“Last year, five major Internet service providers and the big entertainment trade organizations announced a joint plan to fight illegal downloading through what might be called a strategy of annoyance. … [They will] prod and poke people into good behavior through a ‘six strikes’ system that escalate from friendly notices in their e-mail to, ultimately, throttled Internet access.”
Tag: 10.18.12
I Told Lies On To Tell The Truth
Adam Tanner recounts his experience of appearing – at the age of 13, no less – as one of the impostors on the program’s very last episode. (He convinced Barry Nelson and Kitty Carlisle.)
Newsweek To Quit Print, Become Online Only
“Newsweek Global, as the all-digital publication will be named, will be a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context.”
Philadelphia Orchestra – On The Comeback Trail?
“Many people thought what we have done has been impossible, or would be impossible,” executive director Alison Vulgamore says. “We have now, ahead of us, truthfully, the very, very challenging, but the possible. That’s a great new day for this orchestra.”
The UK’s Ten Most-Endangered Heritage Buildings
“A palatial pumphouse, an immense stone spillway and a London roundabout are among the 10 most threatened Victorian and Edwardian structures in England and Wales, according to a list published on Wednesday.”
Why Aren’t Novelists Writing About Global Warming?
“In spite of the stakes the issue has receded from the political frontline like a wave shrinking down a beach. It seems that the wave never quite reached our beach – the beach of fiction writing – in the first place.”
Pianist Fazil Say On Trial In Turkey For “Insulting Tweet”
“Prosecutors in June charged Say with inciting hatred and public enmity, and with insulting “religious values”. He faces a maximum sentence of 18 months in prison, although any sentence is likely to be suspended.”
What The Art World Power List Says About The Art World
“Two opposing camps are battling it out for domination of the international contemporary art world. On the one hand, the huge globalised art dealerships catering to the international super-rich – those individuals so dazzlingly wealthy as to be immune to the economic crisis. And on the other, a vision of art that is politically engaged, historically aware and socially inclusive.”
The Art World’s 100 Most Powerful
“Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has topped ArtReview’s eleventh annual ‘Power 100’ list. The curator of Documenta 13 is the first female number one and only the second curator (after Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2009) to top the list .”
Britain Needs Thomas Cromwell’s Welfare State, Says Hilary Mantel
In 1536, as Henry VIII’s chancellor, Cromwell tried to get through Parliament a Poor Law providing money to those unable to work. Says Mantel, “We have reached a period where we are going back to the Middle Ages; where poverty is once again being viewed as a moral failing or a weakness, and relief by the state is a privilege and not a right.” (She also thinks Cromwell could sort out the banking system.)