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Free Christmas music from Amazon MP3

December 24, 2008

If you will be sitting around with family tonight or tomorrow, but you don’t have a lot of holiday music, Amazon MP3 has got you covered. They have 25 days of free holiday music, a free holiday sampler album, and a lot more free music, all DRM-free, unlike the iTunes music store.
Happy (musical) holidays!

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RIAA to stop lawsuits? Maybe.

December 19, 2008

The Wall Street Journal reports that the RIAA is going to stop suing individuals for illegally downloading music.  It appears that they will now attempt to coerce the individual’s ISP to help in their efforts. This is good news for the consumer if only for a short period of time. In justifying their litigation over the [...]

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RIAA finds its soul, will stop suing individuals downloading music

December 19, 2008

RIAA finds its soul, will stop suing individuals downloading music | Engadget

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35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s – Sorry, RIAA!

October 16, 2008

35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s – Sorry, RIAA! | Download Squad (via Recording Industry vs. The People)

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RIAA and 5 years of filesharing lawsuits

September 23, 2008

David Kravets over at Wired Blog Network’s Threat Level has a great piece on the travesty of abuse that is the RIAA’s campaign to go after illicit music downloads. Its been 5 years, with over 30,000 lawsuits filed and one jury trial victory that is likely to be reversed.
The real problem with the whole mess [...]

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Monday consumer blog roundup

May 12, 2008

Here are the blog posts I starred in Google Reader last week. (If you use Google Reader, you can subscribe to my shared items.)

The Alphonso Jackson Legacy. Mark Ireland comments on the Washington Post’s look at the legacy of HUD chief (and Bush appointee) Alphonso Jackson. While Jackson oversaw the government body in charge of [...]

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We take you to a meeting of the RIAA

January 4, 2008

From joyoftech.com:

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Already at ludicrous speed, the RIAA goes a bit faster

December 31, 2007

Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing points out that the RIAA’s ludicrous stance on copying CDs for personal use is actually even more ludicrous in light of what they were saying just months ago:
The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly [...]

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RIAA has achieved ludicrous speed

December 29, 2007

In its efforts to bring about the overthrow of copyright protection by adopting arguments more ridiculous than the Bush Administration’s attempts to exclude Dick Cheney from the executive branch, the RIAA is now arguing that it is illegal for you to transfer music from a CD you purchase to your computer for your own, personal [...]

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The 10 worst consumer technology trends

December 10, 2007

From PC World Canada, 10 terrible trends in consumer technology:

10. Closed source technology
9. Over-promising and under-delivering
8. Fanboys
7. Region encoding
6. Licensing Fees
5. Format wars
4. Proprietary File Formats
3. Annoying web ads
2. High cost of wireless data plans
1. DRM

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