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However, things might be totally different in Brazil.
Indeed they are: here, some "independent" labels (aka, not the big ones) somehow manage to sell a CD for ONE THIRD of big label's price. Unfortunately for us, there are few of those and most artists are more easily seducted by big labels.

Regarding radio, it's really not a choice. Commercial radios nowadays only play "recent" music (aka music whose label payed fat payola). And usually their selection sucks big time (IMO).

And no, Brazilians are not required to use Orkut, it is just that this specific (and rather, limited) social networking site somehow spread like wildfire here. This "brazilian invasion" already happened before with fotolog for some unknown reason, when Brazilian's behaviour there brought fotolog to their knees with bandwidth cost. Nowadays fotolog impose series of limitations on the service usage.

I'm not defending piracy, but I feel there are some economic reasons pushing people for it. I propose that, removing big label's (along with payola) from this equation, there would be almost none piracy.

Koan: Imagine a dead artist. Am I "stealing" from this artist when I choose pirate music over a legal CD?

This made me dig for one of my pictures. It definitely startled me when I stopped to at an atm in Ecuador/Peru? and saw this windows screen.

http://www.fotolog.net/prawnpie/?photo_id=8889970

Flash, interestingly enough, is very popular in Latin America. Than again, so is fotolog.

Brazilians regularly spam themselves into unrelated countries on fotolog and take all the fun out of it.

I just check out fotolog, since it was mentioned in the article.

There is a browse country feature that is useless. No matter what country you choose most the fotoblogs seem to Brazilian. Since they probably do not know English, I guess when they register these Brazilians are putting in the wrong country.

I just check out fotolog, since it was mentioned in the article.

There is a browse country feature that is useless. No matter what country you choose most the fotoblogs seem to Brazilian. Since they probably do not know English, I guess when they register these Brazilians are putting in the wrong country.

people who blather on and on about the 'resolution required to match film' don't seem to understand the different grain sizes between film ISO's...

And I agree there is fine art exhibits done with digital. Have you seen fotolog? Lots of digital amateur photography artists there. One of my favorites on this log is this guy (Note: fotolog rescales and recompresses severely) My personal log is at here. Some of them are taken with my crude phone cam.

people who blather on and on about the 'resolution required to match film' don't seem to understand the different grain sizes between film ISO's...

And I agree there is fine art exhibits done with digital. Have you seen fotolog? Lots of digital amateur photography artists there. One of my favorites on this log is this guy (Note: fotolog rescales and recompresses severely) My personal log is at here. Some of them are taken with my crude phone cam.

His German Shepard saw the phone sitting on the coffee table and thought it would make a good chew toy.

The coffee table, or the cell phone? :o)

True story - I have a border collie (picture here for the curious) - when he was about 5 months old, we woke up one morning to discover the plastic coffee table strewn, in very tiny bits, across the living room.. Boomer had decided that night that hard plastic tasted good, and proceeded to attempt to eat it..

We took him to daycare that day, and when we went to pick him up, the owners brought out a plastic bag, and showed us his stool.. they were very concerned, because he'd been pooping out bits of hard plastic all day..

1. Even the most boring, inarticulate person on earth sees a lot of cool things every day.
2. What this company is offering doesn't seem all that complex or all that innovative (although I guess getting the press release posted on /. was) - little homegrown sites like Fotolog.net have had this photos-to-blog-via-email thing covered since last year.

(I've become totally obsessed with Fotolog - people actually update their blogs with worthwhile and interesting photos regularly, and people actually visit and comment on each other's stuff.)

Whoever provides the mechanisms though, it should get interesting as more of these camera phones get out there...

1. Even the most boring, inarticulate person on earth sees a lot of cool things every day.
2. What this company is offering doesn't seem all that complex or all that innovative (although I guess getting the press release posted on /. was) - little homegrown sites like Fotolog.net have had this photos-to-blog-via-email thing covered since last year.

(I've become totally obsessed with Fotolog - people actually update their blogs with worthwhile and interesting photos regularly, and people actually visit and comment on each other's stuff.)

Whoever provides the mechanisms though, it should get interesting as more of these camera phones get out there...