Archive for the 'Music' Category
While Blaze Media Pro isn’t freeware, It’s wide range of capabilities easily make up for it. Whether you just want to rip your CD’s so you can have the music on your iPod or flash drive or you’d like to convert existing audio files to another format. Perhaps you’ve got a collection of your musical creations that you want to burn to CD, This media suite has the goods.
August 14th, 2008 | Posted in Movies, Music, Video Editing & Authoring, software, video | Comments Off
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Ars Technica has a report about the latest RIAA strategy to get people to pay up instead of fighting the lawsuits. Now, students who feel (I dare say rightly so in most cases) that they’re [...]
July 6th, 2008 | Posted in File Sharing, Internet, Music, Opinion, news | Comments Off
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That case where University of Maine students are going up against the RIAA is getting interesting. The RIAA submitted another of the ex parte (”ex parte” is legalese for “without notice”) discovery orders that they’re famous for. This time however the judge refused to go along with it saying:
I [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion, news | 2 Comments
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I got thinking about our viking friends from the previous entry and it occurred to me that it could easily be the premise for a movie. Yeah, I know, it’s been done before with different people instead of Vikings but it still has potential for some serious fun.
I can just [...]
June 9th, 2008 | Posted in Fun Stuph, Misc, Movies, Music, Opinion | Comments Off
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Cornell University has come up with an Azureus Plugin called “Cubit” that I think is one of the first such that will give the ability for it to handle “decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities”.
This means that Azureus users would be able to search torrents currently available on the network. This [...]
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion, Programming | Comments Off
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There’s an article on PC World that’s worth reading if you think that your ISP might be interfering with your ability to use BitTorrent applications.
They refer to a couple of tools, one called Glasnost and another from EFF called pcapdiff that they developed to allow people to identify potentially forged, dropped, [...]
May 31st, 2008 | Posted in File Sharing, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Opinion, Privacy, Tech, software, surveillance | Comments Off
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That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down a property for up to one year for violations of this anti-infringement ordinance and the [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion | Comments Off
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Back on January 8, the Massachusetts State Police ordered the RIAA’s investigator, MediaSentry, to stop conducting investigations in their state without a license. Now it turns out that they’re in violation of that order.
To say the very least, this kind of thing is going to punch some major gaping holes [...]
April 20th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion, Privacy | Comments Off
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At least for the time being, the RIAA’s Boston University subpoena has been quashed until the judge in question can examine the university’s terms of service for student internet access. This is another in a growing list of roadblocks, setbacks and outright defeats that the RIAA is suffering more and [...]
April 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Opinion, news | Comments Off
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Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. The latest move is no doubt going to have the RIAA and their lawyers [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, freenet, news | Comments Off