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British Telecom said: “We're still hopeful that an amicable solution, without the need for legislation, can be reached. It doesn't make sense to try to get people online and at the same time scare them away.”

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february 2009 by bradbarrish

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Los Angeles Music - Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them? - page 1 - LA Weekly

Google, the bloggers believe, has quietly changed the methods by which it enforces its user agreement. Whereas in the past, a blog owner would receive a warning before a post’s removal, Google is now simply hitting the delete button.

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february 2009 by bradbarrish

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In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com
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october 2008 by bradbarrish

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Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" - Waxy.org
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september 2008 by bradbarrish

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Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!

P2P is now a gateway drug!!!

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MediaFuturist: Welcome to Paul McGuinness’ next version of the Internet: policed, censored, throttled and fully under his control (a comment on Paul's speech at MIDEM 2008)

Great response from Gerd on McGuinness' comments at MIDEM

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The RIAA speaks--and it gets worse | The Digital Home - Don Reisinger's take on the tech closest to home - CNET Blogs
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january 2008 by bradbarrish

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Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine

Hey Doug, foot in mouth much?

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november 2007 by bradbarrish

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Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine

I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks — if not two months — before it comes out.

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october 2007 by bradbarrish

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Unlocking Apple's iPhone is legal, ethical, and just plain fun. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

Don't be afraid: Unlocking Apple's superphone is legal, ethical, and just plain fun.

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october 2007 by bradbarrish

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Music DRM in critical condition: Universal tests DRM free music sales

Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market. It's a strange test, however; the company won't be hawking DRM-free music at Apple's iTunes Store, at least at first.

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august 2007 by bradbarrish

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University of Kansas adopts one-strike policy for copyright infringement

In response to the RIAA and MPAA's campaign against file-sharing, the University of Kansas has announced a stringent policy for students found sharing copyrighted content on the university network.

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july 2007 by bradbarrish

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EMI has DRM free sales boom

Dump the protection increase the sales

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Congress, RIAA and Universities prepare for P2P "arms race"

The heated debate over file sharing and the role that American colleges and universities should take in response to it ratcheted up a notch Tuesday as industry players and college and university reps gathered in DC

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Music CD, I'm just not that into you

There's much to and fro about what's behind the drop. The industry as always wants to blame piracy. Critics want to blame poor quality of product, bad marketing tactics and digital rights restricting technologies

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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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Music Licensing Online: YouLicense

An online music licensing marketplace, YouLicense enables artists and those seeking musical content to conduct business directly without the need to deal with music companies.

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may 2007 by bradbarrish

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BitTorrent in Focus: TV-series are Hot | TorrentFreak

Almost 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do this to download TV-series, while only 10% of the available torrents are TV related.

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may 2007 by bradbarrish

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The Truth About Evite

For several years, millions of people have used Evite to send out party invitations. But why hasn't the site improved in such a long time?

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may 2007 by bradbarrish

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Exec: Music labels "about to cave in the next six months" on DRM

Ty Roberts, CTO of Gracenote, made the claim this week that the music industry was "about to cave in the next six months" on the issue of DRM, at least when it comes to downloads.

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april 2007 by bradbarrish

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Remaking Old Hits to Earn New Money - New York Times

In the decade and a half since Wang Chung dissolved, the licensing of music to advertisers, television and movies has become more acceptable — and much more lucrative — for performers from the past.

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april 2007 by bradbarrish

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DRM, lock-ins, and piracy: all red herrings for a music industry in trouble

Global music sales will drop to $23 billion in 2009, just over half of 1997's $45 billion and down 16 percent from 2006. The biggest reason for the steep decline is a drop in CD sales

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april 2007 by bradbarrish

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Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal

The ruling is a huge blow to online broadcasters, and the new royalty structure could knock a large number of them off the 'Net entirely.

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Daring Fireball: Some Facts About AAC

Apple is not the “Microsoft of digital music”, and everyone ought to stop trying to view their actions as though they were.

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april 2007 by bradbarrish

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Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero"

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.

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february 2007 by bradbarrish

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paidContent.org: The Economics of Content

This conference on the digital music business got off to a bang here in Cannes this morning when the opening-session discussion broke into a tense and sometimes bitchy disagreement about DRM between representatives from music, movie and electronics indust

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january 2007 by bradbarrish

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Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy

For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none.

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january 2007 by bradbarrish

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RIAA fights to keep wholesale pricing secret

A proposed order in a file-sharing lawsuit would force the recording industry to divulge closely-held details of their wholesale pricing arrangements.

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Why piracy is still more common than legal video downloads

A recent study conducted by consumer and retail analysis group NPD claims that peer-to-peer (P2P) video downloads (which in the study are synonymous with illegal downloads) are outpacing purchases from legitimate video download services five to one.

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FT.com / World / International economy - Universal, MySpace set for landmark battle

The legal battle brewing between Universal Music and MySpace could shape the broader commercial relationship between traditional media companies and a new generation of internet start-ups that rely on them for content.

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december 2006 by bradbarrish

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It seems a no-brainer that copying a DVD movie and reselling it should be illegal. But how about copying it to your iPod? Or, if you're a professor, copying snippets of "Citizen Kane" to illustrate a point in your class?

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december 2006 by bradbarrish

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It's time for Silicon Valley to accept the same laws that govern the rest of American business, says Fortune's Adam Lashinsky.

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november 2006 by bradbarrish

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Industry considers digital future

Members of the record industry are worried about the internet.

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november 2006 by bradbarrish

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Real Time - WSJ.com

Popular YouTube Clips' Short Shelf Life. Reflects Copyright Laws Run Amuck.

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november 2006 by bradbarrish

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Timothy K. Armstrong :

Good summary of the Grokster case

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october 2006 by bradbarrish

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Gelf Magazine: Mark Cuban on Grokster

Decent interview with Mark Cuban about all things copyright and digital

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october 2006 by bradbarrish

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Supreme Court mulls file-swap 'pushers' | CNET News.com

Wonder how this is going to turn out

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october 2006 by bradbarrish

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Disney-ABC: "We understand piracy now as a business model"

"So we understand piracy now as a business model,"

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october 2006 by bradbarrish

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David Byrne: Talking Head talks business

Record companies don't control artists the way they used to, says the musician, who speaks at McGill this week as part of Pop Montreal

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october 2006 by bradbarrish

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Recording Industry vs The People

A blog devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people.

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september 2006 by bradbarrish

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claytoncountsdotcom

If you care at all about freedom of thought, freedom of expression, or your digital rights, please take the time to write letters to any and every news outlet regarding this case. It’s never too late to show these guys what we’re made of, and we’re

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september 2006 by bradbarrish

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MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Who owns MTV Flux? The users do

MTV answers Billy Bragg's challenge on the rights of artists uploading material to the network's new user generated content channel.

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Songwriters, Careful With Those Music Samples!

We've all heard the story of a songwriter who had the perfect idea, wrote the perfect song, pitched the song to the perfect artist, only to hear an extremely similar song by that artist on the radio

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Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case | The Register

A group of US record labels agreed to drop a music piracy case in the US after the alleged file-sharer argued that it could not be proved that she downloaded any illegal music.

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Internet Archive: Details: RIAA Law Suits Call (Jul 19)

Peter Brown of the FSF speaks with Ray Beckerman, lawyer for defendants in RIAA lawsuits about the impact of the RIAA's legal strategy on the internet, copyright, DRM and our digital freedoms

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july 2006 by bradbarrish

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A Barenaked Guide To Music Copyright Reform

More on the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.

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may 2006 by bradbarrish

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