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Pandora's Popularity Making Free Music Viable, Despite RIAA's Push for Higher
Fees
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| Pandora wants you to have free music. The Recording Industry Association of
| America, it seems, does not.
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| Music, like all media, has gone digital. The eight track replaced the record
| and the CD replaced the eight track. And to replace the CD? The mp3 and other
| compressed music files, which are played and stored on devices with
| ever-increasing storage.
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/entertainment/2009/6/9/pandoras_popularity_making_free_music_viable.htm
The Man Can't Tax Our Music
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| The music industry wants to impose an onerous new fee on broadcasters.
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http://reason.com/news/show/134011.html
Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole"
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| Lawyers in this year's two highest-profile file-sharing cases have joined
| forces, and they plan to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording
| industry later this summer to claw back the "$100+ million" that the
| RIAA "stole."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/lawyers-plan-class-action-to-reclaim-100m-riaa-stole.ars
ELECTION MANIA? – UK Pirate Party
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| It seems that the recent scandles, resignations and voter appathy have
| rekindled an interest in politics, or maybe simply the realization that the
| small voice can be heard, not only in the World Wide Web but in the
| mainstream press.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/election-mania-uk-pirate-party/
Recent:
Is The BSA Purposely Promoting Open Source Alternatives?
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| So, what is the BSA doing? Yes, that's right, it's pumping up its software
| audit program, sending 1,000 audit letters to companies in London, officially
| demanding they detail their software usage -- while unofficially acting as a
| tremendous advertisement for open source software, where providers don't
| treat their customers as if they were criminals.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2302305104.shtml
How many billions is open-source software worth?
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| In other words, using OSS isn't about being anti-Microsoft or believing in
| some sort of open-source ethical rightfulness, using OSS is simply a smart
| business move. Indeed, at $387-billion in value, OSS is twice as valuable as
| Microsoft's current net worth of $183.5-billion. Not bad for 'free software'
| is it?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_billions_is_open_source_software_worth
BSA's Canadian Piracy Numbers Based On Hunches, Not Actual Surveys
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| The Conference Board of Canada that was basically a cut and paste from
| various industry groups, Geist noticed that the report relied on some BSA
| data. So he asked for more info on how the BSA determined the "piracy" rate
| of software in Canada. How many people were surveyed? What was the
| methodology?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090527/1125035034.shtml
BSA Releases BS Numbers Yet Again, Then Says Don't Pay Attention To The
Numbers
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| Well, it's the middle of May, and that means (like clockwork) the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC have come out with their annual bogus numbers
| about software "piracy." They do this every year, despite the fact that their
| numbers have been totally and completely debunked for years. Last year, they
| were kind enough to call to discuss my concerns, but stood by the idea that
| every unauthorized copy can be reasonably counted as a lost sale.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090512/1922584854.shtml
Aargh! Walk the plank ye scurvy dogs!
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| According to Channel Insider the Business Software Alliance and IDC report
| that software piracy in 2008 cost over $50 billion in lost direct sales and
| $150 to $200 billion in lost service and support.
|
| No analysis is offered as to whether the alleged pirates could have paid for
| licensed copies of the software in question had they chosen to. Nor is it
| explained why users of properly licensed software would have required $150 to
| $200 billion in additional service and support while the pirates manage to do
| without. Rugged, self-sufficient folks those pirates, I suppose.
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http://bringcookies.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/aargh-walk-the-plank-ye-scurvy-dogs/
The true cost of software piracy revealed
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| OK, let's forget the spin put on the piracy problem by the usual industry
| suspects. By which I mean the suggestion that the true cost of piracy is that
| it helps fund terrorists.
|
| That is just silly nonsense, FUD designed to confuse rather than clarify what
| has become a growing problem.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24982/1054/
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