All Entries Tagged With: "Grokster"
Bringing Home The Bacon
My favorite news story of the week broke last Friday. A 26-year-old kid named Allan Ellis was cleared of conspiracy to defraud the music industry—whatever that means. A jury of 12 unanimously voted a “not guilty” verdict after a 2-week trial at the Teesside Crown Court in the UK.
There were a lot of colorful accusations [...]
Spain, meet Grokster
If you read my column from last week, you may have gotten the idea that Spain has, until recently, been a piracy hotbed. For many years the main problem was with physical product. But not long ago the record industry finally worked up the balls to go after Blubster (see last week’s story).
In one of [...]
Can Spain Finally Fight Piracy?
Since here in the UK we will no doubt have an oversupply of analysis of the Digital Britain report over the coming days and weeks. TMV thought it would be a good idea to instead have Wayne Rosso provide some insight into the recent ‘Blubster” P2P case in Spain, where in fact at one point [...]
Digital Marketing Distribution Advice for Portishead
Last week Portishead announced that they’re free of their record deal, and have requested that fans suggest innovative ways they can distribute their music. Geoff from the band posted on their myspace blog on 16th February, stating: “With the world being the way it is there are lots of options open…. but if you lot [...]
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Billboard.biz- Vevo's Traffic Surge March 11, 2010
- Kings Of Leon Take 'Revenge' On iPhone Gamers March 11, 2010
- 'Green Day: Rock Band' Release Date Set March 11, 2010
- France’s Zimbalam Plants Flag In North America March 11, 2010
- Canadian Music Week: Ole's McCarty Tackles ISPs On Piracy March 11, 2010
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- Break the Victorinox code and win £100,000 March 11, 2010
- Enhanced Mobile-Phone Based Dog Tracking From Retrieva Tracking And ViewRanger March 11, 2010
- Twitter Makes Its Red Carpet Debut For Celebrities And Criminals March 10, 2010
- VideoEgg to Present at iMedia Brand Summit 2010 March 10, 2010
- TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010: Soaring Interest Attracts Fierce Competition March 10, 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...