Folks, you are all encouraged here to provide links to anything you find on the web that would be of interest to our readers.

There's no need to copy & paste the whole thing. (Just give a html/url link to the news article (or other item) along with a brief headline or description.)

Shorten lengthy url links by using the "EZ" hyper-text trick:

[url= hxxp://link]Title or comment goes here[ /url]

1. REMOVE the space after "[url="
2. REMOVE the space before "/url]"
3. TRADE "hxxp://link" with the actual html link you are providing.
4. TRADE "Title or comment goes here" with the title of the article or your brief description/comment (this will be what becomes the clickable blue text.)


Keep the stories and other items comming! I will go to the "front page" with anything you submit that needs to be there!

--Shmoo

Napster is beginning to ramp up its ad-based business --VuNet/Forbes

UMG's Machete Music Names GM --Billboard (reg. required)

* David Junk has been named GM of Machete Music, a full service label from Universal Music Group dedicated to the Latin urban music market.
* Prior to joining Machete, Junk served as managing director of Universal Music Russia.

Looks like Coca-Cola is offering free (and, *gasp* free to SHARE) non-drm infected vids containing live performances, behind the scenes footage, and personal interviews of big name RIAA music stars.

Slyck says: "It is all part of a new marketing campaign by Coca-Cola to reach out to millions of young males, who are notoriously difficult to target with traditional media. It is in contrast to their DRM based music service called My Coke Music, which operates in some European countries."

The new campaign is called "Coke side of life" and will replace the winter polar bear advertisements.

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Oh sh*t, hold me mommy, I'm scared.

If this sort of thing really catches on, (and the RIAA wakes up to the marketing potential) Boycott-Riaa and the fight for independent music will become a WHOLE lot tougher.

Even though it is the RIGHT thing for them to do, let's pray it fails!

More Than a Million French Protest Law

Yet, we Americans sit on our thumbs and let the corporations rule the roost. (Why can't WE have grass-roots "protests" anymore?)

You Have The Right...

my views regarding a peaceful protest about immigration policy and officials' responses to it in Dallas, TX


You Have The Right…
By Darren Feagin Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:17 pm CST

Earlier today, students from the Dallas metroplex area, mostly DISD but several from suburban districts such as Grand Prairie and Irving, conducted a peaceful protest against current immigration policy. They marched to Dallas City Hall and some are still there protesting. Two students were hospitalized from a car accident en route to the protest. Police and other officials were quick to attempt to silence the crowd, organize another peaceful “protest” on April 9, and criticized the students for demonstrating in the first place.
In statement, several Dallas City Council members said that, “any student who is caught protesting on a school day will be arrested for truancy.” What is a truancy charge anyway? Students have a right to decide whether or not to come to school; if they don’t show up they get arrested? That is un-American and wrong. So now they are using an already bogus charge in order to cease the protests.
Children, no matter how small or what age, are United States citizens. So therefore, under their 1st amendment rights, they have the “freedom of speech, religion, petition, assembly, and expression.” The protests are protected under the 1st amendment, any state or even federal laws about truancy are void in this situation because it eliminates one of the constitutional amendments. The Declaration of Independence says that, “whenever a government becomes destructive of these ends [people’s rights], then it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” These documents are what started this nations government, and now our government has been completely ignoring our fundamental rights, liberties, and freedoms.

Are we a "consumer culture" ...or a CONSUMED culture?

...and whether you agree or not about the immigration issue, that student walk-out last week in LA and subsequent protest rallies in other cities is the most "spunk" I have seen from the American populace in a long-long time about anything.

Let's get off of our fat-lazy Amercian asses!
(If the People don't speak out, then how the hell can we pretend to be "We the People" anymore?)

Indie Supergroup Loose Fur 'Born Again' --AP

WHY are they called "indie" ...somebody tell me for real they are independent of the RIAA before I try to swallow that pill.

isaacfeagin, please continue to post links and excerpts of stuff you do on your blog here at Boycott-Riaa. I will certainly be happy to "front page" anything that specifically pertains to our agenda.

(I almost "front-paged" your article "You Have The Right" ...but, although it is exactly in-line with my own personal "rants" in this thread, and I like it a lot, it is rather vague and "in general" in tone with a slight peppering of what might be considered as "partisan political"

...Aw, screw it. I'm "stealing it and posting it"

lol

(...the yea and nay sayers can have a huge catarisis over it.)

My actual "job" is to herd a flock of cats

...sometimes you just gotta bring out the spray-bottle and squirt them on the nose.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20409-2100973,00.html

2 years in jail for downloading a movie, 5 years if its for profit. Not too harsh.

gfmlcka, you didn't tell the whole story. This is the penalty for copying a film before its release date. Note; "Brigitte Zypries, the Justice Minister, defended the law. 'The aim is not now to slap handcuffs on downloaders in the school playground,' she said. But if someone downloaded a film before it reached the cinemas it was obvious that they were responding to an illegal offer and breaking the law, she said. Frau Zypries has ruled that it will still be legal to copy a legitimately bought DVD for limited private use."

"The German justice minister has defended changes to German law which will increase sentences for consumers caught downloading copyrighted material to two years."

from

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/29/germany_tightens_law/

Until I can get a copy of the actual change I'll reserve judgment.

Code also seems to think it pertains to more than just unreleased films.

http://www.p2pnet.net/article/7884

Re: Coke free music

"If this sort of thing really catches on, (and the RIAA wakes up to the marketing potential)..."

Too late. They have sued 20,000 people. If they back down now and say "never mind," the 3 or 4 thousand people who have coughed up settlements are going to be even more pissed off than they are now.

Mental incompetant unable to stand trial but has no trouble passing himself off as a record producer.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-03-29-idol-stalker_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA

"Mental incompetant unable to stand trial but has no trouble passing himself off as a record producer."

thanks...i needed to laugh today...although its probably true

I'm incompetent at spelling today.

What the assholes in corporate media boardrooms don't understand about the "analog hole".

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=180

It's all such bullshit.

Now this is cool!

http://bushofghosts.wmg.com/home.php

Will the RIAA crash and burn?

Retail Music Industry Battles Extinction

"...While illegal downloading has hurt the industry, big labels have relied on obsolete strategies for over a decade and have been late in exploiting emerging technologies. As a result, the bond between independent artists and their fans have become stronger. Although the music industry is just starting to use digital distribution to its advantage, overall sales will continue to decline unless companies learn to adapt more quickly to changing technologies."

Look's like someboby has a clue ""Research Assessment Blasts Major Labels

What is causing the downward spiral in record label revenues? According to one analyst warning, the majors need to re-connect with customers to breathe life into physical and digital retail music sales. The report, released by Mintel International Group Ltd, observes that it isn't just file-sharing that's killing music sales, but the actions of the industry itself. "The growing distance between the music industry and its consumer is due to a number of factors," says Mintel analyst Justin De Santis. "These include lawsuits against individual consumers, payola practices, and, most recently, restrictive use of digital rights management," he warned. The analyst group predicts that US-based music retail sales will shrink to $10.5 billion by 2010, from $12.5 billion in 2005. While legitimate digital music retailers such as iTunes have helped slow the decline in sales, "labels still face the challenge of meeting the demands of a diverse consumer marketplace", the analysts claim.



Mintel's criticism of the industry is unyielding. "While illegal downloading has hurt the industry, big labels have relied on obsolete strategies for over a decade and have been late in exploiting emerging technologies," the research firm continued. However, despite the flurry of criticism against major label approaches, at least one music industry sector is gathering force, they say. "The bond between independent artists and their fans have become stronger," Mintel observes. "The current renaissance of underground media has further driven the consumer away from the major labels and has contributed to the downturn in their sales," De Santis opined.
Ok who's been leaking our secert's

Judge Owen Grants Ex Parte Discovery Orders after Judges Koeltl and Hellerstein Recuse Themselves in Warner v. Does 1-149

--Recording Industry vs the People

Does someone offhand know why the judges recused themselves?

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8394

Future defense tactic.

I'd like to know why the judges recused themselves also.

If someone knows why they recused themselves, please tell us.

Judge Hellerstein, prior to being appointed Judge, represented Time Warner in a case I was in. He did the right thing recusing himself (unlike Supreme Court justice Alito...)

Would making a cassette copy of a CD for playback in one's car be grounds for recusal(?).

I ask because Orrin Hatch, of all people, asked this very question of Hilary Rosen during Senate hearings and she balked and sidestepped the question as if the legality of that very common practice were in doubt, at least in the eyes of the RIAA.

If format shifting is copyright infringement
can a judge honestly adjucate an infringement case?

Tom?

Ding dang flibbidy flabby flabit!

(I am not in the "know" on any of your "alias-asses")

I'm down here in E-Tn working my ASS off for this site and am not privvy to a single damn thing!

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Maybe YOU guys think I am "more useful" this way

...but I feel like nothing more than a "useful idiot" sometimes.

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Oh crap. Now even I am having paranoid-delusion attacks...

(Gotta stop foolin' 'round with the "Raid" issue.)

lol

"Ding dang flibbidy flabby flabit!"

IndependentMusician is really Hank Hill !

~~If someone knows why they recused themselves, please tell us.~~

Maybe they download music..

New RIAA designed music player.

http://www.medialoper.com/columns/reviews/prism-durosport-review/

Get yours today!

It's all going down hill!

Bush preps historic Third Term - memo

http://www.theregister.com/2006/04/01/gwot_cha/

The shrub's best chance to stay on as President is if America has a major terrorist disaster stateside. He already has, by means of existing executive orders, adequate provisions for declaring martial law under the clause of extreme national emergency. Of course, this arrangement will be touted as only temporary, thus merely "delaying" the 2008 presidential elections until the U.S. can feel safe again (based on the assessment of the Commander-in-Chief).

This is where some people get their unsettling visions about dire circumstance of a fascist dictatorship here in America.
Their fears may be unfounded, but who knows?

circumstances

I Think everyone should see this its about
Trusted Computing and very well done.

R

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=K1H7omJW4TI

Hope this don't get lost amongst the other stuff.

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/2042

High school student asks about filesharing

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=18665

RIAA Sues Deaf Woman For Downloading Music.

I wish they would not say downloading.

I'm guessing it's an april fools joke. Every year I get more and more tired of these so called 'jokes'. They are just annoying in reality.

For whatever it's worth:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/06-04-03-live-at-the-witch-trials.shtml

Another one. Can't do this, Can't do that but it's a start. I post it here 'cause Boycott-MPAA is down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060403/ap_en_mo/online_movies;_ylt=AgSrXvNH5SzxmE4DokUwD_VxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--