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Media Cos.' Best Customers: Those Who Steal Their Content
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| We compared a random set of Vuze users with a national sample of internet
| users ages 18 to 44, and results revealed that users of P2P technology spend
| considerable money on traditional media and entertainment. They are, in fact,
| important and valued customers of the traditional media companies. Our survey
| shows that the P2P user attends 34% more movies in theaters, purchases 34%
| more DVDs and rents 24% more movies than the average internet user. The P2P
| user owns more HDTVs and is more likely to own a high-def-DVD player, too.
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http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=138587
A Hunger Strike Isn't A New Business Model And It Won't Stop File Sharing
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| Talk about the wrong way to go about things. Apparently musicians who are
| upset about the rates of unauthorized file sharing in Nigeria chose to go on
| a hunger strike to protest such things.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090827/0302056018.shtml
Thatâs All Folks
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| But Mr. Kassem assured me that Gray Zone and Warner were only concerned with
| the track âI Got All Of Thatâ and that they never asked Bluehost to have me
| remove all Gucci or to shut down my site. Bluehost somehow misinterpreted
| this line of the email: âIMMEDIATELY REMOVE ALL LINKS, REFERENCES, DOWNLOADS,
| VIDEOS, STREAMING AUDIO, AND MP3 FILES ASSOCIATED WITH GUCCI MANEâ as a call
| for me to immediately remove all links, references, downloads, videos,
| streaming audio and mp3 files associated with Gucci Mane. Bluehost was to
| psychically infer that this was in reference to just one specific track,
| which was never mentioned by name.
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http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=379
Recent:
BitTorrent users spend money, too
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| Vuze logo Vuze -- the company that's trying to sell licensed, high-def videos
| to users of the BitTorrent file-sharing software -- has spent much of the
| past two years trying to persuade Hollywood that its users are customers, not
| thieves. So far, however, the major studios have entrusted little to Vuze
| beyond movie trailers and other promotional videos. Now Vuze is trying to
| prod Hollywood with some eye-opening data about its clientele's buying habits
| and purchasing power: in addition to being copyright infringers, they spend a
| lot of money on movies and movie-watching gear. Said Vuze CEO Gilles
| BianRosa, "Those users are actually Hollywood's best customers."
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/06/bittorrent-vuze-survey-purchasing-dvd.html
Government Intranet Packed Full of Warez
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| Since 2005, a Brazilian senator has been pushing for tough new âcybercrimeâ
| legislation which would include measures against file-sharing. However,
| before thinking of unleashing new laws on the public, the government should
| look closer to home, since the senateâs intranet is loaded with an impressive
| amount of warez.
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http://torrentfreak.com/government-website-packed-full-of-warez-090604/
The Conference Board Of Canada Recalls Three IP Reports; Admits Plagiarism
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| Separately, the CEO of The Conference Board of Canada has supposedly admitted
| the report was plagiarized. Kudos to Michael Geist for his relentless
| following of this story, and making sure it got the attention it deserved...
| and kudos to The Conference Board of Canada for actually backing down
| (despite first defending the credibility of the report) once it realized how
| problematic it was.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090528/1258425047.shtml
Political Hypocrisy: French President Sued for Copyright Infringement
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| This may very well become the most ironic stories of 2009 in the copyright
| debate. The CBC is reporting that French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been
| sued by an independent band for copyright infringement.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/10034/Political+Hypocrisy+French+President+Sued+for+Copyright+Infringement
Is Nicholas Sarkozy One Strike Towards Losing His Internet Connection?
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| The latest is that French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, a big supporter of
| setting up a three strikes law in France, is being accused of violating
| copyright law himself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090226/0101073907.shtml
Music Executive Ridiculed at Pirate Bay Trial
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| Laughter filled The Pirate Bay trial here Wednesday when John Kennedy, the
| chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries,
| testified that people would have purchased every music track they got free
| file sharing.
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| Kennedy answered an affirmative "Yes" to Pirate Bay defense attorneys when
| asked whether that was true. Bursting laughter could be heard from the audio
| room beside the courtroom where the trial's sound was being broadcast.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/piratebaywednes.html
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) tooâ
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
UK government stole website theme
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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
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| In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free
| Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's
| blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (PDF) â 4
| pages longer than the document to which it was responding â termed the FSF an
| organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying,
| redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of
| having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias'
| against the record companies.
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241&from=rss
RIAA publicly humiliates judge Nancy Gertner
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| Hired RIAA attack lawyers Timothy Reynolds (Holme Roberts & Owen) and Daniel
| Cloherty Â(Dwyer & Collora) apparently think itâs perfectly acceptable to
| tell a judge to take a hike.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18787
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