All Entries Tagged With: "RIAA"
Musicblogocide 2010: How Doing Right Can Come Off So Wrong
This past week has been an abomination in PR for Google, starting with privacy upheaval in terms of Google Buzz’s automatic stalking…err following feature that added people you frequently IM and email without consent. Then came news that Google blog service Blogger deleted six of the biggest music blogs on its service, including their [...]
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 [...]
More RIAA Trial Troubles, How To Settle With A Rebel
Cassandra Callais looks at the ongoing Thomas-Rasset case and ponders – how can the industry deal with serial rebels?
ISPs, RIAA and FCC in the US: Acronyms and Anarchy
Cassandra Callais examines the general disarray concerning the ISPs, Labels, and various government agencies!
TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong
Last year saw The Music Void make its first foray into future gazing with our bold (and not so bold) predictions for the music industry in 2009. With no pedigree of clairvoyance to fall back upon, we probably erred on the side of caution at times, but all things considered we acquitted ourselves reasonably well [...]
Net Neutrality Debates Relevance To Online Piracy
Last month witnessed ever increasing noise in terms of the raging Net Neutrality debate in the United States and then the “three strikes and you’re out” policy of disconnecting persistent file sharers in Europe. TMV believes there is a clear similarity between each issue. Furthermore we believe it is important to analyse the arguments coming [...]
Can The Pirate Bay Really Be Purchased?
I’m sure that most of you are aware of my recent adventure with Global Gaming Factory and their attempt to acquire The Pirate Bay.
I won’t go into any of those details at the moment, and maybe never will. I don’t know yet. Haven’t really decided. But what I can and will talk about is if [...]
O Tenenbaum, O Tenenbaum
Last week, the digital world watched with great interest as Joel Tenenbaum, a 25 year-old Physics graduate student at Boston University went on trial for copyright infringement; a suit filed personally against Mr. Tenenbaum by the RIAA, a suit that, by week’s end, he ultimately lost. A guilty verdict was handed down, along with a $675,000 judgment, or $22,500 per song, for illegally distributing 30 songs via KaZaA.
TMV Post Used as Evidence in Spanish P2P Court Case
A post by TMV columnist Wayne Rosso has been entered into evidence by a Spanish court against notorious Spanish P2P network Blubster. You can read the post entered into evidence here. Even though back when the court case started against Blubster, Wayne Rosso offered his help to Promusicae, the local Spanish RIAA chapel but they [...]
Filesharing (Anarchy) In The UK
A recently released Music Ally/The Leading Question survey reports that the overall percentage of regular file sharers in the UK has dropped 5% from December 2007 to January 2009. Or at least those who admit to file sharing. Yet the percentage of music fans that have ever file-shared has increased from 28% to 31% over the same time period.
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- Canadian Music Week: Ole's McCarty Tackles ISPs On Piracy March 11, 2010
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- 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...