Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

  • Jim Griffin’s Choruss

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The plan to provide US students with compulsory flat-fee music finally has a name, it emerged this week. Choruss LLC will provide participating universities with a replacement for their current subscription services such as Rhapsody, and has the backing of the the EFF and the tacit support of the RIAA. That alone indicates the magnitude…

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  • Junk science and booze tax – a study in spin

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “Let’s find out what everybody is doing, and stop them doing it” – A P Herbert Putting the price of alcohol up to a minimum of 40p a unit would keep 41,000 people a year out of hospital, save the NHS £116m a year, and avoid 12,400 cases of unemployment, a report from Sheffield University…

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  • The hitman, the Pirate Bay and the Freetard professor

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?! FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression! REG: It’s symbolic of his struggle against reality – Monty Python’s Life of Brian Everyone’s a prankster these days – it’s all in the name of art. On Monday…

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  • Profiting from climate change: Ben Pile

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Imagine an unpopular, impotent, and fragile UK Government, trying to make political capital out of a looming crisis. To avoid being embarrassed by criticism of its shallow policies, it appoints an independent panel of experts, to which it defers controversial decisions. Now imagine that the panel proposes measures from which its members and their associates…

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  • The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Have you ever had the nagging sense that there’s something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell – the author of Tipping Point? But you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? We’re here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave two vanity “performances” in the West End – prompting fevered adulation from…

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    “We’re going to be last to market”: Chris Castle’s battle stories

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    bullient lawyer Chris Castle has a unique perspective on the Music Wars. A former Sony and A&M executive who “switched sides” to Silicon Valley, then found himself defending the original Napster, which he called one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. His clients range from technology companies to major recording artists. So to…

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