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Apparently, Radiohead yesterday released their album online for those that preordered, with up to 1/3 of people paying nothing and getting the album. Well, funnily enough, I paid quite a decent amount and never got the download link. I have already emailed them and Im sure they will sort it out, but it raises the question, If one was to download the album somewhere else, even though they had paid for it, would that constitute piracy? Or if someone downloaded the album and they hadnt paid a cent for it, would that be piracy, when you can quite easily go to their website and download it for free. How about if you gave it to your friends after you had paid for it, would that be piracy when again, its free off their website.

Food for thought.

It was only the other day when american corporations declared war on individuals. Now it seems australia wants to copy our sister america, and throw people in the big house for downloading music (article here). “We would hope that the ISPs and the record companies could come up with an alternative solution,” said MIPI general manager Sabiene Heindl.  Well if Radiohead can come up with a decent solution, how come people earning hundreds of zillions of dollars cant? Look, lets be honest, artists who work hard deserve to be paid out the frame like donahue (ice-t), but we all know half these executives dont have a creative bone in their bodies so why should they be getting paid all the big money? Michael Franti encourages people to go to his shows/concerts and record them and share them, and he seems to do ok.

 People will always pay for good music, its just how much do these big companies want that is the problem. 

Hot on the heels of Radioheads brilliant move to allow customers to pay what they want for their new album, The land of the Free home of the brave has become not so free for Jammie Thomas a 30-year-old environmental coordinator with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians. Seems they “cant” find bin laden, but they can find a women who copies a few songs, and then fine her 10 years wages. That will teach those pesky pirates a lesson, You want to copy some songs to your ipod, well not anymore, or you are going to jail. Then again, it really shouldnt be any suprise should it? I mean corporations are there to make money for their shareholders, not to worry about people like us.

“Duluth resident Jammie Thomas has been found guilty by a jury in US District Court of having downloaded and shared 24 specific unauthorized music files and was ordered to pay the recording industry $220,000 USD.

The case, which only lasted a day, had tons of testimony from corporate representatives including unbelievable testimony by a Sony BMG rep that said that all ripping of music from retail CDs, even for personal use, is theft. Imagine that, getting the music from your own paid for CDs, and you are a thief. ”

source betanews

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straightup is a place for you to fill your ears with funky and rare grooves.

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Radiohead fans will be able to choose how much to pay for the band’s next album, In Rainbows, which is available for download on 10 October

What a brilliant idea from an equally brilliant band!

All you have to do is log onto the site here and decide how much you want to pay for the album and preorder it, then… “You will receive a further e-mail shortly before the 10th October detailing your username and activation code. The e-mail will also provide the link to the download area. ”

Hopefully people wont be putting in 10 cents or something ridiculous, but I think this will show that people are willing to pay for good music, and that we arent all pirates who should be in fear of our lives becuase the RIAA wants to arrest and lock us all up.

Music and a bit of art this weekend.

bluejuice are back (finally) with their debut(?) LP after their first effort “The good luck pig” which was funkin awesome. If you have had a chance to see their clip for vitriol on JTV then you know that this album will be something worth buying. Click on vitriol in the tracklisting to see the clip on youtube.

“PROBLEMS” - OUT NOW. AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE
TRACKLISTING:

1. Get Me Down
2. Hunnamunnafeeb
3. Vitriol
4. We Get It Right
5. Let’s Kill It
6. Motorcycle Accident
7. The Reductionist
8. Phantom Boogie
9. Mountain Goat
10. Back Breakin’

bluejuice.info
http://www.myspace.com/bluejuice

Australian turntable master DJ Bonez (who some might know as a great cricket wicket keeper) has released “Roll Call”, check out the tracklisting at the bottom!

Track Listing
01 Welcome
02 Roll Call ft. Sandpeople
03 Good Stuff ft. Lotek
04 Certified ft. Funkoars
05 2 Degrees ft. Speaque Ezie
06 Internationally Known
ft. Tommy I’llfigga
07 No.1
08 Bum Rap ft. Grand Agent
09 Living It Up ft. Pegz
10 Taxin’ ft. Rainman
11 Nobody Like This ft. Low Budget
12 Sideways ft. Muph
13 Truly ft. Javs
14 I’m Leaving ft. Florelie Escano
15 My Destiny ft. Rootwords*
*Bonus Track on vinyl and iTunes only

In Stores Now
Available in stores all around Australia
Available also on itunes

Paul Kelly is one of Australias best musicians, and over at https://www.liveband.com.au they are going to be recording his upcoming shows and selling them online. From the looks of the site, the price is 15$ per “live cd” which is half as much as some cds. They also seem to have some other great australian bands already up, so why not go have a peek.

Remeber kids that piracy is illegal, immoral but it can also make you go blind, and according the the government piracy supports terrorism, so every pirated mp3 you download helps bin laden.

Paul Kelly has just released his latest album Stolen Apples, and as usual its brilliant, so go and support the Australian music industry and pick up a copy from your local music retailer.

http://www.paulkelly.com.au/