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ASCAP wants you to pay each time your phone rings

By oyvind – 23 June 2009 - No comments Active

ASCAP (American Society of Composers) has done it again. Now they want us to pay each time our phone rings if we’ve purchased a ringtone. Its like a mini-concert they say – because bypassers can listen to the music too!

ASCAP is known for stopping girl scouts singing at camps : BrandNameBullies.

ASCAP has about 360,000 members, I suggest we start boycotting one by one and see what happends. If everyone does that it will hurt the artists, I know – that is not what I want. But I want them to realize that they are ruining their future by paying organizations like ASCAP to take care of their copyright deals. We need a new music industry where the arists get the money. Are you with me?

Source : ASCAP

Tags: ascap, music, musikk

Tried the new iTunes competitor in Norway

By oyvind – 19 May 2009 - No comments Active

Posted in: Internet

I had to try a new service today, a competitor to iTunes. Platekompaniet (http://platekompaniet.no) is in Norwegian only but if you’re interested in the user interface its worth a look. I don’t think this site will survive but I welcome all competitors. I downloaded a tune for a $, without copy protection and same quality as iTunes offer. I like the development on this, maybe people soon can buy what they want instead of having to download it illegally.

I don’t like iTunes since it crash my browser so a new one is welcome but I was a bit disappointed by the user interface but I guess it will improve.