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Well, it looks like you can't use a 30 second sample of a song as a ringtone, because, ya know, I make so much money when people hear my cellphone ringing. Clear channel is also doing their damnedest to prevent you from getting those live bootlegs that are oh-so-legal with permission from the band. However, fair use is still alive and well.

Case in point, the mp3 blog. We're all familiar with blogs (ummm, you're reading one now), but now, we have unashamed folks who are not afraid to provide you with a daily song that has been gracing their ears. Good stuff, big bands, and totally the definition of fair use. The average blog user has 12 readers... so... if I give one song to 12 people a day, that seems entirely fair, when compared to say, WOXY radio that had to shut down because it couldn't afford the licensing and bandwidth of its 50,000 listeners.

So, I love it! It's the best of fair use, with the peer spice. Now all we need, is about 3 kabillion more so that these brave souls aren't overloaded, or targetted otherwise.

-> No mp3 ringtones, aparently
-> RIP WOXY i will miss you dearly...
-> ClearChannel should have stayed fucking outdoors

Here's the mp3 blogs:
Please add your links to the comments!

• Fluxblog-one of the best
• Tofuhut-comprehensive and great
• TTIKTDA
• The Suburbs Are Killing Us
• Mystical Beast
• Freaky Trigger
• Tyrone Shoelaces
• Boom Selection
• Cocaine blunts and hip hop tapes
• Chromewaves
• Blahblog
• Punkassbitch
• Frank Payne
• Planet Blarg
• Bubblegum Machine
• Burned by the Sun
• copy, right?
• Do You Feel Loved?
• Dream Chimney
• Enthusiastic but mediocre
• Essele
• Badger Minor
• Fingertips Music
• gabba pod
• Global Pop Conspiracy
• Klepshimi
• Large hearted boy
• Moistworks
• music (for robots)
• new (ish)
• Nit-pick
• Oh Manchester
• Opacodex
• Moebius Rex
• Royal music
• Said the gramophone
• Sleeve Notes
• So This Is Love
• Soul Sides
• Talkie Walkie
• Thank Me For The Music
• The Daily Charlie
• totally fuzzy
• Zero-G
• Raymondo's dance-o-rama
• Daz Automatic
• Canto Do Leo(in Portuguese, some Brazilian music)
• Cuechamp
• Kempa
• listen closer
• La Blogotheque (in French)
• Bornbackwards
• Empty Free
• Ishib
• No Name
• WFMU's blast o' hot air
• Word in the alleys
• The Big Ticket
• birth-music-death
• Mystery and Misery
• Rock 'n' Roll in the Real World
• Retrolicious
• De Subjectivism
• Lost Bands
• Radio Babylon
• Dolby Surrender
• Modern Life is Rubbish (in Spanish, Zipped files)

via nevercamehome

Seems like in Columbus, about the only place you can get UF stuff is at the local head shop, so this is a bit strange:

-> Ultimate Frisbee leagues will now perform strict, Olympic-style drug testing on their "atheletes."

... via music for america

DJ Martian runs a nice little music blog... did I say little? It's actually a little overwhelming! If you're underwhelmed (w00t! Sloan!) with my page here, this guy... has some serious links.

-> djmartian.blogspot.com