Tag: legal p2p
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Legal P2P ‘by year end’
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Andrew Orlowski
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Legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing may appear on the market by the year’s end, according to music industry sources – after government intervention brought both music suppliers and ISPs to the table. The UK would become the second country after South Korea where the music business has agreed to offer licenses to…
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Right idea, wrong time: Snocap’s corpse washes up at Imeem
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Andrew Orlowski
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Timing is everything in business, and having a visionary idea too early can prove fatal. So it is with Shawn Fanning’s Snocap, which has formally announced today that it’s being acquired by Imeem. Or what’s left of it – most Snocap employees were laid off last year, with Fanning long gone. Snocap was created to…
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US students, alumni to get legal P2P
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Andrew Orlowski
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US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned. The amnesty would be part of a “covenant not to sue”, covered by a collective licence that offers the right to exchange major label repertory over…
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Should P2P filesharers be paid for filesharing?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Take that, pigopolists! A novel idea has been proposed to take the fight to the RIAA and the BPI. Since P2P filesharing has a discovery element which permits people to discover new music at no cost – why shouldn’t filesharers be compensated for filesharing? The idea was floated on the Open Rights Group discussion list…
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File sharers: spare me the phony outrage
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Andrew Orlowski
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Last week, the ailing sound recording industry in America found someone even dumber to pick on. Kazaa user Jammie Thomas had got on the internet, and was doing just what the adverts and mass media say you should do once you’re there – fill your boots with free stuff. This is a case that should…
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Rick Rubin’s subscription strategy: Right idea, Wrong price
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Andrew Orlowski
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The record producer and co-founder of Def Jam has only been “co-head” of Sony’s Columbia Records since May, but he’s already setting about destroying the old business so a new one can be built in its place. It remains to be seen how effective he will be, but for now Rubin is prepared to say…