3 month ago
deusx : Radiohead Blasted By Veteran Rockers KISS For Giving Their Music Away For Free - Entertainment - Uhh... Yay? "Bassist Gene Simmons says the British rockers – who gave fans the choice to download last year's album 'In Rainbows' for free or pay a sum of their choosing - says their decision is contributing to the demise of the record industry an
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6 month ago
adamrg : Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs - Well, I suppose that my interests had to align with WalMart eventually. I suppose that's not even true, I just buy off AmazonMP3.
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : All this online sharing has to stop | Technology | guardian.co.uk - A Modest Proposal supporting the music industry's calls for ISPs to block filesharing. #
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9 month ago
deusx : HijiNKS ENSUE a geek webcomic - updated monday and thursday » Blog Archive » Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel - "Our kids will laugh when we’re 60 and we don’t know which button turns on the garbage disposal and which one vents plasma from the starboard nacelles."
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12 month ago
Eric Meyer : On ringtones and copyrights - A link for all the people who keep ignorantly complaining about ringtones in iTunes. If you're going to complain, people, do it knowledgeably! [via John] [via]
Rod Begbie : Macworld: On ringtones and copyrights - Good summary of what Apple would be up against even if they *wanted* to let you turn your MP3s into ringtones for free. [via] #
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16 month ago
jimray : Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement - Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
deusx : Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com - "Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
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17 month ago
deusx : Daily Kos: State of the Nation - Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry? - "The strategy of playing only non-RIAA songs won't work though because the RIAA has secured the right to collect royalties on all songs regardless of who controls the copyright."
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : Spinning Into Oblivion - New York Times - "The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc." [via] #
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18 month ago
jimray : NPR fights back, seeks rehearing on Internet radio royalty increases - More on NPR fighting the RIAA cabal on their inane webcasting fees
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18 month ago
jimray : NPR fights the good fight against the RIAA's inane webcast royalty clusterfuck - I love NPR
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18 month ago
jimray : Things you can do to help save internet radio from the fuckwits at the RIAA - Fuck me, I'm pissed that I get so irrationally pissed about this fucking bullshit. Motherfucking assholes...
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20 month ago
wearehugh : Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists - Engadget - from the comments: "The idea that this is somehow a problem is predicated on the belief that more than one person in any 50-mile radius area actually owns a Zune"
43folders : Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists - Engadget - "It's official: record companies don't like you." [via:daringfireball.net]
jimray : Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists - Yeah, you can fault the record companies for this, but why the fuck did Microsoft even make this an option at encode time?
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20 month ago
deusx : Recording Industry Bleeding Cash, Album Sales Down for Seventh Straight Year - Gizmodo - "Of course, the sleazy grandma-suing record companies will blame pirates for poor sales, which is much easier than actually signing competent artists who don't crank out shitty music year after year. Most of the steaming heap is not even worth stealing."
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22 month ago
deusx : Why does the fashion industry thrive in spite of rampant IP "piracy"? - "In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designs—or rather, because of this lack, the authors argue—the fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"
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26 month ago
cameron : Yahoo! Music Blog » Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music - Yahoo takes on DRM with a personalized Jessica simpson track. Interesting political statement wrapped in a sexy voice.
Simon Willison : Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music - The fact that it's an MP3 should cause waves.
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! Music Blog » Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music - "Our position is simple: DRM doesn?t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day ? the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a [via] #
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26 month ago
deusx : Push the Third Button Twice: The Pig and the Box - "The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. "
Rod Begbie : The Pig and the Box - A beautifully illustrated storybook fable explaining to ver kiddiewinkies why DRM is bad. Lollipop Jones! [via] #
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26 month ago
deusx : EFF: Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry - "EFF has prepared a sample list of tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions."
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27 month ago
deusx : The Joy of Tech comic - The annoying behavior of the RIAA scum bird
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28 month ago
deusx : ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_230506_1 - "According to the metadata from the MP3s, at least one file comes from a Spanish website called GrupoeMusica, an illegal source of music files if I ever saw one."
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28 month ago
deusx : MPAA RAIDS MOTOR CITY CON - NEWSARAMA - "At this weekend's Motor City Comic Con, fans and vendors were abuzz about a police raid on Friday targeting the sale of illegal recordings."
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31 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: House introduces mandatory radio-crippling law - That means that no one ever gets to invent any new radio tech ever again unless the RIAA approves of it.
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31 month ago
deusx : Rocknerd | Record label joins MP3 lawsuits - against the RIAA - The large Canadian independent label and management company Nettwerk, which has been behind artists from Sarah McLachlan to Severed Heads, has joined the RIAA anti-filesharing lawsuits — on the side of the users being sued.
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33 month ago
jimray : Court Rules Against Mom in Download Suit - Yahoo! News - "Gonzalez, a mother of five, contended she had downloaded songs to determine what she liked enough to buy at retail."
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34 month ago
Rod Begbie : Dean Gray Tuesday - On December 13th, the now-banned Dean Gray "American Edit" album will be up for download from a bunch of locations -- including groovymother.com. Spread the word. #
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34 month ago
jimray : RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Brilliant
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