British band's breakthrough another online victory
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| But Koopa's breakthrough into the prestigious top 40 this week
| is another landmark in an Internet revolution sweeping the
| music industry.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6150296.html
This is also a recurring theme in Groklaw. Piracy is blamed for rivers that
run dry, rather than availability of free work.
Related:
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy
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| In a nutshell: DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing
| your rights so that they can sell them back to you... Like all lies,
| there comes a point when the gig is up; the ruse is busted. For the
| movie studios, it's the moment they have to admit that it's not the
| piracy that worries them, but business models which don't squeeze
| every last cent out of customers.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070115-8616.html
Microsoft's Zune Won't Play Protected Windows Media
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| This is a stark example of DRM under the DMCA giving customers a raw
| deal. Buying DRMed media means you're locked into the limited array of
| devices that vendors say you can use. You have to rebuy your preexisting
| DRMed media collection if you want to use it on the Zune. And you'll have
| to do that over and over again whenever a new, incompatible device with
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| innovative features blows existing players out of the water. Access to
| MP3s and non-DRMed formats creates the only bridge between these isolated
| islands of limited devices.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2006/09/15#a2498
iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content
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| BitTorrent Inc president and co-founder, Ashwin Navin says that iTunes'
| DRM is "a time bomb waiting to happen," and that it will inspire
| people to pirate content. The irony is that his company is about to
| launch a video store that heavily implements Microsoft?s Windows DRM.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-itunes-drm-inspires-people-to-pirate-content/
MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
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| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
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