Ramming Bad Copyright(BPI)
Want to get some real bad copyright into law but dont know where to start?
Ask the BPI, they have some experience in that department…
From Boing Boing:
Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright
Cory Doctorow at 11:11 PM March 12, 2010
In this leaked, six-page email, Richard Mollet, the Director of Public Affairs for [...]
Pink Floyd Bitch Slap EMI
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 [...]
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 we think a couple of silver [...]
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 its contract with EMI requires [...]
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 the deficiency of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 bundles their [...]
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 For Not [...]
