Tuesday, February 12, 2008
I Banish Thee From This Internet. Begone!
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 [...]
Digital Music Sales Are Up. In Other News, Recording Industry’s Whining Trend Line Remains Steady
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 [...]
I’m Told Those “Top 25 Piracy Schools” Offer Great Remedial Math Programs …
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 [...]
Monday, November 26, 2007
The Tech 10: Sony Picks up Petrodollars, Facebook Finds Politics and Shoppers Flock Online
Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns next Monday, Dec. 3.
To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
New NBC Series to Feature World’s Smallest Violin Playing World’s Saddest Song
Nothing like an alarmist study to get Washington lawmakers worked up into a pro-legislation lather. Which is exactly what NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker gave them at an antipiracy summit hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today.
Citing an Institute for Policy Innovation study that estimates that copyright-industry piracy costs the U.S. economy $58 [...]
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
RIAA: You’ll Get Your Money After We Sue a Few More College Students
File-sharing really has eaten away at the recording industry’s profits. It did not even pay some $68,000 in attorney’s fees it owes the Oklahoma woman whom the Recording Industry Association of America wrongly accused of piracy last year. Though a federal judge issued the fee award a month ago, the organization has failed to pay [...]
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Next Blockbuster Initiative: Renting Copies of Netflix Business Plan
Thursday, July 19, 2007
YouTube Educating Users About Copyright Law? Surely, You Can’t Be Serious …
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Video Identification Tools Must Be One of Those ‘20% Time’ Projects, Huh?
The National Legal and Policy Center has finished up its latest list of potentially copyright infringing movies on YouTube and Google Video, and it’s largely what you’d expect. Not the “New Releases” tab on Netflix, but not exactly the dusty DVD display rack at the local convenience store, either.
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
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. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
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.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
