Akeem McLennon

Music & Manga

It has been quite a while since I’ve done anything with the music or manga sections on RealityLapse.  However, I’m definitely going to work on them in the next coming weeks.  First I’ll be updating the manga section, which hasn’t really been working for a while.  Honestly, the server it was hosted on stopped working and I was so frustrated with it that I just decided it wasn’t worth fixing at the time.  Within the next week, I’m going to be moving all the manga (over 80gb) to a new server while adding new titles and chapters.  Once that’s done, I’ll be working on adding more soundtracks to the music section.

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It’s a Panda eat Panda World Out There

When I was younger, I used to be obsessed with was then called the WWF (World Wrestling Federation).  However, due to disputes with the World Wildlife Federation, they had to change their name to WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).  Someone recently sent this picture to me and I thought it was funny.

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SONY/BMG’s Digital Paranoia

As we’re all probably aware, the record industry has been generally reluctant to sell music online.  I can’t say that I can completely blame them with the onset of Napster and other file sharing services, but they’ve been making progress.  When iTunes and most other music stores got started, they sold music that used Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.  Essentially, this was intended to prevent filesharing by limiting the number of computers it could be played on.  However, unlike mp3s, DRM music files came with many annoying compatibility issues and headaches that discouraged people from buying legal downloads.  Fortunately, the record companies began to realize this and started offering mp3s through sites like AmazonMp3.com.

Among the major record companies, Sony/BMG was the last to make the switch to “unprotected” music.  More recently however, they seem to be notoriously hostile toward any form of streaming music.  In addition to various lawsuits, I have recently noticed a condition of their recent partnership with Youtube.  Most videos from Youtube can be embedded on blogs or other websites.  However, this has been disabled for music videos based on songs owned by Sony/BMG.  To my knowledge, none of the other major record companies do this.  In fact, many artists embed Youtube videos on their own websites.  Hopefully, Sony is only holding out once again like they did with mp3s, but a less people have complained about embedding videos so I’m not very optimistic about.  Recently, I have also tried to get streaming licenses from them for AudioBiblio, but that has been a bit of a challenge.  EMI on the other hand doesn’t have a problem with this.  I’m still waiting on responses from the other two.

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