Free Music Downloads!
An internet citizen flying by the name of “john” just posted a reply to a 3-year old blog piece, titled, The Music Pirate Police are Now Mounted! A bit of a scare piece about copyright reforms in Canada which were eventually overturned and later ratcheted up several notches into what has become a terrifying legal miasma called Bill C-61. If you haven’t read about how your rights are about to be deleted, please take a gander at Michael Geist’s excellent blog and read up on the matter. You really should. Better yet, read the bill itself and form your own opinions.
I will post john’s comment here, in it’s entirety, unadulterated:
too may people are ruining the music and film industry due to the lack of respect for artists’ work. Their penny pinching. Being able to pick up a CD every once in a while to support your favorite artists would not have such an impact on your wallets and if you can’t afford to buy then you shouldn’t be burning period because if your able to burn music so easily on a nice shiny computer, you certainly had the money for that computer now,
Headphones Part 2 - Shure SE530
A few weeks ago, I posted the first of a three-part headphone review. This is the second.
For the past five years or so, the Shure E3 headphones (now called SCL3) had been my sound delivery weapon of choice for serious business. Developed for stage use, they quickly became popularized for portable audio for their excellent 30db attenuation of outside sound and crisp sound quality. Some criticized them for less than impressive bass performance, perhaps with good reason. But the super-detailed middle and high ranges more than made up for it for me. The phones were updated about a year after I bought mine, becoming the E3Cs and available for the first time in white to appeal to the white headset crowd. Later they were joined with the E4s to round out the line and give people an option between the E3s and the really pricey E5s. This is somewhat surprising considering these are considered professional equipment for performing musicians, but obviously, people were buying them in enough quantity for Shure to notice and shift their marketing to accomodate.
These types of ‘phones are not without their drawbacks though. Inserting them into your ears required
