*** removes feather from ass *** I agree that sharing music is a good way to get the word out about peoples new stuff and what not but, I have friends who put out stuff that I buy from them because I know how they feel about it. I don’t know how I feel about major artists who make a gazillion dollars more than I will ever make in my entire life music being downloaded. Honestly, I’m tired of replacing my music. going from 8-track, to cassette, to cd… and some I’m going to have to replace because of cd rot… it’s like geez. How many times have I had to replace my music? As for whether or not I support the artists by other means, I’ve bought gear from my friends with their logos, I’ve bought their albums at the festivals they perform at, yah.. I support them BUT, I still dont download their stuff. I’m wierd that way with them but I’m not with major recording artists.

If D.C. is worried about people “stealing” his music, why is he giving it away on his own site?

http://www.dcanderson.net/dcanderson/listen.html

LAME on the hate mail from Edmonton!

Seriously, most of us love The Gay.

Also, I saw phantom, and it was fantastic! Awesome awesome awesome work.

Downloading is still limited in most places in the world. In Taiwan we can’t download anything from iTunes, Amazon or anywhere else. Because of piracy issues, they simply don’t trust us I guess. I’m dying to buy individual songs online but I can’t.

I was however, able to buy the new Radiohead cd directly from their website. I’m looking forward to the day when all music can be bought directly from the websites and not through sites I can’t buy from like iTunes.

I just realized that I should not have used the term “deplorable”. There are many things worse than justifying an action. I don’t think it’s fair but it’s hardly deplorable. My apologies if I offended anyone. It was not my intention.

DC’s music is fun and light! I really enjoyed it. And I always enjoy listening to Greg Shapiro. Just a smart guy…

In terms of the subject of downloading music, I have to say I agree with both Fausto and DC. I think it sucks that the system is stacked against the small independent artist. The law only benefits an artist who has the means to sue, like major record labels or artists like Madonna or Metallica. For artists like DC, where the price of the album actually goes to the artist AND its actually alot of money to them, they could never enforce their copyrights as artists.

But I’m marching out to buy DC’s music right now!!

Hey guys, excellent show as always.

I work for a domain name registrar, so I thought I could offer you some advice on the whole feastoffools.com issue, and I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.

If the Feast of Fools was a trademark, then you could try to reclaim the domain name via the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) - which every domain registrar needs to adhere to - via an agreement with, or court action against the current registrant. At a basic level, you’d need to prove that the current registrant is abusing the domain name and taking business away from you.

Unfortunately in this case, the current registrant is not abusing the domain name and is, in fact, bringing business to you by redirecting to your site after displaying a message that the domain name is for sale.

Because of the way gTLD domains (.com, .net, .org etc) are governed, anyone can register any name (unless it’s a trademark etc) and are perfectly within in their rights to on-sell that domain for whatever price they want. As an example, creditcards.com was sold in 2004 for a whopping $US 2.75 million!

This means that the only thing you can do is wait until the domain name license expires (05 Jan 2009) and hope the current registrant doesn’t renew it. Many domain registrars offer a tracking service to let you know if/when the domain name has expired and whether or not you can register it.

All in all, as you said on the show, it’s probably too much hassle to be worth following it up, but good luck if you do.

Brad

As a person who “steals” music I am sure I spend many times more per year on music related purchases than anyone else on this forum. I work at a record store. Music is my livelyhood. I deal with the asinine thinking of the record companys daily. Itunes drm protects a large amount of their music and when I switched to open source software I could no longer even access these songs(luckily I found out how to crack the drm without losing sound quality) Recently when Oink.cd went down which was one of the largest private torrent trackers for music a member of that website Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) came out and said that it was a shame such a place was taken away. It was a form of book burning in my opinion. Oink.cd was one of the greatest archives of musical history that existed. The record companies again failed with this takedown since now the torrent community has just moved to sweedish servers which are in neutral gorund and they have also created multiple databases thus making a “hydra” of sites which cannot be taken down. The way in which information is sent and received has changed. Time to come up with a new way to make your product feasible or jump ship. In the long run sharing of music whether it be with one or one hundred is still that sharing, and it will lead to nothing but more music fans and greater varities of music. The big record companies are dying and this is only by their own choice.

There are some things that are out of print that I’ve put on cassettes because I don’t have a way to hook up my turntable to my computer or I’d load them on my big fatty. Not to mention the stuff my parents have on Reel to Reel. *sigh* DAMN YOU RAI!!!!

great show! very entertaining..he was a lot of fun….

and as for the music sharing thing… i’ll admit that i do it religiously. >_> but… sometimes i only download a few songs of a artist because i don’t want to buy the whole album…or there is some music that i have a lot of (techno and classical music) that isn’t always easy to find on CDs..and i may just wanna pick and choose certain songs…
but lately, i’ve gotten into downloading entire albums by using a torrent….now sometimes i feel guilty about doing this.. but most of the time i am skeptical to whether or not i will enjoy the entire album, and every second of each song, cos sometimes the 30 second previews don’t cut it for me..so i’ll resort to downloading the album instead.

i used to buy from iTunes cos you could get albums cheaper that way.. but i don’t trust them anymore after seeing random charges on the credit card bill every month…

but there are artists that i have been a huge fan of for years, and i always buy the hard copy of their album at the store, or thru amazon. and its interesting you guys mentioned the Radiohead thing.. when i found out about their new album, and went on the site…when it said you decide how much money you wanna pay for it i was stunned. i could have given nothing, but that wouldn’t be fair… so since the album was very short, and i had heard no previews of any of the songs, i gave them a little over 4 bucks which would equate to over 8 pounds for the band.

but as to music sharing in general…i think its good to support the musicians by buying their albums, but sometimes its easier to just download it…..ah dunno.. its hard for me to give a strong opinion since i do it myself. :/

Great show (as if there was any doubt!) Just to let you all know that the MP3s that are for sale on that big .com place you mentioned today are actually made available by the record labels and “big .com place” sets up a contract and pretty much lets the labels set the prices…for the most part, but it’s not like I have “inside” information *wink. DC, loved the chocolate song and the cupcake song…or was that the song about someone’s mom…damn, I have to listen to it again. Can’t wait for tomorrows show. ^_^

Oh and great show by the way greg is always awesome! Marc and Fasuto have very energy when he is on. I love it

Excellent show. I think that illegally downloading music most likely affects the record companies the most and not the artist, unless it is an independent unsigned artist. I do not like downloading from itunes, because I do not like the limitations they put on the number of machines you can play a song. (however, I recently discovered that if you reach the maximum of 5 authorized computers. Itunes does give you the option to deauthorize all computers which can be done once a year)

I have recently joined a different mp3 music store that showcases indie artists and only charges about 50 cents a song and has no restrictions. I enjoy this site a lot because it has helped me discover a lot of new music by artists I have never heard of. I really feel that with the internet and mp3s artist should be moving towards selling the music themselves and really getting the money they deserve. I recently downloaded Saul Williams: Niggy Tardust which was available at any price you wanted to pay. I ended up giving $6, which is probably much more than the artist would have received from a record label.

I used to download a lot of pirated music and I am glad I did not pay for it because most of what I downloaded, I have only listened to a couple times. When I have found artists that I really enjoy, and if I find that I listen to it more than a dozen times, or add it to one of my favorites play list, then I do either purchase the cd or mp3s online. I think if you listen to an illegally downloaded mp3 say 6 times then it is no more harmful than listening to the same song on the radio 6 times.

Kudos on an excellent show guys

I think FOF should trademark their logo and register some kind of copyright on their podcast name or something.

But not my initial point. Did Fausto mention something about An American Tail being made into a musical? Is that for real? I could find it with Google…

And I was supercompletelytotallywholeheartedly in LOVE with that movie as a kid. And all of those sappy Don Bluth movies featuring all kind of odd sort-of disneyesque-but-not-quite characters.

What’s important to understand about the fat-cat recording industry people you seem to hate- if you think you’re just trying to get back at them by stealing songs, you’re still harming the artist, because with the prospect of making less sales, the recording companies make fewer recordings. And it’s not Madonna or 50cent or the big guys who are most hit, again, it’s the lesser-known independant artists who won’t get a chance to start out because of the shit financial situation caused by YOU dickheads who steal music. IT STILL HARMS THE ARTIST– DON’T FUCKING STEAL MUSIC!!!!!!! Give something back, guys- do the right thing.

Why, YUM, don’t mind if I steal Aussieman…

I do agree with Aussieman. If you want the Music then it is only right to pay for it!

thanks for bringing this great artist to my attention! and Fausto I agree with F*** Tony Kushner - I love your sidesplitting antics!

I listened to this yesterday on the way home and I really enjoyed the music. Thank you!