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Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:50:00 -0800

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Another Article On Musicians Being Screwed Out Of Profits Even With Digital Distribution Schemes

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:27:00 -0700

Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - The MP3 Economy

“The going rate for downloading songs from online music services like Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes Music Store, MusicNet, Pressplay, and Rhapsody is about $1 a pop. Yet the economics of recorded music sales haven’t changed much since the vinyl era – despite the fact that digital files cost very little to produce and distribute. So how much of your buck makes its way back to the artists? Not much, though it’s clearly a better deal than they get from piracy. "

Artists And Consumers Get Screwed By The Music Industry

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:06:00 -0700

Passionate condemnation of the music industry:

[IP] MUST READ Courtney Love does the math The controversial singertak

[IP] last on this topic – Does File Trading Fund Terrorism? Successful artists not seeing any profit.

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Oh The Irony

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:23:00 -0800

Wired News: Tainted Sony CDs Used Open Source

In short: Sony’s ill-conceived, ill-executed, and ill-handled copy protected CDs that inserted a rootkit on your Windows computer that were designed to supposedly protect artist’s rights by preventing unauthorized copying of music ironically appear to have violated the copyrights of several open source software tools.

New Bookmark 15 Megs Of Fame

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:16:00 -0800

I haven’t poked around too much at what is on here, but it’s supposed to carry on the torch of mp3.com for small, independent artists. Seems like a pretty cool site.

15 Megs of Fame | Artists and Fans unite!

Mosh The Vote

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:11:00 -0700

the politics of Mosh is a great, in-depth review of Eminem’s new video for the song “Mosh” that is now the top video at MTV. Whatever you may think of Eminem, his music is always forceful and powerful and this is no exception. The video is exquisite. You can watch it online at https://www.gnn.tv/content/eminem_mosh.html

If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better They ain’t gonna stop us, they can’t, we’re stronger now more then ever, They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go, Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know Stomp, push up, mush, fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home

Reflections On Drm

Thu, 29 May 2003 15:43:00 -0700

Article on the restrictions imposed by the DRM inherent in Apple’s AAC file format.

From my perspective, $1 per song is way too expensive, especially when the product you get is inferior to a track of a physical CD. A short list of the problems:

It is in a lossy format. For most people this is not an issue from a quality perspective, but converting to another format is very likely to be necessary in the future and would either not be possible or would be suboptimal without the original. That is supposed to be the beauty of digital music–you can keep migrating it to the latest technology without having to pay for the “license” to listen again.

Rhp Livejournal Web Board

Mon, 19 May 2003 14:15:00 -0700

Check out a new place to discuss the Red House Painters and get news.

a red house painters & mark kozelek community’s Journal

Duk Koo Kim

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:38:00 -0800

I recently purchased the one and only vinyl album that I own. I had to do so, even though I do not own a turntable, because it is a 1000 copy limited release single. It contains two versions of the same beautiful song, called Duk Koo Kim, by Mark Kozelek of the Red House Painters. This is one of my favorite RHP songs. Reading the history about Duk Koo Kim makes the song that much more poignant and sad.

Ugly: politicians calling for excessive sentences for filesharing

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:30:00 -0800

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[IP] Does File Trading Fund Terrorism?

Music Wish List

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:02:00 -0800

I’ve been compiling a text file with my queue of music to get next and thought that I should share. It would also be much nicer to manage through MovableType with the MTAmazon plugin and the MTMacro plugin.

Truth in music on its way?

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:51:00 -0800

Senator Ron Wyden (D) from Oregon is pitching a simple idea to lead to a market-driven solution to the DRM problems being imposed on consumers: to require music companies to disclose to consumers the restrictions they will impose on the consumer’s use of the product.

“When customers know, for example, that the compact disc they’re buying is technologically rigged so they can’t rip MP3 files from it for use on a portable player, they won’t buy it. Eventually, these informed customers will demand change in the copyright laws.”