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DiaRIAA announces P2P Seek The P2P Seek Search Engine searches the latest P2P technology and legal music and video pages and files. The site encompasses hundreds of P2P, music, and video web sites, including top industry news portals, blogs, forums, and companies, including DiaRIAA. P2P Seek delivers the power and results of Google but without illegitimate, copycat, and illegal web sites.   Read our P2P Insider's Blog for the latest P2P news & commentary What P2P companies are legal, being sued, or out of business? Check the RIAA Body Count. Major Reports and Articles June 22 2006. P2P Summit Coverage. Warren's Washington Internet Daily. Confusion from 'Grokster,' Other Suits Slows Legitimate P2P Deals, Players Say June 7 2006. The Sky is Falling: Is the Record Industry Ready to Face the Music? The music industry's real problems can no longer be obscured by success in the digital world. The transition to digital is not a panacea for what ails the music industry - the disease runs much deeper. Unlike the transition from albums to CDs or video tapes to DVD, 'going digital' is not a simple format media transition. The use of digital technologies and the Internet has and will continue to fundamentally change how entertainment is created, stored, distributed, and consumed. Technology has undermined the entertainment industry's pretense of control despite its best efforts. More. Major Clippings - San Diego Union Tribune October 15, 2005. P2P Future Past Perfect: Industry Commentary It's been six months since the Supreme Court ruling, during which time Kazaa was kablammed Down Under and the music biz became more aggressive with cease and desist letters to major P2P developers. So where is P2P heading? ... Nowhere new.. More. October 2005. Podcasting is Dead. Long Live Podcasting. Podcasting remarkably rose from inception to million users of users in less than two years. According to TDG's recent analysis, Podcasting as an Extension of Portable Digital Media - Fact, Fiction, and Opportunity , more than five million US consumers will partake of podcasts by the end of 2005, growing to more than 60 million in 2010. Many in the industry scoffed at TDG's predictions. More. May 2005. Podcasting as an Extension of Portable Digital Media - Fact, Fiction, and Opportunity. Podcasting is the newest rage in media delivery. While at the moment the podcasting market is too immature to identify clear product market segments and create profitable podcasting-specific products and services, it holds valuable applications for existing media businesses of all kinds. The challenge is to determine when to embrace podcasting – that is, when will podcasting be capable of generating revenue either via direct sales of advertising or indirectly via promotion and marketing? This report examines the emergence of podcasting, its non-commercial lineage, and, most importantly, its commercial prospects. Additionally, the report offers reflections and recommendation on how the podcasting will impact the production, promotion, and consumption of audio programming. Included are forecasts for portable devices, podcast usage, and percentages of usage through 2010. More.   Current Consumer Rights Report Card RIAA/MPAA/IFPI: Continued S&M drama. They'll luv ya til it hurts! Grade - F. TECH: Nothing new. Where are the creative developers? Grade - D. CONSUMERS: File sharing continues to grow despite lawsuits. Grade - A. COURTS: US - Courts reaffirmed tech is legal on appeal. Waiting on Supreme Court ruling. Elsewhere: GOOD - Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Israel, Belgium, Russia, Vanatu, West Bank, the Galactic Continuity. BAD - Republic of California, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, and other US colonies on Earth. Go to the moon, baby! Grade - D. GOVERNMENT. DOJ ready to do Hollywood's bidding. Pirate and Induce Acts trample Fair Use, still working way through Congress. Grade - D. FINAL GRADE: D+	Translate PROTEST THE INSANITY!   Sign the petition to protest RIAA's consumer lawsuits. Don't want to be tracked? Want to avoid a lawsuit? Need a lawyer? Check our Privacy and Security Guide. Directories Articles Newswire Essays P2P File Sharing Digital Music & Movies Privacy & Security Fun & Merchandise     Essays Whose Rebellion, Whose Innovation?: Dynamic Pricing and Music Conversion Who's Educatin' Who? Who's the Borg? Consumers or RIAA? DiaRIAA founder Marc Freedman's interview on MyTechnologyLaywer.com Humor GOD NOT A P2P FAN: TO SMITE BIBLE PIRATES Send your MP3's Back! IPOD PARODIES: iPot, wPod, iPrison REVENGE OF COPYRIGHT COPS RIAA COPS ARE COMING FOR YOU

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