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    Obsidian: The "big label" music industry is filled with "manufactured" pop artists who's claim to fame has more to do with marketing than actual talent. So of c... more »
    strider_mt2k: "Cue the "screw the RIAA" comments." What are you honestly expecting? I mean have you SEEN what's passing for comments these days? more »
    Riquez: Scary picture. The whole of that mans face is squished into the bottom half of his head & he has no chin. more »
    BK Beezy: I hate mp3s. HATEHATEHATE THEM. Unfortunately money is forcing me to download them. But I will always download the whole album, at least! more »
    The Lab: The article suggests the music industry caused piracy. Comments below suggest pirates caused piracy. I'm going to say there is a third option, it wa... more »
    tomsomething: Why single out the music industry for piracy? Audio compression caused piracy. Laws that lagged behind the digital age caused piracy. AOL and NetZero ... more »
    kustoo: Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. I can not tell you how sick and tired I am of all you 'tech' bloggers and journalist justifying piracy. Piracy didn't happ... more »
    superberg: Just listened to this interview earlier today, and I loved it. Something else important that he mentioned was the fall of radio: as the radio began to... more »
    deanbmmv: I'm currently quite liking streaming services like Spotify. They are free (or pay if you want), got a decent range of music as well as recomnetiaond o... more »
    ColonelGentleman: Don't get me wrong, I think the RIAA can sit and spin, but I'm not following the Prince and Bowie logic. How does good music not being on the radio l... more »
  • #digitalmusic

    Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn't the Way Out

    Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn't their savior. More »
  • #apple

    iPhone 2.2 Screenshots Show Full Podcast Interface, Polished Store App

    New screenshots of the new iPhone operating system update keep leaking from obscure European sites, where they have no respect for NDAs and cheddar cheese. These ones reveal the fully polished over-the-air podcast interface. We got a glimpse of it before—in the iPhone OS 2.2 rumor round-up—but these show the whole whole thing, including the downloading process over the 3G network. There's a catch, however. More »
  • #podcast

    CastGrabber Snags Podcasts Without a PC

    If you have an iPod or any portable media player that uses the media transfer protocol, or MTP), you might be interested in the CastGrabber, a charger that can download podcasts and place them directly on the player without using a PC. It even works with iTunes. More »
  • #gadgets

    Marantz PMD620 Professional Handheld Field Recorder Might Sound as Good as It Looks

    It's hard to tell from this pic of the $400 Marantz PMD620 Professional Handheld Field Recorder, but this relatively small solid-state device is slightly larger than a deck of cards. Despite its diminutive stature, it's packing pro-level features that podcasters will like, recording MP3 or WAV files in 16- or 24-bit rez. Its display screen uses OLEDs just like many cellphones, and it's got a couple of high-quality omnidirectional condenser mics built into the top. If you don't like those, you can plug in your own external mic, albeit with a 1/8" input, not XLR (so much for that "Professional" braggadocio). The feature we like the most besides its good looks and compact size? It uses either SD or SDHC flash memory cards. Look for it to ship in November. [BB Gadgets]
  • #announcements

    Coolness Roundup on Sirius: Best of CES and More

    Join the Gurus of Cool for Coolness Roundup, as they rip through the best stuff of CES 2007. Gizmodo's Charlie White along with Stephen Schleicher of Major Spoilers fill you in on the clash between plasma and LCD TVs at the annual consumerfest, digital picture frames, running robots, that babe with the skins mobile cell phone condoms, and what it's like to use EV-DO while running all over the show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center. More »
  • #gadgets

    Coolness Roundup to Premiere on Sirius Satellite Radio Tonight

    Don't miss the big satellite radio debut of the Coolness Roundup, the weekly gadget program which we like to call "the tech show for everyone." My gizmo-obsessed buddy Stephen Schleicher and I have been doing the half-hour show as a podcast for a year and a half, and now it's been picked up by Sirius Satellite Radio as a weekly radio series. More »
  • #cellphones

    Kevin Rose on the iPhone: "It's Gonna Be Small as Shit"

    In case you didn't catch the Diggnation podcast we told you about earlier, here's a video recap of Kevin Rose's iPhone leak. Host Alex Albrecht had to pull teeth to get Rose to talk, but eventually he succeeds and gets Rose to admit that the phone will be running a mini version of OS X and include a slide out keyboard and a touch screen, yet still be "small as shit." Pricing will be $249 for the 4GB model and $449 for the 8GB version. We're only weeks away from knowing the full truth, so you may want to take it with a grain of salt. – Louis Ramirez More »
  • #homeentertainment

    John Romano, Get Off My Speakers

    Here's a bit of weirdness for you on a Friday afternoon. I was setting up a set of Dell monitor-attached speakers just now, hooking it up to a Dell monitor and a PowerBook. Everything connected fine, but then I discovered that if I turned the volume knob all the way up on the speakers, U2 would come on. That's weird, I thought, since I didn't even have that song. More »
  • #announcements

    Gizmodo Skypecast Podcast Now On iTunes

    Good news for iTunes users—our podcast is now up! Click this link here: linky linky, and be directed to our podcast on iTunes. More »
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    Gizmodo Skypecast Podcast

    Readers who missed the Skypecast or just want to hear it again—we've got sexy, sexy voices—we've set up a podcast. It's not quite up on iTunes yet, but for you impatient types or those who don't use iTunes, add this feed to your podcast application: More »
  • #portablemedia

    ReFrederator, The Free Daily Cartoon Podcast

    If we could have a crush on a podcast, we would be totally crushing out right now all over the recently launched ReFrederator, which puts out a classic cartoon every single day. Some of them star the likes of Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Daffy Duck, Betty Boop, Porky Pig, Donald Duck and Felix the Cat—ah, the beauty of things returning to the public domain—and others feature fairy tales and musicals. More »
  • #gadgets

    Podcast Beats Out Bird Flu for Word of the Year

    To be honest, I don't know which I'm more sick of hearing about, Podcasts or Bird Flu. But I guess the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary didn't want to be alarmist this year and decided to go with "Podcast" as the Word of the Year. Along with Bird Flu, the other runner up was IED (improvised explosive device). Fun. More »