Flesh Guitar , a novel by by Geoff Nicholson, is one of the best reads I've had recently. It's so good that I'm only reading little bits at a time, in the same manner one tends to nibble...
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Filed in archive Government
by Marc on April 28, 2006
The EFF calls the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest power grab an outrage in The Season of Bad Laws, Part 2: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Drug War Style. It looks like another giveaway...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 28, 2006
Win an iHome! Visit our P2P Weblog and take a brief survey to enter. Or stay here to win an iPod shuffle. We are kicking it in April and are giving away prizes. All you have to do is......
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Filed in archive Legal
by Marc on April 27, 2006
F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter of the Cato Institute write about copyright law in Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture. They argue that copyright law only encourages production...
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Filed in archive RIAA, IFPI
by Marc on April 27, 2006
While RIAA continues to extort regular people with copyright infringement lawsuits, real pirates run bootleg manufacturing plans that make millions of CDs. This photo shows 80,00 CDs destroyed in...
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Filed in archive RIAA, IFPI
by Marc on April 26, 2006
RIAA has created a new revenue channel to help make up for lower industry sales - P2P individual lawsuits. The Pirate Times calculates that almost $100 million have been paid by consumers who have...
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Filed in archive Innovation
by Marc on April 25, 2006
RealNetworks was granted a patent for core media streaming technology called "Click to Stream." The patent dates back to technology developed over 10 years ago in 1994 when RealAudio was...
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Filed in archive Analysis
by Marc on April 24, 2006
Chris Anderson at The Long Tail gives another reason for the drop in music industry sales, and it's not P2P. It's The End of the Hit. New genres like disco and grunge continually revitalize...
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Filed in archive Innovation
by Marc on April 21, 2006
MusicIP, which claims it is the first global search engine for music, was granted a patent for its music fingerprinting technology. The press release says "The technology in the patent identifies...
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute published Expanding the Market's Role in Advancing Intellectual Property. CEI advocates that the free market is far more effective than legislation like the...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 21, 2006
Win an iHome! Visit our P2P Weblog and take a brief survey to enter. Or stay here to win an ipod shuffle. We are kicking it in April and are giving away prizes. All you have to do is......
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Filed in archive Analysis
by Marc on April 20, 2006
Pitchfork writer J T. Ramsay interviews entertainment lawyer Steve Gordon on the future of the recording business and the state of its transition to a digital world. Gordon shares excellent insights...
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Filed in archive MP3 Players
by Marc on April 19, 2006
Japanese manufacturer smashed the $10 barrier with the DN-2000, a Stripped and limited MP3 player that sells for $8.50 Users must supply their SD card (up to 1GB). It runs for 5 hours on a single AAA...
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Filed in archive Marketing
by Marc on April 19, 2006
Coca-Cola has created Stageside.tv as a platform for entertainment videos. Stageside includes P2P links so that files can be shared on the top P2P networks. The P2P effort is supported by Coca- Cola...
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Filed in archive Industry
by Marc on April 18, 2006
Richard Menta writes for Digital Music News on the effect of the current radio programming payola probe in "Radio Programmers Sheepish Following Payola Probe". Here is the article: Elliot...
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Filed in archive RIAA, IFPI
by Marc on April 18, 2006
She shared. She was sued. She blogged. MIT student Cassi Hunt was sued by RIAA and wrote it about in Run Over by the RIAA and then Don't Tap the Glass in the MIT student newspaper, The Tech. Her...
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Filed in archive Apple
by Marc on April 18, 2006
Apple is talking to Panasonic Avionics and other in-flight entertainment system manufacturers. iTunes would be used to download music and video from the airplane computer system to passenger iPods or...
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Filed in archive Government
by Marc on April 18, 2006
State government now wants a piece of the iTunes action. 15 states currently tax digital downloads, including Texas, the largest. The states reason that the files are personal property and so should...
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BPI, the British record industry trade association, claimed that file sharing has cost the UK music industry 1.1 billion pounds (almost $2 billion US) over the last 3 years. Jupiter Research analyst...
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The EFF updates Unintended Consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA. The report chronicles what happens when big business uses its power to get favorable one-sided legislation. From the report:...
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After battles upon battles inside courts and out of them, Apple Corps, the semi-militant (it seems) corporation that governs the rights to the beatles' music, has decided to let the digital world...
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Filed in archive by Marc on April 14, 2006
Win an iHome! Visit our P2P Weblog and take a brief survey to enter. Or stay here to win an ipod shuffle. We are kicking it in April and are giving away prizes. All you have to do is......
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on April 13, 2006
P2P radio pioneer Mercora changed direction with a new product release that replaces its subscription business with keyword advertising. The company is jumping on the Web 2.0 hype bandwagon with...
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The Tribeca Film Festival 2006 calls for a short movie competition! Record and show them your own story in 15 seconds and win honor and glory. In order to make your submissions as successful as...
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