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On July 31, a US district court jury ordered Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum (pictured) to pay four record labels a total of $675,000 in damages for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online. What music could possibly be worth this much? Click through this gallery for a look at some of the songs Tenenbaum downloaded. It's sort of like poking through a friend's iPod, albeit one that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars -- $22,500 per song -- to fill. Ironically, many of Tenenmaum's download titles carry themes that relate to his current plight. Among the pirated...

Browsing through new releases at a downtown record store, Chet Mohr of Somerville admitted that commercial radio is far down his source list for finding new music. Where precisely does radio rank? Somewhere between irrelevant and are-you-kidding-me, Mohr indicated. “I’m into local bands and record labels, and they don’t get played on the radio much,’’ said Mohr, a 23-year-old guitar enthusiast and bank employee who hopes to form his own rock band. To broaden his musical palate, Mohr relies on bloggers, Internet message boards, web publications, friends, and social networking sites. Sam Davies, 16, a student at Needham High School,...

A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each — a total of $1.9 million — for 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said. Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents...

Barry O'Bomber of the Barry Bomber Four joins us today to debut his new single, covering the classic "I Fought the Law," but with his own special twist, chronicling his rise to the presidency and actions since his inauguration. Enjoy folks!

Trying to put an mp3 on my blog. Looking for a free hosting site that allows hotlinking.

 Here are some links to go to if you would like to download some wonderful music for Easter: Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - The Musical Offering in MP3The download links at the page above look like this: Introitus: Resurrexi (Graduale Romanum)Hover your mouse cursor over the underlined / italicized text and right-click, then select 'save target as' from the right-click menu and choose your preferred download location. Hymns for the Celebrations of the Liturgical Year, Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine ChapelThe download links at this page are different, they look like this: IO SONO RISORTO  For these...

Man 'finds US troop data' on MP3 A New Zealand man says he found confidential data about US military personnel on an MP3 player he bought from a thrift shop in Oklahoma. Chris Ogle, 29, said: "The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be looking." The files included names and telephone numbers of American soldiers, according to reports by TV New Zealand. One expert says the files are unlikely to compromise security, as most of them are from 2005. Some included a warning that the release of its contents is...

Although sales of digital music are increasing worldwide, the global recording industry's representatives are now calling on ISPs to temporarily shut down music pirates' Internet accounts if all else fails. A large majority of digital music downloads are "unauthorized" -- meaning, no payment is made to either artists or producers. This according to a report issued Thursday by the IFPI trade association, which represents the recording industry worldwide. Despite all the piracy, though, paid sales of digital music grew to the tune of 25% to $3.7 billion worldwide in 2008, even with the economic crisis that emerged in the latter...

After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.(edit)Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers(edit)If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.

To download these songs through Friday, right click on the links and hit "Save Target As": The Boxmasters "Slower Than Christmas" Zee Avi "No Christmas For Me" Sixpence None the Richer "Angels We Have Heard on High" Lenka "All My Bells Are Ringing" Straight No Chaser "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" *********************************Links not working through the Free Republic system?  Please click on the main article link and try again from there....also remember, these links are only going to be working through Friday December 19 so if you are trying to download after that time they may not work at...

I mostly listen to my MP3 player while driving during the work week . My selections are supposed to be mostly calming My current stuff 2 Christmas albums Enya And Winter Came Manheim Steamroller Christmas 1984 Enya Watermark 1 Celtic Women Album A New Journey 4 Thomas Newman soundtracks Cinderella Man, Road to Perdition, Horse Whisperer, Shawshank Redemption 1 John Grisham Audio Book The Innocent Man 1 David McCullough Audio Book 1776 Denis Miller Radio Show Podcasts About an hour and three quarter each. December 4th, December 5th

      Here are two links at the Vatican's website that you can go to for downloading free music for Christmas as well as other occasions.  Hymns for the Celebrations of the Liturgical Year, Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine ChapelOn this page, the links to the MP3 files look like this    It will probably be easiest to hover your mouse cursor over the note picture, right-click your mouse and select "save target as" to define where you want the file saved.When the file is finished downloading it will be available to be played on your computer's MP3 player. ...

Old school Freeper needs tech help in downloading music. I've searched the net and can't find my answers.

 A Boston judge has just followed up on the previous NY judge ruling that just making files available isn't enough to constitute copyright infringement. According to the EFF, it's the most "extensive analysis yet of the recording industry's 'making available' argument", but doesn't actually make things better for people who are being sued by the RIAA. The same judge ruled that even though the "offer to distribute" won't be enough to decide a case, it is enough to permit a lawsuit to move forward.   On the other hand, another NY judge has ruled in the opposite manner, that making an "offer...

By Katherine Hannaford Tech Digest Thursday, April 3 03:30 pm How many clowns can you fit in a car? I'm still not sure, but supposedly we'll soon all be able to compress the sh*t out of our MP3s and get 20 million onto an iPod. Good luck finding 20 million songs you actually like... If the evil anti-audiophilic professors at the University of Rochester manage to release their new compression technology without Arcam and Denon product managers hacking into their PCs and deleting the relevant witchcraft files. They're working on technology which will shrink MP3 file size down to a...

  Music for Easter Easter formulary Introitus: Resurrexi (Graduale Romanum) Time: 4:05 - 5.754 MbVirum Schola Gregoriana Pontificii Instituti Musicæ Sacræ; Mons. Alberto Turco, director. Gennaro Becchimanzi, Francesco Ercolani, Igor Glushkov, Blazenko Juracic, Rafael Martinez Ramirez, Raimundo Pereira Martinez, Hubert Siekierka, Harry Singkoh, Djedje Thomas, Jan Velbacky. Psalmus Responsorius: Confitemini Domino (Graduale Simplex) Time: 1:46 - 1.456 MbMulierum Schola Gregoriana Pontificii Instituti Musicæ Sacræ; Nino Albarosa, director. Letizia Butterin, Miriam Cicchitti (soloist), Eun-Young Cho, Hi-Jung Jun, Yeon-Hee Kang, Mun-Joung Park, Hye-Jung Son, Masako Toeda. Alleluia: V. Pascha nostrum (Graduale Romanum) Time: 2:18 - 1.893 MbMulierum Schola Gregoriana Pontificii Instituti...

The MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998. The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. It measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm. It connected to an old-style parallel port on the host PC from which songs could be copied to the player. There was a tiny LCD on the front to give an indication as to what you were listening to. Saehan's MPMan...

Human dynamo: How energy from your knees could power an IpodBy DAVID DERBYSHIRE - More by this author » Last updated at 00:43am on 8th February 2008  It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase power walking.  A gadget that converts the movement of the knees while walking into electricity has been unveiled.  On a gentle stroll, the knee-brace generates enough electricity to run a mobile phone. Scroll down for more...       Although the prototype is bulky - like something Robocop might have attached to his leg - smaller versions could one day be incorporated into clothing....

Last night we told you about Qtrax, a new P2P service aimed at combating illicit P2P by offering a legit service that compensates artists and labels via enforced advertising. In that story we briefly noted that Qtrax didn't appear to have all of its ducks in a row: the company was saying that it had signed all four major music labels, when it appeared that they hadn't. At the time it was rather unclear, however, because Qtrax told both Reuters and Wired that it had the necessary signatures. When midnight came and went last night without an official launch, it...

After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks. The service has been endorsed by the very same record companies - including...

From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally   Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent, in Cannes   After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and...

LAS VEGAS — A handy new holster from Taser International Inc. holds not only your stun gun but a music player too. Taser's latest foray into consumer products was introduced Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The holster costs $72.99 on the company's Web site and includes a 1-gigabyte MP3 player. The company, which also sells its electronic weapons to law enforcement agencies and the military, has been stepping up its consumer product offerings with Tasers in new colors like "red-hot" and "fashion pink." The latest Taser — in a leopard print and costing $379.99 — "provides...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — A father gave his 10-year-old daughter a Christmas present that would make Santa blush. Now Daryl Hill wants to know why an MP3 video player he bought at a Wal-Mart in Sparta was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs. Hill bought three of the players as Christmas presents for his children. He said one of the devices had apparently been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips and songs with lyrics about using drugs. "Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying," Hill said Thursday. "I wish I could take the thoughts and...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - It's not what Santa intended. A man in Cookeville, Tennessee, is thinking about suing Wal-Mart because the MP3 video player he gave to his little girl for Christmas turned out to be loaded with explicit tunes and porn videos. Daryl Hill says the 10-year-old child burst into tears when she saw it. He says he just wishes he could get those "thoughts and images" out of her head. Hill figures the player must have been returned by somebody who had loaded it with sex clips and songs about drugs. Wal-Mart says it's investigating because returned items...

The family of a 10-year-old girl who received an MP3 video player for Christmas was shocked when it found the player was loaded with explicit songs and pornographic movie clips. Cookeville resident Daryl Hill said his daughter was thrilled to find that Santa had left an MP3 player under the tree -- until she turned it on. "Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying," Hill told Nashville, Tenn., TV station WSMV. There were video clips of XXX-rated sex scenes and the pornography on the player. "I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head," said Hill....

In a case against an unrepresented defendant the RIAA has included a statement into the brief for summary judgment Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the .mp3 format for his and his wife’s use. (Howell Dep. 107:24 to 110:2; 114:1 to 116:16). The .mp3 format is a "compressed format [that] allows for rapid transmission of digital audio files from one computer to another by electronic mail or any other file transfer protocol." Napster, 239 F.3d at 1011. Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs’ recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared...

I'm thinking about getting an MP3 player. I know IPOD is the standard, but what other options exist? Which should I avoid? What features should I look for, total storage size, &etc?

A week after signaling her intention to appeal the $222,000 copyright infringement verdict handed down by a federal jury, Jammie Thomas has filed her notice of appeal with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota. Somewhat surprisingly, Thomas is citing the amount of the award as her grounds for the appeal, rather than the jury instructions. According to a copy of Thomas' motion seen by Ars, Thomas wants a retrial on the actual damages allegedly suffered by the record labels as the result of the sharing of the 24 recordings she was found to have distributed via KaZaA....

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. ADVERTISEMENT An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday — and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads. The recording industry thrived in the 1990s as music fans replaced their aging cassettes and vinyl LPs with compact discs, eventually making CDs the most popular album format. The CD still accounts...

For the music industry, it was a rare bit of good news: Linkin Park's new album sold 623,000 copies in its first week this May -- the strongest debut of the year. But it wasn't nearly enough. That same month, the band's record company, Warner Music Group, announced that it would lay off 400 people, and its stock price lingered at fifty-eight percent of its peak from last June. Overall CD sales have plummeted sixteen percent for the year so far -- and that's after seven years of near-constant erosion. In the face of widespread piracy, consumers' growing preference for...

With the Fourth of July just around the corner, we thought we'd round up some patriotic, Independence Day-themed podcasts. The Fourth is filled with picnics, fireworks and beach parties, but if we're not careful, we'll forget the real meaning of the holiday -- so before you head off to the water park or airport, you might want to load up your iPod with a few of these recordings. And as always, all of the MP3s listed here are free -- and legal!

Digital singles thriving where 45s once ruled Music industry pays price for expecting fans to buy $15 CDs......... NEW YORK — It sounds like a horror movie: a beloved friend is callously exterminated, then reincarnated in a different form to wreak havoc on the killer. That's the nightmare currently facing the music industry. Almost a decade after virtually eliminating 45s and cassette singles, thereby forcing fans to spend more money on whole albums, the digital single is largely responsible for the industry's woes.

Ipod generation boosts classical music radio station by 500,000 listenersby PAUL REVOIR - More by this author » Last updated at 22:13pm on 10th May 2007  Generation iPod: Young listeners have boosted the audience of classical radio station Classic FM by 500,000 Britain's iPod generation is becoming hooked on classical music with new figures revealing a huge surge in youngsters listening to radio station Classic FM. Driven by the success of film scores for blockbuster movies like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and determined efforts to sex-up the classical music industry, a section of Britain's youth appears...

Easter 2006 Easter 2005 Easter 2004 Easter 2003 Easter 2002     Easter 2001 Easter 2000          Easter Music    Holy Week 2006 Holy Week 2005 Holy Week 2004 Holy Week 2003 Holy Week 2002  EASTER MUSIC: Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine Chapel Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music

Alcatel-Lucent could sue other firms, analysts say Thursday's landmark victory over Microsoft paves way for more payments By Aude Lagorce, MarketWatch Last Update: 9:10 AM ET Feb 23, 2007 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Alcatel-Lucent's landmark victory against Microsoft Corp. over the right to use the popular MP3 format for digital music potentially paves the way for the gear-maker to seek compensation from a flurry of other companies, analysts said on Friday. Microsoft on Thursday was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent after a federal court in California ruled that the software giant infringed two Alcatel-Lucent patents in using...

Court threatens download search The ruling could have implications for other internet companies An Australian court has upheld a ruling against a website operator that provided a search engine through which users could illegally access MP3 files.The Federal Court in Canberra backed a previous copyright ruling involving Australian web firm mp3s4free.net. By providing links to websites which enabled illegal downloads, mp3s4free had effectively authorized copyright infringement, the court said. The ruling could have implications for search engine websites such as Google. Legal action If Google's search engine links to material which infringes on copyright and this material was accessed...

AllofMP3.com gets the first axe in a new war on piracyThis week the U.S. government announced a joint program with Russia in an effort to thwart piracy as well as protecting intellectual property (PDF). The new joint program calls to address what the U.S. terms IPR, or intellectual property rights, which is a big concern in Russia right now as well as other countries such as China and Taiwan. The agreement between the U.S. and Russia will attempt to address critical issues, including but not limited to the following:

Here are pages from the Vatican website where free downloads of Christmas music are available. Hymns for the Celebrations of the Liturgical Year, Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine Chapel Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - The Musical Offering in MP3 Yes, I know that some may complain that this posting is too early in the year for a Christmas-related post, but there are a few reasons why I do this at this time: It takes some time to download, re-master, burn and package custom CD's.  I'm hoping that this thread can also serve as a forum for the exchange of...

The Bible's fresh voiceBy Kristin E. Holmes A new audio CD of the Bible featuring a who's who of black Hollywood has its roots in a shopping trip made by Philadelphia-bred entertainment executive Kyle Bowser. Bowser, a Central High School and Widener University graduate, had recommitted himself to Christianity five years earlier and was buying a CD version of the Bible to help him study. "One of the things that prevented me was the intimidation factor," Bowser said. "It's a big book." The audio Bible felt like the perfect solution - and a shortcut. It was like finding out that...

I have a buddy who was telling me about ALLOFMP3.COM, a download site that has dubious legitimacy in Russia. It's service is available to users here in the United States. I'd like to forward the discussion on this forum and get an opinion from FReepers on their take on this site. Legal or not? What are the implications for the users?Here is some of what I have gathered in my research on the current debate:10/06/2006 - AllofMP3 Becomes Major Chip in US, Russian Discussions As Russia pushes for entrance into the World Trade Organization, the controversy regarding AllofMP3.com threatens to...

Microsoft has answered claims that its Zune player may violate the international Creative Commons license, which states that copy protection cannot be applied to files where it does not already exist. If true, this would make Microsoft liable for any changes that might be made to relevant songs during wireless transfers between Zune players, since the handheld gadget imposes DRM on some of the music sent from one Zune to another, according to Electronista. "We don't actually 'wrap all songs up in DRM:' Zune to Zune Sharing doesn't change the DRM on a song, and it doesn't impose DRM restrictions...

How do you rip/encode from a cd so that it is just one file instead of individual songs, for instance a live album where you don't want a break between songs. I want to rip that medley off the back of "Abbey Road" as one song. I did this in the past with "Jesus Christ -Superstar" but I've forgotten how to do it.

My roommate got bored labor day and made something with his computer. Something . . . odd. Download the mp3 and let him know what you think. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~judy0225/Shape%20of%20My%20Ice.mp3

American Technology Research analyst Shawn Wu believes the upcoming Zune digital media player may be "more bark than bite." After recent leaks on both the look and specifications of the Zune player, Wu said the firm was "underwhelmed by the much-hyped Zune device." The new player will be developed by Toshiba, and, for the majority of the technology, is simply a repackaged Gigabeat player, according to Wu note's to clients: "At this point, we believe this could end up being another classic case of overpromising and underdelivering," Wu wrote. The player's focal point is the clickwheel-like apparatus for controlling the...

LOS ANGELES - Universal Music, home to artists such as U2, The Killers and Audioslave, will make its catalog of recordings and music videos available for free on an ad-supported Web site launching later this year, the site's operator said Tuesday. The two-year deal calls for New York-based SpiralFrog.com to split advertising revenue with the recording company, said Lance Ford, chief marketing and sales officer for SpiralFrog. Users can download an unlimited number of songs or music videos if they register at the site. The tracks cannot be burned to a CD, but users will be able to transfer music...

Program Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, we take pride in presenting a thoughtful address by Ronald Reagan. Mr. Reagan:Reagan: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the...

Dell has apparently conceded defeat in the MP3 player market, as reports indicate that the company is no longer selling any of its MP3 players and has removed most referencs to its DJ Ditty MP3 player from the Dell website. Electronista notes that the Texas-based Dell originally entered the digital audio player market in late 2003 to capitalize on the rapidly expanding popularity of Apple's iPod; however, despite attempts to compete with Apple on features and price, Dell has consistently struggled to find significant marketshare. Earlier this year, Dell discontinued all its hard drive-based players in favor of the lower-end...

You can listen to this eye-opening (ear-opening?) talk by Peter Kreeft at How to Win the Culture War — A call to arms, identifying the real enemies and mapping key battlefields Given at Calvin College - 25 Jan 1998 The Culture War 53:20 15.5MB mp3 1. We Are at War (2:44) 2. Knowing Our Enemy (21:55) 3. The Weapon (33:01) Questions (43:35) I cannot begin to describe the insights by Peter Kreeft - You must hear them for yourselves - he has many audio files available for free. I am NOT Peter Kreeft - nor do I monetarily benefit from...

Broadband networks for the home are fueling the growth of sales of wireless devices, and will continue to do so for the next five years. Research from the Boston-based IT consultancy, Strategy Analytics, indicates that homeowners worldwide are going to purchase nearly 950 million wireless home devices, including game consoles, wireless MP3 players and connected TVs by 2012. By Gene Koprowski