Evil professors claim they can compress MP3s so much, you'll fit 20 million onto your iPod

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How many clowns can you fit in a car? I’m still not sure, but supposedly we’ll soon all be able to compress the shit out of our MP3s and get 20 million onto an iPod. Good luck finding 20 million songs you actually like…

If the evil anti-audiophilic professors at the University of Rochester manage to release their new compression technology without Arcam and Denon product managers hacking into their PCs and deleting the relevant witchcraft files.

They’re working on technology which will shrink MP3 file size down to a 1,000th of its size, so an 80GB iPod could hold 20 million tracks…

Trent Reznor gets even more riled up with music industry, vows to do a Radiohead

trent-reznor.jpgMy, that Trent Reznor is an awfully angry man. Pretty obvious if you’ve ever heard ‘Burn’ by his band Nine Inch Nails, and if you’ve been following his rants against the music industry recently, where he’s been urging fans to pirate his music rather than actually pay for the ‘overpriced’ CDs themselves.

Reznor has been ranting on the band’s website, and all but said they’re going to follow Radiohead and release their next album exclusively online. With the subject of ‘big news’, he said “Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate…