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Grex > Music > #23: The Twenty-Fifth "Napsterization" Item |  |
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gull
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The Twenty-Fifth "Napsterization" Item
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Jul 19 18:47 UTC 2006 |
The usual canned introduction:
The original Napster corporation has been destroyed, its trademarks
now owned by an authorized music retailer which does not use
peer-to-peer technology. But the Napster paradigm, in which computers
and networks give ordinary people unprecedented control over content,
continues.
This is another quarterly installment in a series of weblog and
discussion about the deconstruction of the music industry and other
copyright industries, with side forays into "intellectual property,
freedom of expression, electronic media, corporate control, and
evolving technology," as polygon once phrased it.
Several years of back items are easily found in the music2 and music3
conferences, covering discussions all the way back to the initial
popularity of the MP3 format. These items are linked between
the current Agora conference and the Music conference.
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gull
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response 1 of 13:
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Jul 19 18:50 UTC 2006 |
Record labels are suing XM in New York over its "Inno" device, which
allows users to record music off satellite radio for later listening,
and organize it by artist and title. They say this is "massive
wholesale infringement." XM is asking for the case to be dismissed,
claiming the device is legal under the 1992 Home Recording Audio Act.
The Consumer Electronics Association and the Home Recording Rights
Coalition have joined the suit on XM's side.
Complete article:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/277862_xmsuit18.html
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tod
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response 2 of 13:
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Jul 19 19:14 UTC 2006 |
re #1
Awesome
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krj
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response 3 of 13:
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Jul 19 21:26 UTC 2006 |
((( Summer Agora #78 <---> Music #23 )))
(and, thanks to gull for keeping the traditional form! :) )
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gull
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response 4 of 13:
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Jul 19 22:52 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:3: Hey, why mess with what works? :)
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naftee
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response 5 of 13:
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Jul 20 21:46 UTC 2006 |
i like canned salmon
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krj
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response 6 of 13:
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Jul 28 16:49 UTC 2006 |
The Kazaa company has reached a worldwide settlement of all
copyright infringement cases against it. Kazaa is to pay about
$100 million to the recorded music industry, an amount to be
determined later to the movie industry, and it is to (somehow)
shutdown unauthorized file sharing on its system.
From a technical perspective, that last one should be interesting
to watch. :)
(Kazaa might be able to disable portions of the network; in the past,
they pulled some sort of forced upgrade which kicked customers of
Morpheus, another file sharing client using the same underlying
FastTrack network, off the network.)
Supposedly Kazaa is going to turn into an authorized content
distributor, but no file sharing operation has ever made that
transition after reaching a settlement with the copyright
interests.
DigitalMusicNews had a comment on the whack-a-mole game:
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/#072806parting
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