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A 73-year-old bar manager who illegally performed copyrighted tunes by the Beatles and other artists on the harmonica was arrested Thursday on suspicion of violating the Copyright Law, police said.
In the future, if you plan on shredding “Stairway To Heaven” riffs on your porch, prepare to pony up to these poor, starving record executives.

The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump
From the bold to the beautiful, from the wicked to the wise, every day the Wikipedia team relegates possibly “inappropriate” submissions to the garbage dump of time. Here, we make selected rejects immortal and preserve them for posterity.

Is the Wikipedia sufficiently comprehensive to replace the tangible record of the past as a subject of study? According to the Wikipedia’s description of itself as of 18:14 UST on October 29, 2006 (the entry was last updated at 15:18 UST the same day), this most dynamic of all on-line resources currently hosts more […]

The Worst Of Wikipedia’s Edit Wars

This morning, I received this message in my Flickr inbox:
Hi holotone,
I am writing to let you know that one of your photos with a creative commons license has been short-listed for inclusion in our Schmap Boise Guide, to be published at the end of this month.
www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=***OBSFUCATED***
Clicking this link will take you to a page where […]

I am in the process of developing a website for a friend to archive his extensive, draw-dropping collection of kitschy, old-timey, and frankly, odd records. I mean, seriously wacky shit - The kind of audio I live for. Recently, we have been discussing the pros and cons of offering, in part or in whole, those […]