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Permalink to this day Friday, January 11, 2002

Ming on the Bomber: It's sad to give up tradition, but sometimes it has to be done. And in the comments to an early post here Mark the ex-VPED, current Rhodes Scholar adds some context.

Personally I prefer a 'bar' where you can carry on a conversation without shouting which is my beef bitch with Phil's.
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MetaBitch Post

Do I bitch too much? Natalie seems to think so. Oh no she doesn't. She likes the bitching. I'm so confused.
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Mom, Natalie loves her blanket.
6:37:51 PM  Permalink to this item []

David Touve is calling voluntary payments CPR. That is Courtesy Payment Receipts.
6:22:11 PM  Permalink to this item []

'Like no one would fucking tell me'
- Natalie on the food I just discovered in her teeth that might have been there all day while she worked.
6:21:24 PM  Permalink to this item []

From The Washington Post, The Scratchy Record Of the Online Music Debate:

You have to assume that the labels don't really want your money, at least not directly. This rent-for-a-month approach reflects the labels' deep mistrust of you, the consumers, whom the majors believe might stop buying CDs if you start to vacuum songs, gratis, over your computer.
And the majors nowadays make money only on albums that sell more than 500,000.

I think that my bank feels the same way. They don't want my money and don't trust me but more on that later.

I'm trying to find the right metaphor to describe this situation that the majors are in.. But can't. Though it would involve something about the majors cutting their ties to the past so that they're free and unencumbered to move forward in ways that will make retail look like peanuts.
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Found another recent article where the exploits of John and Matt are detailed. It's from Onstage Magazine and is unoriginally titled Passing the Virtual Hat (Dec 1, 2001)

'Fairtunes is as easy to use as Amazon. Unlike Amazon, Fairtunes doesn't extract a fee. Instead, the site relies in part on contributions to keep it financially afloat.' Take that Amazon!

'Jon Sobel, of Brooklyn's Halley DeVestern Band, is a Fairtunes doubter turned believer.'
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iPod & Linux
12:34:04 PM  Permalink to this item []

Hey I'm blogging from school. Wish I could cut the cord though..

iPodding is when you swap iPods with another iPodder so that you can be exposed to 5 gigs of new songs.

One of the attorney's from EFF recently pointed out on Pho just how much a danger iPodding really is. How is it a danger? Consider that if you're American you face up to $60 million dollars in statutory damages and even if the infringement was 'innocent' you'd be required to cough up not less than $400,000. Crazy, no?

Ah copyright law. How I love thee.

I ordered a firewire card for my notebook yesterday.. Hopefully I'll have my iPod before the end of January.
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