p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Private ‘investigator’ MediaSentry, fired by the RIAA, has been disgraced in Canada, the US and Holland, that we know of. Bought by SafeNet for cash and stock worth $20 million in 2005 and then sold to rival MediaDefender at a knock-down, flea-market price of $136,000 in cash and a [...]
Fast Company (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it’s an understandable error. The site’s owner Hank Risan tells FastCompany his catalog of music doesn’t include tracks by the original artists, who, of course, own the publishing rights to their music (many have long resisted posting...
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
On rewriting the world's copyright laws. Are we REALLY ruled by MPAA and RIAA? - Dvorak Bernie Kerik- (Under Rudy G) Is Officially a CROOK Former New Y.......
David Kirkpatrick (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
These battles are growing very, very old. You’d think Hollywood would’ve gotten the message from the RIAA’s brainless battles against the digital world that this is going to solve very little to nothing, but the blowback can and will be significant. Just another entertainment dinosaur howling and thrashing at the changing world of smaller, nimbler [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I've been trying not to respond to every RIAA blog post these days, but it's hard to let certain things go when they so rarely make any sense. For example, RIAA President Cary Sherman recently talked up the new regulations that force colleges and universities to "take proactive steps" to stop file sharing . He goes on to make it sound like universities decided to do this in the spirit of...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Recording Industry Association of America wants accused file-swappers to know that not responding to a federal copyright infringement complaint is a bad idea. When we last looked into this issue just over a month ago, we found something surprising: the only two Americans who took their file-sharing lawsuits all the way to a jury verdict owed far, far more money per song at the end of the trial...
oussamedia (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sonic Implants Complete Symphonic Collection Strings | ~ 15.71 GB Recorded by Emmy award engineer Antonio Oliart and RIAA award engineer John Bono, designed and produced by Sonic Implants engineers, the Sonic Implants Symphonic String Collection is a 16-20 CDROM box set (DVDs available) of the most comprehensive, beautiful and playable ensemble string sounds available. Rich, [...]
EXCESS COPYRIGHT (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
canada.com David Gonczol, Ottawa Citizen Here's Jamie Love in the Huffington Post on the ACTA leaks story broken by Michael Geist. Here's The Atlantic. Here's the New Zealand Herald. This is going into the main stream. If all or indeed any substantial portion of the rumours about ACTA (three strikes +, DMCA +, WIPO+, border searches of iPods, cell phone etc, for MP3s, etc.) are true, and if Canada...
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Cory Doctorow tells us that the new "Anti-Counterfeiting" treaty that's being negotiated in secret has some very, very bad provisions - sounds like it's the RIAA/MPAA wet dream for taking the DMCA international to me, but go see what's being said about it - Michael Geist is none too pleased, for instance... Technorati Tags: stupidity
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement , global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future. A U.S.-drafted chapter on Internet use would require ISPs to police user-generated content, to cut off Internet access for copyright violators, and to remove content that is accused of copyright violation without...
Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The traditional music industry has long been busy building the image of music pirates as scofflaws and reprobates, the type of people that would kick granny to the curb and steal candy from babies; an evil that must be crushed at any cost. Pity the industry didn’t actually expand that same energy trying to understand them as consumers in an emergent marketplace, thus better positioning themselves...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
According to a poll conducted in the UK, people who admit to illegally downloading music also spend more money on music every year than those who don't. None of this changes the legality of downloading copyrighted content, of course, but if the same is true for most file sharers across the globe, it seems like something the music industry and the RIAA might want to consider in their crusades against...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Filed under: Audio , Internet The results of a survey , announced yesterday, show that the biggest buyers of music are in fact those that pirate the most. The conclusions come from a poll of 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 50, with 10% of those admitting they download music illegally -- so it's not a huge slice of the population, and it's by no means conclusive, but I think it just confirms...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Chris Parsons uses the cartoon on the right for his Three-Strike Copyright post on Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets. It’s by hartboy on Flickr with a caption which reads »»» This is the argument the RIAA and similar groups make when explaining why downloading music is bad. Except, when you steal [...]
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
An anonymous reader writes "A document, apparently a 'confidential House ethics committee report,' was recently leaked through file-sharing software to the Washington Post. According to the article, 'The committee's review of investigations became available on file-sharing networks because of a junior staff member's use of the software while working from home.' Of course, P2P software is entirely...
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wposteruk | 02/09/2009
Three months after its launch, the RSA, the income of active solidarity, seems to be difficult to implement. The RIAA, which should provide additional income to the working poor is perceived, for the moment, only 10% of potential beneficiaries. More ... (more. ..)
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