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A bright future for your Evening Standard
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| From Monday 12 October your London Evening Standard will become
| the first quality newspaper in the world to go free.
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23751782-a-bright-future-for-your-evening-standard.do#
BPI Unhappy With Techdirt, Seeks To Correct The Record... But Still Gets It Wrong
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| So, we recently wrote about how Geoff Taylor, head of BPI (the
| UK's equivalent of the RIAA) seemed to be going after British
| Telecom (BT) with a variety of highly questionable claims about
| how BT had some sort of obligation to stop file sharing on its
| network, and that BT was using unauthorized file sharing to prop
| up its own business model. Both claims are flat out ridiculous,
| but BPI apparently was quite upset with us pointing that out. Of
| course, rather than actually respond in the comments where we
| might have a conversation about it, they've been sending us a
| series of emails, taking issue with our statements and laying out
| their claims in more detail.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091002/0221466404.shtml
Recent:
PI Admits It Screwed Up Over Napster... But Why Should We Trust It Now?
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| Except... that's not true at all. As a recent Harvard study showed, the
| amount of money going into the "music ecosystem" has grown -- tremendously.
| The only thing that's dropping is the sale of plastic discs.
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| In the meantime, considering BPI and others were so incredibly wrong 10 years
| ago, and they're only willing to admit it now, why is it that they think
| everyone should trust them now -- and that those of us who were actually
| right 10 years ago should still be brushed off as wackos who just want stuff
| for free? Perhaps it's time to start actually listening to those who have
| been pointing out new ways to embrace what consumers want to do with music in
| order to make more money.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090629/1210575405.shtml
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