Tag: legal p2p
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Babelgum: another new, new TV thing
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Andrew Orlowski
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“Frankly the business plan is subjective”- Babelgum chairman Silvio Scaglia So P2P TV services really do conform to the proverbial bus cliche: you wait ages for one, then loads of cliches come along at once. If you know Joost, then you’ll know Babelgum, which unveiled its service in London today. Both are PC-based upstarts to…
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“The EFF has handed the RIAA an arsenal of legal arguments for opposing blanket licenses”
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Andrew Orlowski
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Should a miracle occur, and the opposing parties in the P2P war sit down and adopt the EFF’s “Voluntary Collective Licensing” proposal, then the enabling legislation would look a lot like HR.5553. Which suggests this isn’t just a tactical goof, but a strategic error – the consequence of not thinking really hard about the future.…
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Digital music nirvana isn’t impossible, it just takes longer
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Andrew Orlowski
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An early look at on-demand streaming of your own music. The cloud buzzword hadn’t caught on back then… The idea of being able to play your music anywhere, on any device, has become a cliche without quite coming to pass. Viewed from a distance, this looks like one of technology’s greatest failures. If you’re acquainted…
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Blanket digital licence fails in France
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Andrew Orlowski
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Under heavy pressure from the French government, the country’s parliament has voted against introducing the world’s first blanket licence for sharing digital media. A section that would have permitted internet users to freely exchange copyrighted material, effectively legitimizing file sharing, and hastening the demise of digital rights management (DRM) software, had passed an earlier reading…
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File swapping MSPs – the future of digital music?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Don’t expect Bono to descend from a cloud. Or orgasmic praise from the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg. When PlayLouder quietly rolls out its music service in the UK, it won’t initially match the razzle-dazzle of the iTunes Music Store launch, Rhapsody or the other million dollar marketing blitzes. But the initial, low-key ‘soft launch’…
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After Grokster: why (almost) everything we’re told about P2P is wrong
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Andrew Orlowski
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Grokster! Is it the end of the world as we know it? No, it isn’t. But before we examine how the two lobbies, the technology lobby and the recording industry lobby, have let us down so badly, let’s pause for a moment to consider how the press has let us down this week, too. The…