The Charlatans Pull a Radiohead
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| Greg Sandoval over at WebWare made an interesting find, today: the UK band
| known as the Charlatans are joining Saul Williams and Radiohead with their
| next album release with a ‘name your own price’ mechanism for distribution.
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http://mashable.com/2008/01/25/charlatans-free-album/
Another new project creating RIAA-free music:
http://www.rpmchallenge.com/
Related:
Copyright Extensions and ISP Filtering: Breaking EU Culture, One Amendment at a
Time
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| As you may recall, the European Parliament's forthcoming report on the
| Cultural Industries has become the latest target of lobbying by the recording
| industry. First, they attempted to insert language that advocated that
| European ISPs filter and block their own users on the basis of suspected
| infringement. As we explained to European Members of Parliament, such
| policies would not only harm the privacy and security of Net users - they
| would not even work to combat infringement. Like DRM, everyone would lose,
| including the music industry and artists that IFPI seeks to protect.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/copyright-extensions-and-isp-filtering-breaking-eu-culture-one-amendment-time
http://tinyurl.com/2sk3ux
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
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| But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told
| education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number
| wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33CBI8sUdc5ni7RlxSj5SIEc2mwD8UB6S0O2
Business Model Gone Bad: The Music and Movie Edition
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| How Realistic is this new Business Model?
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| How realistic is this? I think it is very realistic.
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http://www.5thwind.com/?p=58
Hollywood Goes Too Far to Protect Content
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| I first found out about the problem on New Year’s Eve, when I went to log
| into my account. When I tried to launch a streaming movie, I was greeted with
| an error message asking me to “reset” my DRM. Luckily, Netflix’s help page on
| the topic included a link to a DRM reset utility, but when I went to install
| the program, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this warning.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/58905-hollywood-goes-too-far-to-protect-content?source=yahoo
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