Though there are plenty of snags of course.
NYT - A nearly empty midnight session of the French National Assembly voted to add amendments to an antipiracy law that would allow peer-to-peer sharing of films and music over the Internet, a move that would legalize here what is considered piracy nearly everywhere else in the world.
The [...]
Or analog hole. It’s not difficult to figure out who the a-holes are in this story of government aided corporate abuse.
TechNewsWorld - Congress is leaving a special gift under the tree for Hollywood’s film industry. Just before closing for the holidays, legislators introduced a new proposal designed to curb redistribution of movies.
The Digital Transition Content [...]
What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere? With the breakthrough of the phenomena, the fate of weblogs may ironically be sealed. When some start of profit from writing, it is reasonable to assume that copyright enforcement and lawsuits will follow. The best thing one can do is to continue with the fuzzy [...]
BSA Sweden claims that if copyright infringement on software were to drop by 10 % before 2009 it would create 21 000 new jobs. Well, give me a job and we’ll talk about it. Idiots.
Perhaps the most remarkable and repugnant twist in the intellectual property conflict in a long time.
Telegraph - The internet download wars hotted up this week with one of the world’s biggest music companies, Warner Chappell, leading a crackdown on websites that offer free song lyrics, scores and guitar licks.
Executives at Warner Chappell are fed up [...]
It seems several factors are preventing new consumer technologies from entering certain markets. One of the major hurdles being the free market economy itself and another specifically being intellectual property.
Yahoo - Banned in the U.S.A. - “In Japan, where a majority of the cutting-edge innovation occurs, they’re driven by consumer demand,” he said. “In the [...]
Did people fall for the allure of Napster and not care so much about quality? They sure did. But people, at least the audiophiles, have learned a lot since. And now they are not falling for low quality music stores.
Wired - Old Rips: May They Rest in Peace - In the days when the original [...]
So much for issuing laws that supposedly protect us. Even if one buys into that whole terrorism fad, this is a bit much.
The Register - The entertainment industry is trying to commandeer the proposed European directive on data retention to help it prosecute filesharers in the European Union, it has emerged.
The newly-formed Creative and Media [...]
A Harvard study on the effects of filesharing on album sales came to the following conclusion …
Slashdot - The Economics of P2P File-Sharing - [...] it does indeed depress music sales overall. But the effect is not felt evenly. The hits at the top of the charts lose sales, but the niche artists further down [...]
It does seem like a sellout when your first read the headline, but …
Boing Boing - MPAA, Bram Cohen announcement today in Hollywood - BitTorrent has set up a process with the MPAA by which DMCA takedown procedures for infringing content will be “expedited.”
If an MPAA member sees their copyrighted content in the torrent search [...]
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