technozid

A fun ride through the cyperspace

Category : Music

Katrina and the Waves

Wonder how she must feel these last couple of days. Probably not like “Walking on sunshine”…

Sampling illegal – what about the cultural remix?

Thomas discovered an article on winamp.com titled Free Sampling Killed by Court of Appeals:

On Tuesday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati turned the playing field for digital sampling completely upside-down. The court ruled quite simply that any and all samples used must paid for, even if they sound completely different from their original. Previously, if a digital sample wasn’t identifiable from it’s original it was perfectly legal.

My first reaction was “So what?”. Read More…

Comfortably Numb

I’m surprised, baffled and ashamed all in one strange mix of emotions. I really can’t grasp what has happened this week, and I can’t understand how most of it happened completely unnoticed by me! Read More…

Coming of age in Cyberspace

I’m seeing the potential danger that this blog becomes yet-another-searchengine-blog. That’s not what I have in mind, even though search engines play an important role in my (business) life. This blog is about getting older in cyberspace. Its working title was actually “coming of age in cyberspace” – but that sounded a bit silly for someone well in the second part of his Thirties.

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