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MediaDefender:
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
president: try president, president,
ceo: try MediaDefender (personal), president or president
controller: try: controller, controller

parent company: artistdirect (stock ticker: ARTD)
Investor relations: Investor relations
Chairman: Chairman
CEO: try CEO, CEO

Auditors: Gumbiner, Savett, Finkel, Fingleson & Rose, Inc
rgreene@gscpa.com (Ronald Greene) http://marketcenter.findlaw.com/scripts/display_profile.pl?id=173844

Executive Vice President Ronald Greene is in his thirtieth year of providing litigation support services
...
Mr. Greene has sub-specialities in the food, wine and music industries.

Have fun

Wouldn't we (and the spiders) have more fun if we linked them properly? :)

MediaDefender:
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
president: try president, president,
ceo: try MediaDefender (personal), president or president
controller: try: controller, controller

parent company: artistdirect (stock ticker: ARTD)
Investor relations: Investor relations
Chairman: Chairman
CEO: try CEO, CEO

Auditors: Gumbiner, Savett, Finkel, Fingleson & Rose, Inc
rgreene@gscpa.com (Ronald Greene) http://marketcenter.findlaw.com/scripts/display_profile.pl?id=173844

Executive Vice President Ronald Greene is in his thirtieth year of providing litigation support services
...
Mr. Greene has sub-specialities in the food, wine and music industries.

Have fun

Wouldn't we (and the spiders) have more fun if we linked them properly? :)

MediaDefender:
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
president: try president, president,
ceo: try MediaDefender (personal), president or president
controller: try: controller, controller

parent company: artistdirect (stock ticker: ARTD)
Investor relations: Investor relations
Chairman: Chairman
CEO: try CEO, CEO

Auditors: Gumbiner, Savett, Finkel, Fingleson & Rose, Inc
rgreene@gscpa.com (Ronald Greene) http://marketcenter.findlaw.com/scripts/display_profile.pl?id=173844

Executive Vice President Ronald Greene is in his thirtieth year of providing litigation support services
...
Mr. Greene has sub-specialities in the food, wine and music industries.

Have fun

Wouldn't we (and the spiders) have more fun if we linked them properly? :)

MediaDefender:
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
MediaDefender
president: try president, president,
ceo: try MediaDefender (personal), president or president
controller: try: controller, controller

parent company: artistdirect (stock ticker: ARTD)
Investor relations: Investor relations
Chairman: Chairman
CEO: try CEO, CEO

Auditors: Gumbiner, Savett, Finkel, Fingleson & Rose, Inc
rgreene@gscpa.com (Ronald Greene) http://marketcenter.findlaw.com/scripts/display_profile.pl?id=173844

Executive Vice President Ronald Greene is in his thirtieth year of providing litigation support services
...
Mr. Greene has sub-specialities in the food, wine and music industries.

Have fun

Definitely some marketing data being gathered. A 'marketing intel system' even. Quote: Could u have these artists entered into our marketing intel system? Thanks. R ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Kamin To: Randy Saaf Sent: Sat Mar 31 18:47:13 2007 Subject: FW: some bands to potentially track hey randy, nice seeing you at fatburger can you confirm that you've received this? thx doug -----Original Message----- From: Doug Kamin Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 12:52 PM Subject: some bands to potentially track some interesting angles to look at it/take here: Colbie Caillat - most popular UNSIGNED artist on myspace would be interesting to see some data on her http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4011508,00.html Blonde Redhead album comes out in a few weeks. this is an indie band... no presence outside of online geeks like me. interesting to see what kind of traction they might be getting there is a band coming out on Atlantic later this year... OPERATOR http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4083568,00.html would be interesting to see if they have some following somewhere... cuz they are now on a major label and all this album is NOT out in the u.s. and wont be for a couple months: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4057372,00.html Maximo Park they have a BIG following in the UK though. would be interesting to track how they are doing in the u.s. ...they do have a following here...but again just from online presence. and so on.

Definitely some marketing data being gathered. A 'marketing intel system' even. Quote: Could u have these artists entered into our marketing intel system? Thanks. R ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Kamin To: Randy Saaf Sent: Sat Mar 31 18:47:13 2007 Subject: FW: some bands to potentially track hey randy, nice seeing you at fatburger can you confirm that you've received this? thx doug -----Original Message----- From: Doug Kamin Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 12:52 PM Subject: some bands to potentially track some interesting angles to look at it/take here: Colbie Caillat - most popular UNSIGNED artist on myspace would be interesting to see some data on her http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4011508,00.html Blonde Redhead album comes out in a few weeks. this is an indie band... no presence outside of online geeks like me. interesting to see what kind of traction they might be getting there is a band coming out on Atlantic later this year... OPERATOR http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4083568,00.html would be interesting to see if they have some following somewhere... cuz they are now on a major label and all this album is NOT out in the u.s. and wont be for a couple months: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4057372,00.html Maximo Park they have a BIG following in the UK though. would be interesting to track how they are doing in the u.s. ...they do have a following here...but again just from online presence. and so on.

Definitely some marketing data being gathered. A 'marketing intel system' even. Quote: Could u have these artists entered into our marketing intel system? Thanks. R ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Kamin To: Randy Saaf Sent: Sat Mar 31 18:47:13 2007 Subject: FW: some bands to potentially track hey randy, nice seeing you at fatburger can you confirm that you've received this? thx doug -----Original Message----- From: Doug Kamin Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 12:52 PM Subject: some bands to potentially track some interesting angles to look at it/take here: Colbie Caillat - most popular UNSIGNED artist on myspace would be interesting to see some data on her http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4011508,00.html Blonde Redhead album comes out in a few weeks. this is an indie band... no presence outside of online geeks like me. interesting to see what kind of traction they might be getting there is a band coming out on Atlantic later this year... OPERATOR http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4083568,00.html would be interesting to see if they have some following somewhere... cuz they are now on a major label and all this album is NOT out in the u.s. and wont be for a couple months: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4057372,00.html Maximo Park they have a BIG following in the UK though. would be interesting to track how they are doing in the u.s. ...they do have a following here...but again just from online presence. and so on.

...and their parent company http://www.artistdirect.com/.

it's about who has to pay SoundExchange either way, which is everyone unless they have a written contract from some entity granting them music.

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album /0,,341907,00.html

Google's new online banking service, known as "gmoney BETA", has become another legal battle..

I'm replying, because I know how annoying this can be. I checked 10 of the top lyric search engines, and the song just doesn't exist (at least to them).

This is the only information I found on that song.

Good luck!

Larry Fast and Synergy (samples) are worth looking at. It's amazing how much hardware was required for those first albulms.

Like hell you say. I only buy non-RIAA affiliated music from CD Baby, or download free tracks with iRate. You know what? I like this stuff a lot better than most of the crap that passes for music on the advertising clogged radio and TV stations.

Want some? Here's a small sample:

• Metal - Celldweller (CD Baby)
• Electronic/Industrial - More Machine Than Man (CD Baby)
• Acoustic - Okkervil ("Westfall" via iRate)
• Rap - Poverty ("I'm Hatin'" via iRate)
• New Age - Circle of Mansions ("Sky Machine" and "Number Nine" via iRate though I cannot google a link for either ATM. Try "Left Me." That's good too)
• Electronic - Atari Baby ("Share your love (Aspect Mix)" via iRate)
• Easy Listening - Sheryl Clapton ("Magic Door" via iRate)
• Hard Rock/Metal - Dazychain ("Too Much God" via iRate)
• Industrial - Firewerk (CD Baby)
• Punk Rock - Limit ("Mr. DJ" via iRate)

The same will happen to the MPAA. It's only a matter of time. The MPAA fears bandwidth and BitTorrent. They say it's because of piracy. Either they are really stupid, or they think we are. They just don't like competition.

You know, I think you're not really getting my point. Following your analogy, you could eat at McDo and get kicked in the nuts, but if you go to that hippie place you can get a hamburger for less and not get kicked in the nuts. Only it won't be a McDo hamburger.

With music, the choice is similar. You can get mainstream music at the record store, ITMS, etc. and pay a lot and get DRM. You can also get music from places like Artist Direct or MP3.com and it will be cheaper and without DRM. Only it won't be mainstream music.

I hope you see what I mean. You really do have a choice, and you really don't have to go with the RIAA et al. Unless you really only want their music, and then you'll have to accept their terms.

In our country this is the way we say Hello. It is a diagram of movement between two points. It is a sweep on the dial. In our country this is also the way we say goodbye. Say Hello. In our country we send pictures of people using our sign language into outer space. Do you think that They will think his arm is permanently attached in this position? Or, do you think They will read our signs? Say Hello.

Lots of musicians make their own instruments. Examples:

"Andrea Neumann has custom made her own instrument, the innenklavier (inside-piano)..."

"I heard a guy playing on the street the other day and this guy was so funky; he was a very cool musician. He made his own instrument and it was so interesting."

"He [Steve Roach] studied these traditional techniques and made his own instrument with aboriginal didgeridoo master David Hudson."

"Most taiko groups in North America still make their own drums ..."

"They make their own drums from what must be 50 acres of their own forest land, and they replenish the forest by replanting more trees." (Due To Javascript, click on Airto's Stories and then With The Kodo Drummers)

"Aboriginal people still make their own drums to this day, and spend a lot of time forming each one perfectly."

Enjoy,
-- Jamie

Hey,

'Rodeo clowns' by (G Love and Special Sauce) is in my playlist right now, as a matter of fact.

Somebody go hunt up Syvia Sydney (Grandma Norris) and see if she still has her old record of Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing "Indian Love Call"

If that doesn't work we can get another copy at:

Indian Love Call

Erehwon

Agreed, I've heard Cracker's song "It Ain't Gonna Suck Itself" on Sirius Organic Rock a couple of times.

Geddy Lee himself did Vapor Trails

Who to this day gets "mailbox money" from a hit song she wrote in the '80's.

Klymaxx

No doubt by now you have discovered the ever increasing amount of college kids doing pornography. Never in the history of the world has there been such an explosion.

The real question is "why?"

Several reasons exist for this exponential growth:

1. Increasing Costs of Education - This graph shows how the price of a college education is roaring out of control. Being a waitress or receptionist is no longer enough to help that little lady pay her way in this world.

2. Baby Boomers Suck - Do you think these little p0rn girls had someone saving for their education? No. Come on, people now... smile on your brother..." You know all that money spent on Kissing the sky would have collected a butt load of interest in a sweet honey college fund.

3. George Bush - Yes, freshman girls in education hotspots everywhere were looking to the Bush girls for guidance. The Daughters are striking models to our current ladies of 13th through 16th grades. Well, the apple don't fall no far from dem der tree.

4. Bill Clinton - Bush couldn't do this alone! Previously only the beautiful were brave enough to dream about sleeping with the president... well, now that dream is shattered. Yes, now ugly girls have intern dreams as well.

5. Microsoft - Not too long ago only *nix jedi ninjis were smart enough to run a college girl porn server. Thanks to microsoft now anything in a skirt with a mouse can effortlessly serve nudies to millions.

AC (Currently singing my college's theme song while waving the American flag... in my underwear.)

No doubt by now you have discovered the ever increasing amount of college kids doing pornography. Never in the history of the world has there been such an explosion.

The real question is "why?"

Several reasons exist for this exponential growth:

1. Increasing Costs of Education - This graph shows how the price of a college education is roaring out of control. Being a waitress or receptionist is no longer enough to help that little lady pay her way in this world.

2. Baby Boomers Suck - Do you think these little p0rn girls had someone saving for their education? No. Come on, people now... smile on your brother..." You know all that money spent on Kissing the sky would have collected a butt load of interest in a sweet honey college fund.

3. George Bush - Yes, freshman girls in education hotspots everywhere were looking to the Bush girls for guidance. The Daughters are striking models to our current ladies of 13th through 16th grades. Well, the apple don't fall no far from dem der tree.

4. Bill Clinton - Bush couldn't do this alone! Previously only the beautiful were brave enough to dream about sleeping with the president... well, now that drea m is shattered. Yes, now ugly girls have intern dreams as well.

5. Microsoft - Not too long ago only *nix jedi ninjis were smart enough to run a college girl porn server. Thanks to microsoft now anything in a skirt with a mouse can effortlessly serve nudies to millions.

AC (Currently singing my college's theme song while waving the American flag... in my underwear.)

Naw, already taken by a punk band. Fenix TX

Yikes, would that turn all of us Phoenix users into Volvo Driving Soccer Moms?

[Disclaimer: I drive a Volvo 240 wagon. Great for hauling windsurfing gear. Safety is what driver does, not what driver drives.]

Check out my Analog Hole

Have you heard Mocean Worker by chance? Though I'm a poor judge of techno's subgenres, I believe it may also be drum-n-bass. On the chance that you may have heard them (or, "him", rather), is Mocean Worker simliar to the bands that you've listed there?

I thought that I was the only one here that would remember Renaissance

I never got to see them live, but I still have all Renaissance albums - including the ones from before Annie Haslam joined, which sounded a lot more like early Genesis than like the Carnegie Hall-era Renaissance. Now you've put me in the mood to dig up and play Illusion.

The Back to the Future trilogy has probably been one of the most highly anticipated DVD releases, mainly due to the age and enduring popularity...

Age and enduring popularity are no guarantee long-term of success; just ask Nora Bayes. The most popular vaudeville entertainer for the first quarter of last century. Anyone heard of her now?

Maybe it was the transfer quality that made people forget.

(Thank you for enduring this attempt at humor).

Isnt a patent void when you dont try to enforce it

Uh, no other company would be stupid enough to try to use the name "TiVO" without paying for it,

Maybe the cases of companies ripping off intellectual propery rights are very few and far between, indeed, but that is not to say that it doesn't happen.One case that comes to mind is that of a band called The Squirrel Nut Zippers in which Wrigley's Gum used their song in a television commercial without paying the band or acknowleging their rights to the band's own music. To add insult to injury, Wrigley didn't even bother recreating the song with a sound alike band...they just lifted the track directly from the album . Of course the band sued, as I understand it, and the company settled out of court.

I don't think this sort of monumental stupidity is what you would call commonplace. But it does occasionally happen.

Ok, so we interviewed Dan Gillmor. How about interviewing Dave Gilmour? I'm sure he's an avid /. reader too. ;)

Anavoog.com

The CBC had a segment on Jane Siberry . Siberry was able to leave Warners, and start up her own company. In this interview she described having to let all her employees go. At the time of this interview her company was run out of her spare bedroom. She described how time consuming it was to answer her own phones. Too often people phoning her company to place an order feel amazingly lucky to have reached the artist herself, and want to have an extended conversation.

My biggest gripe about the mack is the lack of...

1) Epitonic good selection of well known artists and lots of information about each artist so you can read up before you decide to download.

2) ArtistDirect a small selection of electronic artists

3) Amazon has a number of MP3s to download.

4) IUMA has many lesser known acts

5) MP3.COM for the really adventurous with lots of time and patience you might find some gems mixed among the numerous less-inspired artists...

I forgot to mention, the Avalanches latest release blows my mind. Everyone should go pick it up (actually buy it), now. Go!!

Or PEnnsylvania-six-five-thousand.

This is further explained at X is for Xchange, which relates that the original setup was three-letter/four digit; that is, PENnsylvania-five-thousand.

Glenn Miller (who got on a stamp) finally found continuous success after years of struggle when he formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra to play at the Cafe Rouge [realaudio] in the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1938. I believe this year H2K2 will be using the Cafe Rouge space.

The Glenn Miller song PEnnsylvania-6-5000 (in which the only lyrics were the band shouting "Pennsylvania Six Five-Oh-Oh-Oh"--the Brian Setzer orchestra later recorded the song with fuller lyrics) was one of his band's first major hits. He disbanded the orchestra in 1942 to form a band for the US Air Force troops for World War II. His plane was lost at sea on December 14, 1944.

As The Telephone EXchange Name Project explains, both PEnnsylvania-6-5000 and the John O'Hara novel/Liz Taylor movie BUtterfield 8 (which garnered her a Best Actress Oscar) are named after telephone exchanges. In Butterfield 8, Taylor plays a call girl reachable at that number (the movie poster is especially evocative).

--Adam Brate

You know, if Geddy Lee doesn't have a problem with singing the word "God", you might want to extend a little "tolerance" toward those poor, deluded souls who don't believe exactly as you do.

It looks like the discography from Brazilian progressive rock band Angra. At least nine of those items are the titles to some of their songs.

Is the new theme song.

Rock
the
fucking
mullet.

C-X C-S

Is the new theme song.

Rock
the
fucking
mullet.

C-X C-S

Is the new theme song.

Rock
the
fucking
mullet.

C-X C-S

Is the new theme song.

Rock
the
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mullet.

C-X C-S

Just wanted to point out that legal downloads from musicians who WANT you to download can be found at:

IUMA
UBL (Artist Direct)
mp3.com
vitaminic
mp3.fr
rollingstone.com
Amazon.com has a free downloads section in the music department

And for money:

emusic.com

Oh my gosh, this song has been playing on my radio for weeks and I just realized that Nina Gordon is part of artist direct network! It is a really good song. In cast the rest of you have not heard about it I encourage everybody to check out the mjuice downloable music at Nina Gordon's website

Hasdi

In your Note from the Band at artistdirect.com, you make the following statement:

``Metallica have the resources to fight for what's right on behalf of many artists who may not be in a similar position to fight a company like Napster, or any other corporation who are trying to undermine their art and their well-being.''

But it seems to me that the artists who don't have the resources to fight Napster are the artists who wouldn't want to fight them anyway. I know several people in independent bands who love it when their music is traded on Napster. To them, it's free publicity; it's more people coming to their live performances, it's more people telling their friends how much they love the band's music.

I contend that the only artists who would conceivably benefit from stopping bootlegging are well-known artists with major label contracts whose music is distributed widely in retail stores--in short, artists with the resources to fight legal battles--and I'm not convinced it's even in their best interests. Word of mouth is a powerful advertising medium for popular artists too.

As far as I can see, the entities who stand the most to gain from stopping piracy are the record companies, not the artists. As a band who sued your own record company, how do you feel about that?

How can you reconcile these statements (from the recent chat):

We want to start a debate and get people to understand what the issues are, and try with other people to figure out what the best solutions are. Paying the artists through the internet, setting up police monitors to see who's trading. some kind of monitoring or policing of the internet is what people are talking about possible solutions, not police.

Were not the government or the f**king cops.

Both these statements are attributed to Lars in the chat transcript. But they sure don't sound like they both came from the same person.

So, do you want to play cop, or not?

Several of the questions that have been asked in this forum have already been answered by Metallica on the live chat on Tuesday. There are links to tramscripts of the chat here.

What I would like to know is how can I contact the so-called online detective agency NetPD (that seems to have no internet prescence) because I have a couple of questions about how they got their 335,456 copyright infringers? Are these people that were actively downloading songs or simply people that had Metallica songs on their machine (there is a big difference, since Napster shares all Mp3s on a machine)?