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by Jordan Grodecki on October 16, 2008
Textbook Torrents was one of those few p2p sites that really had a strong message behind all of the files it "made available". Textbook costs in the US are incrediably high for Uni student...
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by Jordan Grodecki on August 26, 2008
Peter Moore, once the head of xBox, Dreamcast, and now leading ea sports, has condemned the action of publishers suing their fans who download games. He says although it is most definitely stealing,...
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by Jordan Grodecki on July 21, 2008
Hi all.
Just to let you know I'm off on holiday for a week from tonight, so there will be no updates from me until the 30th or so of this month, when I'll try and do a load of catchup posts o...
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by Jordan Grodecki on June 19, 2008
kid rock has recently been quoted, after being told by his label to endorse digital downloads, as saying that iTunes is just as bad as normal record distribution, with both apple and the label takin...
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by Jordan Grodecki on March 28, 2008
Hmm. This man above us is a rapper, with the incrediably clever name of "flo rida". Do you get it? It's like Florida, where he came from, but with a space! Hell yeah!.
Anyway, he says...
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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...
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by Marc on July 27, 2007
Mitch Glazier, Executive Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, RIAA spoke with a blogger Here is one of the questions.
What's the single biggest misperception about the RIAA that is ...
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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...
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by Marc on May 18, 2007
Proving that DRM will never die and paying customers remain enemy number one, an HBO executive revealed that the cable programmer has been stymied by the nasty regulators at the FCC.
HBO Chief Techn...
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by Marc on May 16, 2007
We're pleased to offer our readers free membership to The P2P Insiders LinkedIn group. The group is a part of LinkedIn, by far the world's largest online networking site with ten million users...
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by Marc on May 14, 2007
HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter, auditioning for a role as Chief Marketing Officer for RIAA, said the term Digital Rights Management (DRM) disparages the industry's good intentions as it c...
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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...
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by Marc on February 22, 2007
Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued an open letter calling for the entertainment industry to move to the open MP3 format.
He wrote "If the big four music companies would license Apple their music witho...
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by Marc on February 13, 2007
I earlier reported on Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman admitting that his kids are music pirates who have downloaded unauthorized files. He said it was a family matter.
That statement has come Full C...
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by Marc on February 12, 2007
The recording industry's lawsuits against the Santangelo family epitomize what is wrong with RIAA's war against music fans. The Suits pit an industry with billions of dollars against a mother ...
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by Marc on January 29, 2007
We reported previously on the Guntram Graef lawsuit as an example of DMCA abuse. Mr Graef responded to us as below. Allegations of ID theft and Sexual abuse are important. We do not pretend to judge t...
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by Marc on January 22, 2007
The abuse of the DMCA by not only the entertainment industry, but also others, has long been documented. It's easy to complain. All it takes is a cease-and-desist letter to invoke the law. There i...
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by Marc on January 10, 2007
Photo: Reuters with Bronfman and interviewer Adam Pasick
Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman admitted that his kids are music pirates who have downloaded unauthorized files.
Bronfman said "I explai...
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by Marc on January 2, 2007
I am thankful for public defenders like attorney Ray Beckerman who invest their time and effort, often on a pro bono basis, to protect consumers like you and me. Here in full is Ray's New Year Gre...
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by Marc on October 13, 2006
Emblematic of the struggle in Sweden over file sharing, high profile file sharer Ivar Wenster said that the evidence against him was destroyed when lightning struck his computer.
Wenster is head of ...
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by Marc on October 5, 2006
Photo - DVD Jon by Irina Slutsky
Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon, is back. He's the programmer who gained fame cracking DVD encryption. He now has moved to the U.S. and turned his attention to App...
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by Marc on September 25, 2006
The Recording Academy, home of the Grammys, has publicly called for a truce between the labels and tech companies, according to Digital Music News.
"We all know that the next five years will se...
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by Marc on September 11, 2006
Photo from CNET
CNET posted an interview with Mark Cuban, founder of HDNET and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Mark spoke on the future of digital entertainment and HD video.
His cogent observations ...
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by Marc on August 1, 2006
In "A Barenaked guide to music copyright reform," artist Steven Page of the barenaked ladies, a member of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition, writes that suing fans is not the solution.
...
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by Marc on July 27, 2006
Ray Beckerman spoke on RIAA consumer lawsuits in a conference call for DefectiveByDesign.org, which is a part of the Free Software Foundation. I attended the call. Ray spoke eloquently about how RIAA ...
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by Marc on July 17, 2006
john Edwards, 2004 Democratic VP candidate and possible 2008 Presidential candidate, has made a few campaign movies available over Bit Torrent. Maybe we'll have a more enlightened Administration i...
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by Marc on July 12, 2006
Hilary Rosen, ex-RIAA prez, goes all the way and the media is happy to follow. We reported earlier that she "rethinks lawsuits and DRM". Now in a Wired interview she reveals she's gone f...
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by Marc on June 15, 2006
Not long after RIAA Prez Cary Sherman's inane answers in a CNET interview, RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol continues the fantasy with the USA Today article "RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'c...
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by Marc on June 7, 2006
In Hilary Rosen Vader I slammed the ex-president of RIAA for slamming Apple. In typical Hollywood sleight-of-hand she criticized Apple for iTunes DRM. But Hollywood sets the terms for Apple selling mu...
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by Marc on June 7, 2006
CNET puff piece Newsmaker: RIAA's next moves in Washington throws softball questions at RIAA Chairman Mitch Bainwold and President Cary Sherman. The two earn almost $2 million together and appear ...
