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Copyright Infringement: A Modest Proposal
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| Given that the UK government seems happy for
| huge sums of money to be spent on this
| fool's errand, why not spend it more
| effectively, in a way that sustains
| businesses, rather than penalising them, and
| which actually encourages people not to
| download copyrighted material from
| unauthorised sources?
|
| This can be done quite simply: by giving
| everyone who wants it a free Spotify Premium
| subscription. These normally cost Â120 per
| year, but buying a national licence for the
| 10 million families or so who are online
| would presumably garner a generous discount
| - say, of 50% - bringing the total price of
| the scheme to around Â600 million, pretty
| much the expected cost of the current plans.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/copyright-infringement-modest-proposal.html
Getting Copyright Right for the Digital Age
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| It is extraordinary how copyright has turned
| from an obscure, dusty corner of the law to
| one of the flashpoints of the digital age.
| The reason is simple. Copyright is an
| intellectual *monopoly*, and like all
| monopolies tries to limit access to a given
| good. But limiting access to digital goods
| is a forlorn hope: as Bruce Schneier
| expressed it so memorably, trying to make
| digital files uncopiable is like trying to
| make water not wet. The battle over
| copyright is therefore a manifestation of a
| far deeper struggle between two ways of
| looking at the world: one based on scarce
| analogue objects, the other on abundant
| digital ones.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2713&blogid=14
Abusing Copyrights to Silence Critics, Control Customers, and Crush Competition
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| Hardly a day goes by without yet another
| news story about creative uses of copyright,
| the DMCA, and generic attack lawyers to
| stifle free speech, criticism, and
| competition. It seems that money can buy all
| kinds of creative "justice." For example, in
| the increasingly bizarre Apple vs. Psystar
| drama, in which Psystar commited the awful
| crime of selling a tool to help customers
| install Mac OS X on the hardware of their
| choice, Apple have prevailed yet again in
| court, and Psystar cannot do this anymore.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/12/abusing-copyrig.html
Recent:
Radiohead's Thom Yorke Dishes on CD Hatred and the Music Industry
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| Before that joke, though, he was more specific on his opinions of physical
| formats that hold digital media: âI mean, I always hated CDs. Me and Stanley
| [Donwood] always hated CDs. Just a fucking nightmare,â he ranted, adding
| later, âthereâs a process of natural selection going on right now. The music
| business was waiting to die in its current form about twenty years ago. But
| then, hallelujah, the CD turned up and kept it going for a bit. But
| basically, it was dead.â
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http://www.twentyfourbit.com/post/156651731/radioheads-thom-yorke-dishes-on-cd-hatred-and-the
Fox The Latest Studio To Declare War On Redbox
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| Either way, this is a story of the movie studios letting their own greed
| interfere with innovation. These movies are being legally purchased. It's
| difficult to see how the studios have any leg to stand on in preventing
| Redbox from using their movies in its service. Isn't there a First Sale right
| somewhere?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090807/0321005804.shtml
Radiohead's Manager: File Sharing Should Be Legal; It's Great For Music
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| This probably isn't much of a surprise given Radiohead's well-publicized
| experiment with letting fans "pay what you want" for its last album, but the
| band's manager has now said that he thinks file sharing should be legal (sent
| in by Ruby), noting:
|
| "We believe file-sharing by peer-to-peer should be legalised. The sharing
| of music where it is not for profit is a great thing for culture and
| music."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090506/0229264765.shtml
Related:
Radiohead, 'Juno' blast onto U.S. pop chart
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| Radiohead's âIn Rainbowsâ album topped the U.S. sales chart this week,
| selling 122,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
|
| It arrived in stores in CD format on New Year's Day, nearly three months
| after the artsy British rock group unleashed the album to the Web at a cost
| to be determined by the user -- whatever price fans chose to pay, including
| nothing at all.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/extendedplay/2008/01/radiohead-juno.html
Radiohead album bets on fast release, open pricing
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| The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album next week is the
| latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the
| advent of digital music, experts say.
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http://www.news.com/Radiohead-album-bets-on-fast-release%2C-open-pricing/2100-1025_3-6212107.html?tag=nefd.top
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