The concept is simple: The music industry forms a collecting society, which then offers file-sharing music fans the opportunity to ‘get legit’ in exchange for a reasonable regular payment, say $5 per month. So long as they pay, the fans are free to keep doing what they are going to do anyway–share the music they [...]
The Federal Communications Commission isn’t buying Comcast’s (CMCSA) argument that throttling or degrading the performance of the peer-to-peer file-sharing service BitTorrent on its broadband network is a necessary traffic-management technique.
Speaking at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he’s considering taking action against the cable operator for violating [...]
We compete with Comcast with delivery of content over the Internet. What we have here is a horse race and in this contest, Comcast owns the race track, in fact, the only track in town. They also own a horse. We are being told they are only slowing down our horse by a few seconds.”
–Gilles [...]
As Sun Tzu once wrote, “Keep your customers close and your enemies closer, and should someone be both, kick them off the Internet.” At least that’s what he appears to have written in the recording industry’s well-worn copy of “The Art of War.”
Earlier this year, the British Phonographic Industry suggested that the British government pass [...]
What do you get when you cross a cowboy, a construction worker, a biker, a soldier, an American Indian and a police officer? Why, the Village People, of course. But throw in a Web Sheriff and you’ve got a lawsuit: The aging disco group has teamed up with the U.K.-based antipiracy outfit to sue [...]
If the recording industry had its head any further in the sand, they’d have to insert a breathing tube.
Consider the British Phonographic Industry’s latest stroke of brilliance for combating illegal file-sharing: kick casual file-sharers off the Internet. Seems the BPI would like the British government to pass “three strikes” legislation that would require Internet service [...]
The Recording Industry Association of America demands damages of $150,000 per song for file-sharing infringements, yet it pays the artists who create those songs pennies for their work. And now it wants to pay them even less.
The RIAA and its online counterpart, the Digital Media Association, have petitioned the Copyright Royalty Board to slash the [...]
Digital music sales are soaring, but that hasn’t stopped the recording industry from continuing to spin its long-running woe-is-me tale of piracy and declining revenues.
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s 2008 Digital Music Report (PDF), global digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion in 2007, up from $2.1 billion in 2006.
Now that [...]
Turns out Benjamin Disraeli was wrong. There are four, not three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics and Motion Picture Association of America piracy figures.
The MPAA this week admitted that a 2005 study that blamed a significant portion of the film industry’s domestic losses on college movie pirates was erroneous. Touted as “the most [...]
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Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
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