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Cool Jazz Trio of Hot Guitars Keeps Your Drinks Ice Cold
Fill and chill this unique ice tray, and soon you'll be hand-chillin' your hooch with a tasty trio of some of the world's greatest guitars, including what looks like a Fender Jazz Bass, a Gibson Les Paul and what's that? A Martin D-28? Be still my heart. A mere $9 gets you a heaping helping of stirring cocktail jazz, keeping you cool all summer long. More »
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Pandora's Zing-Powered Wi-Fi Prototype
In addition to all of the Sprint and Sonos goodies we broke before Pandora's press conference last night, we mentioned the company would show off a Zing-powered Wi-Fi prototype. TechCrunch managed to shoot a few pics of it, and we were right: it was built by SanDisk, so it naturally looks like the Sansa Connect, only "longer and thinner." Details are still scant: no word on storage, price, release date, or final name, but this could turn out to be a sweet little device, so stay tuned. More »
from the government-backed-mafia dept.
SoundExchange Collects Internet Radio Royalties for Every Artist, Even Non-Members
Amidst the uproar over the egregious royalty rate hike for internet radio stations, engineered by RIAA-spinoff SoundExchange and handed down by the Copyright Royalty Board, we missed a detail we should have noticed. Some commenters suggested simply listening to music under non-restrictive licenses. But apparently that won't work."The recent U.S. Copyright Office ruling regarding webcasting designated SoundExchange to collect and distribute to all nonmembers as well as its members. The Librarian of Congress issued his decision with rates and terms to govern the compulsory license for webcasters (Internet-only radio) and simulcastors (retransmissions)."More »
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Internet Radio Rebellion Crushed: CRB Upholds Royalty Rate Hike
NPR's and other webcasters' efforts to roll back the crippling royalty rate hike for Internet radio stations have been gutted. A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board denied their appeal, holding up "the original CRB decision in every respect," though a slight reprieve was granted in allowing stations to pay royalties based on "average listening hours" rather than per play through 2008. More »
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NPR Says F$%! the RIAA, Albeit in an Erudite, Strongly Worded Letter After Some Tea
NPR isn't taking too kindly to the Sound Exchange-drafted royalty rate hike for internet radio stations. The burn? The new rates are "at least 20 times more than what stations have paid in the past" and treats public radio "as if [it] were commercial radio," though it's unable to bring in extra revenue to meet higher costs.Also, the fee for internet radio is "vastly more expensive" than the over-the-air license, despite the smaller audience. In response, "NPR will pursue all possible action to reverse this decision," starting with a petition to the royalty board. More »
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NIN Year Zero: Too Much for the RIAA
In light of our anti-RIAA campaign, it's interesting to look at artists who are trying to operate outside of DRM-infested distribution schemes, actually taking advantage of the internet to get their stuff out. I don't know how many of you have been following it, but Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero campaign, on top of a fairly sophisticated ARG, has been distributing tracks from the upcoming album on USB flash drives at concerts. The first two were found in bathroom stalls (ick) and then another taped to the barricade at a show. More »
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Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March
Alright, we've been following the RIAA's increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it's about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction of technology and the Internet for one reason and one reason alone: it's totally loaded. Without their millions of dollars to throw at lawyers, the RIAA is toothless. They get their money from us, the consumers, and if we don't like the way they're behaving, we can let them know with our wallets. More »
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Zune: First Full Review
Microsoft was kind enough to get us some hands-on time with the Zune, not batting an eye as we eagerly slided the player down our pants, enjoying the material it was made out of. Our thoughts first, then a gallery later. More »
2:08 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Jason Chen
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