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I wonder if they will bring "ded kitty" back?

The first time Napster died:

http://news.dmusic.com/article/5385

We just posted a suggestion letter to the white house on dmusic.com heres a link http://news.dmusic.com/article/35684 http://www.dmusic.com/

We just posted a suggestion letter to the white house on dmusic.com heres a link http://news.dmusic.com/article/35684 http://www.dmusic.com/

Slim to none, since RIAA artists are usually too busy making money from their music...

They really don't have a choice since the record label never pays any royalties from record sales. That's why most acts keep working until they all die. ...to chit-chat with fans via email.

So don't write to them unless you have a real question. The first time I wrote to Rick Wakeman, I had an answer in 10 minutes. The answer was "Not a chance," but at least he answered. Lots of people that seem unapproachable really aren't. In fact, when they're out making money, that means they're spending a lot of time stuck in hotel rooms. They get bored just like the rest of us.

As for Non-RIAA music...

http://www.dmusic.com/ Lots of artists. Been there since before the original mp3.com and has become an artist community as well as a showcase. Lots of interaction, idea exchange and collaborations. DMusic also owns the http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ site, so if concern about not supporting the RIAA has finally entered your music selection process, well, that's where it came from.

Now if we could just convince the techies to do what the RIAA has been asking for all along... delete their music from the Internet instead of providing them with free distribution...

http://www.dmusic.com/ tons of fun and very talented people.
also check out http://www.boycott-riaa.com/news/ for some of the best music news stories on the net today!

you mean like cdbaby or more like Jamendo or DMusic and of course GarageBand?

Creative Commons

Defective by Design's List of DRM-Free Music Sites

dmusic

Electronic Frontier Foundation List of "Artists Online"

emusic.com

Fading Ways Records

FreeCulture.org

harveydanger.com

Janis Ian.com

last.fm

Lime Light Radio

live365.com free downloads

MagnaTune

myspace.com

Nettwerk Download Store

R.evolution I.n P.rogress

RIAARadar.com

uncoolcentral.com

Vision Metal Records

I keep a list on my blog and welcome more suggestions.

The market is properly countering the media cartel, and that's through piracy.

Actually the market is slowly turning in favor of independent musicians. Granted, right now that market is very chaotic (anyone can call themselves a musician and put up a myspace site), but there are also sites like Dmusic, CD Baby that are allowing Musicians to sell their music, offer free downloads, and promote themselves without having to "sell their souls" to a music label.

As I said, the market is slowly turning, and there still is a lot of crap out there, but there is also some real gems to be found. It is also fun to explore new music without having to worry about DRM or breaking copyright (no piracy required). This market still has a long way to go, but it is doing better than Tower Records is right now (just declared bankruptcy again).

http://news.dmusic.com/article/6724

Or I can do what every artist is finding they must - perform live for money. (In fact, that's one way to get on ASCAP's 'radar')

I agree - corruption & politics certainly reign supreme, even at the local small town level.

A billion dollars for intellectual property? Gosh, that's like charging $750 for copying one song... Seriously, though, how does one value these things? For that matter, what intellectual property is this? The article is rather vague.

For quite a few years record labels have been buying information from Big Champagne to help them decide what songs to push on the radio. For some strange reason [sarcasm], the labels are reluctant to talk about they use Big Champagne to "predict" their next big hit.

Click here for a permanent 'DRM patch'. ;)

I personally like the ideals from the boycott-riaa site:

1) Ongoing boycott of all RIAA products, including the free samples on radio, peer-to-peer and television.

Just not buying the CDs is not enough to kill the beast ... boycott all forms of *AA.

Member of DMusic by any chance? If not, it's a great resource for non-RIAA music. And, there's a heated debate on the front page about this very rootkit.

News flash: greed crosses party lines.

This might help to prevent a few people from sharing copyrighted material, but what's to stop the RIAA from suing due to the fact that someone could still find a way around the filter? Remember napster had a similar issue when it was used to trade music online. Even with the filters in place, napster had to shut down until its filters didn't even let one single copyrighted song to pass through.

Of course, what's the need of using software like limewire, kazaa, etc, go to Dmusic, allmusic.com, or even Epitomic.com. For movies, go to archive.org. For software, use your favorite search engine to look for any OSS, Freeware, or Shareware equivalent.

This

message is to every musician speaking out against file sharing:
get your facts straight, and stop regurgitating everything the major label tells you.
Anyone still clinging to the cage-format for music is either a middleman or lazy. Squidnecks

You major label suckers make me laugh
Do you really think your label would come out and say, "Hey we cut your paycheck in half because you've got to help pay for the 250 billion copies we give away. Have they mentioned when they cut new releases by 25% sales dropped 4.1% and they blamed it on P2P? Have they mentioned that they responded to that drop by raising the cost of your CD $1 every year? Does that seem like a good business move to you? Or does that smell like fear?
Ask yourself what kind of business would cut research and development first? I'll tell you: the business that's about to make it's bed up in a mother fuckin hearse.
While Hilary Rosen and the RIAA are trying to convince you that free listeners are a bad thing, those same five labels that pay them are charging you $500,000 to buy you spins
While you're negotiating whether or not the latest Napster pays you 1/3 of a cent per download, Comcast and AOL are turning the information highway into a toll road.
you know the end is near when Britney Spears is calling it a moral issue
they've positioned you right between their wallets and your fans
they can't really expect to turn the tide with a few pathetic lawsuits
So you gotta ask yourself how does one stop a flood? You build a damn.
IT'S THE ISPs, IT'S THE ISPs!
Comcast will have every last consumer on their knees
starting with 5.3 million subscribers to cable access high speed
they own the wires, so they can discriminate with bandwidth and queuing fees
guaranteed monopoly by the FCC so

We're standing on the verge of an artistic cleansing of biblical proportions I say bring it
when the wickedness of big business is great in the earth
and it will even try to sell the waters that it's drowning in
marching two rappers
two rockers
two composers
two programmers
onto a pirate ship
in a free-market flood
until businessmen are businessmen
and art is art again. Rock

this is not an issue of children not recognizing value in art
this is an issue of children recognizing value-less art
getting artists paid doesn't even play a part
The truth is
for the first time since it's creat

After reading that guide I'm glad I don't download or buy music online with DRM. If and when I ever start downloading music, I'll try to stick with creative commons websites or other websites like:

• Creative Commons
• dmusic.com
• Opsound
• Magnatunes

Wouldn't sending out freely redistributable legal recordings of non-RIAA artists in order to promote them make more sense? http://creativecommons.org/ http://dmusic.com/

I have discovered a number of bands/individuals that I never would have heard of through dmusic (http://dmusic.com/) that I never would have encountered anywhere else. There is a lot of cruft to sort through, but quite a few terrific tracks as well. I haven't listened to commercial radio in many years, I just can't find anything worth hearing and what little worthwhile content their is is ruined by jarring advertisements every few minutes. My car radio is tuned to NPR, and Sirius in the bedroom brings in the BBC at night (until my wife starts demanding loudly that I turn it off and go to sleep).

In order to get full resolution sound and video, under the media companies' real wet dream of a future, you'd basically need to replace everything from your computer to your home theater amplifier, with closed boxes that support DRM. I doubt people will do this though, instead they'll just have one DRM-enabled box (the computer) and watch whatever degraded analog output it produces, instead of the high-quality but impaired digital ones.

This may be true but then if they do they'll loose market share to those who don't require drm. Creative Commons and others like dmusic who offer open source and/or less restrictive licensing are gaining ground in the entertainment industry.

There are other websites that like Magnatune allows free or low cost music downloads. Some of these are:

• Creative Commons
• DMusic
• Opsound
• Internet Archives
• Prelinger Archives'
• Common Content

Also there's Berklee Shares where you can find free music lessons.

Just a note: Selling pirated games/software/music in my eyes is always wrong, because there is real money involved. But just copying from friends? I'm not convinced.

As an artist http://dooglio.dmusic.com/, I would rather have people playing my songs, for example, than not because they couldn't afford it or whatever.

As a software engineer http://vncselector.sf.net/, I'd also rather have people using my software than not because they couldn't afford it or whatever.

Okay, so the above stuff is covered under the Creative Commons license and the GPL, respectively. But I feel the same way about my proprietary works [soon to be released].

Once you have an absolute monopoly what else is there to do? How can you top that? Might as well use the power for something.

If you want to know more about this birthday song history, then read Dmusic's article.

I posted this on AQFL long time ago. :)

My current favorite place to find good music is DMusic. I don't think it even qualifies as Indy because all the music is released for free, for everyone. There are a few amazing artists on that site.

Although, I'll take a look at weedshare. Looks interesting.

www.dmusic.com

It's where I post my music, and the artist community there is great, and there's a ton of great music. All for free.

There are several sites that carry a wide variety of music from independant artists.

There's dmusic.com, Musician MP3, Sound Click, Vitaminic, CNet Music, and even modarchive.com, Just to name a few. There's a bunch of other sites to get music from independant artists so there is no need to even use P2P to share RIAA music let alone purchase it.

This would be the proper way to protest the RIAA. If everyone did this, they would see their profits fall and at the same time, see that file swapping is way down, then they would have no choice but to confirm that they're really the ones to blame for the decreased sales. The biggest challenge is trying to get people that love the "Cookie Cutter Boy/Girl Bands" to switch over.

It would be highly interesting how the courts will sort our all the IP obtained through aquisition of employees, technology, etc.
Colorado used to be a hot bed of storage technology but somewhere along the lines the 90s saw a consolidation and only the big guys seem to have a chance to play in the field. Surprisingly many of these companies got much of their talent from IBM Boulder refugees or high tech families in the area typically often related to IBM.

Here is an article from the Boulder paper showing the high tech companies that often get over looked in the area; look at #1,2,4,7, and 12.

It's amazing that in a world where employees in Japan have the balls to sue former employees for shafting them over huge profits -- that American companies actually think that they can totally own an Idea and not share the wealth with the inventor beyond a simple paycheck.

Corporations enjoy an overly indulgent privilage of being treated as a person by the law -- companies can NOT come up with an idea of their own -- humans do.

It will all be tracked down to an employee that came over and used what he/she knew from a former postion or way of doing things. How sad is that for the advancement of science and technology.

Thank goodness dupont didn't patent the use of beakers and tubes in science experiments.

I agree. The way the RIAA calculates sales, by the "number of units shipped to retail outlets," is very flawed. I'm sure all those purchases I've made through emusic, the iTunes Music Store, DMusic, and CD Baby haven't been included into their [RIAA] numbers.

This leads me to believe that music sales are actually up worldwide. Until *all* music sales are calculated (from digital downloads and independent/non-RIAA CDs to RIAA member CDs), I don't think we'll really know for sure what the sales numbers are like.

For pointing out that there's a huge overseas mp3 server illegally serving 12.8 gigs of mp3's in Iraq that Ashcroft should take down immediately - probably run by Evil Doers!

You have to wonder if the civilian contractors they're using to hunt these people down have community mp3 servers at work. If so, what do they listen to? Wagner?

I found an article detailing a huge music piracy server located overseas.

In Florida, a state where Chief of Police Timoney suspends the Constitution at will - calling legitimate protesters "anarchists" and using obscene violence to squash freedom of expression

Home of Disney, sponser of the DMCA and SSSCA), who profits from child sweatshops child sweatshops

A State where black people can't vote black people can't vote)
and where lawyers and judges replace voters lawyers and judges replace voters

The only thing good about Florida is Fantasy Fest and Vice City.

Maybe I'm a fanatic about these things but...

What's wrong with mp3's/oggs? The premise on which iTunes is based (that here is a method that allows you to download legally) is wrong; in fact, lots of musicians are putting mp3's out there for free. Look at dmusic.com , IUMA, irate radio and netlabels . Some of the stuff is eclectic, experimental, not mass market, but it's not that far off.

I stopped listening to commercial music 6 months ago (although I still donate to artists with tipjar links). For "open content" listeners like me, all this talk of proprietary locked content only encourages musicians to put their content in locked formats. That is bad for everyone.

Share the Music day ; sharethemusic weblog

I still can't understand why people are thinking about big music sites when there are perfectly good small sites. dmusic This is the best free download music site I've seen. Irate Radio , a music discovery program. gods of music music review site . sharethemusicday.com My essay on more ways to share music legally. Don't forget to tip your favorite musicians! Musician's Guide to Online Tipping

Dont forget DMusic.
As soon as I have eq'd it and I am happy with it - my music will be online. Its still a bit rough around the edges...

There are several companies providing this new service which they refer to as 'online media measurement'. One is BigChampagne . According to DMusic ,the labels pay upwards of $40,000 a month for these services!

The hypocracy of the RIAA to condemn P2P as an illegal activity and then actually use it towards its own gains just further confirms its selfish motives.

I'm not an expert in US law by any means, but can't this be useful in court against the RIAA somehow?

• DMusic is a hosting platform for artists.
• IC-Musicmedia is a music-online-community that gives international artists the opportunity to present their music, their band, their label and its releases and other contents online, and every visitor the access ability to it.

According to this article on dmusic.com, they say that '"The program's authors are trying to keep its exact workings secret to protect against hackers, who may find a way to bypass it."'

Thus, how can the program be open source if the authors are working to protect the inner workings from being hacked?

Here at the University of Wisconsin Platteville, where I work as a Lead Network Consultant, we recently ran into an intra-LAN file sharing app called UWGO (you can find it on SourceForge). We shut it down almost immediately, but an app like ICARUS would help us immensely. I wonder if the University of Florida would be willing to let other schools try this out....

Actually, emusic is owned by Vivendi-Univer$al, actually,Try dmusic is definitly RIAA free music.

Actually they have. DMusic.com and the Webcasters Alliance recently started working together to offer the WA members indie music.

How about going to a place that respects users, like DMusic?

In addition to outfits like cdbaby.com, there are a few other gatherings of indie artists such as dmusic.com, which features music by a hideous amount of artists.

I've been sticking primarily to the "electronica" section of dmusic, and I've been pleasantly suprised with the quality of many of the artists and their work. (Arthen, mux, dithyramb, skender, groovetronic, to name a few.) Go check em out... While the files aren't CD quality, it still sounds good at 192+kbps. :)

Have a look at this page and it makes you wonder: Are there actually high school graduates who have a little sense working for the RIAA? Probably one fewer, since this posting disappeared from the RIAA page just a few hours after it was posted. I'd love to see more of this!

Incidentally, popular speculation is that the RIAA website was defaced, in which case. . . well, I'd love to see more of that, too.

...and they still can't come up with a successful model that will allow them to make a buck from downloadable music.

That is because the only way they think they're going to make a buck from downloadable music, IMHO, is a Pay-Per-Listen Model, which they can't do because of Competition from Independant Artists & smaller Labels. That is where the CBDTPA & Palladium comes in, only allowing the RIAA Approved Music on all your hardware, thus eliminating ALL competition because the RIAA will own the patents on DRM in the Music, and with no competition, they can charge what they want for music, even $5 for each time you would want to listen to a song.

The only way to really stop that is to "Vote with your wallet" and buy music from nothing but Non-RIAA Labels, I.E. DMusic, The Starr-Gennett Foundation "Really Good Music from the 1920s", and thousands of other sites on the Internet. "Stay away from mp3.com, they are owned by Vivendi-Universal"

There are a couple problems with that idea, 1. the Teens no matter what will STILL be going after the Cookie Cutter Boy and Girl Bands of the year, and 2.

They will just blame it on Piracy and they have support of the Democratic Party, and don't think the Republican Party is going to help either, because M$ owns the Patent on DRM in the OS, thus, Eliminating any Non MS operating system, and Microsoft has the support of the Republican Party.

Finally:This paranoia over 'copy protection' has simply got to stop!

What's wrong with being a little paranoid, Corporate-America will do ANYTHING to eliminate competition, and they do it to please the stock holders of the company by giving them a huge return on their investments.

You notice that it says free...It doesn't break down if they were download illegally from a filesharing service or if it was from legitiatmate sources, such as DMusic.com or Mp3.Com or for that matter the artist's websites?

Free does not neccesarily mean "stolen". Sounds like you've bought into the RIAA position lock stock and yardarm.

Dmusic.Com US Based

What needs to happen is to forget the RIAA labels and their 60 year old business model.
1) If you write music NEVER sell your publishing (the typial deal is 50%)
2) If your goal is to be a "Rock Star" then forget it. You're playing music for the wrong reasons.(try acting, at least you get paid)
3) Remember that music is a business too, treat it as such.(or at least get an attorney and an accountant)
4) Concentrate on each sale rather than selling a million or two and gold records. There are many people with gold records pushing brooms in Las Vegas.
5) If you're good, you will come to the attention of labels, get a lawyer who is NOT an entertainemt attorney (Not beholding to anyone) to look at the contracts. Boilerplate contracts amount to virtually indentured servitude. If they think you are worth persuing don't let them have publishing (a common practice these days)change your look or the music you want to play. (artistic control)Take a look at this contract critique.
6) Get your music out there. There are plenty of free websites like DMusic.Com that offer artists a free page to let people discover your music, link to your website, sell your cd, etc. I recently ran across an artist who has their music on over 100 free websites and has TURNED DOWN a major label contract.(and is happy she did, all the money she earns is hers)
7) When not everyone else is taking their cut before you get yours, you don't need to sell millions of CDs to make a damned decent living.

wow. after reading all this praise for the nexII, between in this article, in slashdot's review, and in dmusic's reveiw (the first place i check for mp3 player reviews), i'm pretty sure i'm going to buy one in the next couple of months.

The RIAA doesn't have the knowledge or the skill to do it themselves so they hire companies who do this sort of thing for a living. They pay a certain amonut per song as a base, so many cents (usually about 1.5 cents) per scan, per protocol, then pay the same amount again when they find the files, then so much to send a Cease and Desist Letter. They scan about every 15 minute, or determined by the label. They can run up huge numbers in just a couple of days for popular acts. Who pays? The artist of course, as it goes into their recoupable account, that never shrinks.

DMusic.com has an article with audio of the California Senate Hearings if you want the lowdown on the labels accounting. (Streaming MP3)it can be found Here especially enlightning is Don Engel's and Fred Wolinski's testimony.