Music
industry can't
outwit online
outlaws -
David Weekly
wasn't amused
earlier this month
when Napster, the
digital
music-sharing
service, ousted
more than 300,000
users for
illegally trading
songs by the band
Metallica. The
Arlington native
and Stanford
University senior
devised a
technical solution
to get around the
ban and posted the
instructions on
his Web site. He
estimates that 95
percent of the
outlawed users
were back on
Napster within
days...
The
Shockwave.com Of
The Future
- Bouncing
animatedly in his
Multimedia Gulch
office in San
Francisco, the
next media mogul
gleefully shows
off his prime-time
lineup of edgy
next-generation
programming.
Dressed in blue
jeans, T-shirt and
green windbreaker,
Shockwave.com
leader Rob Burgess
reaches for a
computer mouse to
show off
in-your-face,
politically
incorrect material
that would bring a
smile to Howard
Stern's face and
get the PC police
up in arms.
Clicking on
Shockmachine, a
"virtual
consumer
device"
hooked up to a
34-inch
television,
Burgess offers a
glimpse into the
warped world of
Joe Cartoon, a
wise-cracking
cartoon character
who is regularly
devoured by
piranha. Down the
turnstile-like
selector is
"Like,
News," where
a sexually
repressed Attorney
General Janet Reno
torments her
nose-pierced
interviewer,
Skeeter. Haven't
seen enough? Then
how about a racy
ditty called
"Internet
killed the video
star?"
Netting
New Players
Video-game
industry looks to
score off Internet
- A more
optimistic
video-games
industry emerged
yesterday from the
shadows cast by
the post-Columbine
finger- pointing,
as hardware- and
software-makers
looked toward a
new generation of
consoles to become
the hub of home
entertainment in
the 21st century.
While last year's
Electronic
Entertainment Expo
keynote speaker
fielded questions
about the
industry's role in
the deadly
Colorado high
school shooting
after it was
revealed that the
two teens
responsible played
violent video
games like Doom
and Quake, the
kickoff
presentations at
this year's
conference focused
on both the
promise and
problems raised by
the Internet and
other cutting-edge
technologies...
Meat
'fights' for
acting career
- Looking
absolutely nothing
like the
proverbial
"Bat Out of
Hell,"
trimmer, dapper,
ever-gracious Meat
Loaf thanks a
reporter for
complimenting his
sharp black suit,
worn with matching
black shirt and
charcoal tie.
"That's very
nice," says
the
actor/singer/author,
whose
close-cropped hair
today belies the
rocker image that
first made him
famous in the late
'70s. "My
wife (Lesley Aday)
always says, 'This
Meat Loaf
character that
goes on rock and
roll stages is not
allowed in the
house.' So, now I
look like
this..."
JACKO
VENTURES INTO
DOT-COM
PARTNERSHIP
- Michael Jackson
wants to be
startin' something
- so he has become
a major investor
and partner in a
new Internet
venture. The
self-appointed
King of Pop inked
a deal with
HollywoodTicket.com,
which plans to be
launched this
summer as an
interactive
entertainment,
promotional and
marketing vehicle
that "puts
fans into show
business..."
