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RIAA Defeats LimeWire in Major Piracy Lawsuit

LimeWire , the ubiquitous P2P service commonly associated with illegal file-sharing, has been found liable for facilitating the distribution of copyright infringement. In a 59-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Zoom G2Nu and G2.1Nu guitar effects pedals offer direct USB recording

Zoom is kind of like Mitsubishi -- it sort of does it all . Months after shipping one of the greatest pocket audio recorders every known to man, the company is now hitting back with none other than a pair of guitar effects pedals. The G2Nu and G2.1Nu boards both feature 100 preset guitar sounds, 20 of which have purportedly been given the almighty thumbs-up from Steve Vai. If you're curious about differences, the latter adds a built-in expression pedal for additional control, but frankly, the expected capabilities aren't what we're interested in.
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Score Free AudioBooks at BooksShouldBeFree [Audio Books]

You can find quite a few free audiobooks online but they're frequently scattered all over. Save yourself the run around by checking out the thousands of free audiobooks cataloged at BookShouldBeFree. BooksShouldBeFree houses thousands of books in the public domain, available as both MP3s and as iTunes format audiobooks.
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Record Your Own Records With Gakken’s Gramophone Kit [Vinyl]

Sure, anybody with ears can agree that something is lost when records are compressed and converted to digital files. But if you really want to walk the walk you can't just listen to vinyl, you have to record your own. Gakken's Gramophone kit can play records of any size, using a bamboo needle to belch crackling analog goodness out of its nickel-plated iron horn.
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You Don’t Need a TiVo Anymore [Rant]

This chart of TiVo's slipping subscriber numbers may be surprising, seeing as TiVo is the television recording device (and it's so good), but it's something we've seen coming for a while. We love you TiVo, but you're fast becoming obsolete. The typical TiVo user is a person who just wants their TV recordings to work, regardless of the monthly fee. They may or may not be tech savvy, but chances are TiVo was their first DVR—since we've found, anecdotally, people gravitate back to the first DVR interface they use. So why is their marketshare down to 2004 levels
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Screenr Shares Screencasts on Twitter, YouTube, and More [Screencasting]

Screenr is a web-based screencasting application that makes sharing short screencasts painless. You can see Screenr in action as we demonstrate how to search Lifehacker.com with Google. Screenr is Twitter-centric but sports a high-degree of functionality even if you don't actively use Twitter. You can easily tweet your screencasts from Screenr—the default, unless you specify otherwise is to share your screencasts on Twitter. If you opt to not share the screencast on Twitter you can download it as an MP4, upload it to YouTube, embed the screencast, or simply share the URL via email or IM
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Stairs Dismount Gloriously Tumbles Onto the iPhone Soon [IPhone Apps]

Stair Dismount for the iPhone is a spiritual descendant of the Stair Dismount Porrasturvat game back in 2001/2002 where you try your hardest to launch a ragdoll as painfully as possible down a flight of stairs. It was brilliant. The current iPhone version (not out yet, but supposedly will be by Thanksgiving) has a larger number of stairs and stair types, but seems to be a little slower in rendering the "falling" animation than its PC ancestor—probably because the emulator is running as well as the recording software.
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Stair Dismount Gloriously Tumbles Onto the iPhone Soon [IPhone Apps]

Stair Dismount for the iPhone is a spiritual descendant of the Stair Dismount Porrasturvat game back in 2001/2002 where you try your hardest to launch a ragdoll as painfully as possible down a flight of stairs. It was brilliant. The current iPhone version (not out yet, but supposedly will be by Thanksgiving) has a larger number of stairs and stair types, but seems to be a little slower in rendering the "falling" animation than its PC ancestor—probably because the emulator is running as well as the recording software. It still has the delicious crunching sound and wiggly ragdoll physics, which means we'll still be first in line to get this for our iPhones. [ YouTube via TUAW ]
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Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness

MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording industry—but what came as a surprise was Glickman's irritation at various ACTA "protests" which create "apprehension over the Agreement's substance." He's referring to online outlets that have hoisted the anti-ACTA flag over the last year, accusing the treaty of being a pretext for ramming "three strikes" laws through without Congressional oversight or empowering Customs agents to check the contents of your iPod . Based on our reporting, neither of these items appears to be in the draft text, but the secretive nature of the negotiations and the bland, impenetrable public statements about ACTA have fueled plenty of suspicion.
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Laying down tracks on the go with an iPhone and a browser

Back in the day, the multitrack tool of choice for bedroom Springsteens was an analog four-track recorder from companies like Tascam. But with the advent of cheap laptops and powerful digital tools like ProTools, Logic, and Garageband, even the cheapest guitar slinger moved his workstation to the computer. The new solutions were a huge step forward for home studio enthusiasts, but new digital recording tools are going beyond the computer—into the pocket and onto the Web. The increasing power of smartphones means that musicians can now carry a complete digital scratch pad in their pockets, while moving the recording application to the Web allows simple collaboration with anyone from around the world, lowers the cost of entry, and provides access to a mixing console from any computer on the planet.
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