Happy Mutant Profile
bobnron
MSN Music customers lose *all* their music the next time they buy a new PC
April 23, 2008 6:40am
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Don't Miss
- Barlow's Forth of July message
- Jesse Helms leaves the planet.
- Tattooed living zombie
- YouTube user data must be turned over to Viacom, judge rules
- BBtv: Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.
- BBtv: Monochrom's Nazi Petting Zoo
- That Violet Blue thing
- Save the International Cryptozoology Museum
- Untitled 1
- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
- #boingboing IRC channel open for Happy Mutating
Recent Comments
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- Jake0748 said: "Still... I think being a writer (full disclosure: I am not one, obviously), has to do more with what ..."
- Takuan said: "Has any provision been made to ship the urine of those that wish to make an appropriate graveside ge ..."
- minTphresh said: "I LIKE TURTLES!!! but i am not so crazy 'bout asstrobutt. he jus loves to drop labels on folk wh ..."
- FoetusNail said: "AGF - I think whether or how much we disagree is being clouded by this clumsy medium. It also doesn' ..."
- Diatryma said: "Yes, writers can write by catching a swan and dipping its feathers in their own blood. This does no ..."
- magista said: "Zuzu, Pepik, my show that almost no one else seems to remember is <a href="http://youtube.com ..."
- mdhatter said: "As stated above, if you see a ninja, you're probably already dead. ..."
- gadfly said: "I'd like to second the thought that there are thousands of worthier causes out there. Sucks for the ..."
the latest
- Mossberg's guide to switching from Windows to Mac
- Acer subnote hits Europe
- History of water pistols soaked with innovation
- Openmoko open-source cell phone beats Android to the punch
- Gatling Gun was inspired by seed-spreading machine and used mainly for domestic intimidation
- The tiny creatures of the gadget bag
- Should Apple redesign its high-end notebooks?
- Star Trike at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con
- Apple files patent for multi-gesture language
- Owner of Japanese "Diggbot" supposedly arrested
latest episodes
- Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.
- Monochrom: Nazi Petting Zoo
- Cory Doctorow: a "Little Brother" reading (3rd in a series)
- Russell Porter and Cadence Weapon, pt. 2.
- Klaus Pierre: The Beach
- Cory Doctorow: a "Little Brother" reading (second in a series)
- Russell Porter with Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon
- Animation: "Placenta" and "Papiroflexia," by Joaquin Baldwin
- Boing Boing tv now has a Twitter feed
- Heavy Load: UK punk band with learning-disabled members.
I buy vinyls. I buy CDs.
They don't have sucky DRM on them.
Robert Fripp (from King Crimson) sells MP3's and FLAC versions of his live concerts on his web site.
They don't have sucky DRM on them either.
Major labels are all about jealously hanging onto "intellectual property" which they legally own but did not create.
Individual, independent artists are all about getting their music, their creations, heard by whatever means they can.
Something to think about.