Submitted by mogston
from blog:
BullJustin points us to a short NPR piece about four massive failures by the recording industry. If we skip over number 3 (Kevin Federline), the other three are pretty relevant to what we talk about here on a regular basis: (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
Wired:Music is too expensive to be free and too free to be expensive on a song-by-song basis, because on-demand music licensing rates are becoming too high for advertising to cover — as shown once again by imeem’s rece (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net. The site pulls search results from other music sites — including Skreemr (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Do you BitTorrent? Do you download stuff from Kazza, Limewire or whatever you crazy kids are downloading from nowadays? We all know that it is illegal to download copyrighted works from the Internet. No matter if it is a mov (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
It’s been a good 10 years, Music Internet. At first, our love was forbidden—all your MP3 blogs were illegal. The RIAA would shut ‘em down, and we’d keep making out in the backseat of our Napster sedan like hormonally a (Read More)
Mashable!:
Do you know how BitTorrent works? I mean, really know the technology behind it? Even if you’re not all too familiar with it, you probably know that it requires a tracker – a computer that coordinates the distribution of a fil (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Although the RIAA has decided to stop initiating new legal actions against music fans as part of its war on piracy, there are still a few cases in which the wheels of justice are (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Long considered disinterested in playing copyright cop, Verizon apparently has a change of heart. The company is now forwarding violation notices on behalf of NBC Universal--as well as the RIAA. (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Allison K alerts us to the news that Verizon is the latest US broadband provider to agree to pass along the RIAA letters accusing Verizon customers of unauthorized file sharing. AT&T, Comcast, Cox and some other ISPs already (Read More)
Ars Technica:
If you're a copyright owner who has gone to the trouble and expense of tracking down online copyright infringers, don't send warning letters to Verizon without striking a deal fir (Read More)
CNET News.com:
The top music labels would have lost confidence in Qtrax a long time ago if not for Jay Berman, the former RIAA chief, who is representing the music service. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles' catalog from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren't the actual recordings. The tracks were "psycho-acoustic simulations" of the songs. Too bad that defense will never hol (Read More)
Wired: Threat Level:
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well.We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Recording Industry Association of America wants accused file-swappers to know that not responding to a federal copyright infringement complaint is a bad idea.When we last look (Read More)
readwriteweb:
According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future.A U.S.-drafted chapter on Internet (Read More)
Submitted by frozensun
from Google Reader:
According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future.A U.S.-drafted chapter on Internet (Read More)
Submitted by srcr
from Twitter:
@jaapstronks Is inderdaad een geweldig verhaal is. Dus de RIAA is heel hard aan het vechten tegen de beste klanten :). (Read More)
Lifehacker:
According to a poll conducted in the UK, people who admit to illegally downloading music also spend more money on music every year than those who don't. None of this changes the legality of downloading copyrighted content, of (Read More)
901am:
As early as nineties, people were already playing music from their browsers instead of traditional media players. Despite its eventual fall from popularity, I brought a client to the top of her local pop charts on MP3.com. De (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
Earlier this year, the RIAA dumped its longterm anti-piracy partner MediaSentry and hired DtecNet instead. MediaSentry had lots of problems in terms of credibility, but it appears that DtecNet may be even worse. It rec (Read More)