Tags: kennedy, online

Growing pains for Wikipedia

After two scandals in one week, Wikipedia's founder decides to make a change to the anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia.

The big Digg rig

So-called social-media sites, which let users decide what's newsworthy, are dealing with scammers trying to game their systems.

Sharman to appeal while record labels celebrate

Sharman Networks has announced it will appeal a Federal Court ruling that several respondents associated with the company had authorised infringment of music industry copyright and that it must introduce filters to the Kazaa file-sharing software.

Please don't steal this Web content

Movement is afoot to stifle "scraper sites," which scrape content off blogs and repost it on other sites to profit from ad impressions.

One third of CDs sold globally pirated: report

More than a third of all CDs purchased worldwide are pirated, according to a record label report released this week. Australia, however, has one of the lowest levels of music piracy at less than 10 per cent of all music discs sold.

Tech toys for speed junkies

Not everyone can go touring in a Bugatti or racing in a Ferrari. But that's half the allure — you want it but you can't have it. Well, that's not entirely true.