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Quotes of the Moment
I hope that someday soon the labels and RIAA begin to understand that services like Imeem and Pandora are providing free marketing for their products, not stealing their intellectual property.
~Michael Arrington (TechCrunch).
Both large music rights holders and large telecommunications carriers are threatened by market upheaval brought on by digital technology. We have no responsibility to help them protect their business. If they can’t adjust their business models to perpetuate themselves, let them go the way of the major sheet music publishers and telegraph operators. That is the American way.
~John V (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
ok, so out of this entire playlist, only one song ("where to draw the line" by f.a.t.a.) is full-length when embedded. I'm getting really sick of these stupid restrictions -- it's been getting progressively worse for months, but the site offically sucks now. Time Warner has made Imeem its prison bitch, and of course now the other major labels are turning it into a veritable gang bang. and now you're not even allowed to use the playlist feature while logged in if you have ad-blocking/antivirus software running! wtf? that's just wrong. I'm going somewhere else -- a site that hasn't been sued and crippled by self-righteous multimillionaire executives yet.
update 3/2/08: um, yeah.... the beach boys, the audition, mazzy star, 3 dog night, tommy tutone, sneaker pimps, dashboard, nirvana, black ♥ procession, moz and joy division are all playing normally now for some reason. yay? no complaints, but I'm kind of confused about what's happening here.