After the third in a series of website hacks, the RIAA has fixed its website … except for this page. The page is presently
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Author: David Gerard
The MP3 shakedown begins: US$2000 to put your songs up
It’s been long forecast, and is on at last: Fraunhofer and Thomson Multimedia have new rates for the use of MP3. Non-commercial decoders were
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Janis Ian Redux
posted by Anthony Horan Janis Ian has posted a follow-up to her much-read Internet Debacle feature, with a new reaction piece called Fallout. Is
Read MoreMp3 servers: missing in action?
posted by Kevin Mp3 servers…where are you? So, here’s the deal, I’ve spent the past year or two collecting records, ripping, downloading, and otherwise
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The Universal Music award for excellence in customer relations.
Los Angeles Times Calendar Live posits that the real enemy of the CD market is not the Internet – it’s the DVD market. For
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Vivendi Universal meltdown
Vivendi Universal’s weird transition from a French water company to a media conglomerate is — astoundingly enough — failing to hold together. Chairman Jean-Marie
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RIAA and NMPA nail Audiogalaxy.
After bringing suit in late May, the RIAA and NMPA have just obtained their dream settlement against Audiogalaxy: a strict opt-in system, where only
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Why the music industry has had it.
In its present form, in any case. The party’s well and truly over, guys. As laid out step by step in a New York
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Latest dispatches from the war against the consumer
As forecast in Suck two years ago, Interscope appear to have been using flooding p2p networks with 30-second loops of the new Eminem album
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Sony tweaks Key2Audio
According to CD Freaks (highly recommended to those following the copy-prevention wars), Sony has reportedly patched Key2Audio to get around the marker hack. Meanwhile,
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The Finest Computer Audio Known To Mankind
So your PC is a dual two-gigahertz beast machine with a gig of RAM and a soundcard with 5.1 Dolby output. You even claim
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Radio: the future?
Imagine a post apocalyptic radio world, where there are multiple stations all sounding the same, acting the same – there is no choice, no variety, no difference anywhere across the country. Everything and everyone has been blended down to core stereotypes, and the people seem happy with this… and of course the advertisements, who can forget the advertisements.
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Original KaZaA BV crushed, Morpheus to follow, KaZaA network continues
The KaZaA network is alive and well, but the original KaZaA BV in Holland has collapsed under the financial pressure of the lawsuits being
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More Sony discs to wreck your Mac: boycott urged
Congratulations, Sony: your customers are now actually afraid to buy the legal product rather than download a free pirate copy. A report from the
Read MoreThis week, filesharing increases CD sales.
Jupiter MMXI, the media survey organisation that two weeks ago released a report claiming that “the European record industry must act now to curb
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Review: Baise-Moi
Baise-Moi is a MUFF special. A film that’s little more than an amateurish, adolescent exercise in prurience whose stream of apparently-subversive images masks an utterly uncreative, conventional, conservative nature.
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NSW Parliamentary tribute to The Ramones: “I named my dog Joey Ramone in his honour.”
No, really – late on the evening of Wednesday April 10th. You can read the original text on the NSW Parliament site, or from
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KaZaA adware defeated
KaZaAlite, a version of KaZaA minus the Brilliant Digital Altnet ad trojan, has been put together by a Russian programmer and made available at www.kazaalite.com.
Nicola Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks, has claimed that Sharman will “take action against parties engaged in misrepresenting our software,” despite KaZaAlite’s author being … in another country with differing laws.
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24 Hour Party People.
(2002, dir. Michael Winterbottom) Factory Records and its bands occupied thirty to forty percent of my brain between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.
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Queen Of The Damned: The extras speak.
First, let’s get into character. Go find a mirror. Look into it. Go “grrrrrrrrrrruff!” Now hold that look. Hold it … hold it …
Read MoreSuch a terrible thing to happen to such a talented young lady
It’s one thing to read the horrifying tale and shake your head in dismay at the unspeakable traumas our modern pop youth are forced to work through.
It’s quite another to have actual pictures of the incident.
Read MoreLawsuit over crippled Charley Pride CD settled.
The suit brought by California woman Karen DeLisle against
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Pressplay to pay 0.23 cents per download.
The recording industry, that fine and upstanding community institution of unimpeachable repute, has put its usual sort of deal on the Pressplay and MusicNet
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Spill News: Hi God People, Undecisive God, Mash 2
Thrills and chills from Spill-associated bands, weekend after next. Fortify yourself against Christmas: The Hi God People will play with Five Fold Galactic Bells
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Review: Vodka Party, The Tigers – Pony, Melbourne, Thu 06 Dec 2001
Go see both bands any chance you get. Nice venue, too. If bloody tiny.
Read MoreRide – CUB Malthouse, Wed 05 Dec 2001
Writer and director: Jane Bodie. Two people wake up next to each other with no memory of the night before. Hey, we’ve all been
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Record companies push unusable download service again.
The recording industry is yet again offering a downloadable music service consumers can’t use – no MP3s, songs not transferable to portable music players
Read MoreRocket Science Single Launch – Corner Hotel, Fri 30 Nov 2001
Review by Daniel So, the question is, did they or didn’t they? Having seen this and having been scared and confused, would the smocks
Read MoreSlayer live in Dublin
review by Anna Several weeks ago I found myself at one of Dublin’s largest venues, surrounded by thousands of long-greasey-haired, skinny, sickly-looking, hopelessly drunk
Read MoreSunglasses After Dark 21st Birthday (The Tote, Sun 21 Oct 2001).
It’s too loud and I’m too old. But a good cause, a good show (The Redresser, Mustang, Casanovas, Speed Demons, Fez Perez and Six
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