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Record Label Stops Signing Artists Because of Piracy
Let’s be clear from the start. People who share music on the Internet actually buy more than those who don’t. The music library of the average music fan may have expanded a bit in the last decade thanks to file-sharing, but in the same time the number of sales have also skyrocketed .
Continue reading »3 strikes: ‘beating consumers over the head’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “It is all very well beating consumers over the head with a stick but they need to be offered a carrot as well.” Is it? Is it OK to be hitting us with a stick, carrots notwithstanding? Nicholas Lansman (right), secretary general to Britain’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) apparently sees it like that.
Continue reading »p2pnet for sale: update I
Hi all: I want to keep p2pnet online and from the look of it, a lot of you guys want the same, and I’m doing my best to make that happen. A couple of people have more or less asked, Why should we pay? This is just a blog like lots of other blogs.
Continue reading »Hollywood wants to own your outputs (and that’s a good idea)
We like to encourage debate in hot topics in tech policy and law. This week, we’re focusing on Selectable Output Control, which Hollywood and the cable industry are both pushing hard for at the FCC. We invited Kyle McSlarrow, head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (cable’s trade and lobbying group in Washington) to take his best shot at convincing Ars readers of the virtue, wonder, and necessity of SOC.
Continue reading »MediaSentry and Harry Potter
MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it’s hard to believe it’s still around. But it is — just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he’s found to be a fake. Fired by the RIAA, it showed up in Australia where, thanks to its ‘evidence,’ a Brisbane student was thrown out of his dormitory.
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