August 2005

Platinum Record Scandal!

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[DanÃ¢€™s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth] This is great. A compilation album that this guy’s band had a track on went plantinum, so he got the award. Then he got curious””would that thing...

Posted at August 29, 2005 12:48 PM

HBO clamping down on bittorrent use

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[Connected Internet News | Broadband Mobile Gaming News] I'm not quite sure how they are tracking users, but HBO are sending nasty letters to bittorrent users who are downloading their programming. I have a sneaky suspicion that HBO, and maybe other media companies as well, are adding their own torrents to trap users.

Posted at August 29, 2005 12:47 PM

The Recording Industry v. The People

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[The Bangus Supremacy] Through the Electronic Frontier Foundation I and my firm have undertaken to represent people in our area who have been sued by the Recording Industry of American (RIAA) for having computers whose internet accounts were used to open up peer-to-peer file sharing accounts.

Posted at August 29, 2005 12:46 PM

RIAA vs. The People

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[Lawsy.network] Through the Electronic Frontier Foundation we and our firm have undertaken to represent people in our area who have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for having computers whose internet accounts were used to open up peer-to-peer file sharing accounts.

Posted at August 29, 2005 12:44 PM

RIAA Brainwashing Continues

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[Terminally Incoherent] It should be complete with street posters and TV spots! Not sure who would pay for this though - standing up for the little guy kidoff went out of fashion recently.

Posted at August 25, 2005 09:13 AM

TIME FOR A NEW THREAT

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[No Rock&Roll Fun] There's rumblings of a new shift in policy coming from the RIAA: it looks like they're now going to turn their attention to CD burning: "Burned" CDs...

Posted at August 25, 2005 09:13 AM

death of the album? (or, for that matter, the novel?)

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[if:book] mp3s, file-sharing and iTunes, where kids are growing up with vast, shifting libraries of individual tracks instead of meticulously ordered, packaged collections. While it's true that a generation of shufflers may not have much respect for the integrity of albums, it's important to remember that most albums don't have all that much integrity to begin with.

Posted at August 25, 2005 09:11 AM

The EU Proposes US Style Piracy Laws

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[Webby's World] I seriously am worried though about the second quote I’ve used, I believe it breaches my civil liberties, I should be allowed to say ‘I have no problems with piracy as companies such as Microsoft weed enough money out of dumbos as it is, if you know how, pirate!’. If I’m not allowed to say my opinions on matters like this what is happening, I may have to be careful if this is passed.

Posted at August 21, 2005 01:16 PM

Music Industry Worried About CD Burning

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[Allyson M. W. Dyar (allyson13)] After experimenting with copy-protected CDs in Europe and Latin America in recent years, some record labels have begun releasing albums in North America with similar copy restrictions. The CDs typically allow users to burn no more than a handful of copies.

Posted at August 21, 2005 01:14 PM

CONDEMNATION

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[No Rock&Roll Fun] CONDEMNATION Apparently, things are so quiet in Poland at the moment police there have nothing better to do than try to ensure the purity and...

Posted at August 21, 2005 01:13 PM

DRM is Dangerous

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[Terminally Incoherent] CD's have long, but not infinite lifespan - and they do fail, and ware out. If the DRM makes it impossible to copy the content to a new disk, and the company cannot release new edition because it does not exist - the content will be lost within few hundred years.

Posted at August 21, 2005 01:07 PM

Music's brighter future

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[Public Knowledge - Content] The internet will eventually be wonderful for music buyers, but it is still a threat to today's dominant record labels

Posted at August 10, 2005 02:27 PM

USATODAY.com - Storm clouds gather over podcasting...

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[Late Night With Mr. X & Just Julie] USATODAY.com - Storm clouds gather over podcasting: "Record companies say they're just trying to look out for their artists. Podcasting could...

Posted at August 10, 2005 02:25 PM

Music sharing that's free and legal

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[Public Knowledge - Content] A new twist on file sharing is holding out the promise of allowing millions of people to share their song collections online, at no cost--and without...

Posted at August 04, 2005 04:16 PM

The Imps of File Sharing May Lose in Court, but They Are Winning in the Marketplace

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[Public Knowledge - Content] Not more than an hour after the Supreme Court ruled last week against a pair of file-sharing software companies, Hilary Rosen, the former head of the...

Posted at August 03, 2005 07:33 AM

Australian Child has house raided by Feds for linking to file sharing site

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[GoldSounds] A fascinating story of over-the-top copyright enforcement at The Register by Australian copyright lawyer (formerly in-house for ARIA, our RIAA) and...

Posted at August 02, 2005 01:59 PM

Hilary Loves Larry

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[Public Knowledge - Content] I'm so pleased that after only a few years of Larry saying it, Hilary was finally able to hear that Larry Lessig is not anti-copyright. He's not now, nor was he ever in the "everything should be free" camp (for the record, neither is Richard Stallman, or Stewart Brand who first said this quote as part of a longer quotation that information also wants to be expensive).

Posted at August 02, 2005 01:54 PM

Links From Wednesday 27th July, 2005

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[The All New Ewans Musings] Link: Plasticbag.org More on Sony getting caught paying for airtime - Boing Boing links to a 1.1mb PDF that details off all the little perks these ”˜desk jockeys’ recieved to push Beyonce instead of a tiny pub band round the corner that’s packing them in. I would like to ask them their show size and send one Addidas sneaker to them and send the other match when the airplay reaches @ least 10 spins.

Posted at August 02, 2005 01:52 PM

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