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Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again
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| The Pirate Bay was inaccessible most of the day
| Monday after a group representing copyright owners
| forced the BitTorrent search engine's bandwidth
| provider to cut off service, according to a published
| report.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10367767-93.html
Edwyn Collins Can't Give Away His Music Thanks To MySpace, Warner Music
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| Mesanna alerts us to a blog post from the wife/manager
| of pop singer Edwyn Collins discussing the hellish
| experience she's gone through trying to offer up
| Collins' most famous song, A Girl Like You, on MySpace.
| Collins owns the copyright and wants the music to be
| freely downloadable by anyone, but Warner Music claimed
| that it owns the copyright, even though it does not...
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091005/0146316418.shtml
Recent:
Stephen Fry on copyright
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| At an event in London last night, the writer, actor, and gadget fan Stephen
| Fry launched a surprisingly ferocious attack on the music and movie
| industries over the way they have acted to defend their copyright.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/
Richard Marx (!) attacks RIAA after $1.92M Thomas verdict
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| Jammie Thomas-Rasset was held liable to sharing 24 songs, including one by
| pop crooner Richard Marx. But the lawsuit wasn't done in Marx's nameâthis
| week, he called out the recording industry's "greedy actions."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/richard-marx-attacks-riaa-after-19m-thomas-verdict.ars
Moby: The RIAA Needs to be Disbanded
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| The two million dollar fine handed out to Jammie Thomas by a Minnesota jury
| this week hasnât done the music industryâs image much good. While lawyers and
| high level managers at the major labels cracked open the Champagne, artists
| such as Moby and Radiohead shook their heads in shame at what the music world
| has become.
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http://torrentfreak.com/moby-the-riaa-needs-to-be-disbanded-090620/
Morrissey tells fans to boycott new box set reissues
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| The former Smiths singer claimed in a statement issued to fan site
| True-to-you.net, which he often communicates through, that he wouldn't
| receive any money from the reissues, released on November 2, and that he was
| not asked for approval for their release.
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http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/46616
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