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Radio is inherently better at promotion since it gives exposure
You are right, radio has better market penetration. What about those bands that aren't on major labels or are not on heavy rotation on all those Top 40 stations? Isn't that part of the initial success of www.mp3/com?
However, making an analog copy of something transmitted over the airwaves is a world apart from making an exact duplicate of a didgital master.
In terms of signal quality, yes. Not in terms of having in your hands a musical recording that you did not pay for. MP3s are by no means digital masters, "ripping" means compressing means loss of information.
Maybe publisher's fees is the solution
TGL - an analogue loyalist

I am nowhere near stupid enough to thinnk that this will be free (free beer?). So I wonder what it will cost. Looking at the Press Release, it looks like some bigger names are using it and are satisfied with it's results.

I myself would love to have a go at animation at that level, just to play around, but in all likelyhood the software costs thousands of dollars, well beyond my price range.

Speaking of price ranges the Release mentions that, "The expansion of the Toonz product to these new platforms
increases the accessibility of the industry's leading 2-D cel animation software to a broader base of animators." woopty fucking doo daa. How if the software costs a fortune, then you are really not opening it up to a broader base of animators, as the animators who know, use, and can afford your product already have NT or IRIX at their desk, and could care less if it is ported to Linux.


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I've got a site that publishes MP3 choose-your-own-adventure audiobooks. (Sounds weird, but it's quite cool when you think about - listen to the first episode, make a choice, listen to the next one you chose, etc.) Everybody always talks about how it would be great to put a tip jar up on an mp3.com page, how people would probably use it if it were there, so I set one up. I signed up for PayPal, enabled "Web Accept", and now I can accept credit card "donations" of any size from anyone. PayPal takes like 2% of the payment.

It's the easiest method out there that I know of, but even that still feels kind of annoying. A person has to give their name and shipping address even if they aren't being shipped a product. People tip on the street because it's easy and no big deal. 50c here, a buck there, into the street musician's hat. Easy. But on the net it's still a major pain. Are there any easier methods out there? What about the near future?

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When the Shuttle is up, the Space Control Center at Cheyenne mountain watches the shuttle and places a 1km box around it. If anything comes within 36 hours of hitting that box based on trajectory and speed, A special NASA hotline is notified so course adjustmens can be made. In all of the shuttle missions, this had to be done 7 times.

I believe that if they started tethering things, they would increase the size of the box and the lead time to any possible impact for notification of NASA.


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However, I can see MANY complications, IE you are moving some satellite and the tether breaks, leaving the device with a completely different orbit and speed.

I know docking or catching a sattelit with the Shuttle is inherently dangerous, so while this may seem safer, you are putting the sattelites at more risk.

SUPPORT SATTELITE PROTECTION LEGISLATION :)


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Nope... no plans. Beta's for Action Half-Life are out, and Action UT is in the works.

Action Quake 2

Action Half Life

Action Unreal Tournament


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Now I can blow stuff into bloody giblets of glee again. IMO though, I like stuff with a little more substance. For Quake 2, Action Quake was hands down THE best mod. Action Half-life just doesnt quite measure up but its fun. Counter-strike is awesome and of course has Gooseman from the old AQ2 staff, and while it is an extremely well done mod, it is more militaristic, and lacks some of the just plain hilarious fun of Action. I myself am waiting for Action Unreal Tournament to go beta, it looks very promisong for a mod, especially given that the Unreal engine, while not as graphically pretty as the Q3 engine, is easier to map in, and runs MUCH faster.

Plus UT was just better from the get-go with more game options and such.


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This type of thing makes me wonder, how much garbage has Jupiter (and our other gas giant planets) colelcted and thus reduced the chance of a major impact on earth.

Since we are also discovering gas giants far larger than jupiter orbiting other stars, does that mean that the 'could' be protecting more inner planets than Jupiter in our solar system.

Makes ya wonder.


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I don't think that the music industry is quite getting a grasp on the "new-age" spending. I'm starting to wonder if they want me to buy a one-time, $18 CD because I heard one song on the radio (what usually happened before I had Napster), or hear a song on the radio, go home, download some other songs, become an avid fan, spend $30 on a concert ticket, $20 on a t-shirt, and whatever else I feel like doing, EVERYTIME THEY COME TO TOWN. (, for me :)
I'm not saying what I do is right (I haven't bought a CD in ages, and I just ordered my Mptrip portable MP3-ROM player today :), but they should take the new distribution for all it's worth. It's more of a help than a hassle.

Sorry... it was meant to be joking... yo know kinda funny. I raely even check my Score bonus off... sorry if I offended.
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Since they found NO reference to soccer in Corinthians (KJV, Bible) or in the rest of the bible, the not only ordered corinthians.com to hand over the doamin, but the books of the Corinthians in every new bible printed must at least display a (c) Corinthians Soccer, brazil, at the bottom of each page, and an appendix chapter in the book with the previous years team standings.

Seems the bible was a copyright violation too.


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Good points, but even though the internet removes boundaries, and limits (at least geographically) the human mind still craves them. Am I dealing with sony of japan, sony of america, sony of germany, ect.

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You give them a domain in EACH country they do business. With more domains under the geographical (like .shop,.film ect), strictly enforced, we would not have this petty little problems.


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Countries should be forced to use their geographical TLD, including the US. But instead we have no one enforcing TLD usage, domain squabbling, and stupid judgements.

Ain't that nice.
I hate the internet.


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What about your "right" to theft?

Sigh.

You seem to be too completely lost in the world which has been created for you by corporations and government. There is no theft unless something of value is taken, and with IP, there is, by definition nothing of value.

Is a public library theft? I can read a book without paying an outrageous fee to the publisher. Do you consider that wrong? Give it time, and I'm sure the publishers will.

If you listen to the music at all, you're either supporting them (in which case you're a hypocrite and don't have any grounds to argue from)

I only listen to independant music, from places like mp3.com. There are some very talented musicians there. You might want to check it out.

or breaking the law (in which case you should be arrested).

The notion that any government has the right to put another person in confinement is absurd and goes against the very grain of the Constitution. Madison had some choice words in the Federalist Papers, but it's far too long to include here.

Mighty big words for somebody who doesn't want to pay for the creation and distribution of books, movies, and music.

Name me one great artist who was inspired to great achievements only by the thought of monetary reward. You can't? How strange.

You could certainly judge them as stupid. If you want democracy, demonstrating that you're a bunch of unruly hooligans in the main square of the capital is not the way to get it.

If you're satisfied with corporate totalitarianism, whining about "legality" is a perfect way to maintain the status quo, however.

And even so, by recent accounts, more soldiers were killed than protestors, and the protestors started the violence first.

Revolutions are violent processes. Certainly that's how the Maoists took power. I hope you don't believe that the American Revolution was a bloodless cold war? Freedom had to be won through the lives of many.

First, I don't think so, and second, how do you intend to create democracy when you refuse to enforce basic property rights?

Many systems of government are entirely democratic without the need for property. For example, the Utopia envisioned by Thomas More.

Pirate an mp3 for democracy today!

A revolution is a revolution. And the liberation of information will be every bit as important as any sort of political bickering.


-- Floyd

June 30, 2000: MP3 Summit Ian at MP3 Summit webcast
You can find Ian's hour long talk at the MP3 Summit about 1 hour 8 minutes into the Wednesday webcast.

June 16, 2000: Guardian Free market fight for music moguls
Interesting article in a British national newspaper.

May 27, 2000: LA Weekly Genie 1, Bottle 0
Very amusing article on Freenet and copyright. Highly recommended.

May 24, 2000: Channel 4 News Hackers stay one step ahead
A very cool news item talking about recent attempts by the British government to censor the Internet and how Freenet will make this very difficult. Includes text and streaming video of the item.

May 23, 2000: Libération L'anarchie est au bout du clavier
An interesting French article about Freenet, concentrating on the freedom of information aspects of the system rather than just copyright.

May 12, 2000: National Post Napster secured page in Internet history
Interesting description of why Freenet is not vulnerable in the same way that Napster is, although I must say that their "final thought" is slightly perplexing!

May 12, 2000: O'Reilly Network Gnutella and Freenet represent true technological innovation
A nice article concentrating, for a change, on the technical side of Freenet and Gnutella. Reasonably accurate, although it understates the efficiency improvement that Freenet should provide (describing it as of comparable efficiency to the WWW where it should be much more efficient).

May 12, 2000: Het Nieuwsblad Vrijheid van downloaden
A Belgian article about Freenet.

May 10, 2000: Houston Chronicle Software developer pledges to foil all intellectual property watchdogs
A version of the article below, doesn't require that you register.

May 10, 2000: New York Times The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival
One of the better articles; concentrates on the copyright issue. Requires free registration.

April 27, 2000: PCFormat Daily FreeNet
A brief article on Freenet.

April 27, 2000: Heise News-Ticker World Wide Anarchy: Netz ohne Kontrolle
A German article on Freenet.

April 26, 2000: CNET.com Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net
Entertaining article with some nice quotes.

April 17, 2000: The Irish Times Anarchy Rules Alternative Web
A rather amusing article on Freenet.

April 16, 2000: Freshmeat Client As Server: The New Model
An interesting article discussing distributed systems and how systems like Freenet are actually in a similar spirit to the original Internet.

April 13, 2000: El País Freenet propone una red sin censuras, alternativa a la WWW
A Spanish article about Freenet.

April 10, 2000: Slashdot.org FreeNet's Ian Clarke Answers Privacy Questions
A very informative interview conducted by the readership of SlashDot.org, probably the closest thing to a FAQ, aside from our faq.

March 25, 2000: ABC News Freedom on the Net?
A rehash of the New Scientist article below, but likely to reach a much larger audience.

March 25, 2000: New Scientist Out of control
A "big bad Internet"-style article, but it is reasonably well researched and seeks the opinions of those who might be considered Freenet's opposition.

March 23, 2000: Heise.de Ein Netzwerk, das Zensur unmöglich machen soll
A German article on Freenet.

March 14, 2000: OLinux Freenet, a polemic concept to deal with WWW
An English translation of a Brazilian interview with Ian Clarke. Focuses on the technical aspects of Freenet, and goes into a reasonable amount of detail as to how the system works.

March 10, 2000: Webwereld Anoniem Freenet ultieme schuilplaats voor piraten
A Dutch article on Freenet. My Dutch is a little rusty but it looks like it is primarily inspired by the Wired article below.

March 8, 2000: no spoon FreeNet : le réseau anonyme distribué qui supplantera le Web
An excellent French article on Freenet, draws an interesting parallel between Freenet and the writings of Neal Stephenson.

March 3, 2000: Need To Know sufficiently advanced technology: the gathering
A brief but excellent article again approaching Freenet from a pro-freedom standpoint.

February 24, 2000: PigDog Journal Get in on the Ground Floor of Freedom
A very positive little article describing Freenet and why they think it is interesting using some rather "colorful" language.

August 14, 1999: Brave Gnu World FreeNET
One of the first articles about Freenet back when it was 100% theory. Still an excellent introduction to the way Freenet works.

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and how often nowadays do you see a programming environment that can ship on a floppy disk? The entirety of K was under 200k the last I checked, and it has a smoking database engine. J also is amazingly fast.

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and how often nowadays do you see a programming environment that can ship on a floppy disk? The entirety of K was under 200k the last I checked, and it has a smoking database engine. J also is amazingly fast.

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Aphex Twin - Bouncing Becephaluas (sp?) Ball, has a sample or two from Defender in it.

Jungle music takes old videogame samples kinda frequently actually. The only things I can think of off the top of my head (aside from 3 bajillion ragga-jungle tunes) are D-Type by Capone (aka Dillinja, it's got some R-Type samples/inspiration), Frogger by Ryme Tyme. There's also some dubplate I've heard mixed by Usual Suspects that has a nice little videogame ditty that I can't place, combined with tight drums. Who'd ever you thought you could make a videogame tune so damn massive.

Chrono Trigger fans could also check out The Education by Vinyl Matt, but I can't remember if it was put out on Tokyo Dawn Records, Theralite, or Mo'Playaz.

Anyway, just thought I'd say that other people do this too. And it's DAMN fine listening most of the time ;)

Both Philips and RCA appear to be working on MP3-CD players. I heard Casio is too, but I can't seem to find any info on that.

RCA's coming out with a MP3-CD player with the first item on your list. Not sure about the rest though. Someone in the MP3.com Forums posted some pics.

This is way late! Car MP3 players are already here. Check out the following: Aiwa CDC-MP3 and reviews can be found here and here and here and buy it here Kenwood eXcelon Z919 read about that here I can't wait to get that Aiwa one so I can listen to tons of my CD's without taking them with me on those longs trips! Kirch

I have said this before, and I will say it again, no TLD structure will work, unless those with authority over the TLD's and registration processes effectively verify that each registrant is using the TLD per it's definition.

As it stands, the second they open up any new TLD's major corporations and domain squatters will grab up just about everything that is available.

The definations for TLD's were good, but they were never adhered too, and currently I don't see any change to that.

The whole system should now be ripped out, because as with anything else, it has become greedy mongering for www.mycorporation.everything.

The tld's imposed organization ad structure that made sense, but no one had sense enough to stick with it. Granted, that cant really be blamed on any one person or organization as nobody forsaw the explosive persoronl and corporate growth of the internet untill it was already too late. Now it has grown so large that nothing at all is going to be done about TLD misuse ever, as anyone with money will feed their congressperson to oppose it.

Gotta love corporate america.


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Don't settle for the first generation of MP3 CD Players. So far, all of the entries in the market have been by the small Taiwanese and Korean companies that managed to pull off the biggest rush job in getting their players out to market. As a result, the first generation players are of poor quality and have substandard feature sets.

If you have the patience, hold out until the big boys start hitting the market with their own players.

RCA has recently announced an MP3 CD player that features a multi-line display and ID3 tag support. When you have 650 megabytes of random MP3s on one disc, this sort of information is essential to finding what you want quickly and effectively. Some info can be found on it at here

Phillips is coming out with their own MP3 CD player, the Expanium, which is slated to ship around August. The player seems to have much more comprehensive support than the first generation no-name models, and offers support for a wide range of bitrates (32-320 kbps, while most current ones only go up to 192). More info can be found here

If you do not wish to wait for the next generation of MP3 CD players, but still crave massive storage space in a portable shell, check out the PJB 100. The latest model features a 6 gigabyte hard drive, 10 megs of buffer memory, and a USB connection for around $700. Specs and more can be found here and here

Don't settle for the first generation of MP3 CD Players. So far, all of the entries in the market have been by the small Taiwanese and Korean companies that managed to pull off the biggest rush job in getting their players out to market. As a result, the first generation players are of poor quality and have substandard feature sets.

If you have the patience, hold out until the big boys start hitting the market with their own players.

RCA has recently announced an MP3 CD player that features a multi-line display and ID3 tag support. When you have 650 megabytes of random MP3s on one disc, this sort of information is essential to finding what you want quickly and effectively. Some info can be found on it at here

Phillips is coming out with their own MP3 CD player, the Expanium, which is slated to ship around August. The player seems to have much more comprehensive support than the first generation no-name models, and offers support for a wide range of bitrates (32-320 kbps, while most current ones only go up to 192). More info can be found here

If you do not wish to wait for the next generation of MP3 CD players, but still crave massive storage space in a portable shell, check out the PJB 100. The latest model features a 6 gigabyte hard drive, 10 megs of buffer memory, and a USB connection for around $700. Specs and more can be found here and here

I see your point there... however you slice it though change needs to be made.

Society as it stands right now is inept at dealing with the way or government operates. The way our government operates is inherently fsck'd to hell.


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Very true, however automobiles, and their most basic processes have been a part of society for a century. What is needed to be known about such a pervasive part of society is ingrained at every turn. For instance your dad forcing you to hold the flashlight at 1AM as he futzes with changing the belts then takes it to the mechanic. That type of knowledge (subliminal if you will) has grown since the car became a commodity. Do you think that in the early days of the automobile, everyone that had one knew as much as you do about yours, which is significantly more complex, but works on the same principles? Sure, mechanincs and automobile 'geeks' of the day knew what they were doing, but there was not as much burden, as there increase in automobile usage was not nearly as exponential an increase as there is in computer usage.

Technology, computing specifically, is new to the majority of users, the know that they CAN use the computer as a tool, but they lack the basic skills and knowledge to manipulate that tool to its fullest. They lack the knowledge to proctec themselves from spammers, virii, ect. WHY DO YOU THINK WE ALL HAVE JOBS???

As time goes on, computing will become safer, and easier for the masses. At the same time the masses will gradually accumulate more of the basic knowledge to keep from annoying so much, so we will have more time for our QUAKE 15 deathmatch.


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I happen to think e-voting would be a great benefit, but MANY conditions need to be met first.
This list of conditions is far from inclusive however.

1. An accurate, encrypted out-of-band authentication method. Someone mentioned europes ID cards. screw that, someone will figure them out. Now, a cybernetic chip implanted would be a start. Although this could still be replicated, it can be made extremely difficult.

2. Independent, external verification on MULTIPLE levels. Ie verification ot the authentication processes, verification of the tallying processes, verification of the gathering processes.

Granted, there are a LOT of stupid people out there, but there are also a lot of smart ones. I would feel more comfortable making voting more accessable and putting the government BACK in the hands of THE PEOPLE, whether I agree with the masses or not. Right now people don't bother to go vote, because things are so bad they truly do not see the point. If you make voting easier, at least they may say their piece, and actually start some change.

Regardless of how much I dislike things, I feel that the next 10-20 years are going to bring major change to the worlds sciopolitical structure, and the internet is going to hold a big piece of that, like it or not.


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You beat me to it.
What we have tried to do is hook up with other unsigned bands who have a good local foothold, and link-share. We push them on our friends and fans and they do the same for us (we think!). It seems to work...next step would be for us to travel to and play in each others' towns. The little guys really need to stick together and help a brother out, you know? ;-)
Back to your point - We've tried finding odd bands on Napster and there really aren't many there, because Napster is made up of users, and the majority of users are drooling over Britney and NSync right now. (Hork!) You can still get good radio from Shoutcast, though. There are a bunch of good Indian and Asian stations. :-)

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By contrast, I have mp3s (at mp3.com/ChrisJ). I could have them on my website but it would cost me too much to store hundreds of megs of mp3s :) the thing is, if someone sneakily goes and downloads one of them without paying me- well, actually they can't ;) because at the moment mp3.com essentially gives me a tiny cut of the ad revenue or something for each download, as an incentive. The actual formula is weird and strange and nobody knows quite how it's worked- I don't care ;) But the thing is, even if I didn't get paid anything at all for someone downloading mp3s (without paying), the mp3 is still there for other people to download it- AND is now in another person's hands to further redistribute, with another shot at being heard (which is life to music- it's useless unless it's being heard, it has no value when locked in a safe with a "$10,000" price of listening that nobody will pay. If the music is not in circulation being played and hummed and used, it is WORTHLESS...

So the end result is that the 'worth' of an informational 'good' that is capable of being copied without loss of the original copy, for a trivial expenditure of computer electricity, becomes more accurately what people will pay for it. If it is a very GOOD informational good it will cause other associated goods (the other songs, the 'convenience' physical media audio CD for 5.99, the T-Shirt) to show higher value. So far we can't replicate T-Shirts, and if you want a cup of tea you cannot simply download it- the water and dried leaves and milk squirted out of a cow are physical objects that are transported in trucks and consumed. But the same rules can't apply with the computer information that CAN be copied without loss of the original copy.

It breaks down into four basic categories in practice:

• raw information that's unmetered. I paid nobody for the use of the word 'unmetered'. There is no expectation that I make micropayments to the person who coined the term 'unmetered' in speech. This is a type of 'good' that is considered utterly beyond considerations of being limited artificially for economic gain.
• raw information that's unmetered by agreement. I write some software and GPL it. I give my own music away on mp3 and some people still reward that by buying 'convenience copies' of the CD- I brought some to my convention and sold almost every one for $10 (and you can buy them online for $5.99!) ALL because of convenience. People wanted some nice music for the ride home- $10 sounded great to them, in one case even without listening to the music at all, only hearing a description. At the same time, as copyrightholder it's my privilege to let people download the music, or copy and alter the software code, for nothing. At this level it starts becoming my business to make that decision- so far.
• raw information that is metered by agreement. Patents for ideas, digital audio, songs- there are many things that do not follow the rules for physical objects as far as reproduction and distribution goes, but are still being treated as physical objects by societal agreement.
• Physical objects- if you take it I don't have it, if I want it I have to go out and get it and drag it home and find a place to put it. I don't know many people arguing that you should be able to go and take a car or pile of bricks or pizza, and walk off with it without paying. All those things are the extensions of other physical objects altered and built with physical effort, and if you buy them the seller has to in turn go and buy more materials and make more.

If you want to download this song, please click one of these buttons: "I like music that is- (lively) (mellow) (intelligent) (danceable) (etc) (CowboyNeal)"

I am immensely delighted that Pete Townsend is on 'our side' here. He not only has the right idea around music and creating it and listening to it, but he's also made some of the best _sounding_ albums ever- in fact I own (fetish,treasure etc) a special guitar I made myself with maple body and ceramic pickups a bit lower-impedance than Strat pickups _just_ so I could have a guitar that gets a tone like the Rickenbackers Pete has used. There's nothing quite as rowdy as a cranked-out Rick :) probably the best example of what this tone is like (from my mp3s) is the tune 'Dog' from my 'anima' album, where there's a rhythm guitar that gets a pretty Townsendesque amount of snarl- actually that tune is about the closest to a Who homage tune as anything I've done :)

For _real_ ultimate Who guitar tone: "Live At Leeds". On LP, on a monster uber-high-ender-turntable. Using one of the original British pressings with the label writing that says 'crackling noises OK, do not correct!'. It only crackles like that on bad turntables. On good turntables you are THERE.

I am immensely delighted that Pete Townsend is on 'our side' here. He not only has the right idea around music and creating it and listening to it, but he's also made some of the best _sounding_ albums ever- in fact I own (fetish,treasure etc) a special guitar I made myself with maple body and ceramic pickups a bit lower-impedance than Strat pickups _just_ so I could have a guitar that gets a tone like the Rickenbackers Pete has used. There's nothing quite as rowdy as a cranked-out Rick :) probably the best example of what this tone is like (from my mp3s) is the tune 'Dog' from my 'anima' album, where there's a rhythm guitar that gets a pretty Townsendesque amount of snarl- actually that tune is about the closest to a Who homage tune as anything I've done :)

For _real_ ultimate Who guitar tone: "Live At Leeds". On LP, on a monster uber-high-ender-turntable. Using one of the original British pressings with the label writing that says 'crackling noises OK, do not correct!'. It only crackles like that on bad turntables. On good turntables you are THERE.

It's based off of a website that I run called StorySprawl (http://www.storysprawl.com/) - where people can write CYOA books together. Pretty fun stuff once you get the good authors writing.

Curt

How Many Frequency Bands Are There?

The internet tends to be cordoned off into various "sectors." Thus from the RIAA's site, you can link to RIAA-liking links, and then from those, they merely link to more RIAA-liking links, because they are RIAA-liking sites to begin with, and do not want you going to, say, napster.com or mp3.com.
Most "illegal" sites are probably linked to by "illegal" or semi-"illegal" sites. Furthermore, they probably only link to "illegal" or semi-"illegal" sites.
* Note that this does not include, say, going to geoshitties' main page from a geoshitties page that is used to store warez, because that is not a link that is part of the actual content of the page, and was not put there by the author.

...then most of the internet is [illegal]
But of course! :) The internet is evil.
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On the other hand, if one examines a 7-8 resolution (eg from B-C with an underlying harmony of V-I in C) it would indicate that the upward-leading tone (eg. C#) should be lower, since the diatonic major 3rd (based on the 12th root of 2) is about 15 beats/second sharp of the harmonic equivalent in the temprament octave.

When I was in college, our professer (David Cope, of composition software fame) used to refer to a music dictionary (name forgotten) which defined both of them exactly. I don't remember any more than that, other than that technically speaking they are in fact different.

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Is it any good? Anyway, for those (like myself) still listening to MP3s you will not find finer than those of EleMenT . There are six tracks to download and I can GUARANTEE you will not here another band on the net that are anywhere near as diverse and original as these guys!

I'm a mp3.com Artist known as Nemesis 404, We make club/dance music for clubs, works out, but my problem or thought is, that is MP3 the best way to go? I think so, and everything points to it. So why not!

Considering how BeOS is (to many) everything the Amiga OS should have been, and how many Amiga users have migrated to BeOS, to slag Be sounds like very sour grapes. My man is flogging a dead horse. I loved the Amiga as much as anyone, but even I admit it's as dead as a very dead thing. Amiga users may not be dead, and Amiga can still rise from the grave, I suppose, but the Amiga has been dead for quite a while. They should have turned Commodore over to Gassee a long time ago. Even I won't go back to the Amiga OS, unless it is somehow (impossibly) better than BeOS.

Voi Vod, Soriben, Gortician are among the metal bands that have utilized the Amiga at one time or another...
GORTICIAN

Anyone want to buy a CDTV, CD32, Amiga 2500/Toaster, Amiga 500/A530, Amiga 1000, Amiga 500+CD-Rom? I'm keeping the 1084s...

I was bought by these guys. But the market for webhosting is so poluted that you just can't trust anyone! ;)

Hey anyway check out my music! Nemesis 404 | if you like dance, good jams, and club music!

The benchmarks look pretty promising, but is BeOS going to get ports of big games like Linux? What they really need to do to steal the 'new gaming OS' crown from Linux is open source the OS. I'd love to finally be able to run BeOS 5 on my iMac as well as my PC. After some QUALITY MP3s? Check out EleMenT 's homepage. Six songs are freely available, and they won't be released anywhere else. Fortunately, they don't sound like any other band at the moment, but have been compared to such a diverse range of artists as Aphex Twin, Captain Beefheart, Kraftwerk, Pavement and the early Pink Floyd. There album was released last week- give it a listen- you WON'T be disappointed!

I'd buy a DC if somebody ported MAME to it. Does this device allow a normal CDR to be inserted? Because if it does then how hard could it be to port the Windoze versions of MAME32 and SNES9X to WinCE? Suppose I'd prefer to run it under Linux or DCs native OS, mind. I'd also like to see DGen and UAE ported as well. I'd highly recommend you go and check out the EleMenT homepage if you're after some quality (and legal) free MP3s. Over the last 5 years they've developed a unique sound, but have often been compared to Captain Beefheart, Aphex Twin, Pavement, Kraftwerk and Syd's Pink Floyd. Get listening, you WILL NOT be disappointed!

For a taste, try this

Regards, John

Beautiful. :-)

Now everybody go steal all my mp3s! I don't want your money, just your adoration. ;-)

The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk

Why is that a bad thing? You mean music groups and recording companies will have to give up being super-mega-gizillionairs and have to get by on normal incomes? I don't think that's a bad thing. Riches have broken more bands than it has made. This would also put everone on even ground, and more people will have a chance to get into the mainstream music scene.. Places like mp3.com where there is already lots of non copyright music will become more popular. A lot of that music is pretty good. Of course, this is all hypothetical.... We all know there will always be millions of people who buys CDs and movies, this is just the kind of reaction people give to a 4% decrease in CD sales...
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You might want to try MP3.com's press release on the matter, but it isn't incredibly helpful EITHER. I tried to find information at Warner Brothers, but they don't seem to have ANY press releases.