Subject: Recording Industry Association of America

• Vinyl Considered Groovy—Again

  An employee at a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon mistakenly ordered vinyl LPs of R.E.M.'s latest album, Accelerate, instead of the CD-DVD version, and a funny thing happened: 20 of the vinyl copies sold the first day they were put on the shelves. Now this retailer is going to stock the format that the music industry hoped would die a quarter century ago in 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. “It's not just a nostalgia thing," Melinda Merrill, spokeswoman for Fred Meyer,

  June 20, 2008

• Royalty Pains and Net Prophets

  As online radio faces possible financial doom, Pandora thinks outside the box

  June 21, 2007

• The Fly Life

  September 25, 2003

• KaZaA Kiddie Porn?

  September 25, 2003

• Your Rainy-Day Reader

  March 15, 2001

• Were Bad, Were Worldwide

  November 23, 2000

• The Launching Fad

  February 24, 2000

• High Profile Ex-OC Prosecutor Launches Private Practice

  Defense Attorney Brian GurwitzBrian Gurwitz, a former top local prosecutor, announced this week that he is opening a solo private practice for both criminal defense and civil clients.While in the Orange County District Attorney's office for 13 years, Gurwitz worked on numerous high-profile cases including ones against Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo (misuse of office), Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline (child pornography) and the infamous Haidl gang rape trial. He's testified as a legal exper

  June 9, 2009