Category: Music
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AllOfMp3.com has trouble with online payments
AllOfMp3.com, the MP3 music web site publishing from the territory of Russia is in real trouble. Probably really pissed of by the very low prices found there and because AllOfMp3 does not include Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the downloaded MP3 files (some of the copyright holders even tell that the sale is completely illegal…
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YouTube wipes 30000 out
Even if it may not really be linked to the Google buyout, YouTube announced that it had removed nearly 30000 videos from its web site after the request of Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) who detected infractions about the copyrights they manage. You had to admit that a significant part…
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Space audio
These are the sounds of space collected by University of Iowa instruments on various spacecraft and observation instruments.
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Free audio books
Librivox is a web site where you will find audiobooks read and recorded by volunteers who give them freely to you and any visitor. It is mostly english books and works, but there starts to appear a few non-english literature (some French, some German, for example). The selected works are part of the public domain…
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Universal: All the music free to download
I guess that such a title had you think that you would find the address of a pirate web site. But Universal announced the signature of a two-year deal with SpiralFrog : all the Universal catalog in free legal download. Two things are included in the deal (to explain it): The whole thing will be…
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Vista opening sound will be compulsory
I do not report each and every little news about the upcoming Windows XP replacement. But today, we are learning that Microsoft marketing got one weird idea. Since they want Vista to show a “common, and beautiful, face to the world”, they decided that the music/sound provided by Microsoft as an opening sound for Windows…
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Pirate party, 1, 2, 3
There was already a Pirate Party in Sweeden (along with ThePirateBay.org): Piratpartiet. But things are speeding up neatly in those days with the appearance of two French-speaking parties: In France, le Parti Pirate prepares actively the Presidential elections of next year. In Belgium, le Parti Pirate. But, of course, this is only part of it…
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The fastest Flash memory card
This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…