recording
MooZar Aims To Turn Pirates Into Paying Customers
Over the years there have been quite a few starry-eyed companies who believe that they have the answer to online piracy, turning the millions who access unauthorized music online into a significant source of revenue for the recording industry. The latest outfit set to attempt online musical alchemy are known as MooZar . The company was recently touting its wares at MIDEM and has been running very large, very expensive ads recently, both online and in print.
Continue reading »Anti-RIAA Site Folds
Provocative website p2pnet.net, the online voice of one of the world’s most blistering and perpetual attacks on the Recording Industry Association of America, is shuttering amid financial doldrums. It’s been vocal for nine years. “I can’t claim p2pnet has been protecting the world, but I’ve done my best to unspin some of the vested interest corporate spin , and expose a few of the lies and corruption,” the site’s voice and founder Jon Newton said in his “last post” Wednesday.
Continue reading »Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet Access
Verizon is terminating internet service to an unknown number of repeat copyright scofflaws, a year after suggesting it was not adopting a so-called graduated-response policy. While it was not immediately clear whether other internet service providers were following suit, the move comes as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are lobbying ISPs and Congress to support terminating internet access for repeat, online copyright offenders. All the while, the United States has been privately lobbying the European Union to “encourage” so-called three strikes policies , according to leaked documents surrounding a proposed international intellectual property accord.
Continue reading »FCC Should Help ISPs Combat File Sharing, Says RIAA
Following support from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), FCC is expected to adopt new specific rules that will enable Internet service providers (ISPs) to enforce effective anti-piracy measures aimed at discouraging illegal file sharing and stimulating the development of legal music services. The new set of rules promotes the availability of Internet content, sites and platforms while cutting down fees from ISPs for accessing various services online. The new Open Internet guidelines proposed by the RIAA are designed to transform the Web into the recording industry’s primary source for distributing content, and consolidate ISP efforts to fight piracy at the same time.
Continue reading »Justices Block Same-Sex Marriage Trial on YouTube
The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a delayed YouTube broadcast of a federal civil trial in San Francisco concerning the legality of same-sex marriage. The decision came after gay marriage foes told the court they would be harassed and intimidated if their testimony was disseminated on such a grand scale. The high court’s decision, which it is set to review again Wednesday, for the moment suspends a courthouse experiment that for the first time would have uploaded federal courtroom testimony to YouTube.
Continue reading »
