Tag: p2p
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RIAA presents ‘USA’ in 10 parts
Longtime featured artist, writer of the highly recommended MusicforManiacs blog and inspiration Mr Fab aka RIAA is sadly calling it a day – I hope like all mashup retirements this is short lived, but has left us with an epic 10 part 4 hour mix album ‘USA’. Now I know I’m far from ‘FIRST!!!’ on…
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These files are your files, aka Fuck You Very Much Lily
EDIT: Brilliant video by Dan Bull responding to Lily. OK the land of Twitter (I twittered about the whole affair on the 16th – keep up at the back there :-P) and now blogs has been entertained by the latest shite to fall out of Lily Allen’s mouth – this time her hypocrisy regarding file…
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Lawrence Lessig gets DMCA’d for fair use by Warners
More silliness from Warners, who after nixing my video and many other peoples seem to be taking over EMI’s previous Public Enemy #1 Evil spot really quickly. So you have a talk about copyright by Lawrence Lessig, a leading expert and thinker in the field, founder of Creative Commons and professor of law at Stanford…
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Mixwit goes the way of Muxtape: RIAA still stupid, News at 11
Just got an email from Mixwit, a service to make mixtapes of tracks that are already online via Seeqpod and other services, and share them (not the tracks, just streamed via Flash) I’ve used and hope to use in future – they’re closing at the end of the year, for unspecified reasons: “I won’t go…
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Steal This Web 2.0
It’s here I’ll reveal secrets of my trade, well not-trade cos I don’t get paid (that almost rhymes!) but I think these methods should be widespread. You might have wondered where I get my videos or tracks for shows…well I’m about to tell you how 😀 (well for the PC at least, other computer owners…
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The Pirate’s Dilemma
It seems like music the book selling model is changing – Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more…