September 30, 2002

AntiTrust Damages for Music CDs

Although this antitrust settlement for CDs costs $75 Million, Artists will benefit from it, because their market will be free.

... Trust me, this is just the tip of the iceberg...

September 27, 2002

Bin Laden Linked To Saddam Hussein

Condoleeza Rice says the details of contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraq will be released later.

I'm going to be scanning the Net for the details.

UPDATE: 9/28/02 1:58 AM OK, it's been a long day, but here's what I've got.

The Iraq link that's going to be reported is a collaboration between:

- the chief of the Iraqi SSO, Qusai Hussein, the dictator's son.

- Dr Ayman El-Zwahiri, the Egyptian who appears to use Bin Laden as a puppet by administering mind-altering drugs,

- the Lebanese security expert, Imad Mughniyeh, who had previously masterminded the hijacking of an India Airlines flight using nearly identical techniques, including a stabbing of the stewardess with box-cutters,

Here's a photo of Mughniyeh, although he's undergone plastic surgery twice since this was taken and is now unrecognizable.

The conspiracy may also involve a captured Iraqi Intelligence agent named Salah Suleiman, who was a go-between in the scheme.

Here's a report of links going back 6 years:
Intelligence Report linking Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein

What about Al Qaeda and Iran? Imad Mughniyeh had safe haven in Iran until October of last year, when the Iranian government asked him to leave under pressure from the US.

In case, you're wondering I find this stuff by analyzing files for something called steganography. Steganography is a way of hiding data inside of mp3s and photos. If people are interested I'll explain more about it.

I'll try to find more tomorrow. I'll also post links and such. Night for now!

- by Aimee Deep at 08:42 AM |

September 25, 2002

SEC Investigates Big Media Scam

I can tell you from personal experience that these Big Media companies try to coerce you into a scam like this one, involving AOL, which Attorney General Ashcroft is set to announce today.

And this is what Big Media calls a licensing deal!

What happens is, if you won't agree to their scam "licensing deal", then they use all their combined legal power to sue!

If anyone at the SEC now investigating this wants more information, I'd like to help.

And artists, please look at what these corporate super-powers are really doing to us - they don't care at all about copyright or artists' rights.

They only care about corporate greed and control.

- by Aimee Deep at 06:26 AM |

September 24, 2002

Thank You, David Boies, For Everything

I first met David Boies at his 60th Birthday party at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Everybody was there, everybody - from Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, to the heads of Sony, AOL and Bertelsmann, with a featured presentation from Al Gore, whom David Boies had just represented in the contested Presidential election - all of them calling themselves the FOB, or Friends of Boies. I wore a long black Galliano dress and high-heel Manolo Blahnik shoes - the same dress and shoes that would only a week or so later create such a sensation when I posed in them for the new software Aimster, named for me.

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- by Aimee Deep at 01:16 PM |

September 17, 2002

Musicians are Revolting

"The record companies are like cartels, like countries, for God's sake," singer/songwriter Tom Waits says. "It's a nightmare to be trapped in one."
(link thanks to the InstaPundit blog of Recording Academy Member Glenn Reynolds of Mobius Dick).

Are there artists who would try out our new FairPlay software for promoting and distributing music directly from artists to their audience? Some of the advantages of FairPlay are:

You'll have instant access to all the largest file-sharing networks,

You can control how you distribute your music, whether free or fee.

You can charge for your music on your own terms - no matter how creative your terms are.

And finally, you won't have to be trapped in a nightmare of a Record Company.

Please write to me if you'd like to try it out. No cost to you, risk-free. We'll give you instant reports on how you're doing, and if you've got a website we'll drive traffic there, too.

Artists and fans, we can do it together.

- by Aimee Deep at 10:38 AM |

September 14, 2002

BIN LADEN IS DEAD

MUSIC-PUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: For about the last 48 hours, I've been picking up chatter on the Net.

The messages say BIN LADEN IS DEAD...

UPDATE: REPORTS IN THE UK already seem to have picked up on it.

Mickey Mouse CEO Is Finished

MUSIC-PUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: Artists rejoice, Michael Eisner is about to be fired...

UPDATE: WALL STREET HAS the same inside information.

September 13, 2002

Proposed Injunction Against Me

Well, here it is for all legal experts and concerned citizens. Here's what Big Media wants everyone to do. Or at least, here's what they want me to do. And I think I'm pretty typical of everyone.

Monopoly Sues Monopoly - The Sequel

OK, now we've got help... Yahoo, ISPs enter Net privacy fray

Be careful here though, because the question may simply be which of the monopolies, the Baby Bells or Big Media, is going to expose their so-called "customers."

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- by Aimee Deep at 02:46 AM |

September 12, 2002

Anti-Trusting Big Media

Lawrence Lessig is calling for "increasing trust at the ends of the network, [which] would weaken an argument that Hollywood now pushes: that Congress regulate every machine on the Internet to protect Hollywood's content."

September 10, 2002

9/11 Person to Person Memorial

I pray this can be our memorial, all of ours, of our shared remembrances.

- by Aimee Deep at 08:19 PM |

September 09, 2002

p2p 9/11 Memorial

Sorry, I've been quiet today. I'm working on a Person-to-Person memorial for 9/11 - all the remembrances of that day that people have shared on p2p networks, personal Websites and blogs over the past year. I've got about 10,000 movies, photos, documents and songs now, and I think there are a lot more. Should be up by tomorrow. When it's up, I'll have a way for everyone to post and share their own remembrances.

- by Aimee Deep at 07:05 PM |

September 08, 2002

Does Anybody Pray?

My Dad's Semitic and Catholic and my Mom's Lutheran. I figure that makes me a Semi-Catholic Protestant. All I know is, I love to pray. I find myself praying more over the last year, I think a lot of people do. But really how can you tell?

September 07, 2002

Consumers Now Distrust Big Media

After a two year war Big Media has waged on consumers, in which the heavy bombing has only just begun, Consumers now distrust Big Media more than Microsoft.

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- by Aimee Deep at 10:20 AM |

My New Friend, Code Name Nappy

Was up late last night talking with friends here in my small hometown of Cohoes, NY, and with online friends, too, the way I love to do it.

At around 3 in the morning I get a message from someone I've always wanted to meet ...

September 06, 2002

Is This America?

Here are the dirty details of how Big Media plans to attack us in our homes: First, serve millions of secret subpoenas to get our personal identities; then, choose from among us who they will sue or prosecute.

Does that sound at all like the America they taught us about in grade school?

September 05, 2002

Rumors of My Demise

It's always strange to see myself in news articles. Especially, now - I feel like Tom Sawyer watching his own funeral. Hate to crash the party, but these rumors are greatly exaggerated. Some reporters buy whatever song Big Media sells them, no matter how bad it is. Even my friend Brad at Wired doesn't bother to listen first.

September 04, 2002

Injunction Against Me

Just heard that an injunction has been issued against me -- well, against the software named for me. The Lyrics of the Court Order are below.

Napster Was Here, Ded Kitty

Napster was here, Ded Kitty, reads napster.com today, after a Delaware Bankruptcy Court denied Bertelsmann's motion to buy Napster's assets, the final death knell of Napster Inc.

Who dies when Napster dies?

September 03, 2002

Drudge Is Duped by Spoof

AIMEE DEEP // MUSIC PUNDIT 2002�

MUSIC-PUNDIT EXCLUSIVE: Sorry, Matt, but contrary to the Drudge Report Exclusive, The Unreleased Lord of the Rings movie is NOT being traded, only fake files with misleading names. Drudge has been duped. Note that the AOL/TimeWarner executive looks like he's ready to "impose strict criminal penalties" even though the whole thing is a fake. We're all guilty until proven innocent?

September 02, 2002

UPDATE: The Nascent Napster of Journalism

Perhaps my post yesterday about Big Media stifling the free press was a 17 year old's raving.

But here's music (to my ears) from the San Jose Merc News journalist, Dan Gillmor, who has an even stronger rap:

"Big media companies have been getting bigger ... there's no question that a cartel has emerged in the entertainment arena, and one may be forming in the news business, too. ....

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- by Aimee Deep at 11:39 AM |

September 01, 2002

The Nascent Napster of Journalism

The phrase Nascent Napster of Journalism comes from www.AndrewSullivan.com - Greatest Hits - Culture. I think it sounds cool. But seriously, will Big Media sue if journalists start to use blogging for Napster-style sharing of content?

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- by Aimee Deep at 08:27 AM |