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NC restaurant fined over $30K for playing four unlicensed songs
Fosters, a North Carolina based restaurant, is being smacked with a lawsuit from Broadcast Music Incorporated for $30,450 with an additional $10,700 in legal fees for playing four unlicensed songs. BMI cited its propensity to “protect songwriters” for the legal actions taken. BMI went on to state that they had taken numerous measures to collect more »
Now, even your bathroom scale has Wi-Fi
If you’re trying to lose weight or stay healthy and enjoy metrics and graphs, then you should check out the Withings WiFi Body Scale. The scale’s built-in Wi-Fi automatically transmits your weight, lean and fat mass, and body mass index to your own Withings webpage. You can also have the data transmitted to the free more »
Gadgetell Resolution: Lose Weight
The holidays are behind us once again and it’s time to start those resolutions you made. If one of them is to lose weight,(it’s one of the most common resolutions people make-and one of the ones most don’t stick to) here are a few websites to help you stay on track.
Songza will rock you, but are they legal?
Hey, if thousands of people are doing it, it can’t be wrong…..right? That’s the million dollar question about one of the newest music sites on the Web. Songza advertises itself as a “music search engine and Internet jukebox”. Ummm, ok. Or, one might also say they are a site you can go to in order to search out music and be able to listen to and download it for free. I’m just sayin’.
With 28 million songs instantly playable on the site, 10 month old Songza is luring in the music-seeking crowd pretty nicely. And they make their songs playable in a rather creative way. When you go on their site and enter the song or band title of your choosing, Songza will search the huge inventory of music videos on YouTube looking for it. Then, it streams the audio of the song, while hiding the video in an unseen margin of the browser. Pretty dang tricky, but…..is it actually legal?














