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You forget the 45s!

Puts a new spin on the song 'Beat It'!

A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles. LOL Live The movie opening

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft last week published a document on its Web site that describes how the company manages security on its own 300,000 node corporate network. The document is basically a dry discussion of IT risk management strategy, with lots of references to 'asset classes' and 'stakeholders,' and about five, nearly identical 'cycle of life' type diagrams showing how one risk management strategy leads to the next and so on, in a never-ending process. However, the document does open a window on how the biggest, richest software company in the world does security: from the deployment of 65,000 smart cards (let's see, at $50 a piece, that comes to....?), to MS's admission that 'there is a medium to high probability that within the next year, a successful attack will occur that could compromise the High Value and/or Highest Value data class.' According to the document, that includes things such as source code or human resources data." http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/...tid=172&tid=187

According to Vanity Fair, when she went to his place with a gun in her pocketbook. Who the hell knows what really happened? Spector is known as a madman around these parts, but one wonders what she was doing packing...

Good one, Yoda!

It's still early in the game. Online entertainment will make sense when its economical, convenient, of quality, and less a hassle to download for free. That might take awhile lol

I'm getting hungry already. Can I hitch a ride to Melbourne with anyone on their Lear Jet?

Great interview!

Nice Post! (We need to get into the controls to change headings--another thing on the list to ask the Beatking)

Beatking founder Beatfactory and RainbowDemon each hit 100 posts this week. Congratulations to you both! But its still early in the game for the rest of you members to catch up. Here's to the horse race to a thousand! :)

Hey Rainbow, congrats on being the first member, after the founder, to post 100!

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (San Francisco • 11/24/03) Apple is leading a race of lemmings into the zero-profit business of closed music downloads, says the founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson. "It seems kind of crazy to me, the economics don't make sense," Robertson told us Thursday. "Why are all these guys like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rushing into a business where the industry leader says 'we cannot make money with the contracts that we have'?" "This is a race where the winner gets shot in the head." And William Tell-style, Apple volunteered to be the first into the firing range. Canny Apple has had to swallow the pigopolists royalty fees, and DRM restrictions, but it thinks it has a business because its closed business model sees downstream profits from iPods sales. Robertson started MP3.com in 1998 and after a barrage of lawsuits, sold it to Vivendi Universal in 2001. Last week, after a night on the tiles, Vivendi sold the mp3.com domain name to CNET, leaving the million-song archive to the vultures. (Robertson is striving to find a host for this, and we shall have more news of this later today). The computer industry traditionally opposed the copyright cartel, but Apple was the first snitch to cut a deal with the pigopolists. Was this wise, we wondered? "If one company got a huge market share - say 50 per cent or higher - they could negotiate better royalty rates," notes Robertson. "But they forget something. The music industry is tens of thousands of publishers and just five major record labels. Getting all of them to agree is a real tough thing to accomplish even if you're market leader." Without any Beatles songs, and with only one Roxy Music track on its music kiosk, Apple is currently in a position of begging the big five for content, rather than dictating the terms of the deal. It's the rebel without a clue. Can it turn the tables? Well, there are several factors that ought to halt the wannabee players in the DRM goldrush in their tracks. A compulsory licensing scheme (which is now backed by the libertarian rights group the EFF) is one. But Robertson points to another: the decision by courts to permit KaZaA peer to peer-style sharing. "It's the wild card," says Robertson. "KaZaA has been ruled legal, so why pay for restricted music?" he asks. "Apple really haven't sold that much music. And they've received millions of dollars in free advertising. Don't get me wrong, Steve Jobs is a smart guy who knows the economics. He's clearly betting that he can subsidize it with profits from iPods, or get enough scale to begin renovating the royalty deals." "It's a real dilemma for me," he says, echoing the thoughts of millions of peer to peer music lovers. "If I 'steal' music from KaZaA I get all this music, but if I pay I have all these restrictions." If people can get unrestricted music for free, why would they need to go to a DRM store to get a low-quality version with all the strings attached, Robertson wonders. KaZaA, and future P2P technologies make file sharing so simple and fun. "People will use P2P and people will buy CDs," he predicts. With so many people - other than the DRM gold rush entrepreneurs - accepting such constraints, accepting that people will always want to share music, and technology will always outwit DRM controls - we're left with the ethical problem of how to compensate the artists. (Which is why there is such momentum behind compulsory licenses right now. Many people accept that stopping music-sharing is a lost battle, so our better minds are thinking of schemes to use the technology to compensate artists fairly). Robertson doesn't agree with the idea of a levy, but agrees "there needs to be a radical change here". And pundits should be wary of Apple's early apparent success, he warns. "I'm not sure if an Apple user is representive sample of the population," he says. True enough. Paying for restricted versions of songs they could have got unrestricted and for free has been the real litmus test for Apple loyalists. It's a hurdle they've leaped over with glee. But how many will follow them? Has Steve Jobs mistakenly extrapolated cult behavior and assumed the rest of the world follows shares these values, and follows these assumptions? That's not what we hear from you. It's rather tasteless to remind you that this week is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre - where a charismatic San Franciscan decamped to the jungle and persuaded almost a thousand followers to commit suicide, by drinking toxic fruit juice. It gave birth to a lasting idiom: "have you drunk the Kool-Aid?" Well, have you? The Register.com ® Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34125.html

Great. You can post new threads in the Music News and General News sections. These automatically post on the front page. Thanks for chipping in!

QUESTIONS FOR AL GREEN Soul Exception Interview by ALEX STIMMEL Published: November 23, 2003 You had so many hit records -- secular records -- in the early 70's but never received any awards for them. Then you became a reverend and a gospel singer, forsaking pop music, and you started winning Grammys. Ain't that something! ''The Lord Will Make a Way,'' that was the first Grammy album. I knew I must've done something right! But I'd be onstage at my shows, and people would be screaming: ''Al! 'Let's Stay Together!' 'For the Good Times!' '' They really wanted those songs, and I saw how much they meant to people. So I started doing them again for the audience. Your new album, ''I Can't Stop,'' is a long-awaited return to making secular music. Why now? I paint pictures with my songs. With my first records, I started a great painting, and I realized that the canvas isn't finished yet. I've still got to do my work as a reverend, but now I have to use whatever bait I can to get as many fish as I can. The Man don't care how I caught 'em as long as I got 'em! Aren't you afraid you'll be seen as cashing in? I can't form people's thoughts. Many people could have seen me as drawing lines when I left soul music for gospel. I even saw it like that. But you can only do what you think is best, and I have more beautiful pictures to paint. But if you are true, and you mean what you say, everything counts. What does it feel like to see young, mostly white hopefuls, on shows like ''American Idol,'' trying to sing like you? It's a wonderful compliment, but it's a trip. There's a kid over in Japan right now in the Top 10, singing ''Tired of Being Alone,'' and he sounds just like me. It doesn't give me pause, though, because we tried to make some good music, so that even the youngsters in hip-hop, who sample our horn lines, would have a good foundation. I did a concert the other night with Justin Timberlake -- he's my neighbor, you know -- and it makes me feel great to have all the girls in the front singing ''I'm Still in Love With You'' -- and the song's older than they are! How did you write your songs to give the music such emotional impact? I would love to say that I did do that, that I had that much talent, but I'd be lying. Although I did sing 'em good, didn't I? I wrote songs about my girl, about my life, about what I was doing at the time. It just feels like those songs are a common denominator. Believe me, a lot of guys come right up and tell me, if I pull a girl up tight, put the fireplace on and pour a little wine, I just play some Al Green, and I got it made! You probably don't hear that about your gospel recordings. No, it's always ''For the Good Times'' or ''Let's Stay Together.'' However, I do think life itself teaches you that it's difficult to separate ''I love you'' from ''I love You.'' Both count if you really mean it. If you mean ''I love you, darling,'' it means as much as ''I love you, Lord.'' Then could you just take one of your old songs and change the meaning to a more devotional, gospel thing if you were so inclined? Yeah, but I don't have to do that. I take ''Simply Beautiful'' and just sing it like it is. Why try to change it, try to make it something that it's not? Everything is beautiful in its own time and space. This is a beautiful country -- people are free to think what they want; we have freedom of thought, freedom of religion. I think that God is love, and I need to sing about it, even if it means doing it through the songs that people will most identify with. It sounds as if you've reached a perfect point between the two worlds. Oh, I'm not perfect. I still chew gum during recording sessions, or have candy in my mouth. I need to be comfortable, even if it's doing something I shouldn't be doing, like clapping my hands in the middle of a song. And I know they're gonna stop the tape, but I get so excited about the music until I can't help clapping my hands! So no amount of professionalism can get in the way of real emotion? Oh, I like to be professional, but by doing something that's not perfect, like trying to sing a song chewing gum. I know that that's not right, but sometimes I get away with it. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company

Rainbow's not kiddin'--don't be shy. This is a COMMUNITY site for music lovers. Feel free to join and chip in. Know some music we should all hear; have a favorite guitartist you want to sound off about, whatever... And bear with us, as we make improvements over the next several months and overcome technological glitches, etc etc

The online music space is started to get crowded. Any one wanna make any bets on who is gonna win out?

An impressive roster. Nice post.

Not bad. We will just have to continue the pace... :)

The rag mag is trying to sell copies by bringing up trash from the past. I for one believe people can change...I'm sure Eminem has.

Don't feel any pressure to do so right away, Beatking. Really they are suggestions at this point--choose the ones that you like. How hard would it be to get a chat room going--this might be useful so we can all put our heads together...

good one, yoda any other members, or visitors out there, that want to help us?

I nominate one of these babes to be a moderator. And speaking of members, I will in turn offer them mine...heh

CheapPrick: well I didn't know there was a British scene but oh well, heh well...there used to be :)

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