In case James didn’t see this one, caught it on my lawyer’s blog , bloged about here on my music blog:

http://monteirofusion.blogspot.com/2006/12/its-okay-if-your-dad-is-music-exec.html

sorry for the run around , music stuff I put on that blog but since at least James covers the RIAA pretty decently I thought it was relevant to point it out.

For those Smalltalkers out there that are music obscessed like me I think this post may be interesing:

http://monteirofusion.blogspot.com/2006/12/land-of-free-vsts.html

I started covering the world of free VST (Virtual Studio Technology). Great time to be doing recording from podcasting to full music production. There are ton of real high quality signal processing plugins out there which can be integrated into your audio recording software which btw includes Audacity. For Audacity you will need the VST enabler plugin as a pre-requisite.

I plan to specifically cover those VST plugins I use in my album project. The article does provide a link to a number of plugins.

Enjoy.