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Did The Recording Industry Really Miss The Opportunity To 'Monetize' Online Music?
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| Separately, the CNN article is incredibly
| weak in that it makes the mistake of
| implying that the recording industry is the
| entire music industry. It completely
| ignores the fact that the overall music
| industry has actually been growing as sales
| of recorded music have dropped. People have
| just shifted their spending habits, and
| that likely would have happened whether or
| not any licensing deal had been worked out
| in 1999.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100203/0255108023.shtml
No, Copyright Has Never Been About Protecting Labor
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| First, on the title, let's get serious.
| Every time someone claims "piracy is
| stealing" it suddenly becomes that much
| more difficult to take them seriously,
| because it shows they've put no thought
| into their argument and are parroting
| specious arguments that have nothing to do
| with reality. Stealing means taking
| something away. Making a copy of something
| means there's two such things, not one, and
| nothing is missing.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100204/1601318056.shtml
Copyright Industry Responds To iiNet Ruling By Asking For Gov't Bailout; Aussie Gov't 'Studying' It
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| Of course, this just shows how far gone
| AFACT and its members (Hollywood studios
| mainly) are out of touch with what this
| ruling is saying. The ruling points out,
| quite clearly, that the problem isn't with
| the law and it's not with the technology.
| Changing the law doesn't fix things. The
| problem is with how the big movie studios
| have failed to adapt, and are now blaming
| totally blameless parties for their own
| failures.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100204/1508258054.shtml
Anti-RIAA Site Folds
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| The Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
| huckster is looking for donations or even a
| partnership in hopes of reviving the site
| that has become infamous for its mocking
| portrayal of the RIAA, which consists of
| Vivendi Universal, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner
| Music.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/riaa-slam-site/
This Has To Be A Joke: Music Duo Claims It Won't Sell CDs Again Until 'Piracy' Is Stopped
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| Someone who prefers to remain anonymous
| sent over this odd story of a musical duo
| who put up a notice on the band's website
| claiming that, due to "piracy," they were
| no longer going to sell CDs. But the
| reasoning makes no sense at all:
|
| NOTICE: Due to uncontrolled Music
| Piracy, [Our album] will no longer be
| sold to the general public. We refuse
| to cater to thieves and criminals. When
| the Worldwide Piracy problems is
| solved, then we will begin sales once
| again.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100203/0334228025.shtml
Recent:
Bailing Out The RIAA?
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| That said, Peter Kafka, over at AllThingsD, has made the best point: most
| people don't care about this bill because they don't realize that it's really
| a bill to bail out the RIAA by creating a radio station tax that goes
| straight into the recording industry's bank accounts. So, rather than call it
| the Performance Rights Act, it should more accurately be called the Britney
| Bailout Bill.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090514/0218574881.shtml
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