Copyright Office Rejects CARP The Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress have apparently seen what was obvious to most rational people — that the arbitrated agreement for the royalties to be paid by webcasters to the recording industry are absurd. They have released an order rejecting the agreement. Wired news has coverage, as […]
Archive | May, 2002
Napster is resurrected: “Two days
Napster is resurrected: “Two days after Napster closed its doors when a potential sale fell through, the company accepted a buyout offer from the Bertelsmann media conglomerate”
Wired News logs the brief
Wired News logs the brief history of Napster in “The Day the Music Died.” At the same time one of my favorite filesharing programs, WinMX, just released the new “milestone” version 3, which adds, amongst many features, multi-source downloading. This type of downloading means that you can get different parts of a file in question […]
Napster is dead. But filesharing
Napster is dead. But filesharing lives on and on. Previously in mediageek: Digital Media Distribution: Is the Honeymoon Over? 10/10/01 The End of Peer-to-Peer? 4/5/01 Independent Music? 2/13/01
Anita, of Low Hug fame,
Anita, of Low Hug fame, gave me a couple of issues of TapeOp magazine–which I discovered only by picking up the compilation volume The Book About Creative Music Recording–and, like the book, I’m enjoying the hell out it. It’s just chock full of great ideas and advice for the DIY recordist, whether you’re using a […]