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  1. Music industry firms are a bunch of pirates By Nigel Constantine While the music industry is spending a fortune trying to jail P2P file downloaders, it seems it has an ambivalant attitude to its own piracy record. Jazz great Chet Baker's estate is suing the major record labels for releasing his music on Canadian CDs without paying. Apparently the music industry has been taking advantage of the more relaxed attitude to copyright in Canada to release 300,000 songs have been released on CD without compensation. The record labels create, press, distribute and sell the CDs, but do not obtain the necessary copyright licences. Baker's estate, though, appear to have had enough and are taking Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada. The industry has admitted that it owes Baker's family at least CAD$50 million, but Baker's estate is entitled to up to CAD$60 billion. Others who are also owed a bit of dosh include Sarah McLachlan, Bruce Cockburn, Sloan, or the Watchmen. So while the music industry piously bangs on about how terrible pirates are, it seems the ones that have screwed the musicians for the most are the actual record companies themselves.
  2. HYPE IT! THIS SHIT IS PEOPLE POWERED!!
  3. remind me not to hang around with you pretentious losers.
  4. no shot no pigflew. see ya next week.
  5. Schwa.

    AC/DC Bag

    The only way to really (re)learn a song is to play it repeatedly. In listening to the tour from the last year I noticed a huge improvement in Possum....one of their most played songs since they've returned. perhaps this is their motivation.
  6. At this rate it looks like those of us that have already posted picks here are gonna make up some serious ground on the slackers.
  7. Heisholt just made an album with Crissinger, if that helps.
  8. FLIP FLOP ****I'm changing my BAL/GB pick from GB to BALT. time stamp: 9:34am Thursday.
  9. Chile recipe is already brewin'. Gonna be hard to top that batch.
  10. No doubt. The high scores from the last 2 weeks will dwindle a bit methinks.
  11. Hey Edger, no DSO for me now. Remembered a shindig in Kemble I committed to. Please do join me at Sally Creek. It's on my birthday and less then an hour drive from KW/Hamilton. Sorry for the hijack, NW.
  12. I've been talking about going to this for about a decade now. Doesn't look like it's in the cards for next year either. Gonna have to stick to these: Tottenham Bluegrass Festival 2010 & Sally Creek Bluegrass Festival
  13. remind me in like 800 days.
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