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  "publishedAt": "2006-06-11T05:26:52.000Z",
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  "textContent": "For quite some time now I’ve been a subscriber to [eMusic][], a digital music site that offers DRM-free MP3 tracks by artists on independent (non-major) labels. (At one point I cancelled my subscription because I wasn’t finding that much to download, but I re-joined after a few months and have been with the service ever since.) eMusic also has a quite active set of message boards, and from time to time I’ve posted on various topics, most notably my thoughts on eMusic’s business model and prospects vis-a-vis the digital music industry in general.\n\nAfter a while I thought I really should be posting my comments to a blog rather than to someone else’s message board. At the same time I wanted to try out the [WordPress blogging software][WordPre] as an alternative to [my current somewhat-juryrigged setup][my curr] for my [personal blog][persona]. Thus “Swindleeeee!!!!!” was born.  (For why I chose this name, please see “[The story of ‘swindleeeee’][The sto].”)\n\nI hope to post on a regular basis about my eMusic experiences, as well as my experiences with other digital music services like [last.fm][lastfm], [Pandora][], and others I’ve used off and on over the years.\n\n[eMusic]: http://www.emusic.com/\n[WordPre]: http://wordpress.org/about/\n[my curr]: http://www.hecker.org/site/colophon\n[persona]: http://www.hecker.org/\n[The sto]: /2006/06/11/the-story-of-swindleeeee/\n[lastfm]: http://last.fm/\n[Pandora]: http://www.pandora.com/",
  "title": "Prepare to be swindleeeeed"
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