A new mailing list for practical conversations about syndication of audio and video. A place for publishers and consumers to coordinate. RSS 2.0 enclosures are central. RSS and Atom are directly relevant. Playlists may be relevant.

A simple, easy to enact, regulation-free solution: eliminate statutory damages for file sharing.

Attacks on the monitoring side of a compulsory licensing scheme will always be a worse business model than simply producing hit records. The music business exists as it is for a reason.

The labels want us to believe that we have to give up freedom to get music. EMusic shows that that's simply not true.

DRM in Microsoft WM9 SDK cracked using nothing but the vanilla WM9 API.

The RIAA follows up on promises to use harsher and harsher measures with a plan to sue thousands by the end of summer.

An economist who had previously argued that there was no evidence of filesharing hurting the CD business now says there is evidence.

WASTE is a tool for chat and IRC, with no more or less suport for filesharing than AIM. This is the most likely reason that AOL came down hard on the project.

The MusicBrainz audio metadata project is very clueful, but the song identifiers it uses are flawed. MusicBrainz attempts to use audio fingerprints as primary keys to link metadata from different rips of the same song. To do this it uses a toolkit called TRM from a company called Relatable. TRM ids have severe drawbacks.

From the abstract: "For such networks where loads can redistribute among the nodes, intentional attacks can lead to a cascade of overload failures, which can in turn cause the entire or a substantial part of the network to collapse."