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[Commons Music Blog] Round three: Now, another factor that would be a consideration is that there could be a central repository for sites to sign-up with that would allow downloads there to be tracked. Big Champagne already tracks downloads on P2P networks, so a controlled experiment (part of the future plan of CM) would have to be setup to see whether only one would be necessary to accurately calculate the data, or a combination of both.

 [radio free polygon] Boards of Canada? Committees In Montana?: There's an album called "Lavender Trapezoids" circulating around p2p networks these days calling itself a Boards of Canada album, with the track names "nskino", "lavender trapezoids","golden hinterland", "rhomboid", and "untitled". If you listen to it expecting a lush, droning Boards of Canada sound, you're going to be disappointed -- it's glitchy, light on its feet, and seemingly has nothing to do with Boards of Canada.

[Becker-posner-blog.com] The Becker-Posner Blog: Grokster, File Sharing, and Contributory ...: On the last day of its term (June 27), the Supreme Court decided the Grokster case, holding that the court of appeals had erred in affirming summary judgment for Grokster, a company that distributes free of charge software that enables computer owners to form "peer-to-peer" networks whereby a copy of a file in one computer can be transmitted to another computer. (There was another defendant as well, but I'll ignore that detail.) As explained in the Court’s majority opinion, "On the FastTrack network opened by the Grokster software, the user's request goes to a computer given an indexing capacity by the software and designated a supernode, or to some other computer with comparable power and capacity to collect temporary indexes of the files available on the computers of users connected to it.

 [Creativecommons.org] iRATE Radio Application reads MP3 files to identify CC licensed ...: iRATE Radio, an open-source application that sends users free-legal MP3s through its radio client, is now able to read the ID3 tags of MP3 files to identify Creative Commons license information. Enabling this kind of feature is exactly why Creative Commons put forth its MP3 embedding strategy many months ago, which defines a standard way to embed Creative Commons metadata in the ID3 tag of an MP3.

 [Blogs.commercialappeal.com] The Commercial Appeal: Plug In: That Betamax case has since become one of the underlying legal precedents for the consumer electronics industry, and lawyers for the file-sharing companies argued that it should be applied without changes to their products. But Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that the court would be unlikely to simply let the Betamax case stand unchanged and advised lawyers for the file-sharing companies to not "waste your time" with that argument.

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