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Written by:eoghan
Saturday, August 25, 2007

Blogging will be light from me until early September. In meantime here's a few links that caught my eye recently:

  • It turns out that YouTube's Terms & Conditions state that it can license any content uploaded to its servers as it sees fit. CNET have the details. Any independent bands uploading, for example, DIY videos of their music to Youtube should sit up and take note. A similar broo-ha hit the interweb last year for MySpace but a campaign - spearheaded by Billy Bragg - got them to dilute down their terms. Will YouTube, like MySpace before them, soon do the decent thing?
  • Major US ISP throttle Bit Torrent: if such policies become more widespread among ISPs could it reduce the usefullness and efficiencies of the Bit Torrent protocol? Maybe the time if ripe for the long awaited version of BitTorrent that that is capable of using a secure protocol...
  • Is interest in hip hop collapsing? So asks Time magazine. Sales are down, big time. And not just because of this interweb thing putting downward pressure on CD sales...

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2 comment(s) so far...

Re: A cluster of curious links...

Youtube and Myspace (or as some are calling it MurdochSpace) are corporate entities. More people need to wake up and see past the web 2.0 trendiness for what they really are. Youtube is handy as long as you recognise it for what it is, MySpace is just the biggest waste of bandwidth on the planet, I hope the data centre where it's hosted floods and is infested with a plague of cable chewing rats. Back in my day, if you wanted to make friends, you went down the pub, did nice things for people etc. Pass the werthers.... anyway, er yeah, bittorrent. I can kinda see where ISPs are coming from, not only is the legality a bit dubious, but it's like a big bandwidth sponge soaking up as much as it can. Still sucks, so just complain and switch ISP, they'll get the message. Hip Hops commercial downfall had been due for ages too, music is circular and Hip hop has reached saturation point, not just the genre itself, but the way it permeates almost all pop music. I love Timbaland as much as the next guy, but it's time to move on.

By Binokular on   Saturday, August 25, 2007

Re: A cluster of curious links...

any genre that allows a band like public enemy to whither on the vine whilst allowing drug dealers and criminals to coin it should lie down and die in my opinion, 'Fiddy is a hero to most of yas but he never meant sh*t to me, fight the power, fight the powers that be'

By hip hop on   Saturday, August 25, 2007

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