from a recent freepress.net bulletin:
“Online music is in danger. A recent ruling by an obscure regulatory board threatens to put independent and public radio on the Internet out of business.
The “Copyright Royalty Board” is dramatically increasing the royalties “webcasters” must pay every time they stream a song online. Public Internet radio like NPR is especially [...]
wtf? translation: what the frak?!
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for those of you who don’t watch battlestar galactica, or haven’t seen the season finale, please leave the room.
i was fine with the result of the baltar’s trial. it made sense, sort of. at least it was a reasonable conclusion. he got justice. now he has to [...]
this marks the first year i have worked entirely on salary. this also marks the first year i will have to pay more to my state and local government after i file my taxes. in past years i made, at most, half of what i take home now, and i always got something in return. [...]
first steve jobs, then david byrne… not to mention millions of internet saavy music listeners.
how many people will it take to convince the record industry they can’t make money by restricting a customer’s use of their music?
as i was preparing to leave the house this morning my roommate, who had been up all night getting ready for a spring break trip to europe, informed me that the driving conditions were the worst he’d experienced all season. i heeded his advice, but i didn’t really think it was actually that bad. here’s [...]
