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  1. May I recommend by pleasetryanotherchoi · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Files 532 Lawsuits

    www.iuma.org, among other fine sites offering frisbee mp3s of unsigned artists waaaaay better than Britney/Justin/blah.

    Durned lameness filter.

  2. Re:Destroying the phone book, not the numbers. by CowboyMeal · · Score: 1 · on MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

    You get a different phone book

  3. Re:wow... by lactose99 · · Score: 1 · on MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

    I just purchased 20 of my own CDs, since after 12/3 they won't be available anymore. I really wish I could have received more than 3 weeks notice of this, but business is business I suppose. I'm now in the process of trying to find a new host for my stuff. As I don't currently or plan to make any money off my music (I've always allowed all of my own songs to be freely downloadible, and my CDs are sold at the lowest possible price MP3.COM allows), all I'm interested in is a host that is incredibly inexpensive. IUMA looks promising, and has been around much longer than MP3.COM, so maybe they are worth a try.

  4. ... or IUMA by keli · · Score: 3, Informative · on MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

    The Internet Underground Music Archive has a similar concept to mp3.com... and they even predate mp3.com by several years.

    I remember downloading a few .au files from them in early 1995.... on an SGI pizza box... ahhh nostalgia.

  5. A better resource.... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative · on MP3.com Removes "High-Bandwidth" Streams

    I U M A

    This is what mp3.com used to be but a bit better.. if your signed. you CANT be there.

    so you get a nice untainted pool of real artists.

    mp3.com has sucked for over 3 years now. I haven't been back there cince mid 2000.

  6. Re:$1.25 in Damages? by damiam · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Warns Individual Swappers

    mp3.com, etree.org, iuma.org...

  7. Re:Excellent by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative · on Apple Wooing Smaller Labels

    one problem with online music services always seems to be that they have only records of the big ones.

    I U M A

    Nuff said....

  8. Re:Hosting Fake Sites by Frobnicator · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Apologizes for Incorrect Infringement Notice
    A much better idea: make fake fan sites where the title, summary, and url look real, so anyone searching will have trouble finding the "artist's" page.
    But then you can get to the problems of dilution of trademark and trademark infringement, since you obviously are attempting to do both. You could be responsible also for civil or criminal libel, civil or criminal defamation, slander, unfair competition, IP theft, or illigal use of copyrighted material. Unfortunately, the musician and band names are trademarks and generally qualify for protection. (*1)

    Even better than fighting against RIAA (*2) is to ignore them all together. Visit IUMA (*2) and listen to the artists there. Sure, lots of them suck (*3), but if you stick to the top 40 each time it is updated you will get great music, I GUARANTEE IT (*4).

    They also have a streamed radio of MP3's. They usually have good songs there, too, but some of those are also pretty bad (*3). Again, I GUARANTEE (*4) you will find good music on their site.

    frob.

    *1 - I'm very familiar with IP law but not a lawywer, and this is not legal advice. Get a lawyer and proper legal advice before doing anything that might offend any company on the planet.

    *2 - trademarks like RIAA and IUMA are owned by their respective owners.

    *3 - Any claims of music suckage or quality are the views of the author.

    *4 - This is not a guarantee, but the author's view of a very likely event.

  9. Re:Nice hardware by mabu · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod

    They have introduced sexy hot hardware, and at the sametime produced a service which fundamentally changes the business model for popular music.


    You viral marketers need to be a little more surreptitious. Calling a two-year-old portable audio player with a larger hard drive "sexy hot hardware" gives you away.

    As for the fundamental change in the business model for popular music... No more Kool-Aid for joo! Apple's efforts are nothing new. This style attempt to circumvent the traditional music business model has been tried many times over, especially on the Internet with efforts such as The Internet Underground Music Archive, Napster, Digital River, Open Market, AOL, Real Networks, MP3.COM and tons of others.

    I wish anyone, including Apple, much luck in trying to foster an alternative content distribution medium, but if they are trying to claim this is new and innovative, or otherwise radically different than other efforts, it's obvious they aren't going to learn from the mistakes of others and are doomed to repeat them.
  10. Oh come on by Panoramix · · Score: 1 · on DRM: How To Boil A Frog

    I'm tired of people screaming around about the scary DRM/Palladium/whatever stupid-ass control device the big companies are trying to push this week. Geez, why waste time fighting them? Let them have their toy, who cares? Are you really so upset that you won't be able to listen Britney's crap without giving up rights? Is like being afraid of Microsoft, for root's sake: if you know about computers and electronics, and use Linux, Microsoft is irrelevant. There's nothing Microsoft can do that could possibly restrict you in any way. Not even their "Palladiums" and "safe audio paths" and computers with integrated DRM... Shit, maybe I'm not ready right now to make my own computer from spare chips and stuff, but I know I could do it, if I needed to. And would have a lot of fun in the process, too.

    My point is that we're the guys that create technology. They can lock everybody but us. If new soundcards only play their stuff, on their crippled systems, then we'll build our own systems and soundcards.

    Now, as for stuff to listen to, here's a plan. Artists, the guys that make the music and the movies, the ones that really can give the finger at the DMCA and the rest by making their own stuff, could use some help from us technical people. Say, the problem with independent artists is that we don't know them. Try going to iuma.org. The problem is not lack of material, but the fact that, from all that big heap of music, you probably won't know what to pick.

    So, how about building a MovieCritic-like database that can give you hints about what independent music you're probably going to like? Or software and documentation to make it easy for artists to record OGGs or setup Internet radio stations? Or an open PayPal-type of system to let them get money from their fans while cutting the greedy middle-man out? Or just help a local band getting online. You'll have a lot of fun, and you'll be way more damaging to the RIAA than bitching about it on Slashdot.

    I don't know, I think those are cool projects, and that we should try spending more time in that kind of stuff, and less moaning about Hollywood, the RIAA or Microsoft.

  11. Re:It ain't pirating that's taking down sales by SocialWorm · · Score: 1 · on Best Buy Backs CD Copy Impairment

    Before the takeover, I used to like to patronize MP3.COM. Now their charts are all clogged with RIAA promo-crud, and it's harder to find something unique. Its too bad IUMA never took off, and didn't develop the Print-on-demand CDR capapibilities of MP3.com. Just out of curiousity, how difficult would it be for someone to set up a similiar POD system for mix-and-match OGG buring (MP3.com never had mix-and-match - you had to go with what they had)?