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Creative Presents Cease-and-Desist Note to Developer Hero

After Vista's release, Creative's Audigy Sound Blaster series lost a lot of their in-built functionality. Developer, good-guy and all around hero, Daniel_K stepped up to the challenge, putting together his own drivers and asking for non-obligatory donations in recognition of his effort. Daniel_K's drivers restored functionality, and added some extra features to boot. That's great news, right? Apparently not; Creative is pissed. More »

12:00 PM on Sat Mar 29 2008
By Haroon Malik
19,049 views, 103 comments

greed

RIAA Wants to Cut Artist Royalties to 9%, Apple Wants Them at 4%, Artists Just Want to Eat

The RIAA always claims that its looking out for the livelihood of artists when it sues the hell out of alleged pirates, but in reality it's really fighting to keep record industry executives rich by defending an outdated and unsustainable business model. While before the PR team at least made an attempt to make it seem like artists were priority #1, they seem to have given up: the RIAA is now trying to cut down artist's royalties on digital downloads. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Adam Frucci
44,846 views, 110 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: @pandasonic: Dont say that we might cause giz their endorsement lolx. But thats totally raping the artists out of their money. I think apple should give their artists more of the money that they make. Isn't a song on itunes like a more »