and the ability to...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Overturns Insane Recording Laws
When it comes to insane bans on recording police and public officials, the granddaddy of them all has always been Illinois' eavesdropping law, which made it a federal crime to surreptitiously record...
View ArticleFive Illinois Cops Are Caught Lying On The Stand When Defense Produces A...
Cops lie. Citizens know this. Defense attorneys know this. Prosecutors know this. Most importantly, judges know this. But rarely does it have any effect on the outcome of the case at hand. But in what...
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NSA Is Recording Every Phone Call... In The Bahamas?!?
So, back in March, the Washington Post published a report about the NSA's MYSTIC program, where it was recording all phone calls from an unnamed country. The Washington Post chose not to reveal that...
View ArticleNYPD Officer Chokes Man To Death; Cops Blame Cellphone Recordings And People...
In the wake of Eric Garner's death via cop chokehold, the NYPD is coming under all sorts of additional scrutiny. This is in addition to the appointed oversight ordered by Judge Scheindlin after...
View ArticleCalifornia Cops Seize Recordings Of Questionable Arrest, Claim They Have The...
Photography Is Not A Crime again reports on police acting like they have the right to confiscate people's cameras and phones in order to "secure" recordings of apparent police misconduct. Police in...
View ArticleBody Cameras Are Everywhere, But Recordings Remain Locked Up Tight
All over the nation, police departments are deploying body cameras. But there's no guarantee the public will have any access to the footage. As Kimberly Kindy and Julie Tate of the Washington Post...
View ArticleHacked Data Obtained By The Intercept Highlights Wholesale Spying On Inmate,...
A few months ago the FCC voted to crack down on the ripping off of inmates and their families by prison telecom companies, which for decades now have charged upwards of $14 per minute for services...
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