Tag: legal p2p
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Jim Griffin’s Choruss
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Andrew Orlowski
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The plan to provide US students with compulsory flat-fee music finally has a name, it emerged this week. Choruss LLC will provide participating universities with a replacement for their current subscription services such as Rhapsody, and has the backing of the the EFF and the tacit support of the RIAA. That alone indicates the magnitude…
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“We’re going to be last to market”: Chris Castle’s battle stories
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Andrew Orlowski
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bullient lawyer Chris Castle has a unique perspective on the Music Wars. A former Sony and A&M executive who “switched sides” to Silicon Valley, then found himself defending the original Napster, which he called one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. His clients range from technology companies to major recording artists. So to…
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How to destroy the music business
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Andrew Orlowski
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Put yourself in these hypothetical shoes for a moment. My goal is to make as much money as possible by doing as little work as possible. I have no creative talent except for generating and recycling marketing buzzwords. I have no technical knowledge or ability – but I can get my head around a Twitter…
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A new economics of P2P file sharing
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Andrew Orlowski
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What happens when you put three economists from the internet, telecomms, and the music businesses in a room and don’t let them out until they’ve agreed on something useful? A paper published by the research unit of the British composers’ collection society today gives us a clue. The first results of a “knocking heads together”…
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Apple (finally) tries to patent BluePod
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Andrew Orlowski
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Apple will fill in some long-awaited missing features from its iPod and iPhone mobile players, a patent application published this week suggests. There’s just one problem: Much of Apple’s “invention” was dreamed up by Reg readers several years ago – and one embodiment is already on the market.… Read More
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Why (almost) nobody wants a music tax
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Andrew Orlowski
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In Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow, set in WW2 London, a character called Slothrop begins to realize that everywhere he has sex, a V2 rocket subsequently lands on the same spot, obliterating the area. If you dig a little, you may notice something spookily similar with the idea of a Music Tax in the media. Back…