Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 20, 2004 at 2:20:00 AM CET
Rechtestreit um Kopierschutz-CDs
"Double Session"-CDs enthalten zwei Versionen eines Songs. Musikverleger wollen nun für beide Versionen Tantiemen von den Labels. Ziel ist eine Neuverhandlung der Verträge der prä-digitalen Ära.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 18, 2004 at 12:00:00 AM CET
Patent lawyer puts claim to entire Internet
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in California, claims Network Solutions and Register.com are liable for selling, specifically, .name domains. It claims undisclosed monetary damages and an injunction against the sale of any more domains.
US patent 6,671,714 - "Method, apparatus and business system for online communications with online and offline recipients" - is owned by Frank Weyer and Troy Javaher, both of Beverly Hills in California, was filed in November 1999 and approved on 30 December 2003.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 15, 2004 at 3:48:00 PM CET
Activist slams song-swap battle
A leading peer-to-peer activist has slammed the music industry for its approach to illegal file-swapping.
Wayne Rosso, founder of US trade group P2P United, said the sharing of music on the net had not hurt the music industry as much as it had claimed.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 13, 2004 at 4:50:00 PM CET
RIAA seizes police powers, EFF says "yay!" -- Except they don't
I don't usually write about things like copyright witchhunts from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), mainly because there are groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) who do a good job fighting the good fight.
Well, usually.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 10, 2004 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Downloading Isn’t Stealing
Stealing is wrong. But downloading isn’t stealing. If I shoplift an album from my local record store, no one else can buy it. But when I download a song, no one loses it and another person gets it. There’s no ethical problem.
“90% of the major label’s catalog isn’t available for sale”: speech by Ken Hertz
“60 million people used Napster”: according to the New York Times
“50 million voted for Bush or Gore”: according to CNN
“A Harvard professor found that a $60 per year tax on broadband connections would make up for all lost music and movie sales”: see Terry Fisher, Promises to Keep. “Assuming that the ISPs pass through to consumers the entire amount of the tax, that average fee would rise by $4.88 per month” (p. 31) 4.88*12 ~= 59, so I say 60/yr.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 10, 2004 at 1:42:00 PM CET
Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets
Quasi-legal squads raid street vendors
Though no guns were brandished, the bust from a distance looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black "raid" vests the unit members wore. The fact that their yellow stenciled lettering read "RIAA" instead of something from an official law-enforcement agency was lost on 55-year-old parking-lot attendant Ceasar Borrayo.
The Recording Industry Association of America is taking it to the streets. ¬> laweekly.com ¬> techdirt.com
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 9, 2004 at 8:46:00 AM CET
CES: Deutsche Raubkopierer "schuld" an Blu-ray-Entwicklung?
Während eines "Blu-ray Updates" im Rahmen der laufenden CES erklärte Benjamin S. Feingold, Präsident von Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTSHE), dass sich Kinofilme über den späteren DVD-Verkauf wegen der steigenden Raubkopiereraktivitäten nicht mehr finanzieren ließen. Zur großen Überraschung der anwesenden europäischen Presse- und Firmenvertreter verurteilte er dabei explizit die in der jüngsten Vergangenheit stark gestiegene Zahlen von DVD-Raubkopien in Deutschland.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2004 at 1:08:00 PM CET
Apple Hardware VRs
See an interactive 360-degree gallery of Apple hardware, including the iPod mini.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 6, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM CET
iTunes DRM cracked wide open for GNU/Linux. Seriously.
Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, who broke the DVD encryption scheme, has opened iTunes locked music a tad further, by allowing people to play songs they've purchased on iTunes Music Store on their GNU/Linux computers.
"We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use," Johansen told The Register via email.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 5, 2004 at 6:11:00 PM CET
'DVD Jon' Seals Victory as Police Skip Appeal
Norwegian police said on Monday they would not appeal a landmark DVD piracy case for a second time, marking a final victory for a 20-year-old hacker and a defeat for Hollywood.
An Oslo appeals court cleared 20-year-old Jon Johansen, dubbed "DVD Jon," of piracy charges in late December, angering the U.S. film industry which had hoped for a legal precedent to prevent unauthorized copying of DVDs around the world.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 5, 2004 at 4:39:00 PM CET
52 Burns or RIAA Lawsuit
I too have decided to start a new year's project based on, actually a complete rip off of, kottke's 52 magazines or bust and vegard's 52 albums or burn. But I'm cheap(poor, lazy) and can't afford 52 CD's. Even if I could, I don't think a CD is worth the price. I could do magazines but I enjoy music more. So my project will involve me meticulously searching the web for albums. One a week, for the entire year and probably beyond. I'll be using the greatly superior BitTorrent client and Suprnova. When this site is down, I'll find another. If it comes down to it, I'll use Kazaa Lite.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 21, 2003 at 2:01:00 PM CET
Das Ende der klassischen Audio-CD
Das Ende der "klassischen" CD ist nahe. 2004 wird der Musikmarkt seine wahrscheinlich entscheidensten Verwerfungen erleben. Die Preise für Musikdownloads rasseln nach unten, seit Firmen wie Wal-Mart ins Geschäft eingestiegen sind. Zwei Gerichtsurteile könnten zudem große Folgen für den Musikmarkt haben.
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