`The Supremes on mp3?!

[Rokenn]

The Supreme Court that is [img]smile.gif[/img] This looks pretty cool...

Oyez! The Supreme Court, Now on MP3
By JEFFREY SELINGO

excerpt:

THE United States Supreme Court is known as one of the least public of all government institutions. Cameras remain off-limits in the courtroom and official audio recordings are usually released months after the justices hear a case. Despite calls for the court to follow Congress's example in allowing cameras to broadcast its proceedings, the ban is unlikely to be lifted anytime soon. Indeed, Justice David Souter told a congressional committee in 1996 that "the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body." But that hasn't stopped Jerry Goldman from trying to give more people access to the court's proceedings. Mr. Goldman, a professor of political science at Northwestern University, is taking the original audio recordings of the Supreme Court and turning them into MP3 files for free distribution on the Web (www .oyez.org). "The human voice contains so much more information than a transcript," Mr. Goldman said. "The anger, the humor, the irony, the frustration, make this a real emotive listening experience."

[WillowIX]

Oooh this is definitely the final blow to the file sharing software. No one would ever dream of downloading an MP3 again after hearing one of those. Anyway, it's actually quite nifty.