Caveat, I’m a huge fan of Metallica - even after getting booted from Napster by their representatives (ironically I own all their albums). Metallica held a listening party for a few journalists in London but was then taken back when they wrote about what they heard. As a result, management had the reviews yanked from [...]
San Franciso based Internet Archive had recently been served a Patriot Act “Nation Security Letter” that requested personal information about on of their users. Operating as a library, the Archive was hesitant to release the information and instead turned to the ACLU and EFF for support. A subsequent court case has now forced the FBI [...]