Category: Legacy
incidentally, live daily ran an article on the riaa/copyright thing back in january.
i noticed this thing on /. the other day, and there’s a little news item on wall of sound as well. it’s about the work-for-hire amendment that the riaa slipped into a video satellite redistribution bill of all things. passed the house, and looks like it’ll probably pass in the senate as well. gonna keep happening as long as artists continue to work for those bloodsuckers. maybe this bill will finally convince artists that there are better alternatives? i doubt we’re going to see a mass exodus of established artists to mp3.com or anything like that.
and of course, you got your superbands like metallica, who are shills for the riaa anyway…
omg, this modern humorist summer movie review is frickin hilarious. if your an x-man fan, you have to listen to the jewel soundtrack song, heheh.
word perhect is most definitely very interesting. via peterme
fps for palm. yeah, i’m impressed.
oh yeah, in other news about my life, i’ll be working this summer in austin, at fg2.
linux users unscathed by ILOVEYOU. nelson says: “ha ha.”
not much blogging while i’m in between moving and kicking back, but here’s an interesting thing spotted on metafilter:
Submitted for your approval: the recording industry has shot themselves in the head, forcing users to switch from Napster, which at least gave them a mechanism to charge people who wanted to pay, to the decentralized approach of Gnutella, et al, which makes that completely impossible.
i’ve been thinking quite a bit on business models for providing entertainment media content, so the whole mp3.com, napster, riaa shebang has been very interesting from that perspective (in addition to the perspective of having been watching the evolution and effects of mp3 as a bemused spectator since late 1995). the plus side, we’ll probably get a robust dominant micropayment system before the year is out. from what’s been happening on ebay, it looks like paypal may be in a good position. sorry, flooz isn’t going to cut it. i’m hoping that flooz dies a horrible painful death real soon now.
done with my last final. woohoo!