RIAA Announces Department of Precrime
Thought the principle of liability was well settled? Think again. The judge presiding over Atlantic v. Howell has ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America, finding that making content available for distribution over an Internet connection is in and of itself a copyright infringement –regardless of whether that content is ever distributed.
A [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
You Are Falling Into a Deep Sleep … When You Awake, You Will Do My Bidding.
Webcasters to SoundExchange: No, It’s Not an All-Day Listening Party for John Cage’s ‘4?33?’
If things continue as they are, the Buggles may have to re-record their 1979 New Wave masterpiece with a new lyric: “Imbeciles Killed the Radio Star.” Thousands of Internet radio stations went quiet today in observance of a “Day of Silence” organized to protest a catastrophic increase in royalty rates that threatens to cripple Internet [...]
Thursday, June 7, 2007
I’m Sorry Son, You Don’t Have Enough Financial Aid to Cover Your Entire Tuition Bill With These New RIAA Student-Activity Fees
Seeking to outsource its enforcement costs, the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] asks universities to point fingers at their students, to filter their Internet access and to pass along notices of claimed copyright infringement. … But these responses distort the university’s educational mission. They impose financial and nonmonetary costs, including compromised student privacy, [...]
RIAA: And We Would Have Gotten Away With It, Too, if It Weren’t for You Meddling, 43-Year-Old, Disabled Single Mothers.
Litigation is not our first choice, but education is not enough. The Recording Industry Association of America has sounded that familiar refrain throughout its campaign against file-sharing, even as it has sued thousands of alleged “song-lifters” for copyright violations.
What’s Next? Marching Bands?
It’s criminal. Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?”
–RIAA President [...]
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- The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
- Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?
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.
- 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!
