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For all those in NOLA today…
Cracker - Another Song About the Rain

Elton John wants to shut down the Internet for five years because “[t]he internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.” Right.
His proof for this?
He said: “In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic.
“Now you’re lucky to find ten albums a [...]

Today is a day of silence for Internet radio. Small broadcasters all the way up to Yahoo are shutting down in protest over the outrageous royalty rates approved by the Copyright Royalty Board. Who’s the CRB? Essentially, they are an arm of Congress, tasked with reviewing and setting royalty rates.
How bad are the rates? [...]

Ok, not really, but this video from Misheard Lyrics cracked me up.

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MISHEARD LYRICS - Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

By the way, according to the font of all knowledge, even Pearl Jam may be unaware of the real lyrics.

2002, The Onion -RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music
RIAA attorney Russell Frackman said the lawsuit is intended to protect the artists.
“If this radio trend continues, it will severely damage a musician’s ability to earn a living off his music,” Frackman said. “[Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich stopped in the other day wondering why [...]

EMI Says Goodbye to DRM
Huzzah! Finally, one company has the guts to call the technorati’s bluff and offer higher quality, non-DRM’d music downloads through a major digital distributor. EMI has announced that they will offer all of their digital assets, via iTunes, as non-DRM’d AAC-format files at “twice the quality” of the DRM’d version. EMI’s [...]