in a vain attempt to stop P2P users swapping songs from Madonna's 'American Life' album, the lady herself released a series of 'dummy' files onto KaZaA. these are full length files but only the first few seconds contain sound, a recording of Madonna saying 'What the fuck do you think you're doing?'. presumably this was supposed to inspire guilt and repentant hearts in the sinful 'thieves'... but instead it seems to have been counterproductive... such a perfect sample is just crying out to be remixed!

originally posted by xowie

The RIAA has staked out an untenable position that is as unrealistic as it is anti-consumer and anti-artist... Their solutions are not good solutions. They cling unsuccessfully to the past rather than embrace the stunning opportunities offered by the future. They will be unsuccessful in their attempts to criminalize the society, and in their attempts to stretch the drum head of old laws onto the drum of new technology. It is one thing to be unsuccessful, it's one thing to argue a bad position, but it's quite another to be silly and laughed at, and that's where the RIAA has ended up. They appear to be totally irrelevant except as bagmen.

originally posted by daiichi

Disney wins, Eldred (and everyone else) loses.

originally posted by daiichi

The next time you Napster, instead of rushing to download the latest flavor of Grammy-approved pop why not take a chance on something you’d never risk your hard-earned cash on? What have you discovered on Napster that surprised you, like full audio books (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings are out there), spoken word (Kerouac and Ginsberg), rare live & cover versions? Let’s [discuss]!

What are we to make of the exclusive publication of an early Kerouac novella fueling the launch of a new proprietary Windows-only ebook reader? Tell you what, they’ve already got my $3.95 – but I’ll be ripping the text from that file faster than you can say “the one thing we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the rememberance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced at death,” even if I have to print, scan, and OCR the fucker. Email me if you want a copy.