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Long Reads: The Global Songwriter Shell Game: Why The Major Music Companies Are Getting Your Royalties
Friday, March 9th, 2012Major music labels tell us that it is bad that people “steal content”, so they’ve come up with another revenue stream, accepting royalty payments which thay are not due, from people who are not authorised to collect them and then not giving it to the people for whom it was collected…. The Global Songwriter Shell [...]
Do You Sell Used Items? – Trans-Pacific Partnership Proposes the End of the Doctrine of First Sale
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012IANAL, but I was fascinated by this in-depth history of the Doctrine of First Sale (which allows me to sell used records to anyone willing to pay) and analysis of the most recent attempt to blow it up. It’s slightly heavy going, with quite a bit of law jargon, but the thrust of the piece [...]
The Pirate Bay puts up “The Promo Bay” – Does your band want to be in front of a billion eyeballs?
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012The Pirate Bay has many many many people looking at it every day. And now they are suggesting that perhaps it might be good for your band to be seen by those eyeballs. As Masnick asks “Would You Rather Fight Piracy… Or Have A Billion People Know You Exist?” – – See the easy-to-fill-in form [...]
PoOPlist will go dark for 12 hours Wednesday January 18th
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Internet strike day is Wednesday January 18th. In a protest against the SOPA and PIPA legislation moving through the US Congress, many major sites (Wikipedia, Reddit, Internet Archive) will go dark for 12 hours. Of course, PoOPlist does not have the reach of these sites, but we want to do our small part to help. [...]
Recording industry and SOPA/PIPA supporters: are you paying attention? Louis CK: Over $1 Million In Sales In Just 12 Days For DRM-Free Download
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011Techdirt and the NY Times both report: Louis CK: Over $1 Million In Sales In Just 12 Days For DRM-Free Download. This should be reported as yet another in the long list of projects which work because artists have used the CwF + RtB (“Connect with Fans and Reason to Buy”) model. Yup, Connect [...]
ISPs to Disrupt Internet Access of Copyright Scofflaws
Friday, July 8th, 2011ISPs to Disrupt Internet Access of Copyright Scofflaws (Threat Level Blog, wired.com) And all on the say so of the content industry. ISPs have said that they will not cut people off, and we are talking about a “six-strikes and you’re throttled-or-something” regime… but even the French 3 strikes law eventually involved the judiciary. More coverage [...]
The best report ever on media piracy (now with video)
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Joe Karaganis, program director at the Social Science Research Council and vice president at the American Assembly discusses their report “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies.” And another good write up about it here http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/03/29/the-best-report-ever-on-media-piracy/ Share
5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional
Sunday, March 13th, 2011After the recent arrest of a man for owning a site which merely linked to potentially infringing content, TorrentFreak has a well reasoned look at some of the constitutional issues surrounding the recent domain name seizures: 5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional | TorrentFreak. Share
Shock! Major record label does the right thing! (.. or does it?)
Monday, January 10th, 2011From the press release: The American people, through the nation’s library, will receive a post-holiday gift of vintage sound recordings from one of the world’s largest recording companies. The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200,000 historic master recordings—many long out-of-print or never released—to the [...]
Bono equates file-sharing with child porn. Idiot.
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Quoting: But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content. Op-Ed Guest Columnist – Ten for the Next Ten – NYTimes.com Share
Secret negotiations will kill the internet.
Monday, December 14th, 2009Here’s a really informative timeline put together by Micheal Geist about the ACTA Treaty. The ACTA Timeline on Dipity. This treaty is supposed to deal with anti counterfeiting (starting with things like handbags) but has expanded to include a chapter on the internet. Looks like they are trying to get the hated DMCA rolled out [...]
How it feels to be sued for $4.5m
Monday, July 27th, 2009Trial starts today for Joel Tannenbaum in his file sharing case. He’s written a piece for The Guardian about How it feels to be sued for $4.5m Share
Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a National Security Secret
Saturday, March 14th, 2009SO, get ready to have you ISP monitor your traffic on behalf of the RIAA and to have your iPod checked at the border… (Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a National Security Secret | Threat Level from Wired.com.) Perhaps we should start a service where people can upload pictures of their record collections so [...]