Welcome to Boycott-Riaa! We are the premier community on the web made up of artists and music-lovers who wish to save the world's music culture from the evil clutches of the "recording industry" and the "content cartels" in this modern digital age. Contrary to what you may have heard, we DO NOT encourage file-sharing of those songs that do not 'wish' to be shared. Anything DRM infected by the creator, (...this especially includes the entire RIAA catalogue) has a huge "Let me die in obscurity!" sign painted on the side with bright red letters. Let's honor that request and promote independent music that allows non-commercial fair use instead! By this boycott we hope to advance the ultimate goal of a 'level playing-field' that recognizes more than just the head of the 'long tail'. Join us if you have not already!

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This recurring thread is primarily for news and announcements AND your discussion/opinion about anything of interest to Boycott-Riaa! Please exercise free speech, but try to keep it 'clean' and be kind to one another. Please, NO SPAM ALLOWED --except for the occasional advertisement of independent music which shall always be welcome (...within reason!)

Have fun at Boycott-Riaa, but play nice! You are encoraged to disagree with one another in a civil manner all you wish, but threats of bodily or cybernetic harm against other users of this site will NOT be tolerated.

Folks, I have been incredibly busy these past few days, but I have good news! The Boycott-Riaa Compilation CD is very close to being finished. We already have the permissions from all the artists and I am doing what little final mastering is required on the audio. I guestimate that within 2 weeks you will be able to purchase a copy of something rather special!

Something Thomas Mennecke posted over at Slyck:

P2P Population Reaches Record High in July --Slyck

"While each side in the great online copyright wars enjoys claiming victory over each courtroom battle or new statistical analysis, the truth remains the both the copyright industry and P2P users have both won this conflict. The copyright industry is enjoying great success with its new line of music services while P2P users have a continuous stream of new tools to download and trade material. Times are good for both sides, despite the showboating that occurs on the surface."

Peer Impact Secures Major Retail Market Channel and Announces Official Launch of the First Authorized P2P Digital Media Service Licensed by the Major Labels - AAFES to Promote Peer Impact Throughout its Military Community -
--Press Release

Sad.

Yet another DRM scheme that won't work:

PS3 Blue-ray Disc to make pirates say, "Argh." --Punch Jump

Lawsuit Claims ABC, Cowell Lifted Idea --AP

"It is incredibly ironic that our show, the premise of which is to promote, protect and reward small-town American ingenuity, was itself the victim of corporate theft and greed," Golden said.

Murdoch Plans Major Internet Expansion --AP

Reports: Icahn Wants Time Warner Asset Sale --AP

I say bust it into a million pieces!

Microsoft Trying to Fix Security Hole --AP

Microsoft trying to fix security holes always makes me think of the little Dutch boy with his finger in the leak in the dike. Uh-oh!!

A self created problem if you ask me.

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FROM THE INBOX:

Greetings,

My name is Will and I run Music and Media for JukeboxAlive.com - we are a truly independent online music distribution service that use non-caching Flash streaming codecs.

Our main service it to the artists, the second is to the fans on the site. We are based out of Asheville, NC

How can we help your site?

Truly,
Will

Will Cumberland
Music and Media
JukeboxAlive.com
will@jukeboxalive.com
828.232.0013

Will,

if for some reason you didn't want your contact info made public in our forums call me or e-mail me for removal. (I left my contact info with your secretary.)

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Folks, I know NOTHING about "JukeboxAlive.com" but this seemed to be a friendly contact
and (as you all should know,) I share such friendly contacts with you all!

...MORE regarding the update of links:

"fatchucks is now a PORN site..."

(I am not sure if/or where we link to anything called "fatchucks", but a message in our inbox stated the above message! So be aware!)

Even MORE fun stuff from the INBOX:

"I just read an article on your website entitiled "Death of Music?? Horsechips!!!". The article is dead on, and I agree full heartedly with it. I am in a band right now, and we are all about getting the music out to anyone that wants to hear it. There is also an amazing coincidence going on here that was too huge to just forget about. My band is just starting out, and our first album is called the Prototype. It is a concept album, and the story is about exactly what you are talking about. Here is a brief synopsis: There is this stuggling band (coincidentally named HorseChips) that signs a record deal. They want the fame and fortune and don't read the contract they signed. The record company uses the band to make an album which brainwashes the masses into only listening to Pop music. So, Horsechips goes on a quest to find the Ultimate Jam. The ultimate jam, they realize, is the purity and love of music. Horsechips sees that the idea of fans and a set band and fame is bullshit, and they remember why they began playing music in the first place. Well, that is the jist of it except for some details such as the album becoming sentient and killing people. We're not sure how we could help your cause, but we definitley want to. This album will be completed in full by winter, and we'd like to link up with your cause somehow. When I read your website and that article, I was blown away by the similarities between our album and your story. I'm excited to work together in the future.

Dave, Jeff, Adam, and Samson."

A comment from the INBOX by a guy named "Dave"

State of the Opposition. What you guys are doing is great! Consumers have a choice. They can buy CD with only a few good songs on it, or do something else. Stop buying it. Why would anyone buy a CD nowdays? The majors had a golden opportunity back in 99 when Napster came on the scene. Napster and labels could have jumped into bed and created a subscription service, charging ten to twenty dollars a month. This subscripton service with its vast library of songs would be available to anyone to do what ever they wanted with it. They really would have raked in the dough, but NO, they had their heads up their collective asses. They had their chance, but they blew it. Now look at today. P2P is alive and well, P2P will never go away. CD sales are down, the majors are suing people right and left. They have gone to the feds trying to pass laws that will not do any good. They are wasting milions of dollars trying to stop something they can't. They refuse to face reality, and instead cling to the fallacy that all is well. Are the current "legal" paid sub.services that great? I don't know. I quote Rolling Stone. the customers " want all the music all the time, not some of the music some of the time." So the majors had a chance to make tons of money for themselves and Napster, but they blew it. Even if all the file sharing services were shut down, P2P would go underground or become anonymous. P2P will survive. But I'm too weak to fight all this. I am a tracker. As a tracker I've got it made. I don't have worry about the war over P2P or being screwed by the cost of CD. I dont care what anyone thinks about me because I march to beat of different drummer because I love 8-track tapes!

Death of Music thread is way back here...

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/16129

I went to visit JukeboxAlive.com for a few minutes. I don't see what they can do for DMusic or Boycott-RIAA. I didn't see any links to other sites. They use "FLASH"!! to prevent downloading, but seem to offer the same thing as DMusic to independent artists.

They reached out to us. I won't "knock" anybody's effort to do something for indie music unless I can smell a deliberate scam. Do you think they were scamming folks ShadowMom?

(Sorry, I did not have time to go check and see for myself yet.)

No, I think they're just making their name known. What's going on in the Boycott forums this morning?

Are they redesigning the forums? Because if they are, it's not an improvement; although I do like the picture! But what's with that stupid little box that pops up?

Lots of things, but not as much as I want.

Most of our viewers (%99 of them) are "lurkers" and they never say anything.

I want Boycott-Riaa to be more of a "community" than just a "news-source" with the added on "soap-opera" dynamic between our active participants.

How can we get you lurkers out there to "speak up" every once in a while? I am glad you find our dialogue entertaining... but I really wish you guys would log-in and at least say "hi" more often.

Just out of curiosity, do you have any idea how many registered users we have here?

ShadowMom, I have not been told of any site "re-design"

Make sure you are not infected with some kind of ad-ware.

"They use "FLASH"!! to prevent downloading"

Why? What's the point?

It's the Boycott forums I'm talking about, Shmoo. If you go there and see a picture of a penguin, then it's not my computer. If you don't, I'll have to clean up this baby.

Actually, no. I have no clue as to the actual numbers of users/visitors per se. I am sure fu-Dog (Van) might be able to look at the server logs and whatnot to find out. (I do have word from leflaw and crew that as we suspected all along, the actual number of active participants is outweighed by a HUGE factor by the number of readers/lurkers on a given day.)

I guess that is why if you google the word "boycott" you find that WE are the "definition" of that term.

Hell, you could boycott anything. Why should WE be the #1 Google of the word if we were not doing something right?

Check the forums? Please?

Btw, George, they use flash to keep people from downloading the music. They will let you listen to it on their site, but if you want to hear it any other way, they will be happy to sell you the CDs.

I just got off the phone with Will Cumberland of JukeBoxAlive.com

From what I gathered, they are "up and up" and are not trying to be a "download" site for music in the first place.

They are merely trying to be a market-place for the indies (many who are still afraid of the internet.)

Keep an eye on them, (and ANYONE who attempts to build a "business" around the distribution of music) ...but so far, I believe that they are only trying to be a benefit to the indie music biz. (The TRUE "company" behind that site really makes the money from the sale of "hippie/Greatful Dead and etc." type goods and wares

...the music stuff they are doing is just an out-growth/service that they are just now experimenting with.

I don't sense anything nefarious. (from what I know.)

These folks could become good friends allies!

That was my feeling as well Mike Always good to have another site to link up with...keep expansion alive!

ShadowMom,
Yeah, I knew all that before I asked the question but that may answer it for the uninformed so it's a good thing.

Once again... What's the point?

You've gotta spread your music, not tie it down. If you can't let me have a crappy, inferior 128k mp3 of a song to listen to at my leisure, then your window of opportunity just slammed shut.

But hey, that's just me.

I agree, gd, I agree. How was your trip?

(And stupid me, I know you know...school just started this week and I hate 6 o'clock in the morning with a passion!)

Hey ShadowMom:
What grade are you in?

Trip was great. Partying with college students for a week gave me a startling new positive perspective and only one minor hangover.

Hey, cobrastrike! 32nd grade--12 for me, 12 for my son, and now 9th grade for my daughter...third time through the public school system. Oh, that makes my head hurt.

Only one, George? Glad you're back.

Hey ShadowMom!
I'm a 62 yr. old high school drop-out.
I'm having a hard time remembering if I left in school in my second or third year of the tenth grade. That may make me one of the oldest and dumbest people here.
By the way up here, Hey, is nothing more than a nice greeting.

doing a litle math here.... I don't believe it, I'm OLDER than Shadowmom!!!! HA! go clean up your room!

yeah, i'd say the forums have been hacked. funny tho

Same down here, Cobrastrike. Just teasing you a little. My math is pretty bad, because 12+12+9 does

not equal 32. See, I knew that! And you don't sound old or dumb to me, cobrastrike. When I said I hate getting up for school, I meant I have to drive my daughter there. I may take her one
morning and just leave her until the end of the year.

Thank you, captdunsel. I thought for a while I was the only one seeing penguins, and it worried me a little bit! I thought it was a sign of mental illness or fatigue or something.

ShadowMom,
captdunsel did the math on that.
I wouldn't have come that close!
Know the feeling about getting up early to get kids off to school. We had 4 of those little critters. My wife, Mrs. Strike, still reminds me of how hard it was!

They are kidding right?
http://news.com.com/Study+Ring+tones+heavily+shoplifted/2100-1041_3-5817528.html

Okay, I can't resist this one. This link is to Newshounds--they watch Faux News so I don't have to. It seems that some of the manure spreaders over there may want to do a Dixie Chicks number on Jagger and the Rolling Stones. Could knock Boycott-RIAA down a notch on Google...or not. Anyway, aspiring song-writers might want to scoot down to the bottom of the comments for a parody. Here's the link:

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/08/09/now_the_fascists_at_fox_are_after_mick_jagger.php

Jagger denies that the song is about Bush. Yeah, right.

Boycott-riaa comes up first on yahoo also.

Thanks cobra, that news makes me smile!

www.myspace.com/horsechips (A band that wants YOUR attention folks!)

Shmoo, did you see about getting the forums fixed? I want to see if we can't get some of those folks to come here and comment a little more often. There are some regular commentators there who never really get into it with us out here. (Some of them I'd leave there, of course because most of their posts are words no longer than four letters long).

(We're number one! We're number one!) Cobrastrike, if you raised four kids, my hat is off to you. I have two, 16 years apart (don't even ask--one of Mother Nature's little jokes), and even then I had my hands full. I have 3 brothers, so I know what it's like to grow up with that many, but to raise that many...wow!

lol,

ShadowMom, are you talking about the various Dmusic forums?

Boycott-Riaa is not really "officially" a part of the Dmusic community beyond the fact that Dmusic (leflaw) owns and graciously hosts our babble.

(We are really just the adopted "red-head step-child)

Leflaw loves us, (but is ashamed of us "in public")

lol

.....

Back to your question...

I really have no "control" in that arena either ShadowMom.

Sorry.

schmoo, she's trying to tell you somebody jacked up the forums page for boycott. you need to get a hold of fudog and have him repair it.

Ok, I will give him a buzz. (but everything seems to be working fine for me.)

Thanks again, captdunsel. Maybe this story will wake our Shmoo up. We got a mention (just a mention, but every little bit helps) in the Village Voice.

TheirSpace?
A rumor that a community-built Web behemoth has become a corporate trap

Not gonna bother myself to register at the Villiage-Voice right now. (reg. required to read the article)

...but, ShadowMom, you say somebody "mentioned" us?

COOL! (Publicity never hurts!)

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MySpace users are (rightfully) running for the hills folks! (I am so damn glad they are not sitting around like dumb lambs ready for the slaughter.)

The big bad wolf Rupert Murdoch is in town and just bought that plot of land!

This is good for a laugh.

Study: Ring tones heavily shoplifted

That's strange...I didn't have to register. But here's the part where Boycott appears.
"Discussion forums such as Slashdot and Boycott-RIAA.com were rife with suspicion, many participants attempting to parse the MySpace TOS statement that "by posting Content on any public area of MySpace.com, you automatically grant as well as represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to MySpace.com, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content to MySpace.com and that MySpace.com has the right to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing." Does this suggest that Fox can lay claim to ownership of this vast music library? "

All I did was Google RIAA, search the news, and it was there to read. Maybe I did register there, but ... I have no memory of it. I don't think.

Hi, pinemikey. Can you imagine--they cost one dollar? And they're being stolen? How absurd.

What's funny is that they are providing the previews for free and they are now getting pouty because people simply download the preview and use it instead of the 10 sec longer one for a buck.

This is above and beyond the loony tunes who would want to spend a buck for something other than "RING!"

By the way, Shadowmom, your link didn't work. However when I added the "L" to the end of the url it did work. So the link should be..http://villagevoice.com/screens/0533,webmccombs,66817,28.html

Thanks pinemikey! The extra "l" worked for me too.

...shhht,

What am I doing "talking" to you guys about all this sorta stuff???

This is a VERY "front page" type news item!!!

(lol, getting too involved in my work again!)

Thanks. I'm getting senile. And sleepy. I hate 6 am.

When a shark (FOX) starts swimming around the water where you (the independent) are trying to keep your head above water, I think it would be natural to have a healthy suspicion of offers to keep you afloat. The mere nastiness of Murdoch and his piranna alone should turn that website into a ghost town.

Here's a good one from MP3NewsWire

The Net is the Independent Artist's Radio

Thanks pinemikey.

You and ShadowMom are ganging up on me to make me do work...

I just wanna chill for a while (too tired to "play")

--GOD, --I HATE MY DAY JOBS!!!

(Thank you God for Boycott-Riaa and for my own meager attempts/opportunity as a struggling musician!)

Ok, that's ENOUGH from me today.

I gotta put a tie on and go see "somebody important" in the morning.

I will get back to you all in a day or two.

Copyright Office Offers IE-Only Service

The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.

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Rocket scientists they ain't.

God Damnit and Ju-Ju bees

(I will NEVER get any rest)

M$ owns iPod Patent

Apple Computer Inc., whose iPods are the top-selling music player in the United States, lost an attempt to patent some of the device's technology because rival Microsoft Corp. had already filed a similar application.

Microsoft beat Apple to the patent application by five months, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents show. Apple's request, filed by chief executive Steve Jobs and other officials in October 2002, was rejected by patent officials last month.

Apple plans to appeal the decision to ensure it won't be forced to pay royalties to Microsoft on every iPod sale.

"Apple invented and publicly released the iPod interface before the Microsoft patent application cited by the examiner was filed," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said yesterday in a statement. The company has received other patents related to the iPod and has other patents pending on the device, she said.

Apple's application, filed a year after the iPod was introduced, was rejected July 13. The documents do not identify the iPod by name, a common omission in such petitions. It describes a "portable, pocket-sized multimedia asset player" capable of managing MP3 music files including "a song title, a song artist, a song album, a song length."

When will Bill Gates have enough? It's always been my contention that the more people have the more they want, and the more afraid they are of losing it. Of course, I wouldn't really know...never had to worry about it. I'm not ambitious enough to have anything to worry about!

Music downloads becoming less and less by volume.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6719.cfm

I found the statement about most traffic being Microsoft video amusing. Whilst the AVI container was MS made it is now no longer MS audio and video inside it. Anyone would think looking at that that people were trading large volumes of WMV files!

Shmoo, any word on if Father Brennan can be on the compilation CD? Or is it too late?

This should make a lot of people's day around here.
Music acts 'go it alone'

~More and more bands are going Indie and bypassing the record labels~

""What's the point of seeking out certain people who would have half the passion, take twice as long to get the job done and are not as invested?" said Serpa. "We tend to outsource only when it's completely necessary."

"The beauty of it is that the ideal of 'success' can be defined by each individual artist," Serpa said. "If you manufacture 1,500 records with the intention of selling them all on the road over two years' time and you achieve that, then that is success. The deal is that you really no longer need the bottom-liners to define that for you anymore."

~This alone, in time, will kill the RIAA. This is their true nightmare.~

Mike, how on earth, do you have time for a full time day job, promotion of your own group AND moderating this site?

Here are a couple of stories to keep you busy.

This is an op-ed piece (and no, I didn't spell it wrong, Slyck did!) about the press release from Peer Impact farther down.

Peer Imact Brings Balance


“Peer Impact reports they have already scored licensing deals with all 4 major recording companies and with independent labels.”

“When Peer Impact launched, there was a disparity in the payment structure to the 4 major labels and independent's. However, today Peer Impact announced they will bring balance to this, as the closed network P2P company will pay both independent and major labels equally.”


Peer Impact Increases Payouts to Independent Labels


"Independent label music is just as important to Peer Impact's subscribers as that represented by major labels," said Greg Kerber, Chief Executive
Officer of Wurld Media, creator of Peer Impact. "Peer Impact's unique business model provides the best platform for distributing independent artists' music and this announcement proves our commitment to supporting the "Indie" community while providing the best variety of content for our members. This win-win for both customers and artists is why we are acting today to bring parity to payouts."

Pop stars will have to credit the musicians they sample

"where there's a hit, there's a writ"

What's important isn't how many hits a site has, how how important a site is, or where a site places on a search engine. that's only important for advertising rates. what's important is the overall cumulitive effect the movement has, with all sites combined, on the industry.

Oddities Turn Up at Copyright Office

There's a home movie of Marilyn Monroe swinging a golf club. And Michael Jordan playing basketball _ in junior high. There's the score of an operetta by John Philip Sousa, the march king.

College students who spent their summer combing through old copyright records have discovered a trove of historical oddities.
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More than 31 million copyrights have been issued since 1790. Each of the records from before 1978 is recorded on a small card, some 44 million cards in all. Since then, copyrights have been recorded electronically.

The cards are securely preserved in 25,675 drawers that occupy 9,354 square feet of office space in the library's James Madison Building, near the Capitol.

It is one of the world's largest remaining card catalogs and the office is studying how much it would cost to computerize _ as the library has already computerized its catalog of books and other materials.

Copyright Office won't support Mozilla

The U.S. Copyright Office has released a request for those who use its system to comment on its plans to only support the Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher browsers in its revamped preregistration site.

MORPHEUS™">http://www.streamcastnetworks.com/08_09_05_morpheus5.html">MORPHEUS™ INTRODUCES PEER RESPONSE™ DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM FOR AUTHORIZED CONTENT

StreamCast Networks Inc., makers of the popular Morpheus P2P file-sharing software, today announced Peer Response, a platform designed to facilitate compensation for participating content creators and copyright holders.

“By connecting content creators with millions of interested users at the most powerful moments of the purchase cycle--when consumers are declaring exactly what they want, Peer Response leverages existing file-searching behavior to convert downloaders into customers,” stated StreamCast CEO, Michael Weiss.

I'll try that again...

MORPHEUS™">http://www.streamcastnetworks.com/08_09_05_morpheus5.html">MORPHEUS™ INTRODUCES PEER RESPONSE™ DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM FOR AUTHORIZED CONTENT

That's strange. Oh, well, let's try it this way.

http://www.fmqb.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.streamcastnetworks.com/08_09_05_morpheus5.html

Okay, that link works at least. Sorry...

"Music downloads becoming less and less by volume."

Sooner or later, the most voracious downloaders will have everything they think they might possibly want.

That's when things finally start to get interesting.

While I was wandering around the internet earlier this evening, I read a thesis where the author disputes all the facts the RIAA has put out for public consumption, and although there wasn't anything new (to us) in it, he did make the point that one reason CD sales have declined is because all us dinosaurs have replaced our records and tapes with CDs--and we aren't likely to buy any of the new stuff. Beats me, though, how teenyboppers can continue to pay $18 for a CD. Maybe I don't give my daughter enough allowance (I would never admit that to her!).

Music Industry Worried About CD-Burning

Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file-sharing, the head of the recording industry's trade group said Friday.

"Burned" CDs accounted for 29 percent of all recorded music obtained by fans in 2004, compared to 16 percent attributed to downloads from online file-sharing networks, said Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the National Liars Club.

"CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales," Bainwol said.

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Yeah, especially when independent acts are burning their own music onto them. This is, of course, the first whines of a request to increase the tax on blank CDs.

The long term effect is a tariff on independent acts who burn their own CDs. The more you sell, the more you pay -- money for nothing to the RIAA.

"Burned" CDs accounted for 29%, downloads from filesharing accounted for 16%, paid downloads a whopping 4%, and 50% purchased. Well...at least they seem to have cause a dent in filesharing. Wasn't that the main reason for the lawsuits? They must still be after that recalcitrant 16%. Seems they've driven more people to burn their own CDs, and they can't track THAT on the internet.

Edit button...edit button...I've lost it. cause=caused, dammit.

There's something that's been bothering me all day (well, lots of things bother me, but I can't figure this one out). If it's legal to tape television shows and movies, and it's legal to tape music from the radio...why is it illegal to fileshare music on the internet? The only thing that I see that's different is the source. What is the difference legally?

"What is the difference legally?"

The difference is that each of the other scenarios has a law which specifically mentions it and says it isn't a crime.

File-sharing is not addressed by any current laws, except for the recent one which stated penalties for material shared prior to commercial release.

So this is basically the birthing pains of a new technology.

Here's one just for fun. My nephew e-mailed it to me. I think he's trying to tell me something. But I know where he lives.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25219

Citizens do media for themselves

"It shows that creativity and entertainment does not have to come from Hollywood and big media, but that we all have this innate talent to tell stories and to entertain each other," says JD.

Good article, jsk2001. It's amazing what people can do when they aren't doing it solely for money.

Oh goody, goody, goody, goody,...I'm so excited...NOT.

Mix & Burn Offers Music in Digital Music Filling Station

Too weird, how long have people been burning cds and they've only just now started to worry about it? The wheels of the riaa do turn s-l-o-w-l-y now, don't they?

Ok, now for something completely bizarre. It's an older storey, but one I had not heard of.

Can't shake songs in your head? It could be musical hallucination

Seven years ago, Reginald King was lying in a hospital bed recovering from bypass surgery when he first heard the music.

It began with a pop tune, and others followed. King heard everything from cabaret songs to Christmas carols. "I asked the nurses if they could hear the music, and they said no," said King, a retired sales manager in Cardiff, Wales.

King's experience was typical for people experiencing musical hallucinations. Patients reported hearing a wide variety of songs, among them Don't Cry for Me Argentina and Three Blind Mice. In two-thirds of the cases, the music was religious; six people reported hearing the hymn Abide With Me.

I think if I had "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" stuck in my head, I would have to commit suicide. I want you to notice those are probably all RIAA songs. I suspect a conspiracy myself.

Thanks to Jefrystube for fixing the forums...now where did all those people go?