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

November 24, 2009 · 553Leave a Comment2009-11-25+01%3A00%3A15admin

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 Music Service To Survive Without Being Too Expensive You just knew it would happen again. Every time the recording industry finally agrees to license a new music service to try to take the “sting” out of “piracy,” it demands licensing terms that are ridiculous.... [Read the full story]

Movies

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

November 21, 2009 · 500Leave a 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

Anti-P2P Laws Working?? Not Really.

November 25, 2009 · 565Leave a CommentAnti-P2P+Laws+Working%3F%3F+Not+Really.2009-11-25+15%3A43%3A48admin

Ars usually has a couple of really good articles when it comes to copyright, sadly this was not one of their best. The copyright industries regularly lie and falsely inflates statistics to show that ever strong legislation is needed, so its no surprise that they claim because of laws like IPRED the music industry is gaining consumers in Sweden. As a citizen of Sweden, residing in Stockholm, let me tell you – this cant be further from the truth. Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways? When Sweden’s... [Read the full story]

ThePirateBay

Hollywood: ThePirateBay Tracker Is Not Dead-Its A Zombie!

November 19, 2009 · 435Leave a Comment2009-11-19+04%3A02%3A36admin

As most people already know, in what can be said to be an epic end of an era, ThePirateBay shut down it’s tracker… for ever. While TPB’s ex-admin Peter Sunde says the tracker was shut down because its time to move on to more de-centralized p2p and a tracker is no longer needed, rumors abound that it was done because of the impending October decision by a court in Sweden requiring the The Pirate Bay to either shut down, or remove all unauthorized copyrighted works or be fined up to U$D73,000. Whatever the reason, the fact of the matter is TPB’s tracker is no longer alive…... [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

Apple Trying Not To Give iPhone’s Source Code

November 24, 2009 · 558Leave a Comment2009-11-25+01%3A42%3A44admin

Here’s a bunch of folks who really need all the luck they can get… because they are trying to get the source code for for the iphone: from Apple! Then there’s the small matter of slapping Apple with a class action lawsuit… We have a love hate relationship with class action lawsuits, it seems that the lawyers make most of the money and very little actually trickles down to the people affected, that being said the companies get (rightfully) bitch slapped… We would love it if that system came to Europe, flawed as it may be , its a huge stick to hold over the heads of... [Read the full story]

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And The Song…Oops,Scam Remains The Same

Here’s a really interesting article (especially for Brits) on the latest scam, and priceless tips and resources on how to avoid it. As many as 25,000 BT and 5,000 customers of other ISPs will be receiving shock letters demanding big payments during the coming weeks. Lawyers in the UK have been granted more...

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ACTA – The Scumbag’s Savior

Mike Masnick from TD writes: Entertainment Industry: Yes, Please Keep Negotiating Secret Copyright Treaty To Save Our Asses Sherwin Siy (one of the few people who actually was allowed to glance briefly at parts of the proposed ACTA treaty, though under strict NDA) has written about yet another letter sent by the entertainment...

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European Commision Rains On MAFIAA’s Parade

There are few things that would please the the music and film industries more than giving them the power to disconnect who ever they please… by just pointing their finger at them. Picture an evil genie and you would be getting close. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, the European Commission does...

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Spanish Man Gets Justice From Anti-Piracy Thugs

Here’s a prime example of the old glass is half full/empty saying. Preliminary injunctions against two file-sharing portals have been overturned, paving the way for a re-opening. The sites’ lawyers have proven that hard drive evidence collected during a controversial raid against the sites’ admin is worthless,...

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Looking At ACTA..

Here are a couple of articles that I think take a very well deserved look at ACTA: MPAA Dismisses Demand for Copyright Treaty Transparency as “Distraction” Says Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations shouldn’t be derailed over public concerns that they’ll have no say in an international agreement...

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Apple Defends It’s Crazy Policies

What must feel like another slap in the face to its iPhone developers, Apple fully defends and deflects blame for its iphone policies. Two Sources, the first, TC: Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like Approval Process Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing,...

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HOT: UK’s Pirate General.. Overseen By Mr.Corrupt Himself

Would you let a wolf guard sheep? No? Well, if you were in the UK you would perhaps let a (two strike disgraced) crook make laws, at least that’s whats happened now that I-wanna-be-dictator (Mandy) Madelson will be doing… if he has his way. In what’s arguably one of the hottest topics on the net concerning...

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If These Are The Good Guys… We Are Gay!

To the music industry we are nothing but criminals, pirates and a lot of other ‘really really… realllly bad things’ (as my colleagues’s 7 year old son describes some things ), but if given the option of being one of the scumbags in suits who populate the music industry (not to be confused...

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Shorter Copyright More Benificial To Society… No Sh!t Sherlock!

When the creator knows that she cannot bank on a single copyright for her entire life… actually, past her live and in some cases past her grandchildren’s lives she has more incentive to create more. Ah! Simple logic, who would have ‘thunk’ it? New Economics Paper Explains How Shorter Copyright...

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

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Spanish Man Gets Justice From Anti-Piracy Thugs

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Pirates Don’t Screw The Artists, Labels Screw The Artists

As we wrote a little while ago in a related article: But what happens when the major labels enter any good idea? 1. They screw it up royally 2. They screw the public 3. They screw the artists You do have to admire their evil though, they took a situation where they are totally raping the very talent they are claiming...

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The Real Music Pirates…Rogues

As many of you already know, we actually like being called pirates, and we (some of us) make no secret about downloading copyrighted works as a form of civil disobedience. But want to know who the real rogues of the music business are? Some of you are going to be surprised!!!!! Personally, we like Spotify.. and since...

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If These Are The Good Guys… We Are Gay!

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Insects (Beetles) Squeezing The Parasites (Music Labels!)

Call us ‘normals’ or saints if you want to, but we just like… no love it, when either the music labels are in a pickle or the music industry (not to be confused with the artists who make music) is in trouble, in fact if somebody were to tell us that the RIAA or any of the major labels just got bombed...

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Mariah Carey, Brains To Match Her Big.. Well, You Know!

I am definitely not a fan of Mariah Carey or her music – in my humble opinion the only thing really worthwhile she did musically was…., Eminem. But…. there’s no denying she is a very very successful singer and has loads of fans that would probably kick my behind for writing the above, and…...

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BS Vs. BS – Fair Use Contributes 2.2 Trillion!

Big content (which comprises the companies that pay the RIAA/MPAA/BSA etc) loves to throw bogus numbers around: XX billion lost to piracy of movies, XX billion lost to piracy of music, XX billion lost to piracy of software etc. While these numbers are quickly (almost immediately) debunked on sites like Ars, TechDirt...

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Sony To Take On iTunes!

The tech giant will launch an online store selling music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products … Sony (SNE) is taking a page from Apple’s playbook (AAPL). On Nov. 19, Sony said it plans to launch an online store selling music, movies, and books as well as other downloadable...

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The BlueBeats..umm, Beatles Get Taken Down!

Surprise! (No) Surprise! Bluebeat’s case gets thrown out. Yes, we are as shocked as … well, nobody Not being a fan of the Beatles we were not really concerned that their music was being offering for $0.25 per song, but were were overjoyed about the way Bluebeat’s went about claiming the holdouts music...

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