More Reasons to Despise the RIAA

Find out why the RIAA thinks lower royalties will benefit artists:

• Check out this article from ars technica.

• See this blog post from CNET.

This is all further proof that the RIAA only cares about the RIAA. They aren't in it for the artists. They're only in it to make money. They cut artists short. They enjoy frivolous lawsuits. Worst of all, they enjoy trying to bring consumers down with them, as they slowly fade away and lose power. All of this is exactly why I despise the RIAA.

To stay current with the battle against the RIAA, read the following blog, which I give my highest regards: Recording Industry vs The People

News & Links for 2/6/08

Today, Yahoo! announced that they have removed limits from their web hosting. The driving force behind the change was to help small business owners. Yahoo! is hoping that small businesses will be able to focus more on their business (and less on web hosting), since they won't have to worry about exceeding limits anymore. For a mere $11.95 per month, small businesses will get unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, and unlimited e-mail storage. Check out Yahoo!'s Small Business Web Hosting.

[Source: downloadsquad]

From TechCrunch:

• Howcast, a website specializing in instructional videos, launched today - "Ex-Googlers Launch Instructional Video Site Howcast..."
  

• Google is getting aggressive in China - "Google To Challenge Baidu In China With Free Music"
  

• Ask.com has launched a news site in collaboration with Digg - "Ask and Digg Team Up for Big News"
  

From CNN.com:
Read about the new, innovative website, CrimeReports.com:
"Free Web site maps crime reports, calls"

...A new service on CrimeReports.com, launched last year and expanding nationwide, overlays police reports on maps, so people can view where arrests and other police calls have been made. Users can configure e-mail alerts to notify them of crimes in locations of interest within a day.

The free site relies mainly on police departments paying $100 or $200 a month, depending on their size, to have CrimeReports.com extract the information from their internal systems and publish it online...

Stay current with Microsoft:
"Microsoft tinkering with scary-smart ad spots"

A few of Microsoft's projects were aimed at helping advertisers get better at reaching their ideal customers online, particularly using search keywords.

The company showed a dashboard advertisers could use to forecast the success of certain keyword advertising campaigns and a system it says will make it easier for advertisers think about key ideas, rather than hundreds of individual keywords.