Victory for hire society leaves Warner in a spin
I found this at Dailyrotten.com
Time-Warner extortion scheme fails
The movie industry, not content with nine-dollar movie admissions, made an attempt in Australia to charge video rental places extortionist fees for providing DVD’s for rental. They did this by claiming that DVD’s were somehow “software” and not subject to the laws regarding film. Some rental [...]
The Power of the Word: Part II
‘I like being a pirate’: the basic instinct of filesharing. Maybe it’s about time that more people in the filesharing community give some more thought to the matter so we can move forward to (that’s right) the stone age. Many people argue that the great god Technology will save us. Maybe he can, but I [...]
Free Music Vs. Paying For It
This isn’t a new idea, in fact its been talked about for months while record label executives muddle the online music space. The straight, in your face question is: Who is going to pay for something when you can just as easily get it for free. Modbee.com has an article on the topic and points [...]
Creative’s Nomad 3 Goes FireWire
Creative has announced the successor to its present line of MP3 portables. The Nomad 3 has a 20GB hard drive and is the first MP3 player for the PC to use FireWire for transferring tunes. FireWire will allow you to fill the Nomad 3 with music in 40 minutes. The unit also has a USB [...]
Morpheus Stops Connectivity When Creating New Username
From my observations and trials on trying to reconnect to Morpheus after installing Refo-Search and deinstalling Refo-Search that I cannot connect at all with the Morpheus / Kazaa network. It just sits there and pings and does nothing. I wonder if this was the purpose of Refo-Search programming…to screw up file sharing for FastTrack users. [...]
How does online trade of music affect CD purchases?
The RIAA mentioned when napster was shut down that the purchasing of CD’s went down when Napster was started. What was actually going on was that when Napster opened people were previewing songs and then if they liked them they would go out and buy the CD. The artists that made this music were becoming [...]
The Power of the Word
The RIAA labels the filesharing community with terms such as pirates, piracy, theft and stealing. I think it’s about time we start with a new positive vocabulary of filesharing. A lot in the world turns around perception and words are very important in this matter. I’d like to see some suggestions of yours. I already [...]
Audiogalaxy Spyware
Everything Isn’t Under Control at Audiogalaxy
“Audiogalaxy spyware has been copying your information from web forms and sending it to marketers. Further proof that there’s no privacy on the internet. Worse yet, even encrypted information like credit card numbers and passwords aren’t exempt from the VX2 spyware. The newest definitions of Ad Aware detect it but [...]
WinMx is #1
Download the BEST of THE BEST… WinMx!!! If you’re into downloadin’ music & other files, this is the program for you. I have tried all the other file sharing programs and have found WinMx to be the greatest. One of the best things i think about WinMx is the wide variety of [...]
New MP3 portable targets commercial MP3 recording
Here is an interesting new digital music player. Actually it’s a player/recorder targeted to professionals or anyone else who wants to record voice and music on the fly digitally. Developed by DIALOG4/ORBAN the unit is called the Sountainer, a fliptop portable about the dimensions of a cell phone. Emphasized as an audio field recorder, the [...]
