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Numbers of Mass Distraction
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| Itâs not just about digital sales either.
| The Beatles are reported to have sold 2.25
| million albums in two weeks recently. Again,
| data with some backing.
|
| I like numbers. But not when theyâre Numbers
| of Mass Distraction (NMD). Not when 136
| people can become 7 million people.
|
| Why should I care what numbers are bandied
| about in the press? Why should I care when
| someone says âOnly 1 in 20 downloads in the
| UK is legalâ or words to that effect?
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http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/10/30/numbers-of-mass-distraction/
The Globalive Decision: Time To Pick Competition Over Canadian Ownership
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| It is tempting to blame the CRTC or the
| incumbent telecom providers (who filed the
| complaint over the Globalive structure) for
| this mess, but the real culprit lies with
| outdated legislation that prioritizes
| Canadian ownership over a competitive
| Canadian marketplace.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4497/125/
Debunking The Idea Of A Music Tax For The Creation Of New Music
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| Now, I've gone into great detail on why a
| music tax is a terrible idea in the past --
| but that was addressing ideas like Jim
| Griffin's Choruss plan (which, by the way,
| we're still waiting to find out who the tens
| of thousands of students who are supposedly
| already using it are, but we'll leave that
| aside for now). This idea, from Chris
| Ovenden, is slightly different. It is not a
| "download license" or a "download tax" as
| it's really a fund to pay for the creation
| of new music...
|
| [...]
|
| Which, of course, brings up the third
| problem: you still have a bureaucracy, and
| how does it determine who to distribute the
| funds to? How is it possibly fair for
| someone -- rather than the fans themselves
| -- to determine who gets the money.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091026/0410006675.shtml
Widespread availability of online video means less P2P use
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| Has Keyboard Cat captivated you in 2009?
| You're not the only one. Online video has
| continued to grow in popularity while P2P is
| on the decline, according to the latest data
| from Sandvine. The trend is good for both
| content producers and users alike.
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http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/10/widespread-availability-of-online-video-means-less-p2p-use.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
DRM by any other name: The latest from Hollywood
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| And, of course, once you've stored the
| video, it's just not that hard to extract
| it. And it always will be. The challenge for
| Hollywood is to change the incentives of the
| game. Maybe sell me a flat-rate
| subscription. Maybe bundle it with my DSL
| provider. But make the experience compelling
| enough and cheap enough, and I'll do it. I
| regularly extract video from my TiVo and
| copy it to my iPhone via third-party
| software. It's practically painless and it
| happens to yield files that I could share
| with the world, but I don't. Why? Because
| there's real downside (I'd rather not get
| sued, thanks), and no particular upside.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dwallach/drm-any-other-name-latest-hollywood
Med students hoist P2P Jolly Roger to get access to papers
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| A study provides evidence that file sharing
| takes place with some very specialized
| media: the research papers published in
| scientific journals.
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http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/med-students-hoist-p2p-jolly-roger-to-get-access-to-papers.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Live From Hollywood: Googleâs Music Onebox Launches, Powered By MySpace And Lala
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| Hereâs how the new feature will work: Onebox
| will let users stream songs directly from
| Googleâs search result page, and will also
| include additional content like tour
| information and music videos (the actual
| content shown will vary depending on the
| partner â more on that later). Enter a query
| for âUse Somebodyâ, and youâre going to see
| a small âplayâ button in your search result
| that lets you stream the Kings of Leon song
| in its entirety, or buy the song. Clicking
| on the play button will bring up a small
| browser window that will immediately start
| streaming your song. If you enter the name
| of an artist rather than a song title as
| your search query, Google will present a
| handful of popular songs by that artist with
| multiple âplayâ buttons.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/live-from-hollywood-googles-music-onebox-debuts-powered-by-myspace-and-lala/
F. Scott Fitzgerald Made $8,397 On Great Gatsby; His Daughter Gets
$500,000 Per Year From It
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| The article this comes from goes into great
| detail into F. Scott Fitzgelald's earnings
| over his lifetime, and what's striking is
| that with a different sort of copyright
| system in place, he barely seems to rely on
| copyright royalties at all to make money.
| Instead -- like most jobs -- he recognizes
| he needs to keep producing new works to earn
| money, selling stories to various
| publications, along with working for
| Hollywood studios in addition to his novels.
| How much things have changed.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091028/0217246703.shtml
Tommy Lee Gets Interactive With Fan Generated Content
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| Ron Kujawa writes to us about The Public
| Record and Tommy Lee's project to
| collaborate with fans to produce his next
| album, Public Mayhem. Aiming to interact
| with fans and get more attention, Tommy Lee
| has posted some rough "stem" tracks online
| for anyone to download, and he's encouraging
| fans to upload their own music that might go
| with those tracks.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091023/1313536659.shtml
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