Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
Slightly late on this one – but last week, the Guardian published an article by Paul McGuinness, manger of U2, which poured praise on the French government’s proposed three strikes law for alleged copyright abuse on the internet.
The gist of the law is similar to the terms of the agreement that Irish telecom firm [...]
Reuters:
The Beatles’ back catalog won’t be appearing on iTunes anytime soon, according to Paul McCartney.
Speaking at a media launch Monday in London for the new album by his side project the Fireman, “Electric Arguments,” McCartney said that Apple Corp. and the band’s label EMI could not agree on terms to release the Beatles’ catalog to [...]
This is wonderfully mad – combining, as it does, the brilliance of Alan Moore and Bauhaus.
Try to contain your excitement at the rumours that The Beatles back catalogue is finally going to be released on iTunes. According to the Independent, the news has “made front-page news and set fans’ internet chat rooms buzzing”. Meanwhile, after a few glum months, retailers are “anticipating yet another boom in demand for the group”.
And [...]
Saturday was a strange one. What I thought was going to be a quiet family lunch for my brother’s [redacted, but it has a zero in it] birthday turned out to be a major production involving champagne at 2 pm (I’m not complaining), followed by a three hour and course lunch.
My bro being a moderately [...]
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