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Advertising-paid music downloads ready
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| FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD COMPANY Qtrax has signed up the last major recording
| company to its service.
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| The company miffed some players in the music industry when it launched last
| year before any of them had signed up to the deal.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/962/1050962/advertising-paid-music-downloads-ready
IntraHealth Tackles Global Health Care: Aided by Music, Open Source, and Public
Health Pioneers
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| Public health workers are increasingly looking at open source solutions to
| aid in gathering data, analyzing trends, and publicizing and launching new
| health care initiatives worldwide.
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| IntraHealth's OPEN Initiative is taking a colorful approach to improving
| health services in developing nations -- by bringing together health workers
| and (not at all health care specific) open source projects to train and
| support doctors and nurses using open source software in these areas. Because
| funding is always an issue (in public health and open source, alas)
| IntraHealth has gotten some help from some legends in the music industry, who
| have put together a charity album to raise awareness for the Initiative's
| efforts, as well as offset program costs.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Its-OK-to-Love-Linux---Just-Dont-Looooooooooove-Linux-66163.html
Recent:
Once Again, Give It Away And Pray Isn't A Business Model
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| There's an odd article over at TorrentFreak, which is usually quite good and
| reliable. This one starts out with a title announcing that Nine Inch Nails'
| Donation Model Doesn't Work for Most Artists. That's a questionable assertion
| from the very start, because Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, for the most
| part, haven't used a donation model. Instead, Reznor has very much focused on
| using free as a part of a business model built around giving fans scarcities
| to buy. Yet, TorrentFreak falsely states that Reznor made $1.6 million using
| a "donation" model. That's simply untrue. He made $1.6 million by selling
| scarce goods.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081026/1928532642.shtml
Neil Gaiman: Piracy vs. Obscurity
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| On Friday, 24th October, I attended an Open Rights Group event where Neil
| Gaiman spoke about the impact of digital “piracy” on authors such as himself.
| His thesis was that the free availability of content from books, even when it
| is contemporaneously for sale in print, is in fact beneficial for the
| creator. This is, he said, because their greatest challenge, in a world
| crowded with writers, is to be “tasted” by potential readers and publishers.
|
| He recounted a few of his own experiences with publishing free content on his
| website, noting that in each instance, the net effect was an increase in his
| book sales.
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http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/neil-gaiman-piracy-vs-obscurity/
Bryan Adams pulls a Prince on fan sites
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| Canadian soft rocker Bryan Adams is the latest star to grumble at fans for
| plastering his name and face on unofficial websites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/27/everything_i_do_i_do_it_for_me/
Related:
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
Brit violinist does a Radiohead
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| Ms Little, 42, is giving the whole thing, entitled The Naked Violin, away
| absolutely free - thereby allowing music buffs to avoid the terrible dilemma
| posed by the In Rainbows "pay-what-you-fancy" net launch: to not pay anything
| for the album and not give a tinker's cuss; or to not pay anything and feel
| mildly guilty for about ten minutes.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/classical_music_download/
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