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1. Comment - Kazaa joins the ranks of law-abiding P2P services

   (Jul 20, 2009 - 4:03 PM)

   I will be shocked if this does anything. :)

2. Comment - Media goes crazy over Amazon deleting '1984' from Kindle, but 99-cent ebook was illegal copy

   (Jul 20, 2009 - 4:02 PM)

   So who's opinion is this? Nate's or Tim's?
   
   And the entire point is missed. It wasn't the fact that the book was illegal -- it was the fact that Amazon went into people's Kindles to erase the book. As somebody said below, Apple does not do this with iPods... once its on your iPod they are not (yet at least) peering through your content.
   
   That's the point.. that there is a privacy issue here. Some outlets did do some sloppy reporting, but all are focusing on that point, which is truly valid. Yes there is some irony that the book deleted ends up being 1984...

3. Comment - RIAA spokesperson denies proclaiming DRM 'dead'

   (Jul 20, 2009 - 3:51 PM)

   So providing an excerpt of an email is enough to say he didn't say it? Who's to say he did not edit that out? PR folks say boneheaded stuff all the time -- I'd be more interested in hearing what Radcliff says. Obviously she had to provide Ernesto with some type of information in order for this to happen.
   
   Ernesto isn't Radcliff. Why aren't we asking how he got this information in the first place?
   
   There is often more to the story than what is being told. I don't think anyone here has it right -- from SC Magazine, to Ernesto who somehow got a hold of it, to those recycling the story, to those now trying to shoot it down.
   
   Something just doesn't sound right.

4. Comment - IDC: Apple drops behind Toshiba in PC market share

   (Jul 16, 2009 - 4:58 PM)

   Either way, Apple is still in the top five PC makers in the US. Not bad for a company that only a few short years ago was much further behind its rivals...

5. Comment - Steve Ballmer's denial can't stop change from coming

   (Jul 16, 2009 - 2:18 PM)

   It sure is nice to see after I left that the policies regarding opinion articles have become so lax that BN now allows rants to be posted on the site as opinion articles. Joe, as a former analyst on Microsoft, your recent writings for eWeek and now here have confused me greatly. The pieces on Microsoft Monitor used to be informative, well thought out, and hard to argue with. Since then, all but 10-15% of your work is now anti-Microsoft, sometimes to the point where there appears to be some bias.
   
   Like others, I fail to see how you made the case here for Google and Chrome OS vis a vis Microsoft. Way too much time was spent going after Mr. Ballmer, and far too little on that comparison, which should be the focus of the piece.
   
   Joe, you can do better than this.