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44% of US traffic is P2P
Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on June 30, 2008
An anti p2p throttling company has today released statistics on quite how much of US internet traffic is taken by P2P; and it's a lot! Supposedly it accounts for 44%; almost HALF of all internet u...
Music Downloading - should it be free?
Filed in archive Commentary by James Koopmann on June 20, 2008
A semi-interesting article: Music Downloading - Now and in the Future offers somewhat of a simplistic remedy to the pirating of music on the Internet. They offer up that musicians should give their mu...
GTA IV leaked....
Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on April 25, 2008
The highly awaited Grand Theft Audo 4 has been leaked onto bittorrent from oldschool sceners 101, who have been out of the "warez" scene for years, but made a return for one of the biggest...
Digital Music to wipe the floor with CDs soon?
Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on February 22, 2008
A new analyst's report (oh how we do love them), has claimed that by 2012 digital music sales will have surpassed CD sales. This distresses me in a number of ways, firstly because, I personally ...
Digital Music Sales up 40%
Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on January 28, 2008
The IFPI has just released it's report for music sales through 2007, and it is showing massive gains for the sales of digital music, up a massive 40% on the last year. Countries like the US are...
TVLinks to make a comeback?
Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on January 8, 2008
After the copyright cronies shut down TVLinks, a site that purely linked to material hosted on other servers, such as DivX's Stage6, many people were left lost, struggling to find a replacement ...
Japan likes P2P too, unsuprisingly.
Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on December 22, 2007
In yet another one of those rather predictable surveys about P2P, it has been revealed to everyone that, Japan, a modern, technology filled country, has embraced sharing with open arms. As this sur...
Don't Blame P2P for the Demise of the CD
Filed in archive Business , Commentary by Marc on September 6, 2007
The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason ...
"This is a fight about money, not about morality"
Filed in archive Commentary , Education , People by Marc on September 4, 2007
The recording industry has been focusing its PR the past several months on co-opting schools in its fight against copyright infringement by college students. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann...
Music's Swan Dive: Self-Inflicted Wounds
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on August 20, 2007
Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f...
Why we don't have 100 Mbps Internet
Filed in archive Commentary , Government , Internet , Society & Public Policy by Marc on August 10, 2007
In How's That U.S. Broadband Working For You? we reported how the U.S. fell further behind in world Broadband penetration and price. The OECD report rated the U.S. 15th out of 30 countries. Robert...
IFPI: Convenient Half-Truths About File Sharing
Filed in archive Commentary , International , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on August 10, 2007
IFPI, the international version of RIAA, released "Ten Inconvenient Truths About File Swapping". It's bizarre propaganda that conveniently confuses physical piracy with digital downloads...
What's Your Story: Stand and Deliver
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 24, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...
What's Your Story: Make me care
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 19, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...
Shelly Palmer Interviews Ray Beckerman about RIAA Lawsuits
Filed in archive Commentary , Consumer rights , Legal , People , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on July 19, 2007
Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefin...
P2P Industry Update: Slow Progress
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on July 18, 2007
What are the prospects for the P2P industry and music and video distribution now that the legal issues have been decided by the Supreme Court? As I've previously written, the ongoing litigation ...
What's Your Story: All business is drama
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 16, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...
Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
Filed in archive Commentary , Education , Legal by Marc on July 13, 2007

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The iTunes Plus Scam
Filed in archive Commentary , Companies , Consumer rights , Privacy & Security by Marc on July 5, 2007
apple itunes Plus is here. I recommend that you run away. Fast. It was announced with a big bang and the promise of free and open music. See Open Format Files Rate a 30% Premium. It went downhill fr...
EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of the Major Labels
Filed in archive Commentary , Companies , Entertainment industry , Finance , Society & Public Policy by Marc on June 12, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
Album Sales Are Like US Box Office
Filed in archive Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on June 8, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US box office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
It's Not About the Album
Filed in archive Artists , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on June 5, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...

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Weakly Album Sales
Filed in archive Artists , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on May 30, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...

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Copyrights Forever?
Filed in archive Commentary , Legal , Society & Public Policy by Marc on May 28, 2007
In "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?" Mark Helprin writes "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exi...

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Fun Friday - Steal This DVD
Filed in archive Artists , Commentary , Fun , Society & Public Policy by Marc on May 26, 2007
A young filmmaker talks about pirates who bootlegged his independent movie, and concludes "two wrongs don't make a right. But it's a start."
The Den of Thieves
Filed in archive Commentary , Companies , Entertainment industry by Marc on May 11, 2007
"The Den of Thieves" is not the next Madonna song or album. Believe it or not, it's the name of a new Warner Music Group programming division. Thieves? It's a bizarre name. I get th...
"Protect Harvard from the RIAA"
Filed in archive Commentary , People , RIAA, MPAA , Society & Public Policy by Marc on May 10, 2007
RIAA continues its campaign to co-opt universities in curtailing alleged copyright infringement by its students with mixed success. Harvard staff and alumni Wendy Seltzer and Charles Nesson from the B...
USPTO: Another RIAA Shill
Filed in archive Commentary , Government , Privacy & Security , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on May 7, 2007
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) report "filesharing Programs and Technological Features to Induce Users to Share" attacks P2P software for causing consumers to inadvertently share...
The Ticking WiFi Bomb
Filed in archive Commentary , Entertainment industry , Society & Public Policy , Technology by Marc on May 4, 2007
Open wireless Internet like WiFi represents a huge threat to RIAA. It's virtually impossible to track and identify WiFi users. Wireless users typically share the same IP address. The Internet serv...
AnywhereCD 30 Cent MP3s
Filed in archive Commentary , Companies , Entertainment industry , Marketing by Marc on April 27, 2007
This article is part of a series reviewing the AnywhereCD bundled CD+MP3 album store. 1. Anywhere(CD) But Here (Warner Music). 2. Anywhere(CD) But Singles. 3. Anywhere(CD) is Better Than Nowhere. 4. A...
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