Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The next round of negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will be underway in less than a week. The ATCA was originally supposed to reduce the flow of fake physical goods across borders. Unfortunately, it's grown into something that reaches FAR beyond counterfeit physical goods. It is ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
It seems like only a week or two ago when I heard about the RIAA deciding to walk away from one of their infamous "Discovery" cases. You know the kind, where they bring a lawsuit against a whole bunch of John Doe's and come in demanding that their real ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
In recent months I haven't seen nearly as much talk about network neutrality, what it means to average users, what telephone companies and large ISPs want to do with the Internet and perhaps most importantly, what Washington and our newly elected president intend to actually DO about it.
This does not ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
There's a report out from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) that claims that 95% of all music downloads are illegal.
Well of course the music industry would like us to believe that. I seem to recall hearing about an RIAA report that claims illegal downloads are up ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
In a move that many are applauding, Apple's iTunes music downloads store is now very nearly completely DRM free and is expected to be completely free of DRM laden music by sometime this spring. I have to say that I agree with a vast majority that moving to DRM ...
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