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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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......
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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 taking...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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