Archive for the 'Music' Category

CD Baby’s Shipment Confirmation Email

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

CD Baby just sent me the following shipment confirmation email. It’s witty enough that I’m willing to give them (and my friend’s great CD!) a free plug here. Companies that write emails like this are in short supply.
Brian-
Thanks for your order with CD Baby!
USPS
(1) David Harris: St. Bartholomew and The Frail Stag
Your CD has been [...]

Perfomance Rights Bill

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

It’s puzzling how we do something totally different in the mid-90s with respect to webcasters, satellite radio providers and cable companies and then now we need to “harmonize” and achieve “platform parity” with the broadcast radio world not by moving to the broadcast radio standard that’s been in place for 80 years but instead by [...]

A Land Called Paradise

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

In December 2007, over 2,000 American Muslims were asked what they would wish to say to the rest of the world. This is what they said. A music video for Kareem Salama’s “A Land Called Paradise.” (Winner of LinkTV’s 2007 One Nation Contest’s Grand Prize):

Capitol Records v. Multiply, Inc. 07-11357 (SDNY)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

07-11357-013-AmendedComplaint
07-11357-029-MemoISOMotToDismiss
07-11357-034-MemoOppMotToDismiss
07-11357-039-ReplyMemoISOMotToDismiss

Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” to be DRM-free MP3s

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Radiohead recently announced that fans could pick the price they’d pay for Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows.
To check this out and support this experiment, I signed up for the download-only version and chose to pay $.99 per song, i.e., $9.90 for the 10-song album. (I used a currency-converter to figure out how much to pay [...]

Hello world!

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Patry on the Anti-Bootlegging Statute

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

William Patry, one of the drafters of 17 U.S.C. 1101 and 18 U.S.C. 2319A, the civil and criminal provisions, respectively, of the “anti-bootlegging” statute, has a post on his blog defending the constitutionality of these statutes, both of which have recently been ruled unconstitutional, one by a district court in California (Kiss Catalog v. Passport [...]

Proprietary Hardware and DRM Threats from Apple

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

RealNetworks recently announced that their new RealPlayer with Harmony Technology would allow users to “Get your music anywhere. Transfer to any portable device” including Apple’s iPod. That sounds great for users, huh? Well, Apple doesn’t think so.
Apple’s so irked by the idea that users might have the freedom to buy music from someone other than [...]

Your iPod Illegal Under the INDUCE Act?

Friday, June 25th, 2004

As was recently reported on Slashdot, Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced the INDUCE Act with this absurd floor speech which Ernest Miller has torn apart line-by-line. In response to Hatch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has brilliantly illustrated how the INDUCE Act can and will be abused. They explain how under the INDUCE Act an agressive [...]

Sheikh Terra – Dirty Kuffar Video

Friday, February 13th, 2004

This is troubling. See the rap video that people are talking about. It reminds me of one of the things that makes me so angry about the Bush rhetoric. He repeatedly says he is fighting against people “who hate freedom” and who “hate our liberty” and so on. That’s just idiotic on its face. No [...]