I just happened to bump into the brother of Ian Lewis tonight, owner of Cheshire-based Whitby Studios in the UK. I haven't seen him in years; good catching-up with you again, Nige ;)

Anyway, since 2003 the studio has been offering student placements for those wanting to learn the finer points of audio engineering in a real working, busy, studio - Ian's apparently looking for another again, to start September 2007.

Upload your music promo videos, for free!

I was waiting for this to happen - Even thought about it myself but the costs of providing the bandwidth for downloading videos are frightening. Nevertheless, it was only a matter of time before someone came along that was brave enough to do it... and here they are, My Music Player TV.

It's been a while since I last read a good 'ole warez debate on the forums.

Press play!

Think of any popular brand in software - Cubase, Reason, FruityLoops, Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc. - and you will see a brand owing at least some of its success to the "freedom-fighters" of the web: the software crackers.

A side to the warez debate that often goes overlooked is it can potentially be worth $millions to the right company, with the right software. I'm gonna show you how this works using a forum post written by a member called Prime: