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[News] Washington University Becomes RIAA Pals; DRM Kills Music Business

  • Subject: [News] Washington University Becomes RIAA Pals; DRM Kills Music Business
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:01:31 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
UW will abet file-sharing lawsuits, it says

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| The University of Washington announced Monday a new policy about illegal 
| music file-sharing on campus: Not only will the school not shield 
| students from lawsuits from the recording industry, it will track 
| them down and serve them the legal papers.
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http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/96215.html

Norwegian Lament [DRM Discussion]

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| Nonetheless, the central, and critical point remains: no DRM solution
| is effective in delivering what any publisher must seek for themselves 
| and their authors: a wider market, and greater revenue; in fact, it is
| detrimental to that effort.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/06/norwegian_lamen.html

Now, will somebody let the BBC and its mind-poisoning 'partners' know this?
Declining revenue and vendor lockin are not the way to go.


Recent:

EMI has DRM free sales boom 

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| Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd's Dark 
| Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40443

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