99 cent iTunes downloads will go the way of the dodo if California state lawmaker Charles Calderon gets his way. His proposal, AB1956, seeks to tax music downloads, adding 8.25-8.75% sales tax to music purchases made online, and increasing the purchase price to $1.08.
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99 cent iTunes downloads will go the way of the dodo if California state lawmaker Charles Calderon gets his way. His proposal, AB1956, seeks to tax music downloads, adding 8.25-8.75% sales tax to music purchases made online, and increasing the purchase price to $1.08. Despite our article clarifying that the RIAA has said that they are not interested in going after people for making copies of music for personal use, the myth abounds, and misinformation is ricocheting around the Internet faster than a speeding CD laser. So, here, for your own ears, are snippets of the NPR interview, in which RIAA President Cary Sherman has clearly stated the RIAA's position on making copies of legally purchased music, for personal use. Much has been made in the media this week about the news that the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has announced, through one of their lawsuits, that they now consider it illegal for you to copy music from a CD you have purchased to your own computer, for your own personal use. The one thing that everyone seems to be overlooking is that the RIAA has not said this at all. In fact, they have explicitly stated that they are not concerned with people copying music to their computer (or iPod, or other personal MP3 player) for their own personal use. What's a person to do when their hard drive crashes, and they lose all of the songs that they purchased from iTunes? There is no option to redownload all of your iTunes purchases offered through either iTunes or the Apple website. However, while you may get chastised for not backing up your iTunes library (which you will do from now on, right?), it is possible to redownload iTunes songs again, and restore your iTunes library to its pre-crash state. It's not there in the Apple iPod instructions, and it's rarely listed with other iPod info, but here is one of the most important iPod tips you'll ever get: don't use your iPod during lightning storms, because if lightning strikes, it can conduct the charge through the earphones, across your chest, and into your head! Put another way, when it comes to lightning safety, don't use your iPod during lightning storms! If you're looking for free online music downloads - legal free music downloads and free music videos downloads - then have we got news for you! Spiral Frog is a new free legal music downloads service offering free music downloads! That's right, absolutely free music downloads! Rather than charge for its music downloads it is instead advertising supported - so you get music downloads free while Spiral Frog gets to show you ads. The twist is that these totally free music downloads will not play on iPods or Zunes. It also won't work with any Apple computer. So you can get all your music downloads free, but they won't work with your Mac, iPod or Zune. That is because Spiral Frog relies on the Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM) system its free music downloads. Allofmp3.com, one of the top mp3 download sites in the world for people looking for mp3 mp3 downloads, allowing people do to an mp3 search of the works of thousands of popular artists, and then download the mp3s for as little as ten cents, has been closed down by the Russian government in a bid to gain membership in the World Trade Organization. Allofmp3.com was considered a barrier to entry for Russia, with what has been estimated to be the world's largest collection of pirated music, all available as low cost and even nearly free mp3 downloads to Allofmp3's 5.5 million customers. You know you should have a data backup solution to ensure that you have a harddrive backup - and in fact you may already have one or more backup solutions in place. But what about portable backup solutions - what about if you are on a trip, and your hard drive fails (as mine did last week?) Consider an iPod video for your portable backup data storage! For my birthday this year I received the Garmin Nuvi GPS, and I have to tell you that this portable GPS is the ultimate in mobile GPS systems! This small handheld GPS navigation unit can fit in your pocket or attach to a beanbag based stand (which molds to fit any place in your car or wherever else you want to put it), has the clearest screen of any I've seen, fantastic maps (3d or flat view), will instantly show you a list of all of the restaurants, gas stations, and such in the area wherever you are. But the best part about the Garmin Nuvi GPS is that it's spoken directions make sense! Now I understand why all the GPS reviews give this Garmin portable GPS system such high praise! The much-rumoured and long hoped-for Beatles iPod, in the form of a Yellow Submarine iPod - a yellow iPod with the entire Beatles catalog loaded on it - came one step closer to reality with Apple Records (properly known as Apple Corps LTD) and Apple Computer burying the hatchet and bringing to a close their long-standing feud over the Apple trademark. This year, the Queen of England will not only be broadcasting her message by radio and television, but will also be making it available as a podcast. And, in fact, you can sign up right now, in advance, and have the Queen's Christmas podcast delivered right to you as soon as it is available. While it remains to be seen whether the Microsoft Zune will be the iPod killer that they hope it to be, there is one way in which it has already taken the lead: Zune hacks. The Zune can be hacked (i.e. modified) in many ways, while most are afraid to hack their iPod at all. Ye gods and little fishes, as if the the bluetooth vibrator, the Toy, wasn't enough! Now the folks at OhMiBod have brought us the first iPod vibrator, the OhMiBod, which they claim to be the first "music powered vibrator." The Zeon portable DVD player with integrated iPod video dock from iLuv is one hot new device, and they make fantastic Christmas gifts! This portable DVD player with integrated video iPod dock (also misleadingly called the "jWin iLuv Portable Tablet Video System for Apple iPod Video") is the easiest way on the planet to watch all those video podcasts and television shows you've downloaded from the Internet to your video iPod (while traveling, or even at home or work), without developing a permasquint! And with a 7" video screen, built-in speakers, viewing stand, and remote, it's also a full on portable DVD player, all in one compact 10" x 6" package! Yes, you really can take it with you! A number of video iPods have shipped with the Windows RavMonE virus, says Apple. The iPod virus, which shows as RavMonE.exe was discovered in a small number of video iPods shipped after Septemer 12th. Starbucks has just struck a deal to have their own "Starbucks Entertainment" area on Apple's iTunes internet music store. According to Starbucks, their Hear Music catalog will be available through the iTunes website. If you've been wondering about the Microsoft Zune MP3 music player, and in particular if you have been wondering how much it will cost and where you can buy it, wonder no more. Because Wal-mart accidentally (or not?) leaked that information earlier this week. MySpace has announced that they will start selling music downloads, in competition with iTunes. Actually, more accurately, My Space is going to allow the indie artists who make up a substantial portion of their userbase to start selling their own music via downloads on My Space, or what some are calling MyTunes. Forget your fancy Mac MP3 players! Did you know that you can play an MP3 on the fly on your Mac without using or loading any separate Mac MP3 players, and without even loading or using iTunes? A new free service on the web allows you to easily create ebooks to take along on your iPod! You can take pretty much any text, upload it or provide a link to it, press a button, and voila! You get an ebook which can be read on your iPod! You might have heard the word "Zune" recently in the news, or near the office water cooler. Zune is the codename, now nearly certainly confirmed as the actual name, for what some are dubbing "the iPod killer": Microsoft's new Zune MP3 player. In addition to the Zune music player, of course, Microsoft has their own iZune music store to go with it. Ok, just kidding, it's not really called "iZune", it's called "Urge". Comedy Central has just started making shows, including the first two seasons of South Park, available through iTunes. The newest version of iTunes comes complete with its own privacy issues. In fact, some people find the invasion of privacy by the iTunes 6.02 "MiniStore" service, so bad that they have nicknamed it "Spytunes." Owners of the Apple iPod and Sony PSP who also have Tivo are now able to play their favorite television shows right on their iPod Video or PSP thanks to TivoToGo's new free iPod downloads and Sony PSP downloads. The State of Texas has become the second plaintiff to file a lawsuit against Sony BMG, using the Texas anti-spyware law. Netcraft is giving away an iPod a month, and all you have to do to enter the contest is report phishing sites with the Netcraft Toolbar! Adult industry spokespersons indicate that they won't offer video downloads aimed at the video iPod, but there are already sites offering free video downloads of that nature aimed squarely at the new video iPod. Yahoo has just raised the price of music downloads, doubling the fee for their Yahoo Music Unlimited music downloading service. MP3 player breast implants may have once been proposed as a lark, but the idea of an mp3 player breast implant has now taken the world by storm. We already have porncasts (podcasts of an adult nature). Is the new video iPod going to set off a storm of Podporn? Industry experts say "yes". iTunes Video, also known as iTunes 6, offers videos and television shows for downloading and playing on your PC or Mac, as well as on your snazzy new video iPod. The Gruvi MicroSD music media card is the hip new digital music format of choice, according to SanDisk. The Rolling Stones apparently agree, and are publishing a whole album in the new format. The iPod Mini has been discontinued by Apple, but that means great deals for you, like a 4gb iPod Mini from Costco for only $149.00! Can using an iPod or other MP3 player lead to hearing loss? Yes, according to some experts. On the heels of the new iPod Nano, Sony has introduced an MP3 Walkman which seems a worthy competitor. Tricked out with all sorts of features, and available in brilliant violet, blue, and pink, the new MP3 Walkman is available in a 20gig version, to store all the music you could possibly want to take with you. The Apple rocker phone, as some are calling the new iPhone, and the iPod Nano, were announced this week by Apple. Where the ROKR based iPhone (some are calling it ROCKR or even ROCKER, but it's actually "ROKR") is indeed a rocker phone, the new iPod Nano is more like an executive iPod. Wullik.B (W32.Wullik.B@mm) has infected the Zen Neeon MP3 player. Creative says that nearly 4,000 of the Zen Neeon MP3 players were shipped with the worm, and has issued a recall. Downloading MP3s illegally really does take money directly out of the artists' pockets, it turns out. This article lays it out on the table, with the real facts, from an industry insider. In a decision in which the Canadian Private Copying Collective (somewhat analagous to the U.S.' RIAA, except that the CPCC actually represents the interests of the artists) says that it is "disappointed", the Canadian high court has this week let stand a ruling ... The newest craze? BlogPins. BlogPins are 3-inch mini CDs. Of course, 3-inch mini CDs have been around for ages, but what is new is that these come with a special holder which is a 3-inch plastic holder with a pin ... Late last month Apple announced that with the release of its newest iTunes software, version 4.9, it would be offering podcasts through the iTunes store. And indeed it is. Now a tempest in a teacup is brewing over what some are dubbing "porncasts" ... Every once in a while Aunty comes across a nice, novel, and altruistic use of the Internet. Such is this site which just came to Aunty's attention. Classical music. As you may be aware, for various legal reasons having to do with copyright ... Security experts are saying that Apple's iPod is the newest rage. Not among the teen set, Gen-Xers, or even baby boomers, but among criminals. Now, it's true that the use isn't novel, just the choice of device, but as Marshall Mcluhan so deftly ... Well, Aunty thought that she had heard of everything, but once again she was wrong. Move over, Internet urinal, and make room for the MP3 Toilet. Really. Now, the manufacturer, Toto Toilets, is actually known for making a very high quality, and almost unblockable ... Those whacky Pennsylvania legislators sure are hip!: HARRISBURG, Pa., June 20 -- State Senate Majority Leader David J. Brightbill (R-Lebanon) announced today that the Senate Republican Caucus has begun offering a weekly "podcast" on its website to expand its coverage of news affecting the lives of Pennsylvanians. ... iPod Mini fans do lots of interesting things with their tiny machines, but George Masters has taken it to a new art, literally. Masters has created the ultimate advertisement for his tiny machine, basing his homemade iPod Mini commercial on, appropriately enough, ... A new kid on the Internet block is the Podcast. It has gotten a lot of attention lately, but the majority of people have no idea what a Podcast, or podcasting, is. Many assume that it must have something to do ... They may not know it, but Wisconsin is poised to become the first state to tax downloads on the Internet. The download tax, referred to by some as the iPod tax, hidden away in Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's proposed budget, would tax ... Who says that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn't have a sense of humour! Anybody who does will be handily proven wrong by a look at their new "Endangered Gizmos" list, over which anybody should get a chuckle (not to mention ... Wondering about the perfect gift for the iPodite in your life? Well, look no further. How about their own personal iPod ad - you know, those trendy dark silhouettes on a vibrant background, with a standout white iPod and headset prominently ... |
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