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Dick Huey to Fred Wilhelms …
In July, 2007, “an unsigned Reader’s Write accused Fred Wilhelms (right) of having a vested interest in criticizing SoundExchange for not paying artists,” said p2pnet last month, going on »»» The author later proved to be Dick Huey (right), one of the RIAA-appointed ‘label representatives’ on the SoundExchange board of directors. An exchange of comments ended in Huey agreeing to answer questions put to him, partly in apology for what he acknowledged was an unjustified personal attack on Wilhelms Huey’s responses have been a long time coming, but here they are, in part, at least »»» Dear Fred, This took longer to respond to than I wanted – both because of a busy couple weeks, and because we moved away from the topics where I have direct knowledge and into areas that require research on my part. I’m not interested in being a SoundExchange conduit for every question you’d like answered – SoundExchange has official communication outlets, which you should engage directly with to answer your questions.
Continue reading »Researchers: BitTorrent Is Uniting the World’s Movie Buffs
People all over the world are downloading movies via BitTorrent, according to new research (PDF) presented at last week’s P2P Research Group convening at the 75th IETF Meetings in Stockholm. And we’re literally talking all over the world: A popular movie torrent analyzed as part of the research was within a week accessed by people from 165 countries. “Considering that there are about 192 countries recognized by the UN, this is a sizable spread of the swarm across the countries,” said Bell Labs researcher Vijay K.
Continue reading »Canadian copyright lobby scoreboard
With the Canadian mainstream media featuring prominent coverage of the Conference Board of Canada’s decision to recall its now discredited IP reports ( Globe and Mail , CBC , Montreal Gazette , IT Business , Vancouver Sun , Ottawa Citizen , Toronto Star , Chronicle of Higher Education ) it is worth remembering why the copyright lobby funded the Conference Board to produce the report in the first place. I believe the answer is fairly clear – the plan was to use it for media coverage, to support its conference (chaired by the Canadian Recording Industry Association’s Graham Henderson) and to provide in the regular meetings between the lobbyists and Canada’s politicians and policy makers. The media and conference side of the story is obvious.
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