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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Filed in archive People
, RIAA, IFPI
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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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive Community
, People
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive Legal
, People
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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Filed in archive People
by Marc on February 07, 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...
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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive People
by Marc on January 08, 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 set...
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Filed in archive Commentary
, People
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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