:: http://www.magnatune.com:: Check out this site if you want to see where the future of recorded music distribution is headed. You can listen to whole albums in MP3 for free. If you decide to buy one, you can download the WAV files (losslessly compressed with FLAC) and burn your own CD. You choose what to pay for the download ($5-$18 USD), and the artist gets exactly 50%. They are even starting to offer high-resolution digital (so you could burn a DVD-A disc at home). This is the kind of artist-centric system that will eventually sink the Warners, Universals, and Sonys of the world (are there only three now??).
from Magnatune.com: "We're a record label. But we're not evil. We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music. Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations. If you like what you hear, buy our music online for as little as $5 an album or license our music for commercial use. Artists get a full 50% of the purchase price. And unlike most record labels, our artists keep the rights to their music. Founded by musicians, for musicians. No major label connections. We are not evil."
I am network admin for an ISP, and I manually block many domains and IPs that I deem to be spam sources. Unfortunately one of the biggest offenders has been attbi.com, AT&T Broadband. At the moment, our mail server accepts no traffic from attbi.com. And I have gotten a handful of complaints from customers who can't get mail from Grandma or whoever. But what alternative? - there were times in the past when hosts in attbi.com would pump tens of thousands of garbage messages into my mail queue a day and seriously impact the delivery of legitimate mail. Multiple-hour or day-long delays for mail delivery is totally unacceptable. I tell people that their acquaintence using AT&T broadband needs to complain to AT&T. I know that if I find a customer of ours spamming, I not only disable their service, but verbally berate them. It's abuse of service, and AT&T needs to watch who plays in their pool too.
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The article states: "The FreeBSD bootloader, while simple and unable to be manually configured, is surprisingly useful."
Not true - FreeBSD has a swell little utility to configure the behavior of the boot loader, called boot0cfg.
:: http://www.magnatune.com ::
Check out this site if you want to see where the future of recorded music distribution is headed. You can listen to whole albums in MP3 for free. If you decide to buy one, you can download the WAV files (losslessly compressed with FLAC) and burn your own CD. You choose what to pay for the download ($5-$18 USD), and the artist gets exactly 50%. They are even starting to offer high-resolution digital (so you could burn a DVD-A disc at home). This is the kind of artist-centric system that will eventually sink the Warners, Universals, and Sonys of the world (are there only three now??).
from Magnatune.com:
"We're a record label. But we're not evil.
We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music.
Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations.
If you like what you hear, buy our music online for as little as $5 an album or license our music for commercial use.
Artists get a full 50% of the purchase price. And unlike most record labels, our artists keep the rights to their music.
Founded by musicians, for musicians.
No major label connections.
We are not evil."
I am network admin for an ISP, and I manually block many domains and IPs that I deem to be spam sources. Unfortunately one of the biggest offenders has been attbi.com, AT&T Broadband. At the moment, our mail server accepts no traffic from attbi.com. And I have gotten a handful of complaints from customers who can't get mail from Grandma or whoever. But what alternative? - there were times in the past when hosts in attbi.com would pump tens of thousands of garbage messages into my mail queue a day and seriously impact the delivery of legitimate mail. Multiple-hour or day-long delays for mail delivery is totally unacceptable. I tell people that their acquaintence using AT&T broadband needs to complain to AT&T. I know that if I find a customer of ours spamming, I not only disable their service, but verbally berate them. It's abuse of service, and AT&T needs to watch who plays in their pool too.