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Open Letter From OK Go, regarding non-embeddable YouTube videos
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| This week we released a new album, and itâs
| our best yet. We also released a new video
| â the second for this record â for a song
| called This Too Shall Pass, and you can
| watch it here. We hope you'll like it and
| comment on it and pass the link along to
| your friends and do that wonderful thing
| that that you do when youâre fond of
| something, share it. We want you to stick
| it on your web page, post it on your wall,
| and embed it everywhere you can think of.
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http://okgo.forumsunlimited.com/index.php?showtopic=4169
Metal Distributor Drops All Albums To $5.25
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| We may soon finds out - at least for the
| metal genre. Metal label and digital
| distributor Metalhit has dropped the prices
| on 95% of its album releases and catalog to
| $5.25. The company represents dozens of
| underground metal labels and artists.
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http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/01/metal-distributor-drops-all-albums-to-525.html
Verizon -- Who Promised Not To Do This -- Says It's Kicking Accused File Sharers
Off The Internet [Update: Or... Maybe Not]
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| Update: Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, let the
| backtracking commence. Verizon is
| apparently now claiming (to Broadband
| Reports) that it was all an exaggeration
| and that Verizon only said that it
| "reserved the right" to kick users off:
|
| I'm not aware that we've ever
| terminated anyone's account for
| excessive consumption, although we
| reserve the right to do so. Verizon has
| no bandwidth caps. That part of the
| CNET story is wrong. I did not say
| "we've cut people off." I said we
| reserve the right to do so.
|
| Update 2: And, again, Broadband Reports
| comes through. It has a new update with
| Verizon now claiming that, no, it has never
| kicked anyone off its network for file
| sharing accusations. It might want to tell
| its spokespeople that for future reference.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100120/1225577837.shtml
Dept of Justice files brief opposing motion to set aside verdict in Tenenbaum
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| Fortunately, Judge Gertner is an eminent
| Constitutional Law scholar, and has
| demonstrated time and again that she is
| anything but lazy, and that even when the
| lawyers in the case do a lousy job, she and
| her staff will actually do the research and
| find the applicable law.
|
| I haven't always agreed with her decisions,
| and the major body of her work in the
| consolidated RIAA cases has been very
| helpful to the RIAA, but she has
| demonstrated time and again that she is the
| best lawyer in this case. -R.B.]
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http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2010/01/dept-of-justice-files-brief-opposing.html
Why Bono is wrong about filesharing
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| For Bono is probably the person least
| likely to say "we need to find a way to
| have many more artists and performers make
| a decent living, while allowing people on
| below average wages, and their children, to
| enjoy as much music as they like within
| their weekly budget". Or he might say it,
| in a sudden rush of blood to the head, but
| is surely least likely to do anything to
| make it happen.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/20/sanders_bono_no/
Virgin trials P2P deep packet snooping
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| The trial will see Virgin monitor about 40
| per cent of its customers â none of whom
| will be informed of their participation.
| Virgin insists that the system seeks only
| to determine the amount of file-sharing
| traffic that infringes on copyright and
| that it will disregard data that can finger
| individual users.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/21/virgin_begins_cview_trials/
Recent:
Bono: We Should Use China's Censorship As An Example Of How To Stop Piracy
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| Hmm. So, apparently all the money that
| people used to spend on music, they now
| spend on internet connections? If only
| there were some evidence to back that up.
| But, as we noted, the music business has
| been growing, just not the sales of CDs.
| Considering how much U2 made on its last
| tour, you would think that Bono would be
| aware of this. As for his claim that the
| internet is harming the up-and-coming
| songwriters, again, all this shows is how
| incredibly out of touch Bono is. In the
| past, the "young, fledgling songwriter"
| couldn't live off ticket or t-shirt sales
| either. He had to hope that he got the
| lucky golden ticket from a record label and
| that they didn't then crush his spirit and
| originality before discarding him as an
| unrecouped has-been.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100104/0038197573.shtml
U2's Bono blames ISPs for piracy
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| Ever since Paul McGuinness, manager of the
| rock band U2, began lashing out at Internet
| service providers (ISPs) for allegedly
| profiting from and encouraging illegal file
| sharing, U2 fans have wondered whether
| McGuinness spoke for the band.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-377875.html
RIAA
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| The RIAA is a delusional cartel consisting
| of four major music labels. They were
| created in 1952 with the sole purpose of
| sucking all the music and happiness out of
| the world.
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http://www.cracked.com/funny-2153-riaa/
Bono net policing idea draws fire
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| Bono, frontman of rock band U2, has warned
| the film industry not to make the same
| mistakes with file-sharing that have
| dogged the music industry.
|
| Writing for the New York Times, Bono
| claimed internet service providers were
| "reverse Robin Hoods" benefiting from the
| music industry's lost profits.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8439200.stm
Bono says heâll sue France over HADOPI
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| French European Parliament MP Guy Bono says heâll call for legal action
| against France if it adopts the corporate entertainment cartelâs HADOPI law.
|
| Pushed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on behalf of Vivendi Universal,
| EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC
| Universal and Disney, Franceâs lower house of Parliament has passed
| the âthree-strikesâ law, also known as the HADOPI law.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/21764
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