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  • Brazil against DRM

    Brazil against DRM

    IDEC – Institute for Consumer Defense – is the largest consumer association in Brazil. It lauched a campaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) titled “Tehcnological Restrictions – You pay for it, you get less“.

  • Watch TV online for free

    OK, I know that I don’t have TV because I don’t want to be continuously force-fed with mindless junk. However, plenty of people would like to be able to have their TV on the Internet. Up to now, you were mostly depending on your ISP and possibly some subscription additional to your basic broadband Internet…

  • Jazz photos from Farrokh Chothia

    Jazz photos from Farrokh Chothia

    Some time ago, I stopped by a web site where I found some really neat photos. So, let me invite you to go and visit www.gianfrancomeza.com. Copyright Farrokh Chothia

  • Music without limits

    The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…

  • AllAboutJazz.com is DRM free

    This is free advertising for a major launch of a DRM-free online store: AllAboutJazz.com sells jazz music online without any DRM included.

  • Thelonious Monk on video

    While looking around in a search engine, you may find a few nice things. Today, I stopped by the quite large list of videos listed on Google search engine for the keywords “Thelonious Monk”. The guy was one of the most inventive jazz players. The first time I heard him, I was nearly rocked off…

  • Genius in the subway

    The Washington Post recently asked Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed violonist, to go play his Stradivarius in the Washington subway at rush hour. What did you think happened? Nearly nothing, of course. A few bucks of pocket change for a violonist more used to big checks, a few passers-by stopping for a short time, one admirer…

  • Google finds MP3 (legal or not)

    A neat trick that was hanging around the Internet but that I found in Transnets. How to search with Google for the MP3 files of your artist of choice. Use the following search phrase (replacing Roumazeilles with the artist name): {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Roumazeilles”}

  • April 4th, 1968: Death of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., great freedom fighter in favor of Human Rights and against institutionalized racism in the USA. It was nearly 30 years ago that he fell under the bullets of a killer in Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s not forget that only a few years ago,…