Green Day: Rock Band has a release date, so you can finally exhale. The game is coming to the PlayStation, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii on June 8, for $59.99 on the two high-definition systems and $49.99 on the Nintendo Wii.

The game features 47 Green Day songs, vocal harmonizing for multiple singers, and you`ll have the ability to export every song to Rock Band or Rock Band 2 for an additional $10. Joystiq is reporting that if you preorder the game from GameStop, you`ll be able to export the songs to your hard drive for free. A $69.99 special edition version of the game will include the ability to export the songs as well, and will include previously released Green Day tracks from the Rock Band Store.

The story mode of the game will take you through Green Day`s career, with images to unlock and videos to watch. For the hardcore Green Day fan this should be a day-one purchase. For everyone else? We`re just going to have to take a look at how much Green Day we need in our rhythm games.

Harmonix has also announced Rock Band 3 for release this year, but has yet to provide any details.

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Individual Pink Floyd songs will soon disappear from online music stores. The British High Court has ruled against EMI, the band`s record label, saying that the band`s contract requires EMI to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums." In this case, that means keeping all the tracks together and in the order they were meant to be in, leading some to worry whether Pink Floyd`s music will disappear from popular online music stores altogether.

When Pink Floyd signed with EMI back in the late `60s, its members probably did not imagine an age when we would be ditching physical media en masse in favor of cherry-picked songs on a series of Internet tubes. It`s unsurprising then that the contract stipulated for the label to maintain the artistic integrity of the album itself—back then (and today as well, but perhaps to a lesser degree), musicians spent painstaking amounts of time crafting the entire album as a whole artwork. Those who only listened to select tracks were totally missing out.

Indeed, as EMI has discovered, that still appears to be the case, at least when it comes to Pink Floyd. The High Court ordered EMI to pay ВЈ40,000 in court costs with the possibility of future damages and EMI may have to pull Pink Floyd`s individual offerings from places like the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3. (As of this writing, the albums with per-track purchases were still available. Get `em while they`re hot.) In addition, EMI must pay Pink Floyd an undisclosed amount in royalty payments.

This doesn`t mean they wouldn`t become available again as full-album purchases, though—iTunes, for example, regularly offers albums that have one or two tracks that only come with a full album purchase. We wouldn`t be surprised to see Dark Side of the Moon come back to iTunes with every track marked "Album only."

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So there was this article on the Internet recently about how ad blocking is devastating to sites that you love. You may have read it and there`s a good chance that you participated in the frank and lively discussion that took place afterwards.

One of the things we learned from all of this is that not all people who use ad blockers are actually out to block our ads, and that many of you didn`t realize that blocking ads hurt us and the other sites you love. Many care deeply about their privacy, personal information, and the well-being of their computers. Many were more than happy to unblock Ars, but many others had difficulty doing so due to the complicated nature of many ad blocking solutions. Dozens of you asked for help, so here it is.

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