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I subscribe to very few by bheer · 2006-03-24 06:45 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Good Podcasts and Podcatchers?

but Zoe's Radio has got to be one of the better ones, she RJs very well for someone so young:
Podcast feed: http://webjay.org/by/iancr/zoe5c27sradioshow.xml

Then let's not forget the (supershort but funny) Onion Radio News.

When BSG's on air, Ron Moore's podcasts are also good listening.

Re:RIAA should address the cause by glasse · 2005-08-15 18:12 · Score: 1 · on Recordable Media a Bigger Threat Than Filesharing?

In the interests of clarity, I'm on the side of freedom. You're right, this is a propanda game, as evidenced by how we identify "our side". The reason I play this side is because it's the little guy's side. *AA can afford to put the other side on posters and billboards. In order to get our side of the propaganda heard, individuals need to do the legwork (like the sibling post).

I can understand larceny as theft, and I can understand theft-of-service as theft. The definition for steal you cite uses the word "take", but uses it in conjunction with the word "appropriate", which dictionary.com defines as "To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission." I think this is more the sense of the word "take" being used here, although this is certainly up for debate. The definition you use of "take" (#30, but in the OED this doesn't mean much) is more like "I took that bit from Beethoven's 5th". Putting the definitions you cite together, you get something like "stealing music means to borrow, adopt or copy it dishonestly", which is a little different from "copyright infringement", which is a specific violation of certain privileges granted by a certain set of statutes.

Although I never read Dowling v. United States, I took the chance to look it up now. Wikipedia says: "The Court saw it Dowling's way, saying "18 U.S.C. 2314 [transport of stolen property in interstate commerce] does not apply to this case because the rights of a copyright holder are 'different' from the rights of owners of other kinds of property." This amounted to a declaration that copyright infringement was not theft." And from findlaw: "interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud." Which doesn't mean people aren't playing the propaganda game, of course.

I've posted my solution to the RIAA problem before, but I like it, so I'm going to post it again. First, get rid of all the RIAA-published music on your computer, because otherwise you're a hypocrite, as others in this thread have noted. Second, never buy a RIAA album again -- you're funding lawsuits against little guys. Third, to listen to music without committing copyright infringement, use sites like http://www.webjay.org/. You'll also have the side benefit of hearing about a bunch of great indie bands who you otherwise wouldn't have.

Ethan

Re:I have a quest by glasse · 2005-07-27 04:50 · Score: 1 · on Challenging Music Downloading Myths

Just start downloading music legally -- see http://webjay.org/.

Ethan

Re:The Buzz Biz by glasse · 2005-05-04 04:50 · Score: 1 · on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda

Check out http://www.webjay.org/, decentralized taste for a digital age, or something like that.

Most of the songs I've downloaded recently weren't songs I've heard on the radio, but songs I've heard my girlfriend sing/play on her laptop. Even so, the concept of only pushing a few artists' songs to make "buzz" around them, while ignoring a large number of other artists' recordings, seems a little inefficient to me.

Ethan

Re:Good idea, but... by glasse · 2005-03-25 15:51 · Score: 1 · on Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer

This is a perfect opportunity to pimp http://www.webjay.org/. It's a collection of user-submitted deep links to MP3s around the Internet. If a link is to a copyrighted work that the creator doesn't want distributed, Webjay admins remove the link. Which is really neat, because I'm sick of providing RIAA people with free advertising which they're only going to sue me for providing.

It's decentralized taste in a digital age. Some of the stuff you get from Webjay is crap, but a lot of it is really good.

Ethan

Re:How in the world... by Glass+of+Water · 2004-10-28 04:54 · Score: 1 · on Interview With Lucas Gonze of Webjay

Well, I'm not trying to sell you anything here. The simplest way to answer that question is for you to look at webjay and judge for yourself, but I think there is a slight misunderstanding. The idea is that you find something you like on webjay, and there is a playlist of stuff that goes with it. If you like one song in a playlist, you might like another, because somebody who made the playlist thinks that they go together. This is not a social networking site. You can look at your friends' playlists, but there's no reason to if you don't like the music.

The cool thing also is that the music is right there. There are sites like audioscrobbler where you can see what people like who like what you like, but you can't actually HEAR it.

Re:How in the world... by Glass+of+Water · 2004-10-28 04:54 · Score: 1 · on Interview With Lucas Gonze of Webjay

Well, I'm not trying to sell you anything here. The simplest way to answer that question is for you to look at webjay and judge for yourself, but I think there is a slight misunderstanding. The idea is that you find something you like on webjay, and there is a playlist of stuff that goes with it. If you like one song in a playlist, you might like another, because somebody who made the playlist thinks that they go together. This is not a social networking site. You can look at your friends' playlists, but there's no reason to if you don't like the music.

The cool thing also is that the music is right there. There are sites like audioscrobbler where you can see what people like who like what you like, but you can't actually HEAR it.

off: blink by clarkie.mg · 2004-10-27 21:12 · Score: 1 · on Interview With Lucas Gonze of Webjay

Wow, I thought the blink tag on webpages was dead.

I was wrong : http://webjay.org/about

Re:How in the world... by Glass+of+Water · 2004-10-27 12:22 · Score: 4, Informative · on Interview With Lucas Gonze of Webjay

Yeah, man, the basic principles of decentralization are still quite sound. I mean, how'd you get here? typing "66.35.250.150"?

The thing is, Webjay (Gonze's current project, for those who skipped the article) isn't a decentralized service. It's a centralized index of audio from all over the net. It provides tools to aggregate disparate and far-flung audio into a single playlist, and lets users judge. It's pretty cool, actually, because it solves (or tries to solve) a big problem with online free music, which is that nobody wants to weed through the crap to find the good stuff.