Jamendo, a music download site where the artists release their music under variations of the Creative Commons license. Has announced their revenue sharing program. This is completely awesome with artists getting 99.5% of donations to them and 50% of advertising revenues. Look at the image below, clicking on it will take you to Jamendo’s website on the subject.
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Jamendo, a music download site where the artists release their music under variations of the Creative Commons license. Has announced their revenue sharing program. This is completely awesome with artists getting 99.5% of donations to them and 50% of advertising revenues. Look at the image below, clicking on it will take you to Jamendo’s website on the subject.
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Almost, Not Yet is now OpenID enabled. So if you have an OpenID, you can use that to leave comments instead of filling out the normal form. Making a WordPress blog OpenID enabled is actually quite easy. I used the VerseLogic Open ID plugin for WordPress and edited the code it said I needed to edit in the README file. Like I said overall, it was very easy to implement into this theme.
I have discussed OpenID and its advantages on this website before here. If you are unfamiliar with OpenID, I suggest you read my article on it and look into getting your own OpenID.
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Michael Koby 
Sneaky DRM
If you browse any of the major technology websites of today, you probably notice a recurring theme among the users. If you look closely you will see that most of the people who frequent several technology sites have a mad hate for Digital Rights Management (DRM for short). Digital Rights Management is the technology employed by Apple and other online content retailers to limit the illegal copying of purchased digital content. For example, a song purchased off of Apple’s iTunes Store can only be authorized to play on five computers and can only be burned to CD a handful of times before it can not be burned anymore. The idea behind DRM is to prevent folks from putting the files on a file sharing service like Limewire.
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