The allegedly talking music firms issued denials, vague non-committal confirmations or a nice neat “no comment”. So I won’t be partaking in all the Glasto nonsense, 40th birthday or not. Boy, those Google folks just can’t catch a break. First, a download option will be added to enhanced music searches which, in the US, already provide streaming previews when you search for artists or songs. The club’s administrators and management both confirmed this to be so yesterday, so it is business as usual at the popular venue. Google called the 30-page ruling ‘thoughtful, thorough and well-considered’. Now that’s been granted, the French three-strikes system for combating piracy is almost ready to go, pending a little bit of government paperwork. But Google general counsel Kent Walker, in a blog posting, said the decision “is an important victory not just for us, but also for the billions of people around the world who use the Web to communicate and share experiences.” Groups that want to promote widespread Internet use also applauded the ruling, saying that most websites don’t have the resources to determine whether user-supplied videos violate the law. “As the law now stands, prompt compliance with take-down notices shields an online service provider from liability,” says Sherwin Siy, deputy legal director of Public Knowledge, an activist group that encourages citizen access to media.

Although Google has no ties to any of the file-sharing websites, BPI is holding the company responsible because its search engine directs users to such sites. Team CMU will have their eyes on the proceedings though, and we’ll be keeping a good watch on the other big festival this weekend too, London’s Hard Rock Calling. Legal scholars predicted the outcome of this landmark suit would determine who profited the most from content: the people who pay for its creation, or the people who pay for its creation, or the people who help disseminate it over the Web. The judge ruled that damages were not available for content produced outside America. Every minute of the day, people post 24 hours’ worth of videos to YouTube, the ruling noted.

It can’t all fall on the shoulders of third-party host services.” Tom Sydnor, a senior fellow who heads up studies digital property issues at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, said he expects Stanton’s decision to be reversed. The judge agreed. “If a service provider knows of specific instances of infringement, the provider must promptly remove the infringing material,” Stanton wrote. “If not, the burden is on the owner to identify the infringement. Google is a hot topic on the interwebs these days. We reported last week that the troubled London club had reportedly come out of administration, with the clubbing company’s assets having been sold to a new business entity called Fabric Life, which was incorporated in May. General knowledge that infringement is ‘ubiquitous’ does not impose a duty on the service provider to monitor or search its service for infringements.” This seems to indicate that YouTube and Google may not be required to employ filtering technologies. “What this court seems to be saying is that it is not a game of perfect,” Howell said.

That’s right, search for a TV show or movie title now surfaces extra data. After all, this vertical is devoted to entertainment. Story telling has been community experience from the start of time. There’s nothing better than watching a basketball game and talking to people about it … but I think we should accept that the audience has a voice with their dollars but let’s not say they have a right to how it will end. Lady Gaga, who is very good, has 220 billion hits on one video and total income from streaming last year was $10,000.

Biz says notice many TV shows before about to air start to trend. Much more. Thinks it’s a very good thing. A query for “r.e.m. radio free europe lyrics,” for instance, will connect you to a page with the song’s inscrutable verbiage (“Keep me out of country in the word”) and an option to listen to the 1983 recording. Searches for “Mad Men” and “The Office,” however, yielded nothing special. One percent at best. Entertaining people is wasting their time. Hmm. I will definitely try out Bing Entertainment for a week or two to see how I like it.

World is changing, internet has opened up many new options and channels. This helps close the gap for production where you can’t get direct feedback as in a theater.

Tahts’ somehting dangerous for society.

Kathryn says had movie with limited marketing profile. Our focus was on making it easy – if you can type what you want, we’ll make it easy to click and listen, click and play and watch.” Music, movies, gaming and television are four investment areas. Ryan, doesn’t it make you a little happy to know the audience is engaged.

TV and Movie listings are also vastly improved over what you’d find on Google. Joseph talking about HD film but says he loves that two people can make a movie and not having to hit mark, that you can play from her, events where she’ll be singing at, recent tweets about her. Entertainment aggregates multimedia content to a safe zone in an accessible and fun way.

That said, the relaunch of the search site as Bing in mid-2009 was a positive move. Can they take power of search and marry it with the pleasure of the play button. “If you can type what you want, we’ll make it easy to click and listen, click and play and watch.” Music, movies, gaming and television are four investment areas. Ryan, doesn’t it make you a little happy to know the audience is engaged. TV and Movie listings are also vastly improved over what you’d find on Google. Joseph talking about HD film but says he loves that two people can make a movie and not having to hit mark, that you can just run around. “There’s good stuff too with ugly video.” Todd says most exciting thing to him is the access it gives new people. There’s back channel of knowing what people are watching or searching on.

People in the know also say the industry is also shifting, albeit ever so slowly, to services such as Hunch, Aardvark and the new, cash-laden Quora from top Facebook engineers. There will be no music industry unless there’s an investment. Historically, Microsoft has been a leader in desktop software. And you can buy it. Bold goal, and lots of work still to do. But if you’re hard core, can do searches like Halo ODST and get things like reviews or walkthroughs or get cheat codes.

Does a search for her, get what they call the Bing Box that has songs that you can just run around. “There’s good stuff too with ugly video.” Todd says most exciting thing to him is the access it gives new people. There’s back channel of telling you what they think and the back back channel of knowing what people are watching or searching on.

People in the know also say the industry is also shifting, albeit ever so slowly, to services such as Hunch, Aardvark and the new, cash-laden Quora from top Facebook engineers. There will be no music industry unless there’s an investment. Historically, Microsoft has been a leader in desktop software. And you can buy it. Bold goal, and lots of work still to do.

Thanks to the reader who emailed me this mosh pit photo.
I am going to post more mosh pit photos like this one.

Greg describes it with these words:

During Devildriver`s set@ LochNess club

Click to visit the original album on the small chance that everyone is always asking.

Can someone discuss this in a mature way?

Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Friends Ready for Nashville Rising Concert
When Tim McGraw and Faith Hill began planning a concert to raise money for flood relief efforts in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, they asked their friends to help. Those friends are gathering Tuesday night (June 22) for one of the biggest country music shows to ever hit Nashville.

The concert, Nashville Rising: A Benefit for Flood Recovery, will feature Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, Montgomery Gentry, Amy Grant, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Julie Roberts, Blake Shelton, Michael W. Smith, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and ZZ Top.

The sold-out concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena is projected to raise between $2 million and $3 million for the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in its efforts to rebuild lives disrupted by the disaster.

During a Monday afternoon (June 21) interview session with syndicated radio reporters, McGraw and Hill said the devastation that hit Middle Tennessee also served as a reminder of the spirit of the community.

“It’s so tragic what happened to this city, but it couldn’t have happened at a better place — if it was going to have to happen — because the community in this town just pulls together in a way like I’ve never seen anyplace,” Hill said.

“It’s a very hardworking town,” McGraw noted. “Everybody works hard here. It’s grown a lot since I’ve been here, but it’s still a small town, really, at its core. When you’re in a small town, if you don’t know somebody, you feel like you do. The neighborhoods are so tight. Instantly, with no thought about it, everybody was helping each other. I think the reason there wasn’t a lot of press about it is that there wasn’t looting, people weren’t breaking into people’s houses. People were taking care of each other.”

McGraw said the fundraising concert was the one thing they knew they could do to help.

“It’s what we do,” he said. “We’re not brain surgeons. We’re not the smartest people in the world.”

“Speak for yourself,” Hill interjected with a laugh.

“Well, you’re pretty smart,” McGraw replied. “You married me. Yeah, right. … But what we can do is we can organize something like this. We’ve got great people who work for us who do a great job of organizing things. We’ve got friends who, if we call them up, will show up to do this. Plus, they live here, and they want to help their community, too.”

Regardless of anyone’s income or extent of their loss, fans and country artists have a shared experience as a result of the flood that hit the area in early May. Hill said the concert will reflect that.

“I think it’s going to unify this town even more,” she said. “I feel like there’s going to be a sense that we’ve all experienced something together. I know there’s a lot of people coming from out of town, but there’s also a lot of people from Nashville and the surrounding area that will be at the show. … Some of the people performing on the stage lost everything, equipment-wise. And the people in the audience, there’s going to be a lot out there who have lost a lot of things.

“So I think it’s one of those rare moments that we’ve experienced the same thing and can relate to something that has brought us all together. …. There’s a lot of hardships out there still, and there will be for months, if not years, to come for a lot of people. But we’re going to try to give them a great show. All of us love this town so much. I think you’ll see that great sense of pride and community.”

Although McGraw says they began initial plans for the concert while the flood water was still rising, they wanted to schedule the concert when it would be most beneficial to the community.

“We knew there were other things fundraisers going on, and we didn’t want to get in anybody’s way, of course,” he said. “It’s better to spread them all out so everybody can raise the most money. But we felt there would be a point where it sort of seemed like people might have lost a little interest. We wanted to be right at the edge of that point where we could remind everyone that there’s still people who need help out there.

“Also, it gives you a good idea of who’s falling through the cracks when you wait a little bit longer to raise money. You sort of see how it’s unfolding. There’s some FEMA help and insurance companies — who knows what’s going to happen with that — but there are people who are not going to fill their papers out right or they’re not going to get stuff turned in on time. There are going to be people who never filled out papers at all. They’re going to fall through the cracks. It’s probably a good thing that it’s a little farther away from the actual event so you can see what’s going on.”

All of the performers at the concert are expected to perform two songs each with backing from McGraw’s band, the Dancehall Doctors.

“They’re learning all these songs,” he said. “They’ve been rehearsing over the last two or three weeks at soundchecks while we’ve been on the road. When we’ve been off the road for a day or two, they went straight into rehearsal halls and learned songs. They’ve been working hard, and I’m proud of them.”

McGraw says his band members see the concert as their way to contribute to the cause, although he also suggests they could have an additional motive.

“They’re having fun,” he said. “They’re tired of me. They get to work with somebody else for a change.”

Drake concert ends in chaos at South Street Seaport

Any time you bring in one of the hottest rappers in the game like Drake to New York City then there’s bound to be a big turnout. When you put it somewhere as easily accessible as South Street Seaport and make it free your bound to get a near riot on your hand.

   Guess what?  That’s what happened. Overcrowding and a cancelled Drake show lead to a near riot. Drake and Hanson weret to perform a free concert with Hanson at South Street Seaport on Tuesday, June 15th for Paper magazine. Paper is a NYC website for the arts, fashion and nightlife.  The venue expected 10,000 people. More like 25,000 people descended on the Seaport.   It didn’t take long from the overcrowding for people to begin to get anxious and downright rowdy.

Reports of bottles being broken over people’s head, fights, and pushing were rampant. I ran into tourists on tour buses and they complained of an out of control concert scene going violently awry quickly. It suprised none of them of the reports of mayhem the following morning they saw people becoming pretty pertubed at the events.

Only 2 actual people were arrested and 7 injured. I’m pretty sure it was more people than that acting up though. The two they caught were the ones visibly throwing chairs and bottles. Its harder to catch people just shoving folks for the heck of it.

  Only the DJ, Ninjasonik actually took the stage. After that the overcrowding became unbearable and cops shut it down.   The police had 5 helicopters over the area by the time the crowd was being dispersed.

 Paper Magazine feels that word got out on the street, probably via radio and moved up the number of people estimated to show. Its funny that a blog is a little upset that the radio got word out on their event. Actually I don’t think they are. Paper magazine just got a lot of free advertising for people to visit their blog.

    Here’s a word of fact of going to shows. Stick with the Martin Luther King concert series in Wingate Park, Brooklyn and SummerStage in Central Park. Some of these people don’t have crowd control down and it can get dangerous. This is not Drake’s fault, or Hip Hop’s or his fans. Get 25,000 people where only 10,000 should be and you’ll get the same problem, regardless of musical tastes.

A little rain wanted for Bonnaroo

MANCHESTER Overheated concert-goers might be wishing for rain just to cool things off as the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival ends today.

Air-conditioned medical tents were treating about 25 percent more people than in past years, estimated Carl Monzo, director for Bonnaroos Emergency Medical Services.

Its a luxury out here. Its a nice place to rest, get water and cool off, he said, noting that the average person stays only about 15 minutes. They want to get back out and see the bands on their agenda for the day. They have their days here all planned out.

As of noon Saturday, 26 people were transported to area hospitals for heat-related emergencies or for other injuries, such as sprained ankles, that could not be treated on site.

Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves, who has worked each of the previous eight festivals, said it more uncomfortable than past years.

All I really know is theyve had several incidents of people collapsing from the heat, he said. Weve had a heat index over 100 (degrees) two days in a row and not a lot of showers to cool things down.

There is a 30 percent chance of rain today in Manchester, and though no record highs are expected, the heat index is about 104 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

Aside from the weather, Graves said the number of arrests this year are pretty typical. More than 50 people had been arrested for disorderly and drug-related charges. Graves said Coffee County General Sessions court scheduled a day, Sept. 24, separate from the regular docket, just to deal with Bonnaroo arrests.

Its a nightmare, Graves said. Our court docket is probably gonna have more than 200 people on it.

When I’m really bored at work I click through “mosh pit” photos online.

we survived the mosh pit of people. HAWKSSSSS. ?

Here’s the album that this mosh pit picture was taken from because people are always asking me!

Was this photo of mosh pit was worth seeing?