Amazon to Begin International Rollout of Amazon MP3 in 2008
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| "We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world
| asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S. They
| can't wait to choose from the biggest selection of high-quality, low-priced
| DRM-free MP3 music downloads which play on virtually any music device they
| own today or will own in the future," said Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice
| President of Digital Music. "We are excited to tell those customers today
| that Amazon MP3 is going international this year."
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http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1100346&highlight=
Music biz targets ISPs - official
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| You don't need to be a Kremlinologist to detect the latest shift from the
| sound recordings industry. In its digital music report this week, the IFPI,
| the international trade group for recordings owners, provides scarcely a
| mention of the roaring "success" of its litigation against file-sharers.
| Instead the focus is squarely on getting the service providers to clean up
| their networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/27/ifpi_digital_threat/
It remains to be seen how/if the ISPs and Media Gods will abuse this power.
They can't just wipe and rip apart torrent and P2P. There is some legal stuff
there. And what about encryption?
Sweden to charge Pirate Bay in copyright case
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| Sweden plans this week to charge the people running Pirate Bay, one of the
| world's most visited Web sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright
| law.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL2723733820080127
Related:
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
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