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by Jordan Grodecki on March 5, 2009
What?
Have I gone mad?
No. I certainly don't agree with this but apparently a certain professor has come to this conclusion. After a long and probably overfunded survey of blind MP3 testing, he...
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by Jordan Grodecki on October 6, 2008
Kid ROCK, the outspoken US artist, has licenced is latest album exclusively to Real's Rhapsody service, skipping the normal online outlets like iTunes for one big reason; single track downloads....
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by Jordan Grodecki on August 29, 2008
A rumour has come around that the BBC is preparing to enter the streaming music and download market, although mainly with unique content from it's own recordings, such as the John Peel sessions,...
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by Creative Weblogging on September 28, 2007
Creative Weblogging is happy to announce we found a great blog editor to take over this blog. Thank you to all who applied.
Soon you will find some great content over here, So make sure you stop by ...
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by Marc on July 26, 2007
Mitch Glazier, Executive Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, RIAA spoke with a blogger Here is one of the questions.
What's the single biggest misperception about the RIAA that is ...
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by Marc on July 19, 2007
Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog
Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefin...
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by Marc on May 18, 2007
Proving that DRM will never die and paying customers remain enemy number one, an HBO executive revealed that the cable programmer has been stymied by the nasty regulators at the FCC.
HBO Chief Techn...
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by Marc on May 16, 2007
We're pleased to offer our readers free membership to The P2P Insiders LinkedIn group. The group is a part of LinkedIn, by far the world's largest online networking site with ten million users...
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by Marc on May 14, 2007
HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter, auditioning for a role as Chief Marketing Officer for RIAA, said the term Digital Rights Management (DRM) disparages the industry's good intentions as it c...
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by Marc on May 3, 2007
RIAA continues its campaign to co-opt universities in curtailing alleged copyright infringement by its students with mixed success. Harvard staff and alumni Wendy Seltzer and Charles Nesson from the B...
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by Marc on February 22, 2007
Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued an open letter calling for the entertainment industry to move to the open MP3 format.
He wrote "If the big four music companies would license Apple their music witho...
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by Marc on February 13, 2007
I earlier reported on Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman admitting that his kids are music pirates who have downloaded unauthorized files. He said it was a family matter.
That statement has come Full C...
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by Marc on February 12, 2007
The recording industry's lawsuits against the Santangelo family epitomize what is wrong with RIAA's war against music fans. The Suits pit an industry with billions of dollars against a mother ...
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by Marc on February 7, 2007
Leo Laporte, "The Tech Guy", is going national His weekend technology talk radio show will be carried by Premiere Radio Networks. Premiere positions Laporte as the "Go-To Gadget Guy&quo...
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by Marc on January 29, 2007
We reported previously on the Guntram Graef lawsuit as an example of DMCA abuse. Mr Graef responded to us as below. Allegations of ID theft and Sexual abuse are important. We do not pretend to judge t...
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by Marc on January 22, 2007
The abuse of the DMCA by not only the entertainment industry, but also others, has long been documented. It's easy to complain. All it takes is a cease-and-desist letter to invoke the law. There i...
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by Marc on January 8, 2007
Photo: Reuters with Bronfman and interviewer Adam Pasick
Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman admitted that his kids are music pirates who have downloaded unauthorized files.
Bronfman said "I explai...
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by Marc on January 2, 2007
I am thankful for public defenders like attorney Ray Beckerman who invest their time and effort, often on a pro bono basis, to protect consumers like you and me. Here in full is Ray's New Year Gre...
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by Marc on October 30, 2006
Alain levy (pictured) proclaimed the CD was dead at the London Business School. John Paczkowski retorts "So by "value-added material," you mean the jewel case?".
My take: right i...
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by Marc on October 13, 2006
Emblematic of the struggle in Sweden over file sharing, high profile file sharer Ivar Wenster said that the evidence against him was destroyed when lightning struck his computer.
Wenster is head of ...
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by Marc on October 5, 2006
Photo - DVD Jon by Irina Slutsky
Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon, is back. He's the programmer who gained fame cracking DVD encryption. He now has moved to the U.S. and turned his attention to App...
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by Marc on September 21, 2006
The Recording Academy, home of the Grammys, has publicly called for a truce between the labels and tech companies, according to Digital Music News.
"We all know that the next five years will se...
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by Marc on September 11, 2006
Photo from CNET
CNET posted an interview with Mark Cuban, founder of HDNET and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Mark spoke on the future of digital entertainment and HD video.
His cogent observations ...
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by Marc on August 1, 2006
In "A Barenaked guide to music copyright reform," artist Steven Page of the barenaked ladies, a member of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition, writes that suing fans is not the solution.
...
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by Marc on July 27, 2006
Ray Beckerman spoke on RIAA consumer lawsuits in a conference call for DefectiveByDesign.org, which is a part of the Free Software Foundation. I attended the call. Ray spoke eloquently about how RIAA ...
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by Marc on July 27, 2006
Ray Beckerman spoke on RIAA consumer lawsuits in a conference call for DefectiveByDesign.org, which is a part of the Free Software Foundation. I attended the call. Ray spoke eloquently about how RIAA ...
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by Marc on July 12, 2006
Hilary Rosen, ex-RIAA prez, goes all the way and the media is happy to follow. We reported earlier that she "rethinks lawsuits and DRM". Now in a Wired interview she reveals she's gone f...
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by Marc on June 15, 2006
Not long after RIAA Prez Cary Sherman's inane answers in a CNET interview, RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol continues the fantasy with the USA Today article "RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'c...
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by Marc on June 8, 2006
In Hilary Rosen Vader I slammed the ex-president of RIAA for slamming Apple. In typical Hollywood sleight-of-hand she criticized Apple for iTunes DRM. But Hollywood sets the terms for Apple selling mu...
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by Marc on June 7, 2006
CNET Puff piece Newsmaker: RIAA's next moves in Washington throws softball questions at RIAA Chairman Mitch Bainwold and President Cary Sherman. The two earn almost $2 million together and appear ...
