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- Data and software both want to be shared
- Data and software both want to be sharedOnly if it is I who decides what to shareas I would imagine there is data that you posess that you has no desire to let me or the world see, as it would finacially devestate you, or something similar.I would not like...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Music Piracy, software, OpenSource, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Student suicide threat over corporate bullying tactics
- Student suicide threat over corporate bullying tactics...and they suborned Congress to break the lawIn the US, the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. And when both Breyer on the left and Thomas on the right agree that current US copyright law is unConstitutional, I think it is...
- Tags: music piracy, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raids
- Music piracy site closed after U.K., Dutch raidsThis means absolutely nothingThis means absoulutely nothing. They still have not even be able to touch pirate bay and there are a huge amount of donation supported private trackers of which oink is just one of. They will never win and there will...
- Tags: Music Piracy, torrenting
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- RIAA's so-called victory a double edged sword
- The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA won a legal battle as a Minnesota jury found a woman liable for downloading music. The penalty: $220,000 in damages for downloading 24 songs illegally. The New York Times calls the RIAA decision "a crucial legal victory for record labels and...
- Tags: Settlement, RIAA, New York Times Co., Music Piracy, TV Industry, Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Music piracy is a $4.6 bln industry
- International Federation of Phonographic Industries says in 31 countries bootlegs outsell the legal music. Sales of bootleg music reached $4.6 bln in 2004. 1.2 bln pirated music discs were sold in 2004, 34% of all sales. Musical piracy grew 2% in 2004, the smallest increase in five years. But the...
- Tags: music, Music Piracy
- Blog posts 2005-06-23
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- Copyright associations want enforcement for free
- The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...
- Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document
- So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- MI5, an ISP lawsuit and an e-petition: More opposition to piracy cut-off plans
- new world order is comingeveryone should boycott any measure imposed by the goverment.there is no piracy - information is free by it's definition.there is only total control over usersSee what can happenwhen one entity the government controls both the regulation and delivery of anything, be it the internet in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Vertical industries, piracy, world order
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Piracy and the Apple App Store
- PiracyI'm curious as to how they discovered that 80%. I'm assuming (I know, bad idea) that they post the app on the app store (well, Apple does after reviewing it) and someone has to buy it in order to pirate it or is the App store itself broken into? If...
- Tags: Games, piracy, game, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing
- The success of iTunes shows ....... that people will pay for a product if the cost is reasonable and they have CHOICES.Most music CDs now a day have a SINGLE song that is worth listening to. The reason people started stealing music was because the industry was forcing them to...
- Tags: Personal finance, P2P, MPAA, RIAA, piracy
- Discussion threads 2009-10-25
- P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education
- Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education
- One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed. I can't tell you many of my own friends and extended family members -...
- Tags: Education, P2P, File-sharing, Music, P2P Legislation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Is keeping big media alive good for the future of journalism?
- All old media companies need to die off...They are too constrained reliving memories of past glory to change in any meaningful way. What we need are modern 21st century media companies who understand the digital world. If Amazon, Google, or Facebook were to start new media companies, you can bet...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, media company, big media, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over
- Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...
- Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?
- I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...
- Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Good riddance: Digital music sales to surpass CDs in 2010?
- Sorry kid. There are plenty of us who buy CDs. You might want to read this:http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22862They are folks who don't give a rat's a$$ about being on the bleeding edge of technology.They have CD players in their cars, and most likely in their homes, and the purchase of an MP3...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, digital music, CD, music, sales, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground
- this is only on the broken USA copyright and court system.not every one lives in the united states of america...Was it ever really about combatting piracy?"It?s amazing how the focus has shifted from combating piracy to taking as much money as possible off customers."Considering how much they've been using DRM,...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, piracy
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....
- Tags: Strategy, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, business model, agreement, MPAA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Software goes direct
- Counterforces are gatheringWhile it would be NICE to be able to download CD-ROM-sized software packages now or in the future, many/most ISPs are currently taking steps that will discourage or perhaps outright prevent this, namely, they are establishing monthly bandwidth caps which limit the number of bytes each customer can...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Tools & Techniques, software
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
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