A New Kind Of Bootleg- August 2, 2002 Bootleg Culture "When the British DJ duo 2ManyDJs were creating their own album of 'bootlegs' -- hybrid tracks that mix together other people's songs to create new songs that are at once familiar yet often startlingly different -- they decided to get permission to use every one of the hundreds of tracks they mashed together. The result: almost a solid year of calling, e-mailing, and faxing dozens and dozens of record labels all over the world. (Creating the album itself only took about a...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/08/02.html#a2739 (Untitled)- August 2, 2002 Doc Searls has again written a comprehensive analysis of current anti-consumer legislation currently being proposed in Congress, as well as the destructive CARP ruling about webcasting fees. Read the whole thing for yourself and share it with your friends. This is important stuff: Hollywood Steps Up Its Assault on the Net While Webcasting Death March Claims KPIG.http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/08/01.html#a2733 Your Own Personal Odyssey- August 1, 2002 Oooohhhh - I missed news of the Odyssey 1000 portable audio player while I was gone! "The Odyssey 1000, which will be available to consumers this fall, boasts superb sound quality and outstanding battery life, with a minimum of 13 hours of playback time. The feature-rich Odyssey 1000 has a 20 Gigabyte hard drive for optimum MP3 and Windows MediaTM WMA playback and doubles as a data storage unit for movies, spreadsheets, e- books, and more. Its stainless steel, sleek industrial design only...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/07/31.html#a2720 |