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independentm...
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Date: March 31, 2008 @ 11:28 PM
Last month's edition of "In The News" |
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TrueAudio
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 7:26 AM
"DRM" for your CAR:
"You’d better call a cab: Japanese automakers are developing cars that can sense when you’ve had too much to drink.
Toyota and Nissan are both developing technology for their vehicles that can even prevent a drunk driver from taking to the road if they’re impaired.
According to Toyota, the company is fitting new models with steering wheels featuring sweat sensors that can detect high levels of alcohol in your bloodstream. There are also sensors that can detect abnormal steering. Finally, the company is incorporating the use of special cameras that can tell whether or not your eyes are focused on the road."
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=5425
[This isn't an April fools joke] |
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pessimist
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 2:23 PM
As long as docile societies allow these snooping technologies to be put in place ("for the public good"), more and more invasions of privacy will come our way.
Just think of all the mileage the U.S. government has gotten out 9/11; all the restrictions and loss of individual freedoms, etc. |
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pessimist
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 2:24 PM
. . . and entrenchment of federal POWER. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 5:34 PM
TMobile claims trademark on the color magenta. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 5:36 PM
in Elektra v. Barker, Judge Kenneth M. Karas has rejected the RIAA's 'making available' theory and its 'authorization' theory, but sustained the sufficiency of the complaint's allegations of 'distribution' and 'downloading,' and also gave the RIAA 30 days to cure the defects in its complaint by filing a new complaint. The judge left it open for the RIAA to allege that defendant made an 'offer to distribute,' and that the offer was for "'the purpose of further distribution,' which, the judge held, would be actionable." |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 5:38 PM
Slashdot asks: What Kind of Alternate Business Models Could ISPs Use? |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 5:40 PM
A tiny portable projector, about the size of a pack of cards, may soon replace a ring tone as the most annoying thing on the train or bus.
Digital projectors were once bulky. These new models, though, are small enough to fit into the pocket of consumers who want a big-screen experience from a small-screen device.
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Neat! Might get me one some day. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 5:44 PM
Tanya Anderson's amended complaint against the RIAA
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pessimist
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 8:48 PM
Date: April 1, 2008 @ 5:36 PM
"In Elektra v. Barker . . ."
Simple prediction:
The RIAA will win this case, after all. Charges about "offering to distribute copyrighted material", rather than "making available copyrighted material", will stick.
(different words for virtually the same charge?)
I mean, for the average person, what's the difference between six of one and half a dozen of the other??
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:07 PM
FCC chairman rejects Skype petition |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:09 PM
Web sites will be able to carry an unlimited amount of photos and news articles on the Beijing Olympics -- and those in Australia can even show short video clips for the first time -- as part of new media guidelines.
Just in time for when we should be boycotting the Olympics. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:11 PM
Streaming Media To Draw $70 Billion In Revenue Before 2014 |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:23 PM
# YouTube Rolls Out Usage Analytics
YouTube account holders now have the ability to check usage statistics for the videos they upload. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:24 PM
Ringtone sales are falling.
Told ya it was just a fad. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:25 PM
Chinese movie site sues Hollywood group
A Chinese movie download Web site has sued a Hollywood industry group for libel over a statement that it says implies that the company admitted to piracy as part of a legal settlement. |
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byteme
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Date: April 2, 2008 @ 8:22 AM
Apple Buys Universal
Holy crap! Is this real? The future of music just became anybody's guess. |
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byteme
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Date: April 2, 2008 @ 9:01 AM
It has to be Lefsetz's idea of an April Fool...but can you imagine the possibilities if it were true?...both good and bad.... |
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independentm...
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Date: April 2, 2008 @ 3:28 PM
Apple Buys Universal
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iz April fool all in ur internetz |
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gfmlcka
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Date: April 3, 2008 @ 4:26 PM
New EMI boss may just have a clue:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/internet.intellectualproperty
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byteme
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 2:07 AM
From the above article:
"There is evidence that people we think are not buying music are buying music. They're just not buying it in formats we can measure."
Yeah, formats like used CDs and indie music.
"It's a poor business model to sue your customers. I don't think that's a sustainable strategy."
Well, that rates a great big DUH!!! It took almost a decade and how many casualties to figure this one out? |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 4:29 AM
Charlie Manson uses Creative Commons licenses
Not exactly a ringing endorsement. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 4:33 AM
Microsoft busted by Indian government for avoiding royalty tax by saying that it sells -- not licenses -- its software
Microsoft's been hoist on its own petard in an Indian tax dispute. Microsoft argued that it should be exempt from paying a royalty tax on sales of its software, since the transaction was a sale, not a license, and so the money wasn't really a royalty. The clever Indian authorities noticed that every inch of Microsoft's packaging and presentation is plastered in license agreements sternly informing customers that they don't own Windows, that they're only licensing it, and furthermore, the license terms are onerous and must be obeyed. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 4:34 AM
This have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach to licensing and sales isn't unique to Microsoft. The musician T-Bone Burnett once explained to me that the standard record deal gives artists seven percent royalties on sales and fifty percent royalties on licenses. However, when artists get paid by their labels for iTunes downloads, they're only paid the seven percent sales royalty, despite the fact that the record companies keep telling courts, Congress and customers that a download is not a sale, it's only a license, and don't you dare try to resell your music, loan it, or give it away -- all stuff you're allowed to do with purchased goods.
So Microsoft uses the sales/license flip-flop to avoid its taxes, and the record companies use it to pocket six-sevenths of the money they owe artists for downloads.
Link |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 4:53 AM
UK ISP Says No To Music Industry Pressure
The head of one of Britain's biggest internet providers has criticized the music industry for demanding that he act against pirates. Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse, which runs the TalkTalk broadband service, is refusing. He said it is not his job to be an internet policeman. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 4:54 AM
Net Neutrality Debate Intensifies In Canada
The Canadian government has in the past pushed the CRTC to deregulate the telecom industry, an approach still backed by Minister of Industry Jim Prentice. Prentice also wants to stay out of the current net neutrality debate, which would seem to be a de facto vote against the idea. He was asked in the House of Commons this week whether his government would do anything about the current Bell/Rogers traffic-shaping controversy. According to the Globe & Mail, Prentice said only that "we will continue to leave the matter between consumers on the one hand and Internet service providers on the other. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 4:59 AM
Boot Sector Viruses & Rootkits Poised For Comeback
Let's hope not! |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 5:15 AM
A leaked e-mail shows that Apple hit the #1 spot for music sales in January.
The article speculates that consumers cashing in their holiday gift cards may have played a role; but of course Wal-Mart and the other retailers sold gift cards too. The news is a mixed bag for the record labels. 'For the music industry, there is a dark side to Apple's ascension to the top of the charts. Buying patterns for digital downloads are different, as customers are far more likely to cherry pick a favorite track or two from an album than purchase the whole thing. In contrast, brick-and-mortar sales are predominantly high-margin CDs.' |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 5:17 AM
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has set up a new licence to let DJs format shift their music to use at gigs.
DJs will need to pay a licence fee to copy music they already own legally from one format to another for ease of use, and as a back-up in case originals get lost or stolen. Criminal penalties for DJs involved in "music piracy" are up to sixty thousand dollars and 5 years imprisonment. There are also on-the-spot fines of over one thousand dollars."
Link |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 5:19 AM
Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism
Attorney General Michael Mukasey is doing it to push through a controversial piece of intellectual property legislation that would increase IP penalties, increase police power, set up a new agency to investigate IP theft, and more.
Well, duh. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 1:50 PM
*sigh*
Rick Rolling has become a huge fad. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 1:55 PM
Sadly, the Pope approves of the Gregorian Monk's becoming enslaved by the RIAA.
Say, wasn't Pope Benedict XVI a member of the "Hitler Youth" as a lad? 'twould figure. lol |
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 2:01 PM
The lead singer of the British band Procol Harum won an appeals court judgment Friday awarding him the full royalties to the iconic hit, "A Whiter Shade of Pale.
The appeals court agreed Matthew Fisher, who played the haunting organ theme, was entitled to co-authorship but said he will receive no money from past or future royalties.
The two had called Fisher's earlier court victory a dangerous precedent, saying it meant any musician who had played on any recording in the past four decades could claim joint authorship.
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independentm...
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 2:10 PM
No, your ISP doesn't own the Internet
In their subscriber contracts, some Internet providers explicitly absolve themselves of obligations that, it seems, no one would imagine they had in the first place.
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...but in the fine print:
ISPs hog rights
The Associated Press reviewed the "Acceptable Use Policies" and "Terms of Service" of the nation's 10 largest ISPs — in all, 117 pages of contracts that leave few rights for subscribers.
"The network is asserting almost complete control of the users' ability to use their network as a gateway to the Internet," said Marvin Ammori, general counsel of Free Press, a Washington-based consumer advocacy group. "They become gatekeepers rather than gateways." |
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pessimist
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 2:31 PM
Re: "gatekeepers rather than gateways"
That says it all right there. |
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pessimist
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Date: April 4, 2008 @ 2:37 PM
Re: "Feds overstate software piracy link to terrorism"
Yep, they'll use any workable excuse to expand government and further the cause of internationalism (globalism)! Is there still anyone left out there who doesn't believe a concerted push is on to get to the new world order?
And is there anyone who doesn't know that the new world order is a subdued phrase for world government?
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independentm...
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Date: April 5, 2008 @ 7:11 AM
It was bound to happen:
Taking notes in class is considered copyright infringement
by an E-book maker that wants to sell the material themselves. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 5, 2008 @ 7:13 AM
Correction! The professor is the one screaming "copyright infringement". |
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independentm...
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Date: April 5, 2008 @ 7:15 AM
But if a professor's lectures are copyrighted, aren't students already infringing just by taking the notes in the first place?
Yes, Sullivan answers, student notes do infringe, but they are protected infringement.
"That's absolutely fair use," Sullivan said.
hmm... |
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independentm...
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Date: April 5, 2008 @ 7:26 AM
Don't propose marriage to your girlfriend ...the process may soon be patented.
Ryan Thomas Grace of Omaha filed this patent application with the USPTO |
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pessimist
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Date: April 5, 2008 @ 2:11 PM
I am so SICK of people getting carried away with copyrights/patents.
(And lawsuits concerning same.)
Yuck!!!
>Hiss! |
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independentm...
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Date: April 6, 2008 @ 4:36 PM
Lawyer Banned from practicing law over Threatening File-Sharers
Elizabeth Martin demanded 400 Euros each from "hundreds of thousands of file-sharers," and suggested that they would have to face large settlements if they did not comply. The Paris Bar Council took exception to this and instituted the ban. Martin worked for Logistep, a company who has had trouble following laws in the past. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 6, 2008 @ 4:38 PM
Blogging Is Stressful
No Sh*t! |
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gdZiemann
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Date: April 6, 2008 @ 6:08 PM
No link for this one. Not even a story. Just one sentence.
Brewster Kahle has indicated that the Internet Archive would be happy to host the music repository as outlined in my recent proposal. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 6, 2008 @ 6:11 PM
Kelly Clarkson says it "sucks" that four unfinished songs have leaked to the Internet.
Yawn. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 6, 2008 @ 6:12 PM
A company in a court fight with the Beatles has agreed not to release recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr's first performance with the group until the case is resolved. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 6, 2008 @ 6:14 PM
Courts disagree on legality of uploading |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 3:42 PM
M$ is creating software to be an "automatic backup band" for singers.
This should end well. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 3:44 PM
Not just p2p and BitTorrent anymore!
A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. |
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pessimist
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 4:00 PM
Comcast subscribers need to rise and revolt.
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 4:02 PM
DMCA takedown of a parody at Yahoo.
Video blogger Loren Feldman recently found that his video mocking (read parody) the Village People and blogger Shel Israel was removed from the Yahoo! service after Scorpio Music served Yahoo! with a DMCA takedown notice. The video in question contained a very brief fair use parody snippet of the Village People song YMCA as performed by a puppet. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 9:03 PM
StoormTrooper IP battle!
George Lucas is suing the designer of the Imperial Stormtrooper armor. Andrew Ainsworth took the original molds he used to make the props for the movies, and has been using them to make outfits that sell for up to £1,800 (US$3,600) apiece. Ainsworth has countersued for a share of the $12 billion that Star Wars merchandise has generated since the first movie. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 9:05 PM
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
lol |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 9:14 PM
Try as they might, Queens of the Stone Age fail to measure up to Great White.
(Nobody died.) |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 9:18 PM
Hey leflaw!
PitchFork Tv takes a stab at music videos.
Sensing a gap between MTV's cheesy reality shows and YouTube's labyrinth of pixelized musical treasures, music tastemaker Pitchfork Media plans to launch a video section Monday that will showcase live performances and other original content.
The video selections won't include the news and reviews that have made Pitchfork so widely read. Rather than meting out ratings, Pitchfork.tv will serve up band interviews, music videos and even feature-length films at higher quality than is standard online.
"There are a lot of people doing really cool stuff with music and video on the web, but in terms of clean, crisp audio and video recordings, there's really nothing out there," said Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork's founder and editor-in-chief. "[We're] really documenting the music that we like and that we feel is vital."
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 11:13 PM
Online music site Sellaband gets $5 mln investor
Dutch-based online music Web site Sellaband.com said on Tuesday that European venture capital fund Prime Technology Ventures has invested $5 million in the company to help it expand in the United States.
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Shoulda spent that money on DMusic instead! Sellaband and the other "fans invest in the band" sites all somehow seem a little shaky (shady?) to me.
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 11:15 PM
Music social networking Web site operator imeem Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Snocap Inc., the digital content tracking company founded by Napster creator Shawn Fanning. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 7, 2008 @ 11:22 PM
A cell phone service that REALLY stinks!
lol |
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autodidact
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Date: April 8, 2008 @ 2:34 AM
Hundreds of Australian Police caught with copied/downloaded movies on department computers. Will not be prosecuted. Hmmmmm.
http://torrentfreak.com/aussie-police-pirate-080407/
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23495134-5006787,00.html
As Drudge would say, developing... |
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independentm...
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Date: April 10, 2008 @ 7:56 AM
EFF Asks Court to Limit What Is Patentable
At their worst, "business method" patents seek to create
monopolies on relatively basic human skills, behaviors, and
interactions. In conjunction with several partners, EFF
filed an amicus brief in the case In re Bilski to challenge
business method patents and to set forth a framework that
focuses on the use of technology to determine whether or
not something is patentable. The outcome of In re Bilski
could have a significant effect on the future of patent
law. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 10, 2008 @ 7:58 AM
EU Politicians Strike Back Against Three Strikes
The last time EFF wrote about the EU's Bono Report on the
Cultural Industries, it was to warn of a rightsholders'
hijack. Lobbying groups like IFPI were encouraging
amendments that would give a European Union stamp of
approval to ISPs filtering content, blocking sites and
cutting off Net users at the demand of the entertainment
industry.
Now the tables have turned - and the same report has become
a strong demonstration of the deep discontent in the heart
of Brussels with how far the entertainment industry wants
to impose its policies on the Internet in Europe.
As Karl Sigfrid, MP in Sweden's national parliament, notes
on his blog, this is a sharp rebuke against IFPI's demands
that Net users be cut off on the orders of rightsholders --
and current French Prime Minister Sarkozy's plans to do
just that. It's still early, but the Bono Report fight has
shown that the EU can listen to more than just the
rightsholders in this debate. |
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pepe512000
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Date: April 13, 2008 @ 8:48 AM
One world government? One world record label?
The First Worldwide Online Record Label |
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independentm...
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Date: April 13, 2008 @ 4:12 PM
Soundflag doesn't look like a record label to me.
My guess (from the scant info they provide) is that they try to get your tune on the radio and if they succeed they collect a portion of YOUR royalties as if they were publisher.
I'd call them an "Internet Song Publishing firm"
...but I'd have an international copyright lawyer look at the terms before signing with them. I'd not trust them. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 13, 2008 @ 4:13 PM
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks".
The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 13, 2008 @ 4:22 PM
The New York Times is running a piece on how some emerging companies in the tech industry are focusing on social missions rather than profits |
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independentm...
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Date: April 13, 2008 @ 4:24 PM
Slashdot says Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command |
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pessimist
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 10:25 AM
So, if Bill has all that leverage, he just might want to prompt Homeland Security to push for Vista acceptance, so he can sell more of that lame OS that the majority of the public and businesses have been dragging their heels over. All he has to do is somehow tie Vista to be better anti-terrorist software than XP, right?
:)
Bill's gotta get more billions in his banks; the guy's not rich enough yet!
I'm just trying to help him out here with some ideas to make him more money.
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pessimist
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 10:26 AM
And my only motivation is because I like the guy so much! |
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independentm...
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 4:59 PM
Sun working on an open media codec. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 5:12 PM
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has tentatively settled a lawsuit against the Rockstar energy drink company over the use of his picture to promote the product. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 5:24 PM
UMG Says Throwing Away Promo CDs is Illegal
In a brief filed in federal court yesterday, Universal Music Group (UMG) states that, when it comes to the millions of promotional CDs ("promo CDs") that it has sent out to music reviewers, radio stations, DJs, and other music industry insiders, throwing them away is "an unauthorized distribution" that violates copyright law. Yes, you read that right -- if you've ever received a promo CD from UMG, and you don't still have it, UMG thinks you're a pirate. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 5:52 PM
Yahoo Inc's attempt to form an alliance with Google Inc to stave off Microsoft Corp could run into more trouble with antitrust regulators than Microsoft's unwelcome takeover bid.
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independentm...
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Date: April 14, 2008 @ 7:12 PM
Folks, I'm gonna be camping until Sunday and away from the computer.
The past week has been a slow news-week. Watch all hell break loose while I am away. lol.
If it does, please fill in for me.
--Shmoo |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 4:48 PM
AT&T claims the Internet will become clogged by 2010 due to video.
My guess is they are making excuses so they can harm Net Neutrality. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:10 PM
Swedish media are reporting that Jim Keyzer, one of the police officers involved in investigating the Pirate Bay case, began working for Warner Bros. a few months after the investigation was finished |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:12 PM
BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November
...the numbers are higher now than they used to be. "The baseline has been elevated," notes [BigChampagne CEO Eric] Garland. "Not only did the spike happen, but the bar was raised." |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:14 PM
Study confirms ISP's meddle with traffic.
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:21 PM
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Joe Biden wants to think of the children. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:26 PM
Licensing deal ends Jefferson Starship spat
Thompson said Friday that he and Slick agreed in the early 1990s to overlook Kantner's revival of the Starship name while "he was playing fairs, casinos on the road." What angered them and prompted the lawsuit, he said, was a January 2007 advertising agreement that let Microsoft Corp. use the Starship name for a fee to promote a new computer operating system. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:29 PM
OBIT: Springsteen keyboardist Danny Federici dead at 58
:candle: |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 5:50 PM
Ex-Nugent drummer's death appears to be a suicide
Corporal Brandon Gurley with the Paulding County Sheriff's Department says 59-year-old Clifford Davies was found dead from a gunshot wound in his suburban Atlanta home Sunday.
:candle: |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 6:36 PM
Comcast's Unlikely Net Neutrality Foe: Bible Thumpers
Michele Combs of the conservative Christian Coalition of America, who came out most strongly in favor of neutrality. She said Comcast had blocked sharing of the digital text of the Bible and could also block online programming from her organization in favor of its own Christian-oriented channel. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 7:01 PM
AT&T's new browser comes with spiffy new features, including automatically forwarding your browsing history to the NSA |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 7:08 PM
Technology's march of obsolescence
Here are just some of the obsolete or rapidly disappearing technologies and the skills that go with them.
# Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
# Rewinding audio or video cassettes
# Adjusting the rabbit ears on your TV set
# Checking your beeper
# Formatting a floppy disk
# Having to put www in front of every URL
# Loading film into a camera
# Using a darkroom
# Licking stamps
# Paying with a check
# Using a pay phone
# Looking up a business in the Yellow Pages
# Switching from TV to Game Mode on the box behind the TV
# Blowing into a dusty Nintendo cartridge to make it work
# Using the Dewey Decimal System to find a book
# Winding your watch
# Long division (other than for school)
# Calling the radio station to find out what song that was
# Ripping the trim with the holes off the sides of computer paper
# Calling someone collect
# Replacing tape in your answering machine
# Threading a filmstrip
# Popping popcorn with hot oil
# Heating a ``TV Dinner'' in the oven
# Getting up to manually change the channel
# Repairing a television set
# Sharpening a razor blade
# Adding water to car batteries
# Riding a single-speed bike
# Setting the time on a VCR
# Downloading music from the original Napster
# Putting tape over the punched-out holes on a VCR tape so you can use it again
# Using correction fluid
# Putting a nickel on the tone arm of a record player to keep it from skipping
# Placing the needle at the beginning of a song on a vinyl record without making a scratching noise
# Popping in a flash cube
# Using a choke
# Cleaning a vinyl record
# Defrosting the refrigerator
# Refilling a fountain pen
# Using carbon paper to make copies
# Changing tracks on an 8-track tape
# Taping songs off the radio onto a cassette tape
# Sniffing freshly mimeographed tests
# Sending a handwritten letter
# Writing in cursive
# Mowing the yard with a non-powered push mower (May be coming back, though ...)
# Milk deliveries
# Manually entering prices into an old-fashioned cash register
# Cleaning the head of your VCR
# Crawling under the door of a pay toilet |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 7:23 PM
Super-fast broadband could be delivered via underground sewerage pipes, according to scientists, and the content would be no different |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 7:29 PM
NY judge urges settlement in lawsuit over Harry Potter guide |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 7:36 PM
A $30 plastic electrical outlet cover that will enhance your stereo's sound quality?
I don't believe it.
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 7:50 PM
Fire at Ecuador Nightclub Kills at Least 14
Great White to sue for copyright infringement. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 8:19 PM
Coachella By The Numbers
A guy at LA Weekly breaks out stats. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 8:25 PM
Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can't publish them |
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pessimist
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 8:59 PM
"Repairing a television set" is a disappearing technology or no longer needed???
Maybe for rich folks it isn't, just throw the TV away if it goes on the blink and order a new one to be delivered. But how about for the rest of us poor peons?
It's the middle of the night, and my attention is flagging; I'm sure I must be missing something on this one. Somebody will let me know and clue me in.
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pessimist
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Date: April 20, 2008 @ 9:00 PM
Weird. The clock over at the boycott's website is all screwed up; you know that, right?
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pessimist
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Date: April 21, 2008 @ 10:30 AM
BTW, Shmoo, you do a great job finding all those pertinent stories (news articles). |
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independentm...
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Date: April 21, 2008 @ 10:50 AM
Thanks pessimist. I guess it's my lot in life (or maybe my civic duty) to scour the net so everyone else interested in this stuff don't have to spend as much of their precious time hunting.
The reason "repairing a Tv" has become obsolete is because the repair bill is more often less of a cost than a new set. |
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Date: April 21, 2008 @ 10:59 AM
I had a 32" toshiba tube TV not flat the tube went out repair cost---$500.00+ USD
for $499.99 USD I bought a 32" LCD HD HDMI connection x2, anad all the bells and whistles, that od 32" tube was a nice stereo set , but hell why repair it if it cost more than new...its sad we are now big consumers use toss and buy new thats what we have come to we are like locust destroying the earth!
on a side note, I do have an old Harman kardon amp and tuner that I keep repairing (cause the ohms and quad speakers :o)I connect are not a match, but I do that about once a year for 175 USD I could go buy a new amp but nothing compares to that one NOTHING! not any stupid 7.1 or 5.1 surround I hate my home theater cause it cant even compare |
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independentm...
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Date: April 21, 2008 @ 12:20 PM
Little League Baseball Inc. is suing a Pompano Beach man in Fort Lauderdale federal court for trademark violation over the name of his youth baseball group, Christian Little League. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 22, 2008 @ 11:11 PM
Oh BTW folks,
I'm back from my camping trip, but Andrea was in an accident the day after we came home. Our car was totaled, but she thankfully escaped with her life. Her leg was busted up enough to where she probably won't be able to walk for a couple weeks, but other than that and some severe bruses that hurt like hell, she's gonna be able to recover. (At least the doctor said so.)
I'm still gonna try to "be your admin" as much as I can in the meantime, but please forgive me for being late with any articles and/or stuff.
Andrea comes first. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 12:10 AM
If anyone wants to send her a digital "get well" card, or anything at all, our e-mails, o her MySpace page link,
(we even have a paypal donate button if you want to help us with the hospital and other associated bills)
anything at all and/or etc.
Go to:
http://electricgypsy.info
(My suggestion is a donation of $1 via paypal along with a "get well" message and link to your page/e-mail so she can reply with a "thank you")
...but, forget the money part if you don't wanna do that. If you use MySpace (I personally HATE that site, but Andrea uses it all the time) please just send her a "get well" message.
I'd like for her to know that the folks out here in "cyberspace" appreciate her efforts as a singer and artist. Especially NOW while she is layed up and in pain from her wreck.
PLEASE? |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 12:30 AM
Folks,
If you use our donate button and send at least 5 bucks, I will send you a Boycott-RIAA sticker. (leflaw sent me a new batch of 'em just the other day!)
Also, I have Electric Gypsy bumper stickers! (We were going to ask $2 for them, but we will send one of those too if you donate that $5.)
Just give a USA mailing address when you use the paypal thingy.
http://electricgypsy.info
(I'd offer our CD too, but we ain't done recording it yet.) |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 3:36 PM
Anti-teen noise-weapon comes to the USA |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 3:46 PM
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says Comcast's P-to-P blocking appears to have been widespread |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 3:48 PM
Sony is planning on making movies and TV shows available for download through the PS3
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You just know this won't end well. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 3:50 PM
Sony is buying Gracenote for $260 million. Sony will use Gracenote's online music database in its own digital content and devices
Gracenote has been criticized for turning the once open CDDB project into a 'quagmire of heavy contracts, licensing fees, forced user registration and anti-competition clauses.'" |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 7:39 PM
I have to admit a guilty pleasure here:
Despite all the hate given to them for being "Beatles Tv rip-offs" and othersuch,
I love The Monkeys!
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 7:39 PM
Whee! |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 7:42 PM
(I mean, seriously get over it.
Micky Dolenz can SING!) |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 7:42 PM
ok, sorry
'nuff
(wrong forum!)
lol |
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independentm...
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Date: April 23, 2008 @ 7:45 PM
"She" |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 4:21 PM
Copyright crazies gaining steam in Canada
The lobby for US-style copyrights in Canada has gone into overdrive, recruiting a powerful Member of Parliament and turning public forums on copyright into one-sided love-fests for restrictive copyright regimes that criminalize everyday Canadians. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 4:32 PM
A smartcard hacker says that he was paid large sums of cash by NewsCorp's satellite company (hidden in electronic devices mailed from Canada no less!) to crack the DISH network smartcards in order to cost the competitor hundreds of millions. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 4:40 PM
Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented?
Interesting question over at slashdot. I say math is discovered (and thus can't be copyrighted or trademarked.)
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 4:41 PM
Bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate to liberalize copyright law in the case of orphaned works.
The almost-identical bills would limit the penalties for infringement in cases where the copyright holder could no longer be identified. The idea is that one could declare their intent to use the work with the Copyright Office and if the copyright holder didn't care to respond, they would only be able to get 'reasonable compensation' instead of excessive statutory penalties.
Public Knowledge has more details on the bills. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 4:44 PM
AT&T Denies Resetting P2P Connections
I have little confidence they are not lying. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 4:46 PM
Spam is 30 years old.
Happy Birthday Spam! |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:04 PM
An ISP in Ireland has been sued by the Big Four record labels because its subscribers have engaged in P2P sharing of the record companies' song files.
The record companies claim the ISP should be buying Audible Magic's CopySense, the software being peddled by the RIAA's expert witness, which supposedly would filter out copyright infringement. Of course, not everyone agrees. |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:17 PM
Yoko suing Ben Stein over the use of "Imagine" in the "Expelled" movie?
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:23 PM
Singer/songwriter Paul Davis ("I Go Crazy") dies from heart attack at age 60
:candle: |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:40 PM
Sting wants you to reform your crappy, went-nowhere band so you can have all your dreams and hopes crushed all over again, in front of 60,000 Police fans this time
Link here |
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pessimist
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:40 PM
Re: "Is mathematics discovered or invented?"
The mathematical notation for zero was invented, but this is a case of necessity being the mother.
Prior to using zero as a place-holder signifying null or nothing, we witnessed past errors such as the calendar proceeding from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D.
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:42 PM
A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit by a former Ramones drummer who says he was cheated out of royalties.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said in a ruling Friday that a contract Richard "Richie Ramone" Reinhardt signed when he performed with the Ramones between 1983 and 1987 clearly covered digital uses of his songs.
She noted that the contract defining phonograph records contained the words "now or hereafter known" when referring to forms of reproduction, making it clear that future technologies are covered by the agreement.
Reinhardt filed a lawsuit last year claiming he was owed nearly $1 million in royalties on songs sold over the Internet. He wrote six songs for the group. |
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pessimist
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:44 PM
Re: The Big Four record labels suing that Ireland ISP because of music infringement by P2P users
This is likely a trial balloon. If successful, expect the process to be used in other nations as well.
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:47 PM
Biohazard bassist blasts BitTorrent, forgets most of his income is derived from live shows that people will buy tickets for because they've heard his music |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:55 PM
Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco brings together thousands of people responsible for developing new meaningless buzzwords that they can use to cull more money from the ignorant |
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independentm...
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Date: April 26, 2008 @ 6:24 PM
Guitar Hero to add "local band" content? |
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TrueAudio
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Date: April 29, 2008 @ 2:19 PM
Front page this one:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080427/233549966.shtml
Copyright Scholar Kicked Out Of Canadian Copyright Panel
"Copyright Scholar Kicked Out Of Canadian Copyright Panel
US entertainment industry interests have been pushing for quite some time to get stronger copyright laws in Canada, despite plenty of questions about why they're needed. Thanks to folks like Michael Geist, who has repeatedly shined light on attempts to rush these efforts through, some of these efforts have been set aside until there can be more public debate. But, of course, the industry never rests, and as it's looking to get stricter copyright laws in place in Canada, it doesn't much want to hear from critics who have facts on their side. Geist points us to the rather ridiculous news that a supposedly non-partisan, independent organization called the Public Policy Forum has uninvited a well known expert, Howard Knopf, on Canadian copyright from a symposium being held today. Knopf was going to do a presentation explaining why Canadian copyright law is already stronger and better than US copyright law, and why the US ought to be copying Canada's law, rather than the other way around. However, Knopf believes that PPF was pressured to remove him from the schedule, including removing him from a panel where he planned to debate these issues with a registered lobbyist of the entertainment industry. It's a lot easier to get questionable laws passed when you silence the critics." |
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independentm...
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Date: April 30, 2008 @ 11:02 AM
Will do TrueAudio.
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Wikipedia has blocked the US Department of Justice from editing pages for suspicious edits. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 2, 2008 @ 7:19 PM
Next editon of "In The News"? |
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