Loose Ends

So apparently at the Blue Balls Festival in Switzerland (where is the Swiss Miss when you need her), Iggy Pop was fined for being too loud. What is Swiss for "huh?!?!" Folks, I can't make this stuff up.

The RIAA (Really Imbecilic Association of the Antiquated) has filed another rash of lawsuits on customers. Keep going boys. The more you push like this the more the backlash is going to hurt later. I love the photo in the article; stacks of cd's as some kind of prop..."Look at all the product that is being pirated!" Newsflash boys. There is no piracy on p2p networks. It's theft. Different crime, and I find conflating the two as a sign of trivializing the law for the sake of PR. It is garbage, much like the RIAA/MPAA, whose reasons for existence in the current marketplace is questionable at best. Maybe if they showed some sense of precision in who they went after I would not feel such animus, but they have built a record of slapdash quality throughout. You guys are past your freshness date.

And Google is jumping into having a music content feature to showcase certain content regarding searches that would appear music related. I could definately have fun testing the bounds of that.