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What To Do When Artists Who Otherwise 'Get It' Freak Out Over 'Piracy'
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| A few weeks ago, reader cofiem sent over a blog post from
| musician Darren Hayes complaining about recording studios
| shutting down and blaming "piracy" for it. This morning,
| our submissions engine is getting overwhelmed with
| submissions about Wil Wheaton's rant against someone who
| posted a copy of Wheaton's audiobook, saying the guy is
| "stealing" from him.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091007/1404196452.shtml
It's My Browser, and I'll Auto-Click if I Want To
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| Free file hosting provider MediaFire seems to think that,
| when you follow a link to download a file from its
| service, it has the right to control your browser. This
| is yet another example of a web site owner forgetting
| that it's your computer, and it's none of their business
| how you choose to experience their web pages.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/its-my-browser-and-ill-auto-click-if-i-want
Recent:
Lily Allen Distributing Tons Of Copyrighted Music; Blows Way Past Three Strikes
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| It appears that she actually qualifies. Quite directly.
| She's offering music from, among others, Jay-Z, Jefferson
| Airplane, The Specials and The Kinks. Admittedly, it's
| just a quick look around, but it appears many of the
| artists whose works she's distributing for free have no
| connection with EMI. Even if they did, remember EMI was
| recently claiming that it's never authorized MP3s for
| distribution for publicity purposes. Uh oh.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090923/1409046297.shtml
Some Questions For Lily Allen
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090923/1138026294.shtml
A Teaching Moment For Lily Allen [Update: And *Poof* Goes Her Blog]
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| Update: Wow. In the half an hour or so that I took to
| write this post, Lily erased the blog post where she
| responded (I've got a screenshot if anyone wants to see
| it), and just added a note to Twitter, saying that she's
| shut down the entire blog due to too much abuse. Lily,
| it's not abuse if we're just asking you to rethink your
| positions that appear to not be particularly well thought
| out.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090924/0241556300.shtml
Lily Allen, Don't Apologize To Me, Apologize To Everyone Else
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| If anyone deserves an apology, it's all the people you've been
| blasting with this complaint that it's "piracy" that's somehow
| harming artists, when the actual evidence shows no such thing.
| Plenty of artists have learned to embrace file sharing and
| used it to their advantage, suggesting it's not piracy that's
| the problem -- it's artists unwillingness to adapt and put in
| place smarter business models.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090922/0310156273.shtml
Lily Allen: Copying Isn't Alright... Unless It's Done By Lily Allen
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| But what's quite odd is that Ms. Allen, while complaining
| about such unfair copying, seemed to have absolutely no
| problem with copying my entire Techdirt post -- without
| credit or a link.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090921/0527456270.shtml
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