Kono kanji…

Now that judge Kimba Wood has ruled that the popular filesharing software Limewire infringes on copyright, the recording industry lawyers have asked US courts to order LimeWire owner Mark Gorton to pay $1,500,000,000,000 (that’s 1.5 Trillion) for 200,000,000 alleged downloads of the Limewire software as reported by the P2PNet news site (go there and read it, it’s quite informative).

A quick Google search of US GDP shows the US Gross Domestic Product (in current US dollars and not adjusted for inflation) in 2008 as 14.6 Trillion dollars. So Limewire has cost the recording industry 10% of the 2008 US GDP…??!?!? Has the industry even made that much in it’s entire existence?

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As you probably (don’t) know I have been playing guitar and writing songs since I was about 14… F***ed Up was recorded in 1999 and released in 2000… we were listening to lots of crazy music at the time so it’s kind of an eclectic batch of songs. These masters are off the reel-to-reel and not cleaned up and tweaked (and normalized) like the actual album was, but I think it’s worth a listen. If you like it I can probably dig up a copy of the release version of the album  and get you a copy (for a small fee).

Kevin and Jer were not in the band when we recorded this album, but they used to come over and jam on the weekends and give us feedback on our music… As soon as we lost the members of the band that were on this album they joined up in an instant (which got us back to a power trio format which I enjoy). I actually have about 2 and a half albums worth of songs we recorded before I moved to Tempe and when I get motivated I will release them on the Beckament Band site.

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I really wish they were still around… Funny thing is I own the (self-titled) album Butter 08 and it took me years to realize that Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda were in the band… =)

After years of a domain squatter sitting on my old domain name Beckament.com (yes… I forgot to renew it), I finally got it back. They wanted $500.00 (USD) for a domain that is pretty much worthless to anyone but me. When I approached them with some offers they ignored me. I guess they finally realized that it was not worth the money they were paying to park the domain.

Domain squatters really annoy me, but I won’t bother listing the company as they don’t matter… I can not transfer it to my current host for 60 days, but currently Beckament.com links to my band’s website, I hope to have the subdomains set up as soon as I can transfer control to my current hosting company.

I have still been really busy at work, but I do plan on keeping both sites updated more frequently. I am quite happy to get the old domain back… even though I had to wait a few years for it.

This is awesome.. I thought that I could play the guitar, this rocks!!!

See more at Zack Kim’s You Tube Channel.

Hey, finally a post that isn’t just a rant… lol