The New York Times feature article King Kong vs. the Pirates of the Multiplex shows how movie pirates electronically distribute movies. This digital underground has been covered before in Wired (The...
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Filed in archive Legal
by Marc on August 27, 2005
Attorneys Ray Beckerman, Ty Rogers and Dan Singer of law firm Beldock Levine & Hoffman have set up a blog called Recording Industry vs The People, devoted to the "RIAA's lawsuits of...
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PlayLouder, a UK ISP, announced a deal with Sony to allow file sharers to legally share and download Sony files via any P2P software. PlayLouder will pay the record company a licensing fee. Cory...
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Filed in archive Legal
by Marc on August 25, 2005
The Digital Millenium copyright Act (DMCA) is the apex of RIAA-sponsored self-serving bad legislation. It's been abused in many ways in both entertainment and tech industries. A federal court...
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Filed in archive Technology
by Marc on August 24, 2005
Sun announced their DReaM Project, an open source Digital rights management platform, that is being used at the Open Media Commons. Some commentators are calling Sun's DReaM all wet, saying it is...
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Filed in archive Innovation
by Marc on August 23, 2005
Warner Music chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. boldy announced a new "e-label" division that eschews the album format and total label control. E-label artists will release a pod of 3...
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Filed in archive Abuse
by Marc on August 20, 2005
entertainment companies aren't the only ones having fun. Tech firm Intervideo sued Dell with patent infringement over the innovative and never-before-envisioned Autoplay feature for DVD players....
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RIAA has finally fessed up. According to RIAA chief exec Mitch Bainwol, burned CDs account for 29% of all music consumers obtained, compared to 16% from file sharing. He said "CD burning is a...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on August 18, 2005
Music is increasingly democratized ... and thus commoditized. It's always been around through tape dupes. It advanced with the Internet. Web downloads made it easy to promote both legal and...
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Filed in archive Legal
by Marc on August 17, 2005
Photograph / Westchester Journal NewsSingle mom Patricia Santangelo is fighting her RIAA lawsuit claiming copyright infringement. "I was shocked because I didn't understand how someone could...
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Filed in archive Technology
by Marc on August 14, 2005
Back to our friends at the FCC. ... Robert Cringely (The Gloves Come Off: Thanks to the Supreme Court and the FCC, U.S. Telcos Are About to Reinvent Their DSL Businesses) does an excellent job...
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Filed in archive Analysis
by Marc on August 13, 2005
What do you call an industry where the user base increases by over 50% per year? H-O-T. (Figure on left from Big Champagne). Open legal issues have frozen the capital industry's participation in...
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Filed in archive Government
by Marc on August 11, 2005
The jury is out, at least to David Isenberg and Susan Crawford, on the new FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. Isenberg says be very scared. Crawford calls it faith-based policymaking. If there is any...
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Filed in archive Stats
by Marc on August 03, 2005
Despite years of entertainment industry PR, educational programs, and industry and consumer lawsuits, P2P usage continues to rise, according to this P2P usage chart from Big Champagne. Marc...
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