January 2012
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Nada Surf - "Waiting For Something" (MP3 download)...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xWg6yv on January 27, 2012 at 10:53PM
Sound it Out # 15: Nada Surf “Waiting for Something” Nada Surf has been playing intelligent and catchy guitar-based rock music for two decades. Their records are lush and beautifully written, and the constant sense of wonder and optimism throughout is a joy for this cynic to discover each time. Nada Surf always makes me...
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Take a tour of BMW's new Mog online music system |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/AaVz6m on January 27, 2012 at 07:59PM
CNET takes a hands-on look at the new Mog online music system in a BMW 650i. Relying on an iPhone, the Mog interface lets the driver choose from 14 million tracks.
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Universal Music Claims Copyright Over Song That It...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/wkaHx8 on January 27, 2012 at 04:59PM
Last year, when Universal Music issued a very questionable takedown of a Megaupload commercial — which involved some Universal Music artists — UMG suggested that it had extra special rights with YouTube in which it could take down videos that it didn’t even have a direct copyright on. Google later said that UMG...
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Bar Fight! Sony Sues Karaoke Distributor For...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zidiy4 on January 27, 2012 at 03:54PM
A great many drinkers have watched helplessly as their BAC became inversely proportionate to their common sense, throwing around cash as thought it were Monopoly money before grabbing the mic to belt out Adele’s latest track. Karaoke has been the go-to bar sport for thousands of people who feel the only thing keeping them...
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Universal Music May Have Inadvertently Exposed a...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xIugHz on January 27, 2012 at 10:00PM
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: Universal Music May Have Inadvertently Exposed a Flaw in the YouTube Takedown Process — One rap artist speaks out against UMG, YouTube, and SOPA. — Last month, before federal authorities shut down Megaupload, the popular file-storage website got into a legal brawl with Universal Music Group...
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Universal Music Claims Copyright Over Song That It...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/wkaHx8 on January 27, 2012 at 04:59PM
Last year, when Universal Music issued a very questionable takedown of a Megaupload commercial — which involved some Universal Music artists — UMG suggested that it had extra special rights with YouTube in which it could take down videos that it didn’t even have a direct copyright on. Google later said that UMG...
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Bar Fight! Sony Sues Karaoke Distributor For...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zidiy4 on January 27, 2012 at 03:54PM
A great many drinkers have watched helplessly as their BAC became inversely proportionate to their common sense, throwing around cash as thought it were Monopoly money before grabbing the mic to belt out Adele’s latest track. Karaoke has been the go-to bar sport for thousands of people who feel the only thing keeping them...
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Video: Things exploding in a microwave | the...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zb85N3 on January 27, 2012 at 09:15PM
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Blog blast births boffin boycott of publisher...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zczj8b on January 27, 2012 at 08:44PM Rage over high fees and SOPA support The ongoing world protests against SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA have helped inspire a revolt among scientists over the role of academic publisher Elsevier and its business practices.…
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Hacker group Anonymous targets Mexican websites |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yoOVyw on January 27, 2012 at 06:17PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing.
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Ex-Palm chief leaves HP after WebOS move | Reuters
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zyuewh on January 27, 2012 at 01:17PM
(Reuters) - Jon Rubinstein, who was instrumental in crafting Apple Inc’s iPod music player, has left Hewlett Packard Co after two years on the job there.
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A Bite of Apple’s Pie | ZeroPaid.com
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yVlSuE on January 27, 2012 at 07:46PM
This week Apple announced its 1Q12 earnings, which can best be described as staggering. The Cupertino giant hauled in an unprecedented $13.1 billion in profit on $46.3 billion in sales. Bigger still, is the roughly $100 billion stack of cash which the company sits on – that’s around $300 for every man woman and child in the...
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Artists: SoundExchange Has Free Money For You, No...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/y9H7ZF on January 27, 2012 at 06:05PM Since its inception, SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty payments from digital music services like Pandora, has brought in more than $900 million—$292 million of which it collected last year alone. But how much of a cut does SoundExchange take for itself? Nothing, other than for operating and...
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Medialoper Bebop Episode 29: Into Outer Space With...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zt8ouD on January 27, 2012 at 07:57PM This week, Tim, Jim & Kirk start by discussing the implications of Google’s new privacy policies. (3:40 – 15:10)
Then, we’re all going to be Moon People. All we have to do is elect Newt Gingrich! (15:11 – 22:46).
After that, it’s the latest installment of our “You’re An Idiot” segment. This time, the idiot is Tim, who defends...
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At 'Twitter for video' Tout, happy celebs mean...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zu6PkO on January 27, 2012 at 07:04PM day on the job For Tout director of community and content Gardner Loulan, a normal day can mean shooting music videos, providing customer service, and rushing off to show NFL players how to use the startup’s micro-video service.
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Apple’s New iBooks Won’t School College Bookstores...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/x6hJ02 on January 27, 2012 at 06:10PM Image of an Inkling anatomy textbook, courtesy Inkling
On its face, matching iPad textbooks with college students seems almost perfect. But Apple’s plans for its new iBookstore, from the way it has structured book purchases to its development strategy for multimedia e-books, doesn’t seem like it’s well suited for the college...
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What You Should Know About ACTA and Your Rights |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zxQXjf on January 27, 2012 at 04:30PM The most controversial measures of concern to Internet users in the final version of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for most Internet users are 1) that signing governments pledge to allow copyright holders a way to request, under court warrant, personal information about a suspected infringer from that...
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People Are Actually Paying For Spotify After All |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yh4bnD on January 27, 2012 at 02:15PM When Spotify first launched in the U.S. over the summer, few doubted that the service would be popular among music fans. The real question has always been whether the company’s freemium business model would manage to convert enough users to paying subscribers. It’s still relatively early, but so far things look...
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RIAA files its brief on statutory damages in...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/z7B4j9 on January 27, 2012 at 06:05PM In SONY BMG Music v Tenenbaum the RIAA has filed its brief on statutory damages. RIAA memo of law, January 27, 2012
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How Can I Release My Music Online So Music-Lovers...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/ypsvke on January 27, 2012 at 01:00PM
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DOJ files brief in SONY v Tenenbaum supporting...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zgCLXD on January 27, 2012 at 05:30PM In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Department of Justice, now staffed and supervised by many former RIAA lawyers, has filed a brief supporting the RIAA’s position on statutory damages. Department of Justice January 27, 2012, memo
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THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Heating Up The...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/x70Fyu on January 27, 2012 at 12:48PM
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AAPL Up As Market Slides The market is heading south as core U.S. GDP slowed in the fourth quarter. Shares of AAPL, however, are up in a bumpy tech tape. Investors will continue to be focused on iPhone adoption; update to the iPad; market share...
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Universal Music May Have Inadvertently Exposed a...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/Ax7Ce4 on January 27, 2012 at 12:00PM Eriq Gardner One rap artist speaks out against UMG, YouTube, and SOPA. read more
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Facebook IPO filing reportedly due 'as early as...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/x2yMRm on January 27, 2012 at 04:47PM
Facebook’s initial public offering has been anticipated for months and is speculated to be worth as much as $100 billion whenever it arrives.
And right about now, that’s the biggest question for the world’s largest social network — when will the IPO filing arrive?
According to a Friday report from the...
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Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs top young adult list of...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/wZnbJp on January 27, 2012 at 04:02PM Alexander Graham Bell. Thomas Edison. Marie Curie. Steve Jobs. Which of these people would you consider the greatest innovator of all time?
A few weeks ago the Lemelson-MIT Program put a similar question to 1,000 young adults ages 16 to 25, and stodgy old purists can breathe a sigh of relief. Thomas Edison trumped everyone.
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Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein leaves...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/A11Twc on January 27, 2012 at 03:13PM
Jon Rubinstein, the former chief executive of Palm who joined Hewlett-Packard after a 2010 buyout, is leaving the company in the latest of several recent management departures.
His exit wasn’t a surprise, according to AllThingsD, which said Rubinstein — a former Apple executive who helped develop the iPod —...
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#TwitterBlackout: Tweeters protest nation-specific...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/xeebjN on January 27, 2012 at 02:51PM
Twitter faced a growing backlash on Friday, less than a day after it announced that it can now block specific tweets from being published in specific countries that legally require such censorship.
On Friday, a day after the country-specific plan was announced, #TwitterBlackout and #TwitterCensored were trending topics on the...
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Billboard Reveals the 2012 Power 100 | Billboard
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zwbxkf on January 27, 2012 at 08:30AM
Billboard found something else that Irving Azoff, executive chairman of Live Nation, can sit atop: In the January 28 issue of the magazine, Billboard unveils the Power 100, a ranking of the most powerful people in the music business.
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Report: Facebook May File For IPO Next Week, Could...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zB3lSJ on January 27, 2012 at 08:05AM
Facebook is expected to file IPO paperwork as early as next week, in a move that would value the social networking site at between $75-$100 billion, dwarfing Google’s initial IPO value of $23 billion in 2004.
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Spotify Up to 3 Million Subscribers Globally |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xQEgry on January 27, 2012 at 07:15AM
Spotify has broken the 3 million subscriber barrier across its 12 markets, meaning that despite high-profile holdouts like Adele and the Black Keys, the service is still growing strong.
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Did Universal Music Expose a Flaw in the YouTube...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/AwSkAM on January 27, 2012 at 08:00AM
In the wake of its legal fray with Megaupload, Universal has come under renewed scrutiny for its top secret agreement with YouTube over the takedown process for copyrighted videos.
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PartyGaming, PayPal And Moneybookers Linked To...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/AxU10K on January 27, 2012 at 04:19PM Lots of posts related to MegaUpload lately but it’ s kindda fair considering it was, after all, the fall of a giant. Here comes another one:
The sudden end of Megaupload dragged many names under FBI’s scope, among whom Kim Dotcom (founder), famous rapper and music producer Swizz Beatz, and some other people from all around the...
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hyperaudio notation | Lucas Gonze's blog
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xW6qxO on January 27, 2012 at 04:11PM There’s video captioning with WebVTT, and there’s a closely related vision of hyperaudio.
This made me think about a music-only application of hyper audio and captioning - synchronizing music notation with a recorded performance. How would it be a different thing than synchronizing lyrics with music, or a...
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Thoughts on Golan v. Holder | FutureBlog
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yt9RHy on January 27, 2012 at 03:50PM
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Last week, the Supreme Court handed down on a ruling on Golan v. Holder, a case that ultimately pitted an international...
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Midem 2012: What the Hell Are You Doing Here? |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xJxEUb on January 27, 2012 at 03:13PM
We’re giving away 100 euros in networking cash to a randomly-selected commenter.
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Spanish Prisoners Hit Up Kickstarter To Fund...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xM0fYn on January 27, 2012 at 02:14PM Image courtesy of Kickstarter, Spanish PrisonersFor many a band, a van can mean the difference between playing hole-in-the-wall DIY spaces in their hometown and, well, playing hole-in-the-wall DIY venues in cities across the country. Brooklyn band Spanish Prisoners is looking to obtain a four-wheeled chariot of musical freedom, and...
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Engadget Podcast 278 - 01.26.2012 | Engadget
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xS5vKG on January 27, 2012 at 09:00AM Sometimes we like to tell ourselves it’s not, but in the end, it’s all about the Benjamins. We tried to get someone named Benjamin on this podcast to underscore this point, but, you know, he had other plans. Tune in for this special Rich Dad, Poor Dad edition of the Engadget Podcast: we’ll let you decide which dad...
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Google Music now lets you download your entire...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yvX78A on January 27, 2012 at 06:27AM Computer meltdown? No backup? Well, at least your tunes are safe. Google Music just gained a new feature that lets you to download your entire library including purchased songs. A simple click in the Music Manager is all it takes to restore your entire collection — or just your purchased music — from the cloud. In...
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The Onion Explains SOPA And PIPA (As Only The...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/wWWmqT on January 27, 2012 at 09:05AM
Well, it took some time, but with so much disinformation that was spread online about SOPA and PIPA, we really needed someone to cut through the clutter… and who better than The Onion? They’ve finally done so with their simple SOPA/PIPA explainer that includes some of the finer points of the law that you may have...
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Google Music update makes service useful for...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/ydrw2v on January 27, 2012 at 02:45PM
The Web giant’s two-month-old music service now offers users the ability to download songs in bulk, easing the process of restoring a PC music library.
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The Right to Re-Sell Purchased Digital Content |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yWvOQQ on January 27, 2012 at 02:41PM
I’ve long believed the that pricing of digital albums, with the exception of the sub $5 specials at Amazon MP3 and the cheaper offerings in the eMusic catalog, too often fails to account for the loss of the potential resale value that purchasers of music CDs enjoy.
But from the details in this WSJ piece on Apple’s...
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Freeloader Friday: Nada Surf, Grand Duchy, Yellow...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zqT2qc on January 27, 2012 at 02:30PM
Ladies and gents, it’s official: Friday is here! Let’s celebrate with a little jam session, shall we? This week we’re bringing you tons of free goodies. Check out a video from Nada Surf’s album release show and free singles by Grand Duchy, Yellow Ostrich, Xray Eyeballs, and Zambri. Then, finish it off …
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Spotify: Three million paying users, up from 2.5...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/yFrHFG on January 27, 2012 at 01:16PM
January 27, 2012 - 11:05am - January 30, 2012 - 4:05pm
On-demand music streaming service Spotify announced yesterday that it now has more than 3 million paying users. That figure reportedly represents more than 20% of its total active userbase.
Spotify users must pay a...
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Documentary about the Langley Schools Music...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/xrnvDP on January 27, 2012 at 02:27PM
Several years ago, VH1 made a documentary about the Langley Schools Music Project, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. If you’re not hip to the Langley Schools Music Project, you’re in for a real treat. Between 1976 and 1977, music teacher Hans Fenger and a group of middle school students recorded two...
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Portuguese rights society presents lists of...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/y4gxlU on January 27, 2012 at 02:27PM
Carlos sez, “A Portuguese Authors Association was caught faking authors’ names in support of an abusive proposed law to add a copyright tax to every gigabyte of digital storage.” António Pinho Vargas (one of my most appreciated Portuguese music composers, you should check his Tom Waits if you don’t know him)...
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Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/x6zLlf on January 27, 2012 at 01:32PM It’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works. Just last month, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy, while putting up barriers to make life difficult for rightsholders.
If the copyright industry had their...
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Ready… Set… Not Just Yet: RACES’ LP “Year of the...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zMBdDQ on January 27, 2012 at 01:50PM
The story behind RACES, the band who brought us Big Broom EP [Frenchkiss Records], is a poignant one, and the kind that always makes music better. RACES exists as a result of artistic rebirth and personal rediscovery, but it all started at a point in Wade Ryff‘s life where motivation was at its …
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Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/wl16Kf on January 27, 2012 at 01:41PM Thousands roil Polish streets – more protests planned for Friday Over 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement, during a protest in parliament of their country’s signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EU’s...
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The Onion Explains SOPA And PIPA (As Only The...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/wWWmqT on January 27, 2012 at 09:05AM
Well, it took some time, but with so much disinformation that was spread online about SOPA and PIPA, we really needed someone to cut through the clutter… and who better than The Onion? They’ve finally done so with their simple SOPA/PIPA explainer that includes some of the finer points of the law that you may have...
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Spotify Hits 3 Million Paid Subscribers, 20%...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/zocknN on January 27, 2012 at 12:47PM
During an appearance at at Universal Music Open Day in London, Spotify Chief Content Officer Ken Parks announced that the music streaming service now has 3 million paid subscribers. That’s up from 2.5 million just 2 months ago and would mean that 20% of an estimated 12.5 million users are converting from free to paid...