Guitarolin for Led Zeppelin

Zepparella has nothing to do with Coachella. It is an all-women band doing Led Zeppelin songs. In this How Many More Times, the lead guitarist plays guitar like a violin.
https://youtu.be/kGZWRrC-MUs?t=369



 Led Zeppelin's acoustics were notable poorly engineered. Maybe their Madison Square Garden concert of 1973 was better.

Street music technology exposed.

I thought these stone pianos were a feat in cast concrete acoustics. They have rich resonant sound and any passerby is welcome to play. On a sunny afternoon of June 20 I stumbled on one of them being installed, and this turned out to be a regular electronic keyboard connected to a sound generator, amplifier and powered up by an average battery.

Who is watching Motorola's threat to the music industry?

What seems to be a long time ago (Computer Shopper, January 2003) this interesting article educated us about a new set of chips from Motorola call the Symphony Digital Radio Chipset. The radio industry is supposed to be shifting to a digital format, but can't agree on standards. Digital radio should lead to higher quality signals and reception. Sensing an opportunity, Motorola developed the SDRC chip set, which takes in the current analog radio signals and digitizes the signal at the radio wave level. Nothing big in doing this (except maybe for doing so and having a reasonably priced chip set), but the chip set also has circuitry to clean up the signal (for example, interference noise you get with all radio signals, and reliably boosting weak signals, etc.). Thus much of the benefits of digital radio can be achieved with the current radio system. The article predicts two effects. First, sales of radios using Motorola's chip set could negatively impact the satellite radio industry, for which signal quality was an important selling feature. Second, there will be people selling plug-in boards to personal computers which make use of the Motorola chip set, so you can turn your PC into an ever better radio receiver. And of course, it will be easy to capture, store and burn songs being broadcasted by the radio stations. No need for P2P for the popular songs that the music industry really cares about (and for which the P2P advocates are really interested in stealing). Some interesting technology, and a host of legal implications to track.

RIAA starts buying laws

This is the courtesy of those who can buy laws: Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles has passed a city ordinance that authorizes civil fines for copyright infringement. If a property in LA is used for copyright piracy (since the RIAA/MPAA bought this legislation, they didn't feel any need to include patent piracy as well), the property can be padlocked for a year and a $1,000 fine slapped for each pirated work produced. See blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/los-angeles-say.html

The Board of Supervisors did not agree to add an extra penalty for convicted pirates - having to read one law review article or court decision involving the idea/expression dichotomy for each act of piracy - city lawyers argued that was cruel and unusual punishment.

RIAA loses a case on music file posting

Arizona Judge Shoots Down RIAA Theories slashdot.org/palm/31/08/04/29/1840250_1.shtml

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Atlantic v. Howell, the judge has totally
eviscerated the RIAA's theories of 'making available' and 'offering to
distribute.'

In a 17-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Neil V. Wake
carefully analyzed the statute and case law, and based on a 'plain reading
of the statute' concluded that 'Unless a copy of the work changes hands
in one of the designated ways, a "distribution" under [sec.] 106(3) has
not taken place.'

The judge also questioned the sufficiency of the RIAA's evidence pointing
towards defendant, as opposed to other members of his household. This is
the Phoenix, AZ, case in which the defendant is representing himself, but
received some timely help from his friends. And it's the same case in which
the RIAA suggested that Mr. Howell's MP3s, copied from his CDs, were
unlawful. One commentator calls today's decision 'Another bad day for the
RIAA.'"

RIAA: PERSONAL COPYING IS ILLEGAL

The RIAA has exponentially insane passion for
defending its members' copyright interests.

   "In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal
   representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing -
   contrary to its lawyers' statements to the United States Supreme
   Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster - that the defendant's ripping of
   personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a copyright infringement.
   At page 15 of its brief (PDF) it states the following:  'It is
   undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies... Virtually
   all of the sound recordings... are in the ".mp3" format for his and
   his wife's use... Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings
   into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder,
   they are no longer the authorized copies..."

The brief is at: www. ilrweb.com/