May
24
2010
Happy Birthday Zimmy
Songwriter, musician, performer, voice of a generation, author, poet, icon, legend. Happy 69th birthday Bob Dylan. Continue reading
Jan
12
2010
New Episodes Austin City Limits
There are new episodes of Austin City Limits airing the month. The episode that has caught my attention airs sometime around the end of the month or early next month and is the reason from my post. It is: Continue reading
Oct
14
2009
The Flaming Lips
I know many of you that frequent the News-Star blog don’t agree with The Flaming Lips and there communist ways but… Continue reading
Jun
19
2009
Seriously!!
Maybe you’ve heard about this and maybe you haven’t, but a woman has been fined $1.9 million for illegally downloading 24 songs. Here is a little bit of the story from cnn.com:
A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each — a total of $1.9 million — for 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said.
Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at the fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents.
She plans to appeal, he said.
Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said the association was “pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable.”
“We appreciate the jury’s service and that they take this as seriously as we do,” she said.
Thomas-Rasset downloaded work by artists such as No Doubt, Linkin Park, Gloria Estefan and Sheryl Crow.
I personally do not illegally download music and agree that she deserved to be punished. But come on, I find this to be a little on the extreme side. I could a fine as high as $50,000 but almost $2 million.
What does everyone else think?
Jun
15
2009
Summer concert going….
I’m making it a point to try and be more active on this blog as well as my own.
So here is a post from my blog Playlist.
I’m off to see Wilco this evening in OKC. I’ve bee looking forwar to this show for a few months one because I haven’t seen Wilco live since around 2005 and it may be the only concert I can make it to this summer. My concert going has dwindled in the last couple of year especial this last year. Read more click here.