Subject URL: MP3.com - The Shizit

Hardcore metal/techno band The Shizit have released a few new tracks to their MP3.com page with a promise of a new 'album' soon. They have a song called Audio Jihad. Nasty.

Random noticing: the first country in a typical webform country list when you hit 'A' (as I do when I'm looking for Australia) is Afghanistan.

Subject URL: Smashing Pumpkins give away more music

Smashing Pumpkins gain another notch on the cool stick for giving away 320kbps MP3s of thier B-Sides soon to appear as a bonus disc to the Smashing Pumpkins best-of disc. Go to the official site and skip the nasty intro and click the "b-sides Judas-O" link and watch the popup pop.

Subject URL: RIAA President Hilary Rosen blahs at P2P conference

RIAA President Hilary Rosen has tried to argue the RIAA (and music industry) case at at the The O'Reilly Peer-to-peer and Web Services Conference.

Rosen explained that the interests of recording artists are threatened by P2P technology. "This is an industry of advances, not royalties," she said. "A record company executive once said to me: 'If an artist of mine gets a royalty, I haven't done my job at negotiation time."

Ouch... Well worth reading, especially for the larf factor. It's amazing to see mindsets so different to my own so out in the open.... (via Scripting News)