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GAO Still Stonewalling on Sources for “Stealing is Good” Report « MUSIC

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Muser 30th July 2011
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Check this: Man Ordered To Warn Students About Music Piracy Consequences - Beverly Hills Courier, Beverly Hills Newspaper

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AwwDeOhh 29th July 2011
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Figured you guys'd like to read this, with discussions meandering the way they do.

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John Eppstein 28th July 2011
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the youtube of audio get's another slap... Music publishers file copyright suit against Grooveshark | Media Maverick - CNET News

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AwwDeOhh 27th July 2011
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Judge calls $1.5M file-sharing judgment "appalling," slashes to $54,000 if everyone who get's caught file sharing...

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terryhart 25th July 2011
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of course they will... Google vows to fight antipiracy bill even if passed | Media Maverick - CNET News and of course they...

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fdegregorio 24th July 2011
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PayPal joins London police bid to financially starve "illegal" websites nice. we need more responsibility like this.

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AwwDeOhh 24th July 2011
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Here's a blogger who.... 1) Is a working musician. 2) Has a masters degree in economics 3) Isn't a US...

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AwwDeOhh 19th July 2011
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...Because it aligns with the interests of ruling elites. It wipes out vast swaths of the recording industry, leaving just a few...

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Gary Ladd 19th July 2011
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We've been seeing piracy spread into other industries steadily over the past few years. Here we have a documented case of >90%...

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John Eppstein 18th July 2011
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Interesting film being made about the trial (about to begin) and founding members. Home | TPB AFK | The Pirate Bay –...

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John Eppstein 17th July 2011
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Vaizey slams music piracy "apologists" | News | PC Pro "Speaking at the annual general meeting of music...

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AwwDeOhh 15th July 2011
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Paul McGuinness on Music Piracy one very small excerpt:

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rack gear 13th July 2011
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Judge rules "locker" site is not direct copyright infringer

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terryhart 12th July 2011
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Recently a friend told me about a site to buy cheap trainers from and sent me a link. I bookmarked it with the intention of...

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chrisso 10th July 2011
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I guess he's feeling pretty good after two months of sold out shows in LA... and he was AWESOME... so FWIW.... Prince Won't Be...

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themaidsroom 9th July 2011
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rack gear 9th July 2011
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Well isn't this interesting. Exclusive: Top ISPs poised to adopt graduated response to piracy | Media Maverick - CNET...

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John Eppstein 7th July 2011
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You guys should be lobbyin your label friends to put an end to it and MSpot instead of trying to hammer out licenses.

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Don Hills 2nd July 2011
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BBC News - Sarkozy questions 'neutral' net at e-G8 forum Addressing delegates, French President Sarkozy...

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Don Hills 30th June 2011
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I was hoping I could get some opinions on a situation we have regarding some old material. Back in 1994 to 1998, we came out with...

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frawnchy 21st June 2011
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People Who Share Music Are 5X More Likely To Buy - hypebot funny... and that's the lead line to a story stating that people...

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John Eppstein 20th June 2011
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A very, very interesting blog by an unbiased (in my view) observer, mostly about free news, but touching on the free vs paid for...

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GearOnTheGo 17th June 2011
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bout time... Exclusive: Jim Griffin, WIPO Spearheading an 'International Music Registry'... - Digital Music News

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rack gear 16th June 2011
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I'm disturbed by CNN's choice of words in their story today covering Apple's ICLoud announcement. "and for an annual fee,...

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John Eppstein 15th June 2011
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As I said before as people were cheering this crap. You can not bring a case that you have no interest in. If the copyright...

Neenja
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John Eppstein 15th June 2011
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chrisso 13th June 2011
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This is a talk by Michael Smith of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Digital Music Research. In this talk, Dr. Smith...

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John Eppstein 12th June 2011
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Dunno if this has been discussed before, but it's something that came to mind when looking at trends in sales stats of various...

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John Eppstein 12th June 2011
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What you need to know about iTunes Match: your questions answered The Joy of Tech comic... iCloud Ven...

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joelpatterson 9th June 2011
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While looking for a programming hint for Toontrack's Superior, I clicked on a Google link that landed me up on a filesharing...

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rack gear 8th June 2011
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less than a year after hiring two part time people, to do nothing else but issue DMCA takedown notices we've crossed the 10,000...

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rack gear 4th June 2011
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More thoughts on the issues the web is churning up: http://convergenceculture.org/research/c3-piracy_future_television-full.pdf

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John Eppstein 30th May 2011
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RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales | Techdirt

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John Eppstein 29th May 2011
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One of the biggest recurrent themes in the music business and piracy forums lately seems to be that contemporary music 'sucks'...

chrisso
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John Eppstein 29th May 2011
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looks like e-G8, was just the windup... G8 summit: laws apply on Internet just like "everywhere else"

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chrisso 28th May 2011
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Netflix overtakes Bittorrent as traffic champ ? The Register I hesitated about opening this thread in Piracy instead of...

Don Hills
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rack gear 28th May 2011
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Senate Bill Gives Feds Power to Order Blacklisting of Piracy Sites | Threat Level | Wired.com This should put a dent in IP...

Gary Ladd
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rack gear 26th May 2011
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Question... what have you DONE to take action regarding piracy and/or intellectual property issues? The purpose of this thread...

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Whitecat 26th May 2011
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Apple Nears Deal With Labels For New Music Service: Source Comments? How will this affect the Amazon and Google services?

John Eppstein
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Don Hills 25th May 2011
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German police seize Pirate Party servers, looking at Anon's toolkit ... fascinating

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rack gear 23rd May 2011
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DailyTech - RIAA Scores $105M USD from Limewire, Gives Nothing to Artists

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John Eppstein 22nd May 2011
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New bill upgrades unauthorized Internet streaming to a felony

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rack gear 21st May 2011
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Even using the completely ridiculous 10 singles is an album figure sales are up. Using the more reasonable 2 or 3 singles is an...

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Ianb007 21st May 2011
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Could Google Clean Up Its Act... Overnight? - Digital Music News been sayin this for long time...

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John Eppstein 19th May 2011
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Anti-piracy bill: California lawmakers weigh bill to allow warrantless searches of CD and DVD makers - latimes.com

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John Eppstein 19th May 2011
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YouTube - i Music android app Should Google/youtube be held responsible for this? Or should the uploader or both. Is what...

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Ianb007 16th May 2011
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I don't get it.... There's a groundswell of opinion amongst many web users that ownership of copyright goes too far. But then...

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salkin red 16th May 2011
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Lime Wire founder on copyright law: 'I was wrong' | Media Maverick - CNET News whoooopises... :facepalm:

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Neenja 14th May 2011
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doesn't look like these issues are going away anytime soon, it's just a question of which version, and when... The Case for a...

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rack gear 13th May 2011

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