Music

Pink Floyd Bitch Slap EMI

March 11, 2010 · 685Leave a CommentPink+Floyd+Bitch+Slap+EMI2010-03-12+01%3A55%3A11admin

And for the big story of the day… Plenty of sources so we are not going to bore you with what we think (as we covered it a bit earlier as well) but needless to say, we are happy. We are always happy when the artist wins against scumbags. Lets start with Ars: Court nixes individual track downloads of Pink Floyd albumsIndividual Pink Floyd songs will soon disappear from online music stores. The British High Court has ruled against EMI, the band’s record label, saying that the band’s contract requires EMI to “preserve the artistic integrity of the albums.” In this case,... [Read the full story]

Movies

ACTA Is Coming, Bend Over,Grit Your Teeth, Sorry – NO Lube

November 21, 2009 · 5001 Comment2009-11-21+04%3A33%3A36admin

Whats the best way to get everyone to vote for one your pet laws..? well, it kind of depends on the law you want passed by a few good lines that rarely fail: Blah blah blah… global warming… blah blah Blah blah blah… think of the children… blah blah Blah blah blah… or the terrorists win … blah blah Blah blah blah… with us or against us… blah blah Blah blah blah… millions of jobs lost… blah blah Dan (the Joker) Glickman has come up with a good new one “Simply put, those who don’t back the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement... [Read the full story]

DRM & Law

Two Disturbing Articles About Obama on ACTA

March 11, 2010 · 688Leave a Comment2010-03-12+02%3A03%3A26admin

Here are two very disturbing articles about Obama on ACTA: The first from TD: Obama: We Must Move Forward On ACTA With the EU Parliament soundly voting against ACTA secrecy and current proposals, lots of folks have been wondering how the US was going to respond. So far, it’s not looking good. The USTR gave a giant no comment, and President Obama (who had been pretty quiet on ACTA himself) addressed ACTA in a speech, where he expressed strong support for continuing to move forward with ACTA. What was telling, however, was how he described ACTA — which is that he used the bogus arguments... [Read the full story]

ThePirateBay

Politically Motived Trial Dates for ThePirateBay(?)

March 11, 2010 · 673Leave a Comment2010-03-11+13%3A26%3A54admin

The site we love and the site big content loves to hate is back in the news with yet another controversy (?). Personally we find the dates a bit too ‘co-incidental’ givens Sweden’s response to the last time the government shoved some extremely unpopular and industry slanted legislation down our throats. We responded by sending two of our reps into the EU Parliament. Sounds like we are at stage three of “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you… then you win” - typical of big content they chose to fight in an underhanded/dirty way using... [Read the full story]

Television

Latest Google Offering: G-Evil

November 23, 2009 · 512Leave a CommentLatest+Google+Offering%3A+G-Evil2009-11-23+17%3A28%3A03admin

We love Google, heck we can’t name a single day in the past 3 years (or more) that we have not used their search… and we love Youtube, we find ourselves increasingly using the online streaming service instead of downloading pirated content (again, just goes to show: if there are viable alternatives even the most hard core ‘pirates’ see no reason to illegally download) which is the same pattern we noticed once Spotify hit Sweden and we scored ourselves a few free accounts. Back on topic, Google’s much publicized motto has always been (or so they tell us) : Don’t... [Read the full story]

Misc

UseneXt in hot water…good!

March 9, 2010 · 653Leave a CommentUseneXt+in+hot+water...good%212010-03-10+02%3A30%3A48admin

As we wrote a lonnng time ago… we dont like useneXt, so its with quite a bit of joy that we welcomed the news of useneXt getting into hot water but…we are cautious about the farther reaching consquences… From TF: Performing rights group GEMA has won an injunction against newsgroup outfit, UseNeXT. A court has forbidden the Usenet company from offering around 100 musical works from the GEMA repertoire and says that in the future, Usenet operators will have to take a greater responsibility for the environments and services they offer. usenextUseNeXT is a brand operated by Munich... [Read the full story]

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The Digital Economy Bill Gets More Critics

From ZP: UK ISPs: Site Blocking Risks Country’s Reputation Join consumer advocates, MPs, prominent academics, and others in an open letter to the House of Lords criticizing recent proposal to amend the Digital Economy Bill in order force ISPs to proactively block websites suspected of copyright infringement. A number...

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What Next? Rape Victims As Judges?

Leaked documents show that the British recording industry directly had a hand in writing a critical part of a proposed amendment. It amazes me how in the UK they don’t even try to cover the corruption. Way to go Britain in finding totally neutral parties to do the job for you, for standing up for the people who...

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DMCA Collateral Damage And Monster Copyrights

Here’s a two for oner from TD, starting with: Another Reason To Worry About DMCA Takedowns: Collateral Damage In the wake of the DMCA takedown notice that forced Cryptome offline, the EFF is pointing out yet another massive in with the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown setup: it leads to a ton of collateral damage...

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Politically Motived Trial Dates for ThePirateBay(?)

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EU Gives ACTA The Finger – In No Uncertain Terms (Updated!)

News like this makes us proud to be in Europe, and proud to have voted for the Pirate Party thus putting two of our reps in Parliament. Three stories, two trom TD and one from BB, starting first with TD: EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes Last week, there were reports that...

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How RealNetworks Just Screwed Us

From Boing Boing: RealNetworks just screwed us all by settling lawsuits in which it might have lost–but which might also have given some new life to fair use for digital media. The post-RealDVD world means that unless there’s a major change to the law surrounding copy protection, there will never be a...

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The DMCA Is Bad.. But We Want You To Use It!

The DMCA is one horrible piece of legislation badly slanted towards big content, everyone (US) knows this and nearly everyone admits this… but still want to shove it down the throats of other countries! From TD: A Look At Twelve Years Of Dangerous Unintended Consequences From The DMCA The DMCA has been in place...

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UseneXt in hot water…good!

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Pink Floyd Bitch Slap EMI

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One Shot Answer For The Music Industry? NOOOPE!

A new article on TechDirt boldly says : “Sorry, There’s No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry” personally, we are just surprised that there are no bullets (silver or not) flying towards the music industry and the RIAA in particular for their horrible behavior these past 5-10 years. Personally...

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Label (EMI) Again Fights Artist (Pink Floyd)

Another example of why copyright fails so badly, after the artist creates… the labels have the end say. Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract. The developer of The Dark Side of the Moon and other top-selling albums claims...

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Time to Invest In Customer Awareness.. Not Lawsuits or Draconian Measures

From Zeropaid Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon. Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate...

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Finished With Slavery, RIAA Are Back To Fairy Tales

Just a little while back we linked to an article on how the music industry were shamelessly equating free radio play to slavery, and a long time back we linked to articles on how the RIAA/IFPI/BPI (MAFIAA) were trying to brainwash little kids. Now with a slight twist the RIAA are back with fairy tales but this time...

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Music Industry Going Back To Basics – Trying To Bribe Their Way Through (UPDATED 2)

With nearly every underhanded, under the table or slimy move of the music industry (ACTA or Digital Britain anyone?) almost instantly posted on blogs and tech sites around the world, and with ISPs refusing to be the industries lap dogs the industry has gone back to basics… hoping to bribe their way into the ISPs...

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RIAA Jump On Another Bandwagon: Haiti

The RIAA have a new strategy, as soon as something big is in the news they try to piggy back on it to get more exposure to their scummy and evil causes. The last big one that the RIAA jumped on was the ‘Chinese Google’ hack (not counting them making the connection of copyright infringement to slavery of...

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Apple Biting Off More Than It Can Chew? Hopefully!

Apple is a company that makes some really good looking electronics, but have the stinkiest policies as well as worst DRM and that’s why we really really realllly dislike them. For a long time we had wondered why doesn’t Apple get into hot water the way Micro$oft does with their browser, after all, Apple...

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Spain To Get Sued By Indie Labels!

The only labels we DO support at eZee.se are the indies, we always root for the little guy… which was why were were totally disgusted when we read that Spanish indie labels were/are planning on suing the government for its stance on p2p. The articles, first from TD: Spanish Indie Labels To Sue The Gov’t...

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Music Industry: Too Greedy For Own Good (Whats new?)

The music industry is playing catch 22 with itself… or rather with anyone who actually wants to help it come out of the rut it finds itself in today. Honestly, these dinosaurs wouldn’t know a good idea if it jumped up and slept with their wives. Recording Industry Making It Impossible For Any Legit Online...

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