Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

  • Suits 2.0 at the BBC

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Bureaucracy is the one sure winner in the BBC’s strategic review – the suits and wonks. It’s sort of like natural selection turned upside: in a changing environment, the most useless survive. Mark Thompson’s review, leaked to the Times today, was supposed to review the Corporation’s output, and it could have helped made inroads into…

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  • After Napster, bringing P2P in from the cold
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    After Napster, bringing P2P in from the cold

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “The technology was sort of there. That software was there, and it was good – I wouldn’t do it that differently now. The basic model was just as appropriate then as it is now.” – Chris Castle. Read more at The Register… Read More

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  • SpinVox carcass laid bare in final accounts

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “Dragon’s Den TV star Julie Meyer described SpinVox as “the first major technology success story out of Europe”, but the company’s final accounts show a business running at a huge loss, spending heavily to acquire customers, and with interest payments alone exceeding income.” Read more at The Register…… Read More

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  • Obama plagiarist has a legal posse

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Artist Shepard Fairey is facing a Grand Jury probe for falsifying evidence in a copyright case. Fairey was suing Associated Press over the use of an copyright image Fairey had used as the basis for a popular Obama election poster. To the dismay of the Boing Boing crowd, Fairey turned out not to be a…

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  • Music biz: get a cluestick from online games

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    Andrew Orlowski

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      An answer to the music industry’s woes slipped into the IFPI Annual Report last week, but its significance went unnoticed. Before I get to it, though, here’s a poser. “We screw the struggling artist, and pay the suit,” Nick Carr mused recently. Carr was examining a contradiction: information has never been less free, it’s…

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  • Lords mull Hail Mary penances for file-sharers

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Lucas is a self-styled libertarian, so he must realise the inherent contradiction of the state acting in this way. The Lords this week discussed new compensation for copyright holders this week – including a voluntary ‘Hail Mary fine’ payable by file sharers, instead of suspension – but nobody noticed. It was late on Wednesday night,…

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