Author: Gary

  • On the radio again

    Unless it gets cancelled – which may happen, the joys of live radio and all that – I’ll be on BBC Radio Scotland’s Gary Robertson show tomorrow morning to talk about protecting kids from scary things on the Internet. The show starts at 10am.

  • The Bootleg Beatles (and Beasties, and…)

    The latest press release from the BPI has landed on my desk, and there are some worrying figures in there: piracy – proper piracy, not file sharing – in the UK grew by 13% last year, netting around 56 million pounds for the perpetrators. It ties in with a feature I’ve been doing for PC…

  • Even journos get the blues

    I’ve written extensively about credit card fraud and as a result, I’m bordering on the paranoid: I won’t shop on sites that aren’t secure, I never let my credit card out of my sight, and so on. However, that hasn’t stopped me from becoming a victim of card fraud: I discovered this morning that my…

  • U2 versus the evil internet pirates, part 1

    Apparently U2 have lost a rough cut of their forthcoming album at a photo shoot. It’s not the first time this has happened: Pop leaked on the Web a few months before its release, rough recordings for Achtung Baby were nicked from the studio a few years before that, and something in the back of…

  • A tale of two CDs

    With music, I often need instant gratification: I’ll hear a song on the radio or on a music channel and I’ve got to have it. Here’s two examples of that in action – the first shows how it should work, and the second shows why downloading isn’t going away. Snow Patrol – Chocolate Heard it…