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Music has a way of taking you back, whether you want to remember or not. "The Price of Freedom" does it every time.
WallsOfGranite (Morgan Fitz) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:38:49 -0000
Music has a way of taking you back, whether you want to remember or not. "The Price of Freedom" does it every time.
On The Download: Alicia Keys' 'The Element Of Freedom'Google Alerts - 80's music http://tinyurl.com/yfbegxp
music2extreme (Michael) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:30:23 -0000
On The Download: Alicia Keys' 'The Element Of Freedom'Google Alerts - 80's music http://tinyurl.com/yfbegxp
Say what u will but @aliciakeys sure know how to make a fire album!! From "I Am" to "Elements of Freedom" I love ur music! God BLESS!!
pfrankshow (Peter Frank) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:18:38 -0000
Say what u will but @aliciakeys sure know how to make a fire album!! From "I Am" to "Elements of Freedom" I love ur music! God BLESS!!
caved. ugraded to Pandora One. 40 listening hrs/mo wasn't cutting it! 10¢/day is SO worth it! UNLIMITED music. Ah freedom!
cmagnee (Crista) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:51:37 -0000
caved. ugraded to Pandora One. 40 listening hrs/mo wasn't cutting it! 10¢/day is SO worth it! UNLIMITED music. Ah freedom!
♪ ♫ Listening to Mahsa Vahdat & Sam McClain > "Give me back my freedom!" http://bit.ly/6SUVZi #Iran #music #IranElection [n.. ♫ ♪
twistening (twistening) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:46:49 -0000
♪ ♫ Listening to Mahsa Vahdat & Sam McClain > "Give me back my freedom!" http://bit.ly/6SUVZi #Iran #music #IranElection [n.. ♫ ♪
Listening to Mahsa Vahdat & Sam McClain > "Give me back my freedom!" http://bit.ly/6SUVZi #Iran #music #IranElection [nice #song]
fahimn (Fahim ) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:45:13 -0000
Listening to Mahsa Vahdat & Sam McClain > "Give me back my freedom!" http://bit.ly/6SUVZi #Iran #music #IranElection [nice #song]

 

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Beyondthecommons - Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
Meta Description: [ Beyond The Commons: The Expansion of the Irish Music Rights Organisation, The Elimination of Uncertainty, and the Politics of Enclosure ]

404 Boycott CDs - Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.

Boycott-Riaa.com - Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
Meta Description: [ Boycott-RIAA, the center for the fight against the tyrant that is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ]

Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet - The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
Meta Description: [ The RIAA's newest legal assault on file swappers is pushing them to encrypted networks, where the damage could become catastrophic ]

Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates? - Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
Meta Description: [ Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating ]

Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War - Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.

500 Downhill Battle - Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.

File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales - Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.

Free Music - Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.

Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album - Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse.

Mass Mic - Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
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404 Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study - Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.

News.com - File sharing legal in Canada - Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
Meta Description: [ Judge: File sharing legal in Canada | A judge rules that making copyrighted music available for sharing on a computer network is not illegal in Canada. | March 31, 2004, 11:33 AM PT | John Borland ]

NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute - DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album, mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with The Grey Album. It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast]
Meta Description: [ DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album, mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album -- and came up with The Grey Album. It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI -- the label controlling B... ]

PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA - A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
Meta Description: [ New group accuses the recording industry of blaming consumers for its own failures. ]

Piracy is Your Friend - A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.

Policing Pirates in the Networked Age - A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
Meta Description: [ Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations. Extensive library of studies, articles and monographs available ]

RIAA Radar - A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Meta Description: [ The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America. ]

Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty - An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.

Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops? - As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.

404 Supporters of the Real Underground - Underground music supporting community web site, featuring news, artists and music.
Meta Description: [ Supporters of the REAL Underground ]

The Droplift Project - Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.

The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading - Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
Meta Description: [ The most authoritative news in Canada featuring articles from The Globe and Mail, breaking news coverage, national news, international news, sports, weather, Report on Business. ]

The Problem With Music - Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.

We Hate the RIAA - Updates and forum on RIAA actions.

500 Why Free Music? - A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.