Steve Everett, professor of music at Emory University, said the concept of "The Beatles: Rock Band" engages kids to learn about an important 20th-century cultural phenomenon.

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The band took its name from the concept of de-evolution, human being and society devolving, not progressing.

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It was a concept, a meaningful abstraction, a potent creative direction for the real band to follow.

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One great band-aid rarely explored by North American carriers is the concept of bandwidth throttling, whereby you don't have a hard cap that results in overage -- instead, you just get slapped with a lower data throughput if you blow past your quota.

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Lately a lot of the international discussion about music has come to focus on ownership, a concept that itself is married to a history of legal disputes over sampling, band names, and musical compositions.

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