Subject URL: 28 Days rule...

...not for their music but for putting out their latest single, "Song For Jasmine" with their entire Triple J Live At The Wireless on it. For only $4.95. If every band out there did this instead of sitting on their master tapes or releasing two tracks only (*cough*Whitlams*cough*) I'd be one happy boy.

Subject URL: More RIAA/MPAA sucks articles

From suck.com, article addressed at RIAA/MPAA/other 'real media' companies for generally being lame. And more compentary on how the internet could indeed be a bad thing for music/video fans if the corporate world had it's way.

Subject URL: CDDA now defaults to FreeDB

CDDA now defaults to using FreeDB instead of the evil nazi multinational corporation CDDB/Gracenote. Awesome. Except that Gracenote have a habit of suing software producers for doing this because they're lame.

But given Gracenote still don't have REM's Reveal (which is in my player and I'm loving after only three songs) in their database they can go quietly funk themselves.

Subject URL: Information has always been free

Well, according to this article which mainly uses the print media for examples, with sending free copies out to customers in the hope they'll subscribe, and the price of a newspaper not even covering the print used to print it...

So maybe the Internet's first great cliche had it exactly backward: Information has been free all along. It's the Internet that wants to enslave it.