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‘Dear Fred’, from Dick Huey
“I had a problem with part of your last post, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until about 4 AM, when the realization finally struck me,” says Nashville entertainment lawyer Fred Wilhelms who, on behalf of his clients and unpaid artists everywhere, has been doing battle with the SoundExhange (SX), the now independent collection agency which was once part and parcel of the RIAA, with all that implies. Do former connections just fade away? In July, 2007, “an unsigned Reader’s Write accused Fred Wilhelms of having a vested interest in criticizing SoundExchange for not paying artists,” said p2pnet last month, continuing »»» The author later proved to be Dick Huey (right), one of the RIAA-appointed ‘label representatives’ on the SoundExchange board of directors.
Continue reading »Weekly potpourri: Palm Pre, Richard Marx, sleep hacking, and more
The summer solstice has arrived, along with some hot temperatures at Ars HQ in Chicago. Here’s some hot news from the past seven days: In the second installment of our Palm Pre review , we go in-depth on the software side of the device. Does Palm’s webOS really live up to its promise as a “cloud” messaging mobile?
Continue reading »Encrypt the Cloud, Security Luminaries Tell Google
Google is putting millions of users at risk of fraud from hackers and needs to enable encryption by default on its most popular web apps, including Gmail and Google Docs, a gaggle of security researchers told the search giant Tuesday in an open letter. At issue are the current default settings for Google’s popular web applications. The settings use the secure “https” protocol only for logging in, and fall back to unencrypted browsing thereafter.
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