The internet hates Chris Dodd right now.
The former Democratic Senator is a perfect illustration of a lot of what is wrong right now with greased slopes in regards to money, politics, influences and lobbies, and just a ...
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When it comes to the music business and technology there is no other organization more moronic or totally out of touch with how the business that they are trying to protect like a mad bulldog is changing ...
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Many of the so-called pirate site owners believe that as long as their site isn't hosted on US based servers that they are pretty safe from retribution by the entertainment industry and their trade groups, the problem is that ...
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Forget the War on Drugs or the War on Terror- it seems the biggest war being pushed by our elected officials nowadays is the War on the Bill of Rights, a war funded heavily by corporate America.
A ...
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Grooveshark is often attacked for its "too good to be true" business model- after years of watching the RIAA win astronomical judgments against file-sharers and the whole Napster brouhaha, users are wary of getting their asses hauled ...
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Baidu, the largest search engine in China has agreed to pay the music industry millions of dollars in royalties stemming from illegally downloaded MP3s and streaming songs. The search giant announced this week that they have signed ...
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A jury in Minneapolis has decided on a third fine for illegal downloader Jammie Thomas-Rasset- the Minnesota woman was originally fined $1.92 million for downloading 24 songs.
The RIAA has offered twice to settle the case, once for ...
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Even my LG feature phone has an FM radio widget on it but considering where I live that makes as much sense as teats on a bull does. However it seems in the US that the RIAA ...
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When I first read this over at the Recording Industry vs The People blog this morning I couldn't stop laughing, which made it extremely hard to get my required daily dosage of coffee into me and not ...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) might have a slight bias when it comes to reporting on stuff that is happening on the web but when they have post that is basically highlighting the responses to the Intellectual ...
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When it comes to downloadable music and movies torrent sites are almost guaranteed to attract the attention of trade group bullies like the RIAA and MPAA. It is a pressure that has been growing over the years as ...
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Well, that's one way to make fines for file-sharing look even more arbitrary, astronomical and totally imaginary.
The RIAA battled single mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset in court over 24 tracks the woman illegally shared over Kazaa. Despite Thomas-Rasset's protests ...
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It's a noble plan.
A dozen nations meeting in Geneva on Monday to consider adopting the WIPO Treaty for Sharing Accessible Formats of Copyrighted Works for Persons Who are Blind or Have other Reading Disabilities. The proposal that ...
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Technology didn't kill radio.
Satellite radio didn't kill terrestrial radio.
But as of today radio stands a very good chance of becoming an ever increasing wasteland to the point that we will see a massive shift away from radio stations ...
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Word is beginning to trickle out of Japan that the country’s government and music companies are trying to get a pioneering system in place that is designed to stop unauthorized copying of music on ...
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Not satisfied with just screwing people through pointless idiotic lawsuits the music industry has been trying to get ISPs around the world to block torrent sites – with The Pirate Bay being their principal ...
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There is no doubt that the RIAA deserves all the bad press and flack it gets but on a scale of utter doucebaggery they pale in comparison to a company called Digiprotect. This ...
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Remember the case of Jammie Thomas and the RIAA where Jammie got slapped with a $1.92 million dollar jury judgment against her? Well Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo did some calculations and found ...
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Name any trade group that claims to represent songwriters and/or musicians and they well all tell you how they are all about making sure that the musicians are getting their fair share of money ...
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The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has bankrupted PhD student Joel Tenenbaum after a Jury found him guilty of copyright infringement for downloading and sharing 30 songs over the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. The Judge then ordered ...
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In some ways you have to admire the audacity and amount of hot air that lawyers for the entertainment industry can expel. Nowhere though is this type of verbal buffoonery more apparent than the ...
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Chief spokesdude for the RIAA Jonathan Lamesauce Lamy has stated DRM is dead, but not before pissing off all the people who have legitimately downloaded music since you could legally do so.
Way way back two years ago, ...
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