Filed in archive Government
by Marc on April 28, 2006
The EFF calls the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest power grab an outrage in The Season of Bad Laws, Part 2: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Drug War Style. It looks like another giveaway...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 28, 2006
Win an iPod Shuffle! Mosey on down to our Digital Music Weblog and take a brief survey to enter. Or stay here to win an iHome iH5 Alarm Clock for Apple Ipods! All you have to do is to......
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Filed in archive Analysis
by Marc on April 27, 2006
F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan hunter of the Cato Institute write about copyright law in Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture. They argue that copyright law only encourages production...
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Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA
by Marc on April 27, 2006
While RIAA continues to extort regular people with copyright infringement lawsuits, real pirates run bootleg manufacturing plans that make millions of CDs. This photo shows 80,00 CDs destroyed in...
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Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA
by Marc on April 26, 2006
RIAA has created a new revenue channel to help make up for lower industry sales - P2P individual lawsuits. The Pirate Times calculates that almost $100 million have been paid by consumers who have...
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Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA
by Marc on April 25, 2006
RIAA continued its P2P terror campaign with 235 more consumer lawsuits. In its tradition of cluelessly suing grandmothers, young kids, and dead people, the latest suits include one against a Georgia...
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Filed in archive International
by Marc on April 25, 2006
In Hunt for private file sharers is over, a Swedish appeals court refused to hear a case against a man fined for sharing a movie. The good news for Hollywood - a substantial fine equal to 80 days...
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by Marc on April 24, 2006
Chris Anderson at The Long Tail gives another reason for the drop in music industry sales, and it's not P2P. It's The End of the Hit. New genres like disco and grunge continually revitalize...
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute published Expanding the Market's Role in Advancing Intellectual Property. CEI advocates that the free market is far more effective than legislation like the...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 21, 2006
Win an iPod Shuffle! Mosey on down to our Digital Music Weblog and take a brief survey to enter. Or stay here to win an iHome iH5 Alarm Clock for Apple Ipods! All you have to do is to......
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Filed in archive Analysis
by Marc on April 20, 2006
Pitchfork writer J T. Ramsay interviews entertainment lawyer Steve Gordon on the future of the recording business and the state of its transition to a digital world. Gordon shares excellent insights...
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Filed in archive Marketing
by Marc on April 19, 2006
Coca-Cola has created Stageside.tv as a platform for entertainment videos. Stageside includes P2P links so that files can be shared on the top p2p networks. The P2P effort is supported by Coca- Cola...
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Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA
by Marc on April 18, 2006
She shared. She was sued. She blogged. MIT student Cassi Hunt was sued by RIAA and wrote it about in Run Over by the RIAA and then Don't Tap the Glass in the MIT student newspaper, The Tech. Her...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 18, 2006
State government now wants a piece of the iTunes action. 15 states currently tax digital downloads, including Texas, the largest. The states reason that the files are personal property and so should...
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Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA
by Marc on April 17, 2006
BPI, the British record industry trade association, claimed that file sharing has cost the UK music industry 1.1 billion pounds (almost $2 billion US) over the last 3 years. Jupiter Research analyst...
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The EFF updates Unintended Consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA. The report chronicles what happens when big business uses its power to get favorable one-sided legislation. From the report:...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 14, 2006
Win an iPod Shuffle! Mosey on down to our Digital Music Weblog and take a brief survey to enter. Or stay here to win an iHome iH5 Alarm Clock for Apple Ipods! All you have to do is to......
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The P2P network Freenet is now available in alpha form. Node IP addresses will be secured to provide user anonymity. From the web site: Freenet 0.7 represents a major new approach to peer-to-peer...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on April 13, 2006
P2P radio pioneer Mercora changed direction with a new product release that replaces its subscription business with keyword advertising. The company is jumping on the Web 2.0 hype bandwagon with...
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The Tribeca Film Festival 2006 calls for a short movie competition! Record and show them your own story in 15 seconds and win honor and glory. In order to make your submissions as successful as...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on April 12, 2006
Microsoft is getting into storage virtualization with P2P technology. A research project called BitVault will be expanded for a commercial enterprise offering. More from the article: Microsoft...
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