Beware the Best Buy boy.  The massive electronics “big box” chain is on the wrong end of a lawsuit this morning, the result of allegations that the store used an imitation web site to deceive customers and reap higher profits for its wares.  The Connecticut attorney general has called Best Buy’s activity “a bait-and-switch-plus ...

Sick of Digital Rights Management and closed technology platforms? A new Fair Use Act will pay little more than lip service to the digital constipation suffered by media users today. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 gave digital media users a black eye that has yet to heal. The intention of the act passed by Senate under the ...

Competing Satellite Radio providers XM and Sirius have announced an intent to merge. But the deal is far from done. The legal obstacle course involved in turning back a 1997 FCC decision is no small matter. But who is opposed to a merger between XM and Sirius? Possibly, anyone who has spent money on either one of the systems and likes things ...