All Entries Tagged With: "DigiRights Solutions"
Pigs Fly – Music Biz Disses Shysters
Shy’ster n. 1. A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. – Webster’s Dictionary
Last October I wrote about the German firm DigiRights Solutions (DRS) that was pushing a scheme that would turn busting file sharers into a profit center for content owners. Naturally [...]
German Anti-Piracy Firm Makes Case For Extortion
The guys at Torrentfreak do a terrific job of covering the torrent and p2p scene. I’m always amazed at the stories they break and the excellent writing. And if I understand it correctly, they do it in their spare time when not at their day jobs.
Last weekend they broke another story that I found particularly [...]
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Billboard.biz- Business Matters: BPI Advice To ISPs, House of Blues March 9, 2010
- Aventura 'Open Mic' Karaoke Game Hits iTunes App Store March 9, 2010
- MTV International Names Digital Media Senior VP March 8, 2010
- Business Matters: EMI Music Pub, StubHub, Pandora, Camper Van Beethoven and More March 8, 2010
- Spotify Debuts Live Set From Amy Macdonald March 8, 2010
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- 'Online Payforit' Provides Payment Solution for Multiple Services March 9, 2010
- Netgem outlines its vision of the future of TV At IPTV World Forum 2010 March 9, 2010
- British Museum to Present at MarketingSherpa's 2nd Annual Germany Email Marketing Summit 2010 March 8, 2010
- GALA 2010 Focuses on the Future of Global Content Delivery March 5, 2010
- It's a Wrap! Playfish Announce Winners of Pet Society Movie Awards March 5, 2010
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...