April 29, 2008 6:45 PM PDT

Court rejects RIAA's 'making available' piracy argument

Posted by Steven Musil

The recording industry's music piracy fight was dealt a setback Tuesday when a federal judge rejected the RIAA's "making available" argument in a lawsuit against a husband and wife accused of copyright infringement.

In Atlantic v. Howell, Judge Neil V. Wake denied the labels' motion for summary judgment in a 17-page decision (PDF), allowing the suit to proceed to trial. The argument–that merely the act of making music files available for download constituted copyright infringement–has been the basis for the Recording Industry Association…

From Witch's MySpace page:

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'Paralyzed' out March 18, 2008 on Tee Pee Records…. Witch is no 'indie metal super-group' or side project. To prescribe such journalistic stigmas would be to underestimate the commitment of Witch's members. After their self-titled debut in 2006, Witch returned to the studio to work on their sophomore album, 'Paralyzed'. The new album, to be released this spring on Tee Pee Records, remains true to the classic heavy rock sound of the first, but has evolved as the band has learned to play to each other's strengths. The Vermont/Western Mass based…

By Saul Hansell

CBS has become the first company to create what is clearly the future of music online: a site where you can listen to any song you want free, supported by advertising. The company is doing that with the latest version of Last.FM, the online radio site it bought last year. (Press release here.)

Unlike so many music services, this appears to be simple in the way that users would want. Go to the last.fm site. Search for an artist. Click on a song. Listen. See an ad on the screen.

CBS is perhaps in a better position…

Progressive Rock pioneers, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, deserve a group worthy of their status.

They have had a group here for awhile, but it's been abandoned and is pretty much dead.

Well now there is an all new group for ELP fans, the Emerson, Lake & Palmer group. Yes, it's even grammatically correct. ;)

This group promises to be the place for ELP fans to hang out on Last.fm, so please, if you're a fan, I welcome you with open arms!

Duckman Coming to DVD!

This is easily one of my top-five favorite shows of all time, and I've been waiting a long time for this announcement. I'm so excited, money will be no object in this case!

This is a sequel to a journal written on my previous account here.

To recap, I was listening to Black Sabbath, and it struck me as odd that they had not only an album, but a track named after themselves.

So the point of this exercise is to discover other artists that have done the same. Here is what I have so far:

Abydos - Abydos - Abydos

Angel Witch - Angel Witch - Angel Witch

Animations - Animations - Animations

Bad Company - Bad Company - Bad Company

Bad Religion - Bad Religion - Bad Religion

Blackfield - Blackfield…