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From TFA:

"Spokesperson Cara Duckworth of the RIAA, who attended the trial, told reporters afterwards, "Since day one we have been willing to settle this case... and we remain willing to do so." The industry appears to be doing everything it can not to appear vindictive in these cases..."

The RIAA says, vindictive, pretty old me? No, no, we are bending over backwards to take as little as possible of this poor native American mom's scant resources and transfer it to the billionaires we protect. Look, we kept it under $2 million, that's fair isn't it?

Use the above resources, don't buy anything which pays into the RIAA coffers. Let them see a $5 million negative blip that makes them wish they hadn't racketeered against their consumers including this midwestern mom.

I don't pirate it either. I just do without. Why? Because I can't bring myself to give my hard earned money to the thieving cocksuckers that comprise the RIAA and contribute to their program of turning the internet into a police state.

Why don't you try to use the internet against the RIAA? You can legally download music from a number of websites. Some of them are:

• Creative Commons
• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
• Magnatune
• Podsafe music network
• 7digital

Now you may not find music you like but you might.

Falcon

Until now, the only DRM-free option with a comprehensive catalog was Amazon.

There are other sources of DRM-free music. Some of them are:

• Magnatune
• 7digital
• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
• podsafe music network

Those are just ones I have bookmarked.

Falcon

I use Garageband.com which is a poor (but still present) substitute for mp3.com back when it was good.

I also listen to many many many podcasts that highlight great artists and link to their websites every week. If you listen to the right shows, you can be guaranteed that the music comes from indy bands (As the RIAA music is illegal to play on a podcast without paying, which most podcasters can't afford as they do their shows for free).

Among the shows I listen to:
PMC Top 10
Accident Hash
Insomnia Radio
RubyFruit Radio
The Chillcast
XY Rocks
Eclectic Mix

And, my own show (which is currently on an unplanned hiatus, but I'll be starting it again soon)

The Good Music Show

Don't like RIAA's policies and the licensing used by most modern record companies? Don't patronize them! I mean, really, do you whine about Microsoft and Apple charging a license fee for their os's -FOR EACH COMPUTER !!!!OMGBBQ!!!- or do you give them the finger and install FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, FreeDOS, or some other free OS?

        Look, start at the bottom... http://www.archive.org/details/audio and http://music.podshow.com/, then look around for bands and performers that offer music with licensing you approve of. Then, add to it! Make your own, create new versions of public domain music. If you can't play an instrument, use a sequencer! Look up open source projects like Rosegarden, Timidity and Audacity!

        This is _SLASHDOT_ Why am I seeing so many people whining about commercial entities enforcing their copyrights instead of people laughing and showing off their new mp3 of "Ride of the Valkyries", done with guitars, a little keyboard and a heavy bassline at 120BPM? I mean, come ON people, the Creative Commons exists for a REASON!

        Don't pirate, don't whine, create something and make it freely available, advocate PD, Creative Commons, "Open Source", and other fairly licensed works!

        Apple, Microsoft and the entire software industry now takes *BSD and Linux seriously because the community did that with operating systems, so darn it, learn from a victory and do it with music, books, and movies! Where are the sections for those on Slashdot? Where are the announcements of them, the articles, the links, the ADVOCACY?

        Vote with your dollars and your attention, show them how they are alienating you by supporting the changes needed in the market!

        Ignore RIAA and the MPAA, and focus on independents! -BECOME- an independent!

...check out the Podsafe Music Network. According to their FAQ, the artists certify their music is legally being licensed for podcasts. The artists have options to flag their work as being available for podcasts, broadcasts, derivative works, etc. Isn't that the equivalent of getting a new contract "directly from the artist" which allows stations to get away from compulsory licensing? If so, it seems like the system to avoid SoundExchange has already been built, and simply needs to be used more by artists & streaming stations.

...check out the Podsafe Music Network. According to their FAQ, the artists certify their music is legally being licensed for podcasts. The artists have options to flag their work as being available for podcasts, broadcasts, derivative works, etc. Isn't that the equivalent of getting a new contract "directly from the artist" which allows stations to get away from compulsory licensing? If so, it seems like the system to avoid SoundExchange has already been built, and simply needs to be used more by artists & streaming stations.

Spoiler! Spoiler!

The intro to Sigler's Ancestor is a remote research lab where a chimera goes wrong and a disease jumps species. Luckily, it is in an isolated remote region and the US drops a bomb on the compound. The US moves to crack down on other companies working on related biotech, and one of them goes underground. The company in question isn't working on a chimera, but is trying to recreate our common ancestor. The bulk of the book is about their work and what happens when they succeed. So the book isn't primarily about chimeras and disease.

Anyway, Sigler is cool and has made his book freely available both as a podiobook and as a pdf.
http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=8 5
http://scottsigler.podshow.com/2007/03/19/ancestor -pdf/

Something similar is happening in the podcast world, Scott Sigler, an author who releases all his books for free via podcast, is releasing his second novel to hardcopy in about a week. He's going through a big promotion to try to get Ancestor number one on Amazon for at least a few minutes. Here's a link to his plea. Pretty interesting, but too bad it's probably my least favorite out of all the books he has written.

Don't buy that crap, check out http://music.podshow.com/ or http://cdbaby.com/ or other places where you get non DRMed music you can buy from all around the world.

I have not read the act itself but the TFA (and summary) is worded in such a way that implies that it applies across the board regardless; whether the content is free or not. What about all those podcasts with 100% legal content? Music from the podsafe music network or other Creative Commons licensed work for instance?

Implement a DRM system but do not force us to use it. I would much prefer the RIAA simply not license content to DRM free broadcasts and sue those who don't have a license.

Requiring DRM by law for all statutory licensed work is massive overkill.

When I was picking the music to use for a crap geekcast I was am doing I was asked "Don't you want to use nerd core?" I gave the guy a dirty look even though I subscribe to a Nerdcore Podcast.
It is a good novelty but I just can't take it seriously. I have seen serious and funny nerdcore but I haven't seen any nerdcore that hits like Nirvana, NWA, Artie Shaw or even Neil Diamond. Maybe one day but not yet.

http://geekbriefwp.podshow.com/

Have you considered the Podsafe Music Network? They now let artists sell their music for a dollar a track, with no DRM. The PMN has an added benefit of promotion via podcasts playing your music.

Podshow do it all for free - if you don't count the little advert at the end. The site is bright and I think it is nicely laid out.

The podcasts that I listen to usually source their music either from the podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com/ or directly from artists they know.

In case you haven't heard of it, there is http://www.podshow.com/ selling tracks at 99c a throw. There is a huge amount of stuff in there. Some of it is good but someof it does not appeal to me at all!Maybe it is bad, or maybe it's just not my taste.

Or are people here avoiding it because Adam Curry is not suitable for nerds? I like his show anyway.

But, for some bizarre reason, AVC/h.264 videos won't work under the new VIDEO folder.

So the L.A. Times thinks podcasting could turn the tide in the 2008 U.S. presidential election? Bwahahahaha... let's run the numbers:

One of the most optimistic predictions of a podcast audience comes Forrester Research Group, who says that 12 million people will regularly listen to podcasts by 2010. So let's roll that number back a bit and generously say that the 2008 podcasting audience is 10 million. Of that, maybe one-tenth will be tuned into anything political; the rest will be listening to crap like this.

So, a million political podcast listeners in 2008. Enough to swing an election? Maybe, if they are all from Texas and/or Florida. But of course, they won't be. And they won't all liberal, or all conservative.

The real advantage podcasting holds for pols is that it's a cost effective means of getting a message out, i.e. bandwidth is cheaper than broadcast air time, and is not subject to campaign finance law (not yet, anyway).

How about creative commons liscensed music like that found at podshow.com.

The music is not by Top 40 artists, but there is a huge variety and some very good quality. In fact, there are quite a few podcast music shows which just play music selected from this site!

I'm guessing most podcasts don't have music in the background mostly because they haven't yet got to grips with audio mixing, don't really have the time necessary to polish their product and search through the music available, or believe that it somehow detracts from their message :)

"Perhaps that's why eMusic CEO David Pakman sounds downright gleeful when he points out that there's only two companies in the world that can sell to them--Apple and eMusic.'"
No. There is a third company called The Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com/ which has started selling tracks. Most of the tracks can not be bought yet, but they are slowly opening their music store to more and more tracks. All drm-free and downloadable in mp3 format at the usual 99 cents.

Screw the RIAA entirely. Go get decent music, GOOD music, from artists who haven't sold their souls to the corporate beast and actually give a damn about their audience and listeners. Check out the Podsafe Music Network.

http://music.podshow.com/

--
Christopher S. Penn
Be sure to tune in to my daily podcast!
http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/

My comment was RE: art that could be reproduced for free and have a wide audience. If someone is asking you for an original sketch, I'd say it would be very reasonable to pay $50, but what if you could give away your sketches on the web and they were good enough to gain a wide audience?

Well, what would happen is you would probably start to get requests for sketches, and not for $50, if someone liked your stuff AND you were farily widely known, you would probably be getting $hundreds for a sketch.

I guess it's like this: If a sketch is worth $50 to you, you should be happing making 5 photocopies and selling them for $10/ea (if you could). How much must you charge, per sketch, if 100,000 people could have your sketch? It would be around .05 cents each. Not only that, but 100,000 lives are a little bit richer because of you.

As distribution grows, price shrinks until it hits, pretty much, zero. At that point, you can give away your art and still get rich simply by placing an add on your web site or something along those lines.

So, to tie togeter a lot of loosely related concepts:
Get your name out there by giving away what you can (like Google did), if it's good your audience will grow. Once you have an audience that likes you, figure out a way that they can make you happy as you make them happy. A $10 one time donation from each of those 100,000 audience members would go a long way and would not be in any way unreasonable in anyone's eyes.

Hording art only hurts everyone, people are starting to figure that out--and some, like me, will simply start shunning protected art for art we can exchange freely with our friends.

Here is BUNCHES of musicians trying this out: http://music.podshow.com/

I agree, to an extent. I do make music despite the fact that I can't make money from it, because I enjoy the act of creation, and I agree that most musicians probably would continue to do so. I just don't think that a world where the only way to make music for a living is to perform it live will necessarily result in a better world.

Juice (formerly iPodder) is pretty much the go-to standard... or at least it was until iTunes added podcasting support. Personally I use iTunes and only because it integrates much better than iPodder ever did, but that's entirely a personal choice.

As far as Podcasts go here are some of my favorites:

Coverville : An excellent podcast devoted to covers. Always excellent.

Reel Reviews Radio : Short (and the occasional Cinephile long-form) discussions of various films. The subtitle of "Films Worth Watching" probably describes it best. Sometimes I've found stuff that I've overlooked other times it proved to be the kick in the pants that I needed to finally get around to watching something I've been interested in.

The Dawn and Drew Show : I like it personally. Then again, I also loathe Howard Stern so there's no easy decisions to be made. Free-form discussion by a husband and wife team where he's the straight man and she tends to be effusive and offensive (well... to some I guess).

The Tim and Tony Show : Two guys talk about various sexual topics. About the same intellectual level as Dawn and Drew.

The Apparat Programme (Podcast at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Apparat , info best found at http://www.warrenellis.com/ : Influential British comic writer Warren Ellis' occasionally posts new entries in his podcast which is basically just music that interests him.

They Might Be Giants Podcast : Well... if you're a fan it's an excellent podcast for Their music. Then again they've always managed to heavily experiment with new forms of music delivery.

I Agree...Free Talk Live is Great! Listening to it is the most important part of my day. I highly recommend it -- it may change your life.

I also enjoy:

• Distorted View
• The Dawn and Drew Show
• TWiT -- This Week In Tech
• The Daily Source Code
• Pacific Coast Hellway
• The Zedcast

I wrote my own personal aggregator...it's similar to bashpodder...it is just a PHP script to download them every day.

They're not the normal "hey, let's go buy a $100 microphone and record ourselves talking shit then put it on a webpage" podcast. (You know who you are) They're a syndicated radio show that's been putting their archives up for download completely free since day one, almost three and a half years ago, when these "podcast" things existed, but there wasn't even a bandwagon to jump on yet.

Since they're primarily a radio show, the audio quality and production values are much higher than most other podcasts out there. You don't have to be an audiophile to recognize that most podcasts out there sound like underwater shit. The hosts also know what they're doing, having worked in "real" radio before.

They take calls and e-mails from podcast listeners, live internet stream listeners and radio listeners alike. In fact, podcast and live stream listeners make up the majority of their calls on weekdays, as the majority of their affiliates carry the Saturday show only.

They're not the normal "hey, let's go buy a $100 microphone and record ourselves talking shit then put it on a webpage" podcast. (You know who you are) They're a syndicated radio show that's been putting their archives up for download completely free since day one, almost three and a half years ago, when these "podcast" things existed, but there wasn't even a bandwagon to jump on yet.

Since they're primarily a radio show, the audio quality and production values are much higher than most other podcasts out there. You don't have to be an audiophile to recognize that most podcasts out there sound like underwater shit. The hosts also know what they're doing, having worked in "real" radio before.

They take calls and e-mails from podcast listeners, live internet stream listeners and radio listeners alike. In fact, podcast and live stream listeners make up the majority of their calls on weekdays, as the majority of their affiliates carry the Saturday show only.

i also reccommend IT conversations as well, its what got me hoooked on the podcasting... another couple of shows i catch regulary that are tech related

dotnetrocks - this is great if you code in .net and keep up with MS, they have mastered the audio if you ask me.. i got interviewed on the dallas leg of the roadtrip...
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/

gilmorgang - lots of the future of tech talk kinda jazz, but some of its pretty sharp and accurate, they get some big interviews, can get old and is a bit long at times..
http://gillmorgang.podshow.com/

venture voice - general discussion about the venture capital markets, both people who have received VC funding and people who lend it... lots of entrepreneurs...
http://www.venturevoice.com/

talkcrunch- techcrunch via podcast, lots of web 2.0 guys not that i like the term web 2.0 but i do like all the new sites, and the people behind them...
http://www.talkcrunch.com/

Those two pieces of information will have to be your starting point. My iRiver and Ipodder work just fine together. YMMV. As for podcasts, look for things that interest you. I am a newly converted catholic, and one of my favorite podcasts is from Father Roderick: ( http://www.catholicinsider.com/ ) I enjoy his information, style, and POV. You may not. On the other hand, I enjoy a big breasted potty mouthed chick by the name of Soccergirl (TM). Fun, and the voice/quality is usually pretty good. Also, she has boobies, always a plus. :) ( http://soccergirl.podshow.com/ ) Good luck, there is a lot of stuff out there that *I* find interesting.

Show #351, specifically.

We Americans are proud of our right to freedom of expression: http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=470

You mean something like: http://music.podshow.com/

podsafe stuff

These ones are definetely worth checking out:

http://www.loomia.com/ (similar to Yahoo's, but also has collaborative filtering)
http://www.odeo.com/ (lets you create podcasts)
http://www.podshow.com/ (Adam Curry)

Well there's quite a few here

Will it run Linux?

No seriously -- if this is the future how much you want to bet it will require IE 8.0SP3.4 on Windows CliffHanger!

The Gilmour Gang has a great podcast talking around this topic: http://mp3.gillmorgang.podshow.com/GillmorGang-200 5.07.08.mp3

They talk more about media and the web but same topic really...

It's as legal as filesharing over P2P - as in, without permission, it's not.

Many podcasts have followed Adam Curry's lead and are playing independent music. And (surprise!) most of it is at least as good as anything played on the radio, and a helluva lot more interesting because you never hear the same song twice....or twenty times. And THAT is completely legal.

Adam discussed this in his Gnomedex keynote, and it's something you ought to listen to. You can get it here, but I think it's running a bit slow. What with iTunes and all.

FYI: Adam Curry's "Pod Show"
is already ON Sirius everyday.