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BlueBeat’s Innovative Defence That Will Never Hold Up In Court
8:30AM Chris Jacob | Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles’ catalogue from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren’t the actual recordings. The tracks were “psycho-acoustic simulations” of the songs. Too bad that defence will never hold up in court. More »
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Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples
1:30AM Adam Frucci | Dear music industry: Go f–k yourself. More »
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Second Degree Murder Cheaper Than Pirating Music
12:00AM Jesus Diaz | I’m outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who has to pay them $1.92 million for downloading songs. That’s cheaper than killing someone and six other crimes: More »
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Arrr! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
6:18PM Danny Allen | Remember that Pirate Bay user who archived the site’s entire torrent index earlier this week? It’s available for all to download, but he’s now used it to create a full replica site. You can check it out at BTArena.net. [TorrentFreak]
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Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, iTunes Isn’t The Way Out
11:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn’t their saviour. More »
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Student Forced To Pay $US675,000 To RIAA For Sharing 30 Songs
8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Joel Tenenbaum admitted to sharing 30 songs with Kazaa back in 2004 (Kazaa! So quaint!) and was originally fined $US150,000 per song. He worked that down to “only” $US22,500 per song, but that’s still $US675,000 in total. More »
Business
RIAA Member Settles Suit After Defendant Proves She Did Even Not Own A Computer
3:30PM Dan Nosowitz | RIAA member Universal Music Group was forced to settle a piracy suit it had brought against Mavis Roy after suffering a bit of a setback in their prosecution: Mavis Roy did not own a computer when UMG first brought suit. More »
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Court Orders File-Sharer To Pay $80,000 Per Song To RIAA
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | A delusional Minnesota court has ordered Jammie Thomas, wanton criminal Kazaa user, to pay a total of $US1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. As my own little protest, I’m going to illegally download Metallica’s entire discography. And I hate Metallica. More »
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Blockquote: ‘Suing your customers is a bad idea’
2:59AM Brian Lam | Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster: “They were afraid of Napster, they were afraid of iTunes; The business resists change…Basically the record industry sat around and tried to protect an old model; Yeah, suing your customer is a bad idea.” [All Things D] More »
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