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Friday, 26 December 2003
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Response to Tip Jar But this goes a step beyond that. I'd definitely go along with this; either way, once word gets out of doing something like this, artists who support the concept of a tip jar for copying CDs will jump on the wagon, and those against it will try to make them the next victim for the RIAA.
Speaking about that, I wonder why the RIAA didn't go after people 10 - 15 years ago, when people were copying cassette tapes... - Brad • 12/26/03; 3:04:48 PM Regarding your first point....how to avoid getting nailed by the RIAA: Most of my music to date belongs to three different publishing companies (Higher Octave, Sony and Luna Negra) and the masters (the recordings themselves) are owned by as many record companies (Higher Octave, Epic Records and now SSRI)...anyway, our position will be that we are not selling the right to copy one of my albums - 'cause then they would come after me with guns a-blazing - but that we are accepting donations from people who have copied my music. That is quite different! On the other hand with my new SSRI material, like the new Luna Negra album "La Semana" which I am recording now and which SSRI will release in Spring of 2004, we will be able to do anything we like 'cause I OWN IT ALL - the publishing and the masters!! I can actually sell you the right to copy the music and no-one can stop me. And that is exactly what I intend to do. Watch me....I am going to do it....yes, Sir...
Regarding your second comment: I think it is obvious to all of us that the record companies (and the movie industry) do not understand the consumer. While the record companies have been busy working on Surround sound and DVD Audio with its 24 bit / 96k format for the last decade, the audience has flocked to mp3 files, which are in fact of lower quality than CD. We have done that because it is an easy way to carry music around with us, it is a great way to organize our music, and it sounds fine for running around and listening to stuff...DVD Audio on the other hand would have required another expensive player, maybe a separate decoder and possibly a surround sound system - and you can't take it with you, in fact with a surround sound system you can't move much at all, period...I think the music industry has always felt that analog copying isn't that big of a deal, but the ability to make an identical digital copy scares the hell out of them, and I think that is rooted in the thought that quality is supreme. And I do not think that is true. Good music shines through regardless of the medium it is resented in. Even though they worked so hard on having great sound, I feel that Pink Floyd or Steely Dan's music is just as great and relevant on a cassette as it is in DTS surround sound - and yes, I do have the Steely Dan surround sound DVD.
Great idea OL - very unique too. Maybe the SSRI template needs to be of a different color or worded differently to let people know this was done using the 'donation' method or "honest system." And show a link on that template for others to do the same. I might want people to see I donated and copied something with the "Author's permission." And of course put a restriction of 1-2 per customer. - MichaelV • 12/25/03; 7:27:57 PM That's a good idea! I think we will create a special PDF version of the cover and people who donate will get an email with the link to the PDF. Can't give anybody "author's permission" for reasons I explained above, but can give donors my "author's thanks" - good enough? Of course that is not true for the new recordings for which I will be able to give official "author's permission". I think putting a restriction on copying would not work and would be unenforceable in any case - so I won't do that. Copy away, as long as you donate some money to my recording fund...
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My brother 
Stefan was a very persuasive manager.....here he is winning an argument with Carl Coletti.
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Lama 
Saw this Lama during a walk last week. I have seen people walk their lama on the quiet streets of the Eastside...
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Step by step instructions on how to install Linux on a 12" PowerBook in addition to OS X - on two partitions.
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Plus ça change, The Economist on Coffee-Houses.
Far more controversial than the coffee-houses' functions as centres of scientific, literary and business exchange, however, was their potential as centres of political dissent. Coffee's reputation as a seditious beverage goes back at least as far as 1511, the date of the first known attempt to ban the consumption of coffee, in Mecca. Thereafter, many attempts were made to prohibit coffee and coffee-houses in the Muslim world. Some claimed it was intoxicating and therefore subject to the same religious prohibition as alcohol. Others claimed it was harmful to the health. But the real problem was the coffee-houses' alarming potential for facilitating political discussion and activity. Coffee and tobacco are the mainstays of civilisation, and I shall wittily disparage anyone who disagrees. [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent]
So, Starbucks isn't a giant corporation that is based on overpriced coffee w fancy names, but really a facilitator of political discussion and possibly political dissent...
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Today, Mars probe "Beagle 2" landed on the red planet -- but no-one is yet sure if it arrived intact and functional. As the BBC wrote a few days ago, a Mars landing is a pretty dicey affair. To figure out if the Beagle 2 is operating, the British scientists who created the probe designed it to send a signal back to Earth -- so right now, they're anxiously sitting by the radio telescopes waiting to hear it. The signal? According to the BBC: Confirmation of a safe landing would come in the form of a nine-note musical signal from the craft, written by the British pop band Blur. Okay, that officially -- and quite precisely -- rocks. Apparently, the Blur guys are quite the math geeks, because in an interview with The Scotsman, the bass player Alex James explained that their tune was based on the Fibonacci sequence, a... [collision detection] Is that why it hasn't worked yet?
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It isn't in the U.S., Great Britain, or Japan. It isn't in Canada, Germany, or New Zealand. It isn't in the hyperdeveloped world at all. The greenest building in the world, as recognized by the United States Green Building Council,... [Another World Is Here]
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Christmas is over now. The kids have played with all the toys, they're full of sugar, restive, grumpy. Grandpa is hung-over, grandma has run out of kindliness, Mom has post-traumatic hostess stress. Dad put on seven pounds and he is facing horrific credit-card bills... The family is bored, itchy, feckless, ready to fling themselves at each other's throats...
And then they discover Josh Nimoy's BALL-DROPPINGS! Oh my gosh what a brilliant, subtle, pleasing, soothing little game. Anybody can play, even Luddite Grandpa (after his hangover fades). Hey Dad, hook that web-toy up on broadband to the big new family flat-screen.
Harmony is Restored! [Beyond the Beyond]
Excellent and very addictive. I tried to create rhythms and recorded the result with the WireTap application.
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Thank you Dan. It's snowing music!
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Ottmar Liebert.
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