google, Music

Google Music

Don’t get to excited the folks at Google are rolling out music search, not an actual store but they have formed partnerships with several of the major online music stores and will have additional information available about bands the album…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Music

Product Review Sound Pool 11

I have always wanted an inexpensive source to buy royalty free sound loops, if you have ever priced sound loops you will realize that the price tag usually starts around $100.00 per CD disk. Which is quite a bit rich…

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Todd Cochrane
Apple, itunes, Music, riaa

Music Industry needs to remove DRM?

How many of you are locked into buying Music from Apple because you have a lot of money invested in music from them that is locked down and legally keeps you from moving it to another device. Personally I have…

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Todd Cochrane
Music

Labels bitching about BBC distributing Beethoven’s symphonies

I am not surprised that classic labels are crying about the great public service the BBC has just completed in allowing people to download the Beethoven’s symphonies. They should be thanking the BBC. Because how many people do you know…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Crime, Dave's Muse, Information, Music, Politics, Security, Services, Software, Technical

Hear Me, I Want to Listen

Digital Rights Management (DRM)is a tool that doesn't reflect the general preference of legal music downloaders. Before you read on, hoping that I will advocate for the free distribution of music, let me warn you: I'm a strong supporter of copyright and the protection of intellectual property; I want artists and distributors to make a decent living, but I'm frustrated by the current misuse of digital technology that attempts to thwart illegal distribution. In practice, DRM makes creates compatibility problems that make it excessively difficult, and in most cases, impossible, to listen to music that has been purchased online.

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Todd Cochrane
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