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etc: Curious about Chatroulette? The New York Times explores the phenomenon.
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Continue reading »Movies On-Demand Services: A Model to Follow
Those who failed to grasp the idea that P2P brought along more than an easy way for people to violate copyright laws and that behind the phenomenon lies the wish of the music or movie consumer to set himself or herself free from any time or location limitations are on a very wrong course. It’s enough to see what the music industry has obtained with its sue-everyone policy to figure out that piracy will not stop and, moreover, it should be taken into consideration with regard to how things should change to give consumers what they actually try to get by themselves via p2p file sharing networks. If movie industry keeps on following the same path as the recording industry there can be no bright future for it.
Continue reading »Spotify: The Sutton Coldfield challenge
Fifty Quid Bloke replaced by small cluster of Spotifans? Exclusive New Spotify figures obtained by El Reg shed some new light on the progress of the music phenomenon.…
Continue reading »Shakira: File Sharing is Good!
Shakira opposes Lilly Ann and the likes who are supporting Government's plans to crack down on the illegal file sharing Shakira hits back at Lilly Ann's rant against illegal downloading A new showbiz figure jumps into the file sharing debate . After publishing several posts last month related to the dispute between different artists regarding how illegal file sharing and those who practice it should be dealt with, dispute which really took off when British pop singer Lily Allen posted on her blog her rant against the artists who defend file sharing, today we report about Latin ‘shake-it-all’ artist Shakira joining the hot topic. The Columbian superstar Shakira reacted against Lily Allen’s claims that file sharing is ‘disastrous’ saying that, in fact, the phenomenon brings her closer to fans.
Continue reading »Darknets, Joel Tenenbaum and Big Music
Today sees the opening of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment v Tenenbaum trial. In it, the RIAA, owned and operated by Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian), will try to scam judge Nancy Gertner and an American jury in a civil copyright infringement case. The RIAA claims Joel Tenenbaum shared music online without permission and that his actions, and the actions of others like him, are devastating the corporate music industry.
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