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CD players dying one car at a time
CD players are going the way of the ashtray, roll-down windows and whitewall tires. Chevrolet is the latest to join the ranks of automakers like Ford who have ditched physical media players in favor of music streamed through onboard systems and...
Tags: White Marsh, Computer Hardware, Ford, Netflix Inc., Music
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$1.5M of counterfeit goods seized from Dundalk flea market
Baltimore County police seized $1.5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise after a raid at a Dundalk flea market last month, the department announced Wednesday. Charges are pending against 19 people who rent space in the market, not the flea market...
Tags: Motion Picture Association of America, Dundalk
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Baltimore County police raid Plaza Flea Market for counterfeit goods
As regulars perused handmade jewelry, discounted bedsheets, slightly-worn stuffed animals and other knick-knacks, dozens of Baltimore County police officers swarmed into a bustling Dundalk flea market Saturday morning to bust vendors allegedly selling...
Tags: Motorcycles and Motorbikes, Patapsco, Vehicles, Motion Picture Association of America, Viagra (drug)
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What would a "digital Citizens' Bill of Rights" look like for Internet users?
If you've paid attention to Internet news over the past year, you might know that the notion of a "free Internet" has been hotly debated and seen by many as under siege. Internet activists recently stopped SOPA and PIPA, two bills that would've given...
Tags: Darrell E Issa, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, PROTECT IP Act
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Want an app? There could be a tax for that
That download of an Angry Birds app, Katy Perry song, or "Captain America" movie could end up costing consumers more, thanks to a "digital products" tax proposal that's being pushed in Annapolis this year by Gov. Martin O'Malley.
The bill is part of a...Tags: Business, Newspapers, Netflix Inc., Companies and Corporations, Sales
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Independent musicians' trade group comes out in support of SOPA, PIPA; Wye Oak, others balk
The Baltimore SunA couple of controversial, Internet piracy bills in Congress have pit the tech industry against the music business, even independents. In a statement sent out early Wednesday afternoon, A2IM, the largest trade organization of independent musicians and...Tags: OK Go (music group), Google Inc., White House, Companies and Corporations, U.S. House of Representatives
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Concert news: O.A.R., Foster the People, Cavo, Of Montreal, the Magnetic Fields
The Baltimore SunMerriweather Post Pavilion has announced its first summer concert of 2012. It'll be the indie band Foster the People. The band, out with debut album "Torches," will play June 10. The album has already been certified Gold by the RIAA, which is probably...Tags: Indie (genre), Of Montreal (music group), Station North, O.A.R. (music group), Foster the People (music group)
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Relive the '80s at Jiffy Lube Live with Def Leppard
Editor's note: The Def Leppard concert originally scheduled for July 9 has been rescheduled to July 31 due to a family illness.
If the kids will be flocking to Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday night for Animal Collective, their parents will heading...Tags: Broadway Theater, Music Theater, Happiness (state of mind), Heart (music group), Britney Spears
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Concert news: Rammstein, Noel Gallagher, Gary Clark Jr., Cuneifest
The Baltimore SunNext year's concert announcements are already starting to roll out. The German industrial metal band Rammstein will perform at 1st Mariner Arena, of all places, on April 25. Expect lots of pyrotechnics. The band is promoting a greatest hits package,...Tags: Rock and Roll (genre), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Germany, Gary Clark Jr., Warner Theatre
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Ice Cube comes to Bourbon Street
If Ice Cube's career is any indication, the life cycle of a rapper is highly unpredictable.
One day you're protesting police brutality, and 20 years later you're playing cute for the "Ramona and Beezus" set.
Still, his legacy as one of the pioneers of...Tags: Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Freedom of the Press, John Singleton, Censorship
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Checking in with Linkin Park
Linkin Park has been around for 12 years now, but it was only last year that it made what has been hailed as its best album.
On Thursday, the veteran band will perform at Verizon Center as part of its "A Thousand Suns" tour, which recently completed...Tags: Linkin Park (music group), Verizon Communications
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Recording Industry: Here's a (inadvertent) handy guide on best websites for stealing music
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the Midnight Sun blog: In response to an inquiry from the federal government trade czar, the Recording Industry Association of America released Monday a filing itemizing "notorious markets" across the globe. Notorious markets are physical places...Tags: Vice (movie), Australia (movie), Business, Russia, Trials
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