Music For Maniacs (Free subscription) | yesterday
RIAA's new album of mashups and cut-ups is some of the weirdest, wackiest stuff that they've recorded in the last year or two. Spike Jones, Roger Roger, old kiddie records, and rude sound effects mix with Neutral Milk Hotel, James Blunt and the soundtracks to "Psycho" and “Eraserhead” ; '60s garage rock and Latin boogaloo collide with modern funky electro beatz. Whimsical animal...
EXCESS COPYRIGHT (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been widely via Reuters reported that: Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact , UNICEF said on Friday. Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly exactly 20 years ago. The...
Rush Is a Band (Free subscription) | yesterday
20 years ago today Rush released their 13th studio album, 1989's Presto . The album was Rush's first with their current label Atlantic Records and was produced by Rupert Hine , who went on to also produce 1991's Roll the Bones . Presto peaked at #16 on the Billboard album charts and was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 11, 1990. It was recorded at Le Studio in Morin Heights and at McClear Place...
Haystak Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
Elton John's Greatest Hits is the ninth album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released on MCA Records, catalogue MCA 2128, in November 1974. Spanning the years 1970 to 1974, it compiles ten of John's singles, with one track variation for releases in North America and for Europe and Australia. It topped the album chart in both the United States and Great Britain, staying at #1 for ten consecutive...
Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sherwin Siy (one of the few people who actually was allowed to glance briefly at parts of the proposed ACTA treaty, though under strict NDA) has written about yet another letter sent by the entertainment industry to the government in support of ACTA. This letter includes pretty much everyone who benefits from abusing copyright laws and is afraid of the internet: Advertising Photographers of America...
Nightwatcher's House Of Rock (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Come experience the very first filmed live show of the new rock collaboration Chickenfoot. Yes, Chickenfoot! In Theatres on December 1st. Chickenfoot Live the concert film features Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony formerly of Van Halen , world-class guitarist and band founder Joe Satriani, and the �funk/alternative� drummer Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are the three primary collectors of royalties for musicians and songwriters in the United States. When a song is played in movies, on radio or television, used in a jukebox, or played by a cover band in a bar, among other things, one of these organizations collects the money due for that use, and then gives a portion back to the songwriters. This arrangement is simple enough,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
We keep hearing from folks how the collections societies in the US for songwriters and composers, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, are supposedly the "good guys" in that they actually give money to the actual musicians, and they aren't like the RIAA at all. But the evidence continues to be lacking on that front. In fact, it increasingly looks like they're doing a lot more harm to most musicians. Earlier...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As you hopefully know, back in 1999, the RIAA had a Congressional staffer named Mitch Glazier slip four words into a totally unrelated bill on satellite retransmission of broadcast TV, literally in the middle of the night, that effectively changed the way copyrights worked on songs by major label artists. It effectively took much of the control out of the hands of the artists and handed it right to...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In 2007, Tanya Andersen was exonerated in a lawsuit brought against her by the RIAA. The child labor-exploiting, baby-eating, SUV-driving music industry argued that the defendant had downloaded gangster rap over Kazaa, a P2P file-sharing application. She countersued in the same year, claiming that the RIAA had attempted to prosecute her maliciously. Unfortunately for Ms. Andersen (and millions of internet...
Technically Overboard (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/pirate-bay-kills-its-own-bittorrent-tracker.ars Surprisingly though they're still serving up the goods - instead of a tracker they've decentralized into magnet links .... and it all still works. In place of tracking comes distributed hash tables (DHT), which have been implemented for years by most leading BitTorrent clients. Instead of obtaining .torrent...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It’s been a good 10 years, Music Internet. At first, our love was forbidden—all your MP3 blogs were illegal. The RIAA would shut ‘em down, and we’d keep making out in the backseat of our Napster sedan like hormonally addled teenagers….We coded Web sites with primitive HTML buckets all night, fueled by dorm food and two liters of the latest green, caffeinated abomination....
MacBlender (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The RIAA confirmed late Thursday that Verizon has agreed to test notices of alleged copyright infringement to its subscribers. Each notice, which is relayed to Verizon first, will alert downloaders that they’re believed to have pirated material and that the act is illegal. The warnings should already be enroute to customers, but it’s [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
So this is interesting. The folks at The Pirate Bay have shut down its tracker for good , and switched entirely to a distributed, decentralized system, called DHT. As others are noting, this is quite a milestone , but I actually wonder if it will also have legal implications. Basically, using such a distributed system takes The Pirate Bay even further out of the equation in terms of its role in the...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Verizon, the last bastion of hope for aggrieved file-sharers, has begun issuing copyright notices. Internet users who illegally download songs may receive a letter on behalf of the RIAA warning them “that such activity is illegal.” Many liberal web surfers will be disheartened at this move to the dark side by America's second-largest phone company. Previously, Verizon “opposed antipiracy...
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wposteruk | 02/09/2009
Three months after its launch, the RSA, the income of active solidarity, seems to be difficult to implement. The RIAA, which should provide additional income to the working poor is perceived, for the moment, only 10% of potential beneficiaries. More ... (more. ..)
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