Great news from Radiohead regarding their "choose your price" offer

A while ago I've got this very pleasing e-mail from waste.uk.com:
THANK YOU FOR ORDERING IN RAINBOWS. THIS IS AN UPDATE.

YOUR UNIQUE ACTIVATION CODE(S) WILL BE SENT OUT TOMORROW MORNING (UK TIME). THIS WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO THE DOWNLOAD AREA.

HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:

THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB ZIP FILE CONTAINING 10 X 160KBPS DRM FREE MP3s.

MOST COMPUTERS NOW HAVE ZIP SOFTWARE AS PART OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM; IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT, YOU NEED TO GET WINZIP OR ZIPIT INSTALLED PRIOR.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THEM HERE:

PC: http://www.winzip.com/
MAC: http://www.maczipit.com/

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS DOWNLOADING YOUR FILE, PLEASE CONTACT OUR DOWNLOAD CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM AT
downloadinrainbows@waste.uk.com


Another nail in the coffin of all the parasites (RIAA, OSA, record labels such as Sony BMG, you name them) and also another minor, but memorable victory for us, that are simply fed up by the annoying, restrictive and obsolete music industry scheme and still haven't lost the will to support bands the right and the most [possible] direct way.

Thank you for this, guys. Can't wait for the release...along with Valve's Portal :)

Note:
I know, it's gonna take a lot of "nails" like this to actually change something, but hey..One must start somewhere, you can't argue with that.

Digg it, please

MyHeritage face recognition - similar face to V. Nabokov

It seems that this face recognition technology works quite good, take a look at this:

I feel honored...and guilty that I haven't read Lolita yet, but now I will do it very soon.

The RIAA will come to regret its court win

I'm back with interesting article about the RIAA's first win (see here or below, if applicable), more specifically what successful writer and consultant Gerd Leonhard think about it.
Here are some examples:

"If [the industry tries to] keep up the strategy of 'you need us badly and therefore we make the rules' you will lose the artists, their managers... and the audience. Another 12 months for this Radiohead experiment (see here, if you don't know anything about it) to become the default approach. Get engaged or get outmoded. And do it soon."

"The real money is not in the CDs. It's in the gigs, the merchandising, the sponsorships. To make that money, you have to let people further down the highway before they arrive at the tollbooth."

Interesting reading, thumbs up.
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RIAA hits paydirt: wins first music-sharing jury trial

A federal jury fined Jammie Thomas, 30, of Minnesota $220,000 in damages to the six record labels suing her for copyright violation. Thomas will pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs the prosecution focused on for the case. The RIAA alleges she shared over 1,702 songs in all over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network. What a sad moment for the most of us...

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