ASCAP declares war on free culture

Monopolising culture? Read about the newest rattle of an outdated industry that wants to claim the role of victim instead of admitting that it is colonizing its resources, ie. artists:

Zeropaid.com: "The free culture movement is abuzz today over news that ASCAP has requested their members to fight organizations like Creative Commons, Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation over what it claims as an effort to undermine copyright."

Quote from the letter (1 & 2 from ASCAP: "�At this moment, we are facing our biggest challenge ever. Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote �Copyleft� in order to undermine our �Copyright.� They say they are advocates of consumer rights, but the truth in these groups simply do not want to pay for the use of our music. Their mission is to spread the word that our music should be free.�

Anyway, this bomb is looking like being good promotion for Creative Commons, EFF, ea.
:-)

More info at Zeropaid.com: scroll down to the "Who's talking about it?" section.

Via our Dutch friend Marco Raaphorst.

netwaves: 150th episode!

Number 150 is the last episode before the summer pause. Our host Radio Scorpio does not broadcast live programs during summer holidays. Hear us back in september. This episode is full of our Russian friends and their interpretation of triphop.

Downloadpage of the compilation + podcast.

Listen to [nws150] netwaves 4.36:





Playlist:

1 Snow Birds - Der Nerv
2 Far From Ok - Kubrick's Cube
3 Bublegum - Little Nastya
4 Voluntary Improvement Of Self-Flagellation - 813
5 Blue Eyed - Karolis Bur�inskas
6 impasse - ma?ka
7 Planet of Winds - Phoboz
8 dubbishi - Dubbemo
9 Clish - Zeno
10 Remake Arrogalla - tdBt and the Garys remix Arrogalla
11 Dark Minimal - Omara
12 Five After Midnight - Phoboz

Cologne Commons 2: some interviews

Last weekend Cologne Commons took place: on friday evening netwaves went, heard and had some interviews. Listen to Zoe.LeelA, Mika, Fiat600 and Lars from Mars. See them on the pictures on netwaves.org. The interviews with Mika and Fiat600 are translated from Spanish to English by Lars, so you hear 3 times Lars, except in the "netaudio is punk" fragment.

Downloadpage of the compilation + podcast.

Listen to [nws149] netwaves 4.35:





Playlist:

1 Doorstep - Fiat600
2 Gold - Zoe.LeelA
3 Procesion - Mika Martini
4 Seba - Lars from Mars
5 Huaino (gillette mix) (Whyno Sokio Remix) - Mika Martini
6 Abyss - Fiat600
7 New World Order - Fiat600
8 Phone Home - Lars from Mars
9 Anyway - Lars from Mars
10 In A Future April - Lars from Mars
11 Rip Curl - Adduce

you sexy thing!

If you surf the web with Google's Chrome browser, you definitely have to try out this extension: "ExtensionFM". It discovers automatically mp3-links while you're surfing on musicsites, you can play them in the background, and - this is the spectacular part - the extension stores these links in a library in "the cloud", with the looks of a stripped down iTunes. Cool! It resembles an ultra-light Songbird.

This tool is perfect to listen to our whole library of netwaves: after installing ExtensionFM, open every episode in a new tab, then return to the https://www.extension.fm website, click on the library link, et voil�, our whole collection, for free, with only 167 clicks, about 1500 songs and 15 mixes (not really true, i still have to upload the songs for episodes 44-99, planned for next month).

I think this must be a nightmare for the music industry: music in the air/cloud! But it's great for the open music community, also a nicer way to browse the Internet Archive.