Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act. If you missed the live webcast of the event, you can download it here (mp3 or ogg). Listen on your portable music player of choice while it's still legal.

Update: Transcripts of the hearing are available, so now you can read along while you listen!

Update: Video of the hearing now available.

Update: Make that suspiciously edited video.

Update: Make that not so suspiciously edited video.

The Hollywood Reporter: Music Downloads Go Gold, Platinum.

Well, it means that despite the fact that the RIAA threw a cocktail party for the California District Attorney's convention yesterday (yes, free drinks and a CD), the music industry hasn't totally lost perspective, wanting to still get the download sale chits counting toward gold and platinum albums.

You know, it would be nice if they considered the fact that just working with a single business model, one that counts downloads for gold and platinum albums and works with P2P (instead of trying to sue (or lockup?) every last online filesharer they disapprove of), would be so much more constructive than the bi-polar behavior they currently have. I mean, why not make these two things sync positively, rather than reflect in some cases negative and in some cases positive actions, depending on whether it benefits only the RIAA?