Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the record industry’s appeal of a lower court decision that held that Grokster and Streamcast weren’t liable for copyright infringement conducted on their P2P networks. A win for Grokster will hopefully mean that the music industry will have to take a saner position on digital media and offer a product that people actually want to pay for. Good coverage on NPR and SCOTUSblog.
In this recurring feature, we present you with tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. RHAPSODY Link
On March 26th, Hindus all over the world will celebrate the raucous spring festival known as Holi. Get in on the fun with this mix of traditional Holi songs. RHAPSODY Link
Soon Linux will have as much useless eye-candy as OS X.
James K. Galbraith tackles Social Security, the deficit, and what the Democrats should do.
This is a mega release week and there’s no way I’ll be able to pick just one album, so here’s all the interesting new albums to hit Rhapsody this week:
With its fluttering vibraphones and bird calls, Denny’s music defined the term “exotica.” RHAPSODY Link
Looks like I used to live right down the street from Steve Garfield, I'm still only a few blocks away.
The South by Southwest music conference runs March 16-20, 2005, in Austin, Texas. Here’s a sampling of the more than 1,200 acts that are playing. RHAPSODY Link
The album of the week is Daft Punk’s Human After All.
Will Wright’s new game sounds a lot like SimUniverse or SimEverything.
I played around with the Wing Commander – Privateer Remake last night and it brought back many fond memories. Privateer was one of my favorite games of the 90s and the remake is extremely faithful albeit a little buggy.
Ugh, ANWR drilling passes 49-51. Sounds like the fight isn’t over yet, though:
Republican leaders included the drilling provision in the Senate budget resolution, allowing it to pass with the support of a simply majority instead of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. But Democrats hope that procedural maneuver will be the measure’s undoing.
Congress has failed to approve a final budget each of the last two years, and a similar failure this year would nullify yesterday’s Senate approval and force a drilling bill to get the 60 votes necessary to end a filibuster, instead of 50.
It seems that another vote on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is impending. Pleas go participate in emergency efforts to oppose the drilling.
