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gull
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The Eleventh Napster Item
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Jun 24 13:04 UTC 2002 |
Hopefully krj won't mind me entering this item this time. I have some stuff
I wanted to post in it.
This increasingly irrelevantly-titled item is for discussion related to
copyright issues in digital media.
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gull
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response 1 of 104:
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Jun 24 13:08 UTC 2002 |
Two news blurbs:
A lot of web broadcasters are shutting down now, citing RIAA royalties that,
even after being cut in half by the Librarian of Congress, are too high.
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25338.html
Apparently the issue isn't just the current royalties, it's that they're
*retroactive* for the last four years. So places that have been
broadcasting for a while, especially the larger ones, suddenly have a
massive tab due.
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Microsoft seems to be spinning their DRM OS to make it more palatable. This
is the "Secure PC" operating system with built-in support for copy
protection. Microsoft, perhaps realizing this isn't very marketable to
anyone except Hollywood and record companies, is now referring to it as an
OS meant to protect your security and privacy, instead of one meant to
protect intellectual property.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25344.html
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krj
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response 2 of 104:
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Jun 24 19:00 UTC 2002 |
Heh. The Register refers to the murdering of the web radio stations
as "culturecide."
((As for the naming of the items: while Napster Inc is increasingly
irrelevant, the company and the software do seem to have marked a
turning point, and keeping the names of the items the same helps
any one who wants to read the backstory across over two years
of conferences.))
((( Summer Agora #17 <---> Music 107 )))
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krj
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response 3 of 104:
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Jun 24 19:04 UTC 2002 |
((((Oh, yeah, and these items just aren't for "copyright issues in
digital media," there's also a great deal of stuff about issues
roiling the music business which I stuff in here.))))
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krj
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response 4 of 104:
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Jun 25 19:34 UTC 2002 |
The dead-tree edition of USA Today contains an 8 page "Technology"
supplement which is primarily about the technology and copyright issues
and the music and movie industries. Little in it will be new to
readers of these items, but it's startling to see so many column
inches devoted to the subject in the most mainstream media.
I dunno how much of it is available on USA Today's website.
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gull
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response 5 of 104:
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Jun 26 13:36 UTC 2002 |
Another Register item, this one about a bill introduced by Congressman
Howard Berman (D-California). The bill would make it legal for the RIAA
to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that are being used to distribute
copyrighted works, essentially giving them the right to defend their
copyrights with vigilante justice:
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25385.html
Berman does suggest there would be strict limits on what would be
acceptable for them to do -- damaging property would be out, for example.
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krj
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response 6 of 104:
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Jul 3 21:04 UTC 2002 |
Slashdot points to this Wall Street Journal / MSNBC story:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp
"Major music companies are preparing to mount a broad new attack
on unauthorized online song-swapping. The campaign would include
suits against individuals who are offering the largest
troves of songs on peer-to-peer services..."
"Companies have been reluctant to take legal action against
individual Internet users, in part because they have feared the
possible backlash that could result from big corporate interests
dragging individuals into court...."
"People with knowledge of the matter say that the recording-industry
trade association is still in the early stages of planning its efforts..."
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krj
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response 7 of 104:
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Jul 5 16:02 UTC 2002 |
Monday's dead-tree edition of USA Today had a story on music recording
sales for the first half of 2002. The slide continues and accelerates.
If I remember the numbers correctly:
album-length CD sales down over 9%
all-format sales down over 12%
From the peak year of 2000, all-format sales are down over 18%.
The collapse is concentrated at the top of the charts.
In first-half 2001, 34 albums sold 1,000,000 copies;
in first-half 2002, only 20 albums have reached that level.
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tpryan
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response 8 of 104:
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Jul 6 01:02 UTC 2002 |
Who would say that that decrease is from file-swapping of
popular CDs, or from the audience turning away from those offering
their latest?
I am beginning to enjoy picking up songs from mp3.com. Those
are ones being offered by the artists and companies.
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mcnally
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response 9 of 104:
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Jul 9 23:21 UTC 2002 |
Today's Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org ) links to an anti-music-industry
essay by 70s singer-songwriter Janis Ian. She's supportive of file sharing
and critical towards the record companies -- which is no doubt why the
interest from the Slashdot crowd..
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
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