DMCA Takedown Notice

I feel so honored. I'm really surprised that they are going after mixtape and remix tracks. Also, the Busta Rhymes joint I got directly from Mick Boogie and the B.o.B. song from a promo company. Left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

Hello,

We have received a formal DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice regarding allegedly infringing content hosted on your site. The specific content in question is as follows:


50 Cent - Smile I'm Leaving

50 Cent - I get Money (Forbes 123 remix feat Jay Z and Diddy)

B.o.B. - Grip Your Body feat Amy Winehouse

Busta Rhymes and Mick Boogie - Step Up

David Guetta - Love is Gone (Benja Styles remix)

Chemical Brothers - Do it Again (Ian St. Laurent remix)

Justin Timberlake - My Love (Mark B Fresh remix)

Keyshia Cole feat E Ness Amina - Shoulda Let You Go (benja styles remix)


The party making the complaint (Jeremy Banks -- International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) -- Notices@ifpi.org), claims under penalty of perjury to be or represent the copyright owner of this content. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), we have removed access to the content in question.

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap5.html#512

Basically, this just means that the files were deleted by my hosting company and thats it. Nice to meet you Jeremy!

Last.FM + YouTube

Brand new project combining Last.FM + YouTube automatically creating your own MTV channel. Up above you can see Crime Mob with "Rock Yo Hips". Now I'm listening to DMX. In between has been System of a Down and Ikaw(??). Really interesting, although the creator states that it's only "an experiment, and it will probably stay that way." I kind of wish there were other sizes besides too small and fullscreen, so I'm going to contact him now. Its the dopeness either way though.

5151 Last.FM + Youtube Channel

Your Music

Where we wax poetically on the state of the music industry and point you to new developments.

• Jay Z has just signed a 360 deal with Live Nation to the tune of $150 million dollars. The deal is good for 10 years and will fund Roc Nation, Jay's buissness, man. Still not sure on these 360 deals, does make sense that concert promoters are stepping in. Wonder how long it is before advertising and other ancillary businesses will step in to create similar deals. Link.
• ISP Music License. Sign up for the right ISP and download all you want in whatever format you want? Brilliant concept in theory. However, how do profits get distributed equitably? Its widely speculated now that any fees collected now by the RIAA are not going to the artists. Blank media in Canada has had a similar tax since 1997. Link.
  
• Muxtape.com. Create an account. Log in. Upload songs, create a mixtape. Check 5151.Muxtape.com in the near future. Their blog profiles some of their favorites.

UPDATE:

• MySpace and 3 of the 4 major lables have a tentative agreement to launch a music store. MySpace Music will be spun off into a separate entity that the labels will each have minority stakes in. The site will offer free ad supported streaming music as well as downloads. Not sure where this leaves the hundreds of thousands of artists that have built up the site to where it is today... Link
• Surprisingly, according to reports, Amazon's digital service has not gained ground like many expected. Meanwhile, Apple is number 1, passing Wal-Mart. Link
  

The Value Of In Rainbows

Radiohead is keeping the sales figures of their new model of a record release a secret. But there are some leaks and lots of speculation. It is thought that on average only about 40% of those that downloaded it paid anything at all. From there the average, worldwide, is 6 bucks ($8 in US and closer to $4 the rest of the world). (I'm an Amurrican so I can't give you these figures in Euros.) If they had a million downloads that's 400,000 people paying 6dollaz giving them 2.4 million. After all costs, they will make just under 2 million dollars for the first million people to download it. They will make about most of that 2.4 million for every million people globally to download it from there on out. And this was really just a savvy way to make money off of the inevitable internet "leak" that puts these albums out months before their physical release. Well done old chaps. (Read that again, they are NOT really reinventing any wheels in the music game they are just savvy enough to make money off the same downloads that you would normally have found on Oink using good ole fashioned guilt and questioning people's values. I repeat, well done old chaps.)

Speaking of Oink and someone actually re-working the way the wheel rolls, Saul Williams and Trent Reznor paid 7 bucks and $5,080, respectively, for In Rainbows. You can read more about their download ONLY album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! and how they viewed Radiohead's music label chess victory and what it means for their project here

Vinyl, Discovery and Waffles

• Interesting post over at Wired claiming that vinyl will be the ultimate killer of the CD. As you may guess, I'm sure Casi would agree. Somewhere along the way I got hooked on vinyl as well. I can't quite justify buying double albums this way, but singles and I love love old jazz records, not the reissues from recent years, but the old vinyl with the crackling and everything.
• Lala, yet another possible threat to the music business. Wired does a writeup of the service and the founder who has conquered multiple other markets and got bored of traveling. To me it seems rather similar to Pandora except that it offers links to buy the music you're listening to. Can anything save the music industry? Is it worth saving? Do we need major record labels?
• Never buy a ringtone again.
  
• Waffleswaffles and jam. Anyone used any of these? What.cd seems to be in the lead. Waffles.fm is still in its infancy. Stmusic and funkytorrents both eclipse these newbies in users and torrents. Whats your favorite? Sorry, no I don't currently have any invites.
• Trent Reznor is producing Saul Williams new album and was an Oink user. I'm not sure whether or not to be scared or to just write this off as boring typical music journalism: "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, a mind-boggling fusion of genres — think NIN meets Gnarls Barkley meets Justice". Read the article here. Pay or not for the album tomorrow here.
  

The War On Downloading

• Oink, one of the best and apparently most popular torrent tracking sites for music was taken down yesterday. If you've never been on Oink, it was an invite only site that enforced strict music quality policies along with semi-strict ratio policies. Oink was not a pay site as is mentioned in the above site. I'm nearly positive that he did not make "hundreds of thousands of pounds". There was an option to donate money to help pay for server costs and if you donated 5 pounds, there was a one time option to invite 2 people to join the site. However, if you kept your ratio up, you would receive 2 invites a month. At least they let him get dressed for the cameras. There is just so much false information in the above clip.
  
• The Oink admin has since been released so far without charge
  
• Interesting essays
  
• Why were the IFPI and BPI were allowed in on the investigation
• Hometaping
• Negrophonic
• Oink did not provide a legal way to download music, but it was a great library.
• Thankfully we have a trusty Internets provider here in Philadelphia that will lie about stopping you from using any type of Bit Torrent application at all. Its Comcastic! Yay, glad you paid for the new building even though you're moving out of the old one.
  
• Those pesky Internet people have also found that you are throttling/denying Gnutella and Lotus Notes as well. Lotus Notes software is primarily used by businesses for email, calendaring etc.
  
• Thankfully though, they've admitted it but only so you could get better speeds.
  
• Of course they admitted after the AP proved after they initially denied it.
• If the whole Net Neutrality debate was complicated before, this is exactly what it was meant to stop, personally this sounds more like living behind the Great Wall.
  

Internet Radio Day of Silence

The Day Of Silence is a one day protest to highlight recently enacted fees for online radio. Not only will fees be higher in the future, but they will be applied retroactively.

According to calculations made by the Radio and Internet Newsletter, or RAIN, AOL retroactively owes about $1.65 million in sound-recording royalties for that month alone (and that doesn't include songwriting royalties). By the end of this year, according to RAIN, the company could owe roughly $20 million -- unless the rates are overturned by the board or by Congress, which is still a possibility.

Not only will this affect "traditional" Internet radio but also sites such as Pandora and Last.fm. Although, Last.fm has decided not to participate in the protest. Local radio stations such as XPN and WKDU will cease to operate online among thousands of others due to these crushing fees. Please visit SaveNetRadio.org to learn what you can do to help.

• The Objective PSA

Royalty Hikes Panics Webcasters, SaveNetRadio.org

phling!

philing! is a new service for you mobile phone that lets you listen to your music direct from your computer or music from up to 6 friends. Add a little web 2.0 and social media allowing you to review songs, see what your friends are listening to, post messages to your friends, see the most popular tracks and more.

If your unlimited data plan is burning a hole in your pocket and your phone is supported try this out and let us know in the comments. I attempted to sign up, but my phone is not currently supported. See the list of phones supported here. Also, artists and labels contact phling! if you want your music to be able to be streamed at any time.

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Your music, a new feature in ways to listen to and power up your music collection.