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The US music industry is asking 50 Ohio University students to pay $3,000 each to avoid lawsuits accusing them of pirating songs off the Internet.

Posted on March 14th, 2007 by Devo.
Categories: Guitar News.

The Recording Industry Association of America asked the university in Athens to pass along letters to the students with Internet addresses believed to be used for illegal sharing of copyrighted music. The university notified the students on Monday.

The downloading has occurred and we can’t change that, but we can let them know what their options are,” OU spokeswoman Sally Linder said Wednesday.

No cases have gone to trial

Patrick McGee, a local attorney the university arranged to meet with students, said $3,000 US is the standard offer, although cases have been settled for up to $5,000. He has represented four Ohio University students in file-sharing lawsuits

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Press Release

Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Devo.
Categories: Guitar News.

Press Release

Recorded in Hollywood, ModernBeats.com debuts its first guitar loop library entitled “Urban Guitar Loops” covering a variety of modern Hip Hop, Urban, and Pop musical styles for today’s musicians. The Loop library features over 350 sample accurate acidized WAV loops, compatible with all major software and hardware samplers.

‘Urban Guitar Loops’ contains a wide collection of original live recordings, plus “hard-to-attain” urban guitar styles from some of Hip Hop’s and Hollywood’s most renowned urban guitarists. The guitar loop library contains many styles including guitar styles of the Neptunes, Kanye West, Swizz Beats, Dr. Dre, Timbaland, DJ Premier, and more.

‘Urban Guitar Loops’ features a user-friendly design, organized into 4 popular hip hop industry tempos: 87bpm, 92bpm, 97bpm, and 102bpm. Each of the tempo groups contains up to 30 original loop themes including up to 4 variation loops within each theme: “Hook1″, “Verse1″, “Verse2″, “Verse3″, “Verse4″. ‘Urban Guitar Loops’ works seamlessly in combination with all other existing ModernBeats drum loops sets by utilizing same group and tempo layouts. This allows users to build full productions within minutes by layering instrument loops and drum loops from a variety of ModernBeats loopsets together.

The ‘Urban Guitar Loops’ library is offered on CD-ROM or for Download. Prices start at just $59.95. Universal Format Compatibility: Sample Accurate Acidized WAV, Stereo

For more information and audio demos, visit:

http://www.modernbeats.com/loopsets.php

Direct Sound Sample:

http://www.modernbeats.com/demos/UrbanGuitarLoops1-Demo1.mp3

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