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krj
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response 85 of 154:
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May 12 03:24 UTC 2003 |
Bruce: Dick Gaughan was allowed into the US under the Carter and Clinton
administrations; I saw him on tours in those years. He was not allowed
in during the Reagan and Bush I years, and right now it looks like
the Bush II administration doesn't want him in either. Gaughan is
up front about his Communist political beliefs.
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krj
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response 86 of 154:
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May 12 03:43 UTC 2003 |
(I realize I should elaborate further for many of our readers.
Dick Gaughan, mentioned in resp:83 & resp:85, is Scotland's finest
man with a guitar, an active folk music performer for about 30 years.
Gaughan's own comment on his barring from the US during the Reagan-Bush
years: "The only time I'm a danger to America is when I forget what
side of the road to drive on!")
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anderyn
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response 87 of 154:
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May 12 14:06 UTC 2003 |
I thought we had seen him during Bush II's presidency? (Gaughan, that is.)
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gull
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response 88 of 154:
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May 12 15:11 UTC 2003 |
Our democracy is so fragile, and communism is so powerful, that one
communist folk singer could bring democracy crashing down?
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slynne
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response 89 of 154:
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May 12 15:15 UTC 2003 |
I didnt know foreign performers were being banned because of their
political beliefs.
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jep
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response 90 of 154:
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May 12 16:03 UTC 2003 |
I was cruising around the Internet, looking for marching music. I
found a few CDs on http://www.sonymusicstore.com, adn so to find out
how much one of them was, I clicked on the "Buy Now" icon. It took me
to a screen full of new classical music. I stumbled around on that for
a while, but was unable to find the label of the CD in which I'd been
interested, let alone how to buy it.
So there's one for the Napster/Kazaa users side, or at least for the
argument that the music companies have to become a little easier to do
business with. I was fully repelled by their system. Having found
something I wanted, ready to reach for my credit card and get it right
now, I was unable to place my order.
They won't lose much if this sort of experience is confined to niche
buyers like those who want marching music, but I'll bet it's a more
general problem than that.
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jep
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response 91 of 154:
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May 12 16:07 UTC 2003 |
BTW, I bought MusicMatch Jukebox on recommendation from various people
on M-Net. What a pleasure to use! I just got a new computer at work,
and am putting all my marching music CDs on it. I play marching music
as a noise buffer. With Real Jukebox a couple of years ago, I had to
type in every song title, every composer, every album name. MusicMatch
has all that information on-line for most of my CDs. I put in the
disk, tell the program to record, and it saves it all to disk for me.
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krj
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response 92 of 154:
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May 13 18:34 UTC 2003 |
News clippings:
Universal Music Group is piling on to a lawsuit against Bertelsmann Music
Group (BMG); one of the five major labels in the RIAA is suing another,
whee! Universal charges that by loaning money to Napster, BMG
acquires liability for Napster's copyright violations, to the tune
of $150,000 per song infringed, the statutory amount.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1001190.html?tag=fd_top
As I mentioned in the previous link to an article about Universal and EMI
suing Napster's venture capitalist investors, the copyright industry
is now threatening fundamental principles of American capitalism
by seeking to hold investors, and now those who loan money, liable
for vast sums beyond the amount they have chosen to place at risk
through investment and loans.
Cnet's article says that Sony declined to join in the suit against BMG
because Sony felt it would not go anywhere.
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http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1000673.html
"Hold technology creators liable?" by Declan McCullagh
This is sort of a rambling piece, but McCullagh argues that in the recent
decision on the file sharing networks Grokster and Morpheus, the courts
seem to be backing away from the idea of holding the inventors of
technology responsible for its uses.
McCullagh also expects the copyright industry to start to push Congress
to make the development or operation of P2P networks a crime.
((Can we put Bill Gates in jail? :) ))
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krj
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response 93 of 154:
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May 15 16:07 UTC 2003 |
Jon Newton's news & advocacy website http://www.p2pnet.net is back
in business; updates to the site had stopped for several months
while the owner relocated his family to Canada's Pacific coast.
He's got a flurry of reports of legal action.
The Ohio State University police department has seized five computers
from dorm residents as part of an investigation of a file sharing
system using Direct Connect, one of the software packages named
in the recent RIAA civil actions:
http://www.p2pnet.net/may03/bust.html
German police raid the home of an individual alleged to be running
an OpenNap "clone" of Napster. (I *think* OpenNap is a reverse-
engineered version of the original Napster system.)
The raid was requested by the IFPI, the international version
of the RIAA.
http://www.p2pnet.net/may03/openap.html
Three college students in Sydney, Australia, have won the prosecution
lottery. They have been accused of running "a Napster-like website"
and this is a criminal case, not a civil one. The students face
up to five years in jail, plus fines.
Australia is also still contemplating legal action against the
universities whose networks are used in file sharing.
http://www.p2pnet.net/may03/aus.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/13/1052591788418.html
And one last one from fatchucks.com:
The legal case against two young Koreans who ran a Napster-like
file-trading system called Soribada have had their case thrown
out by the court on procedural grounds. The court ruled that
the prosecution had not adequately specified what the defendants
did which was illegal. (Soribada means "Sea of Sound." I always
liked that name.)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200305/kt2003051517490512020.htm
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gregb
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response 94 of 154:
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May 15 17:54 UTC 2003 |
All this is starting to sound like something out of "Fahrenheit 451."
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goose
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response 95 of 154:
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May 15 19:29 UTC 2003 |
Yep, and it's bound to get worse....:-(
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krj
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response 96 of 154:
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May 19 16:28 UTC 2003 |
Widely reported this weekend: Roxio, who bought the assets of Napster
in the bankruptcy sale, are planning to buy Pressplay, one of the two
music-industry-owned download sites, and rebrand it as Napster.
((Unless they convert to a licensing policy like Apple's, this
will go nowhere fast, I predict. I suspect Roxio is way overestimating
the value of the Napster brand, especially after it's been shut down
for two years.))
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krj
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response 97 of 154:
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May 19 18:08 UTC 2003 |
Tower Records is in trouble again. The newspaper for their corporate
hometown reports that they almost (?) missed a $5.2 million interest
payment at the end of May, and an investment banker has
been hired to try to sell the company, which is still owned by
the family which founded it. Tower may be in jeopardy
of a bond default which would trigger a bankruptcy filing; it has
dodged bankruptcy three times in the last few years.
A sale of Tower would probably mean a radical restructuring in
how it works as a business. Tower's main market niche -- "we carry
almost everything, especially in classical" -- has been pounded by
the triple threat of Napster, Amazon, and the collapse of the
demand for classical music CDs. One analyst seems to envision Tower
becoming a clone of Borders. Others aren't sure that there is
any future for any free-standing music retailer.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/6693887p-7645325c.html
I have to say that I was surprised (and sad) at how empty the
two large Tower stores in New York were when I visited them last
month. I also learned that Tower's freebie magazine PULSE has
been terminated.
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krj
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response 98 of 154:
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May 20 13:24 UTC 2003 |
A NY Post business columnist speculates that MusicNet, the major label
download service which Roxio did NOT buy, is a good candidate to be
shut down by its owners. MusicNet has fewer customers than
the 50,000 attributed to PressPlay (soon to be named Napster), and its
software and licensing rules are considered more annoying.
Quote: "Pressplay is expected to relaunch under the Napster brand
sometime before next March, according to Roxio's CEO Chris
Gorog."
An early 2004 launch for Pay Napster would give Apple a bit more time
to set up iTunes for Windows.
> http://www.nypost.com/business/76099.htm
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Despite an 11% decline in their sales, the record company EMI had a
huge upturn in their profits: last year EMI reported a loss of 200 million
UK pounds, and this year they made a profit of 230 million pounds.
Converted to dollars, that's an improvement of well over $600 million.
To get back in the black, EMI dumped 400 artists and 1900 staffers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/05/20/emi/index.html
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jaklumen
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response 99 of 154:
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May 21 00:25 UTC 2003 |
from the last AP release I read, the media seems to be somewhat
positive over Roxio's acquistion and the for pay Napster.
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krj
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response 100 of 154:
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May 24 06:14 UTC 2003 |
Kazaa expected that on Friday its software would become the most popular
free download program in history, surpassing ICQ. Kazaa has been
downloaded 230 million times, with 366,000 new downloads every
*day*.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1009418.html
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dbratman
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response 101 of 154:
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May 25 06:17 UTC 2003 |
Borders is only semi-pathetic in classical, so a fate like that
wouldn't be too terrible. But I'd be sad to see Tower get diminished.
I just can't browse online retailers the way I can physical ones, and
my CD-buying would likely diminish to things I _knew_ I was looking for.
(Speaking of knowing what I'm looking for, has or has not Richard
Thompson released a CD version of his "1000 years of popular music"
show? I thought I'd read he had, but I can't find it on Amazon.)
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krj
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response 102 of 154:
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May 25 15:17 UTC 2003 |
((Digression which belongs in the "British Folk" item:
"1000 Years" is going to be in the "fan club," self-released series,
so it will not be available in conventional retail channels.
The website http://www.richardthompson-music.com says "1000 Years"
is available now at gigs and "soon" at the website.))
It's been interesting watching Thompson's new career moves. After
his "Mock Tudor" album three years ago, he chose not to renew his
deal with EMI/Capitol, explaining that a major-label deal was only
worthwhile if the label could get your music played on the radio,
and that just wasn't going to happen for him. In 2003, his new
studio album "The Old Kit Bag" is marked as copyrighted by Richard
Thompson, licensed to the labels Cooking Vinyl & SpinArt; and, at the
same time, he's come out with *two* self-released fan-club albums.
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krj
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response 103 of 154:
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May 27 18:47 UTC 2003 |
News roundup after the holiday weekend:
ZDnet.uk ran a story about relatively new & lesser known P2P systems
eDonkey and BitTorrent. Some discussion of their technical tweaks.
BitTorrent in particular is optimized for the distribution of
large files, such as free Unix distributions, or movies.
BayTSP, which looks at the Internet for the copyright holders, says
eDonkey is passing Gnutella in popularity and is closing on KaZaa &
the rest of the FastTrack system.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135249,00.html
Here's another summary story, somewhat amateurish but with some
interesting links, about the BitTorrent system:
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/bittorrent.html
ZDnet again: with a story about ISPs complaining about the bandwidth
& costs of their file-sharing users. 60% of traffic at large ISPs
is file sharing traffic, costing the ISPs a projected $1.3 billion
for 2003. On the other hand, the file-sharing systems are what
motivates most broadband customers.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-1009456.html
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goose
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response 104 of 154:
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May 28 13:37 UTC 2003 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2940270.stm
this is an article about how Matrix Reloaded is available via BitTorrent.
This greatly increases the profile os BitTorrent.
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oval
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response 105 of 154:
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May 28 14:01 UTC 2003 |
"Digital piracy has become a real menace," he said.
Despite the availability of pirate copies, The Matrix Reloaded has made more
than $363.5m at the box office worldwide so far. "
..poor poor MPAA
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jazz
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response 106 of 154:
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May 29 12:33 UTC 2003 |
... despite studies that show that Napster users bought MORE music than
non-Napster users ...
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tod
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response 107 of 154:
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May 29 16:10 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 108 of 154:
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May 29 16:16 UTC 2003 |
I agree, anyone stealing porches probably has a house and a place to store
the car. I would not steal porches if I had no house to attach them to.
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jazz
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response 109 of 154:
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May 29 16:18 UTC 2003 |
Car theft doesn't pay well on the low end of the totem pole.
It just galls me, though, when people manage their business badly and
then blame something unrelated for the loss. Napster and it's clones isn't
the problem, and never has been.
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