In-depth study of illegal file sharing shows Manchester is most active UK city in illicit file sharing - and Ed Sheeran the most illegally downloaded perfomer.
In-depth study of illegal file sharing shows Manchester is most active UK city in illicit file sharing - and Ed Sheeran the most illegally downloaded perfomer.
Great resource - make sure your get a note of the key statistics: More than 33 million albums and 10 million singles were downloaded illegally in the first six months of this year from the popular file sharing network BitTorrent. Equating to a loss in retail sales of more than 500 million pounds, the figures highlight why music companies are concerned about the damage this might do to their long term sales.
A plan by the New York Police Department to use Twitter to boost its image seems to have backfired. Users were asked to tweet a photo of themselves with officers and add the hashtag #myNYPD as part of a social media campaign.
Scores of celebrities from Justin Bieber to Tom Cruise have taken part the Ice Bucket Challenge, but when John Humphrys was nominated by his daughter, he gave it the cold-shoulder. The BBC Radio 4 Today presenter has said he'll happily give money to charity, but is wary of fads.
A US television channel has scrapped plans to produce a pilot programme called Alice in Arabia after Twitter users labelled the concept "lazy" and "racist". The channel in question - ABC Family - announced it would be making the show last Monday, and the premise caused immediate alarm.
FACEBOOK FAKE: Gerard O'Donovan reviews Channel 4's The Girl Who Became Three Boys, the story of Gemma Barker, who disguised herself as a series of boys so that she could date girls.
FACEBOOK FAKE: Gerard O'Donovan reviews Channel 4's The Girl Who Became Three Boys, the story of Gemma Barker, who disguised herself as a series of boys so that she could date girls.