The RIAA's habit of roping numerous unrelated defendants into a single "John Doe" lawsuit has drawn the attention of a federal magistrate—and not in a good way. In the case of Arista v. Does 1-27, a lawsuit targeting students at the University of Maine, Magistrate Judge Margaret J. Kravchuk suggests that the court look into imposing Rule 11 sanctions on the RIAA's legal team.

Swedish Prosecutor Roswall indicts four persons allegedly associated with the Prate Bay, but it is claimed site will continue to operate regardless of the outcome of the trial.

Hello everyone, if you're wondering where the other thread went, I accidently deleted it and since 70% of it wasn't really relevant anyway, I'm just going to start again. By all means, post problems here but please keep chatter to a minimum so we can keep it nice and clean.

Video on the Internet has gone from being the next big thing to the current big thing. But murky YouTube videos are just the start — there's a lot of room for improvement. A raft of startups are rushing to supply the tools to make better and more profitable video available. Nearly a dozen video-related startups will be presenting at the DEMO 08 technology conference, starting Monday in Palm Desert, Calif.

Update: February 4, 2008 @ 2:49 PM STATUS REPORT. We have moved files.dmusic.com to new servers. They are 16 gigs of RAM. However they only had the 32 bit kernel of Linux installed, which sees only 3 gigs. We are updating the kernel today.

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Here is a list of DMusic Artists' videos I have found: (Please alert me if you know any other vids from DMusic artists at YouTube, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, MySpace, etc.!)

Clive Thompson has a long feature in Fast Company about Duncan Watts, a researcher who disputes Malcolm Gladwell's vaunted "Tipping Point" model of how social ideas spread in society. [b]Long article, but interesting.[/b]