Monthly Archives: November 2005

RIAA Targets MashUp

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Nick Dynice

As reported on Boing Boing by DRM actvist Cory Doctorow, RIAA has threatened MashUpTown.com. This is a site that songs that are remixed music fans. They are usually taken from two or more familiar songs. This is, …

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Tivo will soon allow content be transferred to the Video iPod, PSP

Posted on November 21, 2005 by Nick Dynice

Reported on Podcasting News.com, Tivo will soon include software that will allow content to be loaded to the Video iPod and the Sony Play Station Portable.

I had suggested in a post couple weeks ago that this would be a …

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Definitions of music ownership and music discovery

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Nick Dynice

RIAA’s definition of music ownership: buy the CD/DVD/DVDAudio, buy a downloaded file with DRM, download a file through P2P, hear it in a podcast over and over as if it is a “clean” copy, rip it from a podcast, …

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Why the RIAA should blame Clear Channel and not P2P

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Nick Dynice

I was listening to The Future Of Music Book podcast this morning, and they mentioned something interesting. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act that was passed back in 1996 allows companies to own more than one media station in …

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I`m going to the Podcast Expo, and new service at Deep Signal Studios

Posted on November 12, 2005 by Nick Dynice

I’ll be at the Podcast Expo tomorrow. I hope to meet some cool people to do business with in the future. I may help John Furrier of the Podtech.net podcast manage ID3 tags on an ongoing basis. …

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Why Amazon should help Google with Google Library

Posted on November 12, 2005 by Nick Dynice

Google Print is the service Google is working on where they are scanning the text of books that are in the public domain, and then converting it to searchable text with optical character recognition, and then allowing the …

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Apple should buy Tivo…NOW!

Posted on November 7, 2005 by Nick Dynice

Now that Apple is going to sell videos (music videos, TV shows, and probably movies in the future), mainly for the new Video iPod, now is the time to buy Tivo. Continue reading →

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MySpace.com starts a label: MySpace Records

Posted on November 3, 2005 by Nick Dynice

Here is further proof that MySpace users will never be charged for the service I spoke about here. One feature of MySpace is that they hosts band profile pages. Now, News Corp can can pick from the best …

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