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News Archive -- 2007 Criminalizing the Pursuit of Happiness McCartney's Indie Debut Rolling Stone Fails History Exam New Bogus Copyright Threat: Guitar Lessons Universities to RIAA: Take a Hike Why Prince's Free CD Was Genius Copyright Office Fails Mission Again Apple's Bizarre Antitrust Problem In the Eye of a Hurricane Copyright Office Violating Copyright Law WTF?!? RIAA Wins Trial, $222k Piracy or Pathetic Paucity of Product? RIAA Juror: 'We Wanted to Send a Message' Don't Like the RIAA? DELETE Them From P2P The RIAA vs. the World The Cartel That Couldn't Think Straight Led Zeppelin: Old Dudes That Can Still Rock October 25 -- Wisdom in the Great White North October 30 -- Clear Channel's Silly Springsteen Ban November 3 -- EMI's New Owner Threatens Artists - Or Not November 8 -- Praise for Prince Was Mistake November 12 -- Dear Congress: Are You Insane??? It's a rhetorical question. They want to take away the financial aid of all students attending universities that do not subscribe to RIAA-endorsed music services. November 16 -- Downloading Is Not Theft v2.0 November 17 -- Columbia House's Debt Scavengers November 20 -- Bronfman's Phony Surrender November 28 -- Yahoo, Sony Rewrite Law? Or Terminology? "You make a video with a recent Bob Dylan song on the soundtrack, and upload it to Yahoo Video. Using such copyrighted material in user-generated content for Yahoo might now be legal, following an agreement announced between Sony BMG and Yahoo." If I put the same video described above on this site, it would not be described as "legal" by Sony. Because the law hasn't changed. Saying so seems deceptive. (Read More) November 28 -- Yes, They Really ARE That Stupid If you watch the music industry too closely, you tend to get the mistaken impression that there is some sort of master evil plan that the international cartel has going that will, in the long run, make some sort of twisted sense. There is no master plan. There isn't any plan at all, which is a sure sign that the artists don't need them any longer. (Read More) November 30 -- Radiohead, Prince Snubbed By Brit Awards December 5 -- This, That and the Other Thing Tom Petty's movie, Guitar Hero III and Rock Band games, CD sales, Jammie Thomas, RIAA v Limewire, and a few notes on the Rock History research. December 13 -- Warner Music Screws Led Zeppelin Fans December 22 -- RIAA Gives Last-Minute Christmas Gift December 26 -- Someone is Murdering Mexico's Musicians December 31 -- Year of Living Ludicrously December 31 -- Harvard -- Music's Legal Hero of 2007