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May
29
THE CONTINUING BATTLE OF RIAA VS. TECHNOLOGY:
PEERGUARDIAN
Network World – "Spy on
my machine? No way man!"
http://www.nwfusion.com
IGN ENTERTAINMENT’S BEST OF
E3 (INDUSTRY GAMING SHOW) AWARDS
Includes Best Booth Babe
http://games.ign.com
New
Essay
THE BEAT GOES ON:
APPLE, ROXIO, & CENTERSPAN
May
21, 2003
Entertainment
synergy has been touted for two decades now. The alignment
of Apple-iTunes and Roxio-Napster-Pressplay is an old theme.
... Picture Maxtor selling a $100 80GB hard drive with entire
music catalogs that the user can preview and unlock
with a credit card. Or Microsoft giving away such drives in
exchange for a one year broadband and music subscription.
Read it
New
Sites
PeerBuddy
Eliminate
P2P network spoofing and bad files by blocking bad IP addresses
(over 2 million blocked).
http://www.isopleth.com/peerbuddy.htm
PeerGuardian
Eliminate
P2P network spoofing and bad files by blocking bad IP addresses.
http://methlabs.h4x3r.net
RIAA Radar
Check if an album is produced by a
RIAA member
http://www.magnetbox.com
May
20
ROXIO BUYS PRESSPLAY FOR $39M (HAD BOUGHT
NAPSTER)
http://biz.yahoo.com
http://news.com.com
http://www.nytimes.com
CENTERSPAN SUSPENDS OPERATIONS (HAD BOUGHT
SCOUR)
http://biz.yahoo.com
NIELSEN STUDY DEBUNKS RIAA CLAIMS THAT
FILE SHARERS HURT REVENUES
- 71% of music downloaders bought
music recently
- 22% of net users downloaded music in the past month.
- Music downloaders are 25-111% MORE likely to purchase music
than average net users.
http://www.prnewswire.com
DAD, SEND MONEY! COLLEGE P2P OPERATORS
SETTLE WITH RIAA
Students to pay $12-17,000 over 4
years for copyright infringement.
http://news.com.com
COURT FINDS BMG & SONY MUSIC STEAL
UP TO $100 MILLION FROM ARTISTS
Record clubs (buy 1 and get 10 free!)
don't pay artists
http://www.musicdish.com
POLICE RAID A NAPSTER CLONE OPERATOR IN
GERMANY
http://mi2n.com
LEGITIMATE ENTERTAINMENT DOWNLOADS TAKE
OFF WITH TRYMEDIA
PC games distribution includes P2P.
http://mi2n.com
CLEAR CHANNEL'S BIG, STINKING DEREGULATION
MESS
Clear Channel makes deregulation look
bad, ruining it for everyone. Still, the FCC wants to deregulate
even more.
http://www.alternet.org
HOW TO EVADE INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE
http://www.peacefire.org
BELGIUM'S ANSWER TO FILE SHARING: TAX
REWRITABLE CDS
http://news.com.com
HOLLYWOOD ALTERS MOVIES TO FOIL CAMCORDER
PIRATES
http://www.nbc4.tv
INNOVATOR AND ARTIST PETER GABRIEL
Pushes for online paid music downloads,
while fighting free file sharing.
http://media.guardian.co.uk
METAFILTER BLOG LAUNCHES MUSIC SITE
Also uses Andromeda, a low-cost streaming
server.
http://music.metafilter.com/
http://www.turnstyle.com
REALNETWORKS LAUNCHES MOBILE CONTENT
STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE
For mobile phones and PDAs
http://biz.yahoo.com
May
6
AMERICAN PERVERSITY - DO AS I SAY,
NOT AS I DO
The US Government censors and cripples
the rights of its own citizens. Researchers have canceled
technical conferences due to the DMCA law.
http://news.com.com
The DMCA isn’t enough. Now the entertainment industry
has pushed "Super DMCA" legislation that outlaws
various technologies and limits more personal rights.
http://www.securityfocus.com
http://www.eff.org
And they’re assembling an arsenal to sabotage file sharer
computers.
http://www.nytimes.com
It's not just music and movie folks. Here’s our
good friends at Wal-Mart crushing Re-Code, the bar code satire
site.
http://www.re-code.com
http://www.wired.com
http://www.salon.com
At the same time the US fights for freedom.
But not in the US. Here’s a US agency that commissioned
software to evade censorship blocks by the Chinese government.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-997101.html
Proxy software: http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circumventor-instructions.html
Other news
FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH LOVE: RIAA KISSES
200,000 OF ITS BEST FANS
Sends IM warning to file sharing users.
http://www.reuters.com
http://news.com.com
ITUNES OFF TO A HOT START – SELLS
1 MILLION SONGS IN ONE WEEK
http://www.wired.com
http://biz.yahoo.com
http://www.apple.com
IS STEVE JOBS THE MUSIC SAVIOR? UNLIKELY.
Apple iTunes 99¢ singles for
Macs (Windows coming soon) is a step in the right direction.
But uses proprietary AAC format and still has copyright protection.
http://news.com.com
http://storage.ziffdavis.com
http://www.theregister.co.uk
http://www.siliconvalley.com
http://www.fortune.com
http://www.salon.com
http://apple.slashdot.org
http://www.apple.com
AAC audio
http://www.apple.com
ads
DOLLAR SONGS: BARGAIN OR RIP-OFF?
$1 song beats subscriptions but it’s
no discount from album pricing and it’s not competitive
with free.
http://www.wired.com
42% OF P2P IS PORN: ITUNES IS MISSING
HALF THE MARKET
http://www.wired.com
HOW WILL ARTISTS EVER GET PAID ONCE
COMPUTER COMPANIES BUY MAJOR LABELS?
http://www.musicdish.com
HOW TO BE A PROFITABLE ONLINE MUSIC
BAND IN THE AGE OF ETHICAL SHARING AND COLLABORATION
http://www.masternewmedia.com
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