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...thing I hate: Buying music. I haven't bought a CD or MP3 for years. Instead, I subscribe to music - I pay a small monthly fee to Rhapsody and can access most of the world's music (more than 5 million songs) by streaming it via the Net to my home audio system. I can listen to just about any song I want, any time, anywhere. That's known, in the geekosphere, as "music dial tone...
...with the composer John Cage, who was using chance and randomness as operating principles in his art. One famous Cage composition, 4'33", was just four minutes and 33 seconds of nothing, in which the silence and whatever random noises people heard (or made) in an auditorium became the music...
...MUSIC MAN A talking sheep named Rufus Leaking, a hot band and a crowd of kids jumping around onstage are the key ingredients of Pancake Mountain, one of the most energetic--and certainly one of the hippest--kids' shows on the planet. The ingredients are basic, but it took Washington-based Scott Stuckey, 44, and a group of volunteers to make a hit out of them...
Later, Stuckey, who used to work as a music producer, realized that TV was not as accessible as he had imagined, so he decided to combine his passion for rock 'n' roll and, as he calls it, "locally controlled arts" to produce his own show. Why did he aim it at kids? "Let's face it," he says. "Most adults give up on music after college. You gotta plant the seeds early...
Harvard students who download music illegally are already supposed to be accountable to the University, which states in its Computer Rules and Responsibility agreement that the University can terminate the network access of anyone found violating intellectual property. But if something like the anti-piracy bills being considered by state legislatures in Tennessee and Illinois come to Massachusetts, Harvard itself could be accountable to the state for its students’ behavior. The legislation in question would force public and private universities to actively police their networks for illegal sharing of music and movies, and would take action against colleges...