An excellent article. Highly informative and well researched.
However, the author made a blatant spelling mistake in the fourth word of the title. How anyone can mispell "0wnz0rship" so baddly is beyond me...:-)
One caution, especially for those considering using this service. Loudeye are the guys who screwed the pooch for the MIT LAMP system by selling material that they did not have the right to actually sell.
Quick backstory: MIT bought MP3s on hard drives from Loudeye to broadcast over MIT cable channels, which they have an ASCAP liscense for. Before the purchase, MIT asked Loudeye to verify that they could in fact sell MIT the music for this purpose. Loudeye indicated that they had the rights.
Of course, they day the system launched, the RIAA sat up and began complaining that Loudeye actually had no such rights.
Yeah. The lesson here? Always save the receipts...
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An excellent article. Highly informative and well researched. However, the author made a blatant spelling mistake in the fourth word of the title. How anyone can mispell "0wnz0rship" so baddly is beyond me... :-)
One caution, especially for those considering using this service. Loudeye are the guys who screwed the pooch for the MIT LAMP system by selling material that they did not have the right to actually sell.
Quick backstory: MIT bought MP3s on hard drives from Loudeye to broadcast over MIT cable channels, which they have an ASCAP liscense for. Before the purchase, MIT asked Loudeye to verify that they could in fact sell MIT the music for this purpose. Loudeye indicated that they had the rights.
Of course, they day the system launched, the RIAA sat up and began complaining that Loudeye actually had no such rights.
Yeah. The lesson here? Always save the receipts...