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Japanese RIAA wants server-side music DRM for mobile phones
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| The Recording Industry Association of Japanâthe Japanese
| version of the RIAAâis pushing for heavier piracy controls on
| mobile phones. The organization is entering into talks with
| Japanese mobile carriers to implement a system that will check
| whether each and every song a user wants to play is legit.
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http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/09/japanese-riaa-wants-server-side-music-drm-for-mobile-phones.ars
Canadian Copyright Levy Group Wants New iPod Tax... But It's Not Really For The Artists
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| But they're back at it again. And it's really no wonder.
| Already the cost of a blank CD in Canada has an astounding
| 90% of the price go to this levy. But what happens to all
| that money? Well, the CPCC claims that it needs this levy to
| sustain the livelihood of artists. That's also its reasoning
| for extending it to iPods. But, Howard Knopf dug into the
| numbers a bit and notes how laughable that claim is. First,
| CPCC claims that its brought in over $150 million from the
| blank CD levy, and handed it out to 97,000 rights holders
| "most of whom would not be able to continue their careers
| without this revenue."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090914/1830116188.shtml
Related:
The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/police_photographer_stops/
MPAA: We Don't Need No Stinking Evidence!
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| You get some positive news, such as the Amicus brief filed by the EFF and
| others in the Jammie Thomas case, which could net her a new trial.
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| But also on Friday, the MPAA filed its own brief, one which basically says it
| feels evidence isn't necessary in the case of one of its copyright
| infringement trials.
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http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2008/06/mpaa-we-dont-need-no-stinking-evidence.html
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