Well Bush wants to fight Iraq... doesn't it seem like Dubya wants to take off where his father left off?

Hey there, welcome to the DMusical Notes... Finally it's Thursday night and the weekend will be upon us. Oh yeah tomorrow is Friday the 13th if you all didn't know... and I'm going out ghost hunting... that's right I've decided that on the unlucky night of Jason Vorhees I'm going to go and look for spirits to haunt and possibly possess me to kill!!! Well I probably won't get to kill but the Bloody Digusting crew and I ARE going out to as many of Chicagoland's haunted places as we can in 9 hours!

That and Not only that but Stealing Harvard, Tom Green and Jason Lee's brand spanking new movie debuts tomorrow! I'll probably go see it on Saturday, this weekend looks action packed to me!

Well lets get onto some news and see what happened today.

Napster: The Digital Porn Distributer
Credit CNet News

Private Media Group, a publicly traded adult entertainment site based in Spain, on Thursday said it has made an offer to acquire the assets of defunct song-swapping site Napster.
In a statement issued from Barcelona, Private Media said that it had offered to acquire the Napster trademark and Napster.com Internet address for 1 million shares of Private Media common stock, valued at about $2.4 million.

Private Media shares closed down 11 cents at $2.41 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

A representative for Napster, which recently closed its doors and terminated all but a few of its remaining 42 staffers as it prepared to go into Chapter 7 liquidation, was not available for comment.

The revolutionary Internet song-swap service hailed by millions of music fans but damned by the powerful recording industry officially shut down earlier this month after a U.S. bankruptcy court blocked its final sale to German media giant Bertelsmann.

Private Media Chief Executive Charles Prast said in the statement that copyright infringement is a major issue in the online adult entertainment industry as well as for the music and movie industry.

"Acquiring Napster is our way of entering the peer-to-peer marketplace for adult content in a closed environment," Prast said.

Private Media said it plans to use the Napster trademark to offer millions of adults worldwide the ability to swap adult-oriented content for free and to also gain access to "top quality" content at a reasonable price. Private Media claims to own the largest library of adult-oriented content in the world, with global copyrights to the content.

"Along with Hollywood and the recording industry, we have become increasingly concerned about the level of copyright infringement inherent in the free peer-to-peer file swapping services," Prast said.

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Cool! I'm sure plenty of desperate and lonely men will join up. Porn online has become quite a money maker I hear. But what's to stop people who exclusively download from Napster from trading it on Kazaa and Morpheus? Oh well it's a good idea... I better not give them any doubts... Soon Napster will equal PORN!

Timberlake Fan Killer charged with Murder
Credit Mtv News

The man who allegedly killed a Justin Timberlake fan outside a Burbank radio station where the 'NSYNC star was interviewed Monday night has been charged with murder.

Cameron Duty, 21, appeared in Pasadena Superior Court on Wednesday, the same day family and friends held a memorial for Anna White on what would have been her 22nd birthday.

Duty, who allegedly backed his pickup truck over a stop sign and struck White before dragging her more than a block, was not charged with hit-and-run or drunk driving as police had earlier expected. He will be arraigned September 26.

Ed Tolmas, who is defending Duty, is still reviewing the case and would not comment on what plea Duty will enter.

While investigators have said Duty did not know White and did not intend to hit her, White's best friend, who took her to KIIS-FM for an early birthday present, suggested otherwise.

"To get up to the speed he was going in that distance, he would have had to have floored it," Kelli Wolfe said. "Her back was turned. She was on her cell phone. She didn't know what hit her."

Duty, who is being held on $1 million bail, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of exhibition of speed in 1998 and served eight days in jail, according to court records.

Wolfe said Duty was outside the radio station making fun of Timberlake's fans. "We thought he had serious anger-management issues," she said. "He was being obnoxious and screaming and yelling at people. We said, 'Why are you here? This isn't an anger thing. We're happy.' And he was like, 'I have every right to be here,' being rude. A lot of people were saying they wanted to call the cops."

White first told Wolfe she did not want to go to the radio station because she had homework, but later thanked her friend for taking her and said she was having a great time.

More if you want to read it... Look for it at the title link. Well serves that idiot right. I doubt he'll actually get the first degree though. I doubt anyone will cry if he does though. What an idiot... let the crazy fans have their fun... he should not have even been there. Hopefully he'll be locked away forever and scum like this won't have any more oppurtunity to kill innocent people.

RIAA to use P2P execs words against them
Credit CNet News

Hoping for a repeat of Napster's legal flameout, the record and movie trade associations are using file-swapping company executives' own words against them in the attempt to close the Kazaa and Morpheus networks.
In court documents filed Monday, and kept under seal until Thursday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America used internal e-mails, message board postings, and interviews with executives in hopes of persuading a federal judge to shut down the file-swapping networks. The trade associations are asking for a summary judgment, or a quick end to the case before going to trial, against Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks, Grokster, and Kazaa parent Sharman Networks.

"The uncontroverted facts all point to the inescapable conclusion: Defendants' systems were designed and intended first to emulate Napster and then to surpass it," the trade associations wrote in their legal brief, which remained under seal until Thursday. They "have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams."

The trade associations' 67-page legal brief provides the first details of exactly what the latest file-swapping legal wars will be fought over. At their core, the legal issues are the same ones that appeared in Napster's case--but the judge in this case will be ruling on a very different set of circumstances, technologies and internal communications.

Indeed, the two sides at this point are struggling to define what the case is about. StreamCast and the other file-swappers want the focus of the case to be about the legality of peer-to-peer software, a technology that certainly has many other uses beyond copyright infringement. The record labels and movie studios are trying to narrow the case, seeking to prove that the companies involved deliberately built their business to take advantage of widespread piracy.

There is a little bit more to read. It's pretty good and explains just what the RIAA may use against Kazaa and Morpheus. Well this is purely lawyer tricks that they are pulling now. Lets see how well it holds up in court.

Yeah it was a short news day... I didn't know where to post this first article but I'm sure it's more on the side of Other News!

Yummy Instruments
Credit Yahoo News

VIENNA (Reuters) - They call it "music with taste."

Forget the cello, just listen to that cucumberophone. The land of Mozart will be exporting its latest cultural product next week when the First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra goes on its nine-date debut European tour.

The orchestra, which consists of eight musicians, one sound technician and one cook, plays vegetable-based instruments they make themselves.

"We believe that we can produce sound that cannot be easily produced by other instruments. You can hear the difference, it sometimes sounds like animals, sometimes just abstract sounds," the band says in its homepage ( www.gemueseorchester.org).

It takes the band about half an hour to make a carrot flute, and under 15 minutes to make a cucumberophone, which has a pepper bell and cucumber tubing. Other instruments include celeriac bongos, eggplant cymbals and pumpkin drums.

The sounds are amplified using a variety of microphones.

At the end of a performance, which can include free jazz, experimental music, or the Radetzky March by Austrian Johann Strauss, the stage is cleared and a cook uses the instruments to prepare a soup for both audience and musicians.

"The audience has the possibility of once again enjoying what they just heard," the band adds. "We employ a real chef for the preparation of the soup so it is indeed tasty and very special."

Their mothers obviously never told them not to play with their food.

Anti-radiation Trousers
Credit Yahoo News

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - US jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. denied on Thursday it was playing on consumer fears by launching a line of trousers fitted with "anti-radiation" pockets for mobile phones.

The trousers, with a lining that the makers say shields against radiation, are designed by Dockers, a brand name of Levi Strauss--famous for its classic "501" jeans.

Retailers were currently viewing the new line, called Icon S-Fit, with an eye to sales from next spring, a Levi's spokesman said.

"We're not implying in any way that mobile phones are dangerous," Levi's European communications manager Cedric Jungpeter told Reuters.

"Our intention is not to cash in on consumer fears but provide the consumers with what they want," he said from Levi's European headquarters in Brussels.

The finished design was the fruit of extensive market research showing that the fashion conscious are also health conscious, Jungpeter said.

"The debate is open. Although no study has proved mobile phones are harmful, no study has proved the contrary either," he added.

Officials from Dockers, which announced the launch of its new line in July, were not immediately available for comment.

Worldwide studies into the possible dangers of mobile phones produce often conflicting conclusions.

A recent one carried out by Australian researchers over a three-year period showed that radio emissions from mobile phones did not trigger the growth of tumors in mice, and therefore probably did not do so in humans either.

That research followed another Australian study on mice five years ago that concluded cellular phones could foster tumor growth.

Swedish research published in August concluded that long-term users of first generation mobile phones faced an up to 80% greater risk of developing brain tumors than non-users and the World Health Organization said last year more research was needed.

But a Danish study last year of 400,000 mobile phone users showed no increased cancer risk.

Well veggie instruments sound bad ass. It's a site to see I bet.

I'm a huge cellphone nut so I found this one interesting... I got those mobile pants that Dockers made last year... those are sweet. Not so sure about anti-radion pants though... I'm not really worried that my cellphone will give me cancer of the leg.

Well if I'm not back by Monday I might have gotten killed by spirites or arrested for trespassing... either or sounds like a good time.

Joe

Napster going adult? I'm sure I'll be setting that up on my dad's computer, since he's a porn freak.

anti-radiation pants? why not just wear a radiation suit to shield it from your skull why'll you're yackin'...

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*goes to napster.com* LOL

eggplant cymbals?? i'd like to hear one of them. i think.

What's left for free P2P now? They all seem to be going bye bye.

Persuading a federal judge should be against the law shouldn't it?

Anti-radiation trousers and vegetable orchestras. Now things are definitely getting weirder

You can persuade anyone, even a judge, if the price is right. So they think. I wonder if any of the scum that lines the RIAA buildings used anything from here?

Here's something they can use: Hi, my name is Halo Hilary and this is my band of merry greedy bastards. We want total control over everything, even that what we dont own yet. No-one deserves freedom as we're not getting enough $billions to support our 20 kilos a day cocaine habit. Signed: All the dumb dollar junkies at RIAA

I love Dockers...

lmao. Halo Hilary? loves it.