Denver Airport has decided that it has the right to stop users from going on sites it thinks are at all risque on it's free Wifi system, and critics are saying that it is using technology very...
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The People's Republic of China has taken the somewhat extraordinary step of completely banning US films from cinemas in the country. Well, actually, they haven't officially taken this step,...
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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....
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P2P makes you blind, puts Los Angeles grips out of work, and now is killing U.S. farms. Forget the fact that corn farmers are experiencing record corn prices due to government subsidies and...
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This post is part of a series on the US House of Representatives hearing on P2P. 1. U.S. Witch Hunt 2. Who Stole My P2P Cheese 3. What the Feds Say 4. The Industry Talks 5. Clark Wants Gov.......
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The NPD Group's latest research confirms research from other sources that P2P is not the top offender in unauthorized downloading. The finding questions the record industry's war against its...
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It's a comedy 3,000 years in the making and Viacom shut it down. The DMCA makes it easy for copyright holders to request content be removed. But what about when they get it wrong? Viacom has sent...
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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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Leading online music store eMusic with has driven song prices down as low as 25¢ if you max out their song bundles. eMusic offers over two million tracks, all in open MP3 format. But many labels...
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RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...
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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...
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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."......
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Science fiction author Spider Robinson wrote a brilliant story about copyrights 25 years ago, long before the ongoing fight we have today. "Melancholy Elephants" won the 1983 Hugo Award for...
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As predicted here and by other industry experts, the harder the entertainment industry pushes consumers, the harder they will push back with more evasive technologies. The renewed RIAA offensive on...
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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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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...
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Bob Cringely writes "We Don't Need No Stinking Best Effort: Net neutrality may have been just a fantasy all along." Bob, welcome to the real world. One of his readers writes: "I...
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