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How many times have you paid for a single song?

Did you realize because of DRM that if you really liked a single song you would need to pay for it at least ten times to be legal. A recording industry executive was quite pleased we have so many choices when he rattled of this impressive list. "ringtone, master ringtone, phone download, phone stream, a-la-carte download, disc, subscription, online stream,

RIAA and MPAA want to freeze the progress of consumer electronics!

Don't believe that their are all kinds of sinister acts happening now. Well you need to wake the heck up and listen to some of the stuff I have been talking about. If the following two articles don't make you sit up and get very angry then I will ask you to comment on why not. Read and pay close

Mother losses appeal to RIAA!

Rack another victory up to the RIAA, you already know, that I think, the organization tactics is about the same as a mobster coming in and saying pay up or else. Seems one of the original people the RIAA went after a couple of years ago will likely have to pay $22,900 to the organization. I am sure they will

Sony you need to do more to clean up the mess you have made!

Realizing very quickly that they have done a very bad thing, Sony is rushing in to do damage control for illegally putting a spyware rootkit on people's computers. Thus far their partner company that was responsible for the maligned code are offering a patch to make this DRM package they have put on people's computers more secure. They are also

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 a iPod and a IRIVER so what happens when I want to take the music I have purchased legally on

Disabled Oregon Woman to fight the RIAA

Nice to see someone step up and fight the actions of the RIAA. Having just read the summary of here counter suit this should be an interesting battle. I would love to see the documents that they are able to obtain from the RIAA in their discovery process. I hope they also get a judge that will give this a

Podsafe Music Network is the Music really Safe?

I am not a lawyer, but as much smack as I talk about the RIAA, their is no way in this world that I would play music that any of the major license holders could come back on me and say hey guess what buddy you have violated my copyright and you owe me some money. If you haven't read