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The Music Industry Might Actually Not Be Dying

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Cary Sherman, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video, Riaa Sales, Recording Industry, Music Industry, Subscription Services, Riaa, Entertainment News

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released their report on 2011 Year End Shipment Data, in which states that "total [music...

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What Do Directors Think When People Make a Torrent for Their Movie?

Quora | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Bittorrent, Directors, Torrent, Directors Guild of America, Women Directors, Recording Industry Association of America, Peer to Peer Downloading, Heather Ferreira, Pipa, Mpaa, Sopa, File Sharing, Riaa, Motion Picture Association of America, Peer to Peer, Entertainment News
Quora

The Motion Picture Association of America has never written me a paycheck for anything. They're not backing my picture. These are not nice guys. They are not in this business to help filmmakers at all.

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Europe's ACTA Freak Out: How Hollywood Holds Back the Trade Agenda

Harold Feld | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Ustr, Sopa Protest, Free Trade Agreements, Sopa Pipa, Acta, Mpaa, Free Trade, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, US Trade Representative, Trade Agreements, Riaa, Sopa, Hollywood, Business News
Harold Feld

Whenever there is an international trade agreement negotiation, Hollywood jumps in, takes over, and starts driving the crazy train off a cliff by demanding all kinds of nonsense in the name of "stopping piracy."

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Record Label-Owned Website Screens Pirated Football Game

TechCrunch | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Vevo, Vevo Piracy, Piracy, Riaa, Pipa, Record Label Piracy, Sopa, Technology News

Over the last decade the major music labels -- and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America -- have established a repea...

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Saki Knafo

Anonymous And The War Over The Internet (Part II)

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Scientology, Acta, Pipa, Anonymous Sopa, Megaupload, Sopa, Anonymous News, Cybercrime, Anonymous, Department of Justice, Riaa, Censorship, Anonymous Hackers, Kim Dotcom, Hackers, Technology News

This is the second part of a two-part series on Anonymous, the amorphous Internet group that has emerged as a force in global affairs. In the first pa...

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Saki Knafo

Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Scientology, Acta, Anonymous Sopa, Pipa, Megaupload, Sopa, Anonymous News, Cybercrime, Anonymous, Department of Justice, Riaa, Censorship, Anonymous Hackers, Hackers, Kim Dotcom, Technology News

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have becom...

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Crowdsourcing the Congress: Wikipedia's Blackout Bomb

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Mpaa, Pipa, Sopa, Riaa, Sopa Protest, Congress, Millennials, Sopa Blackout, Wikipedia Blackout, Technology News
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

It's time for Congressional leaders to use the learning experience of the SOPA/PIPA debate to throw off their generational blinders and find a way to concede power gracefully to a new generation with new ideas.

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MegaUpload: le dossier accablant de la justice US

www.numerama.com | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Doj, Anonymous, Mpaa, Technology News, Anonymous Megaupload, Riaa, Megaupload, Culture, Kim Dotcom, Anoymous Hackers, Hackers, Home News

L'acte d'accusation à l'encontre de MegaUpload met à jour le système mis en place par son richissime fondateur pour encourager financièrement le p...

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Gerry Smith

Notorious Hackers Apparently Retaliate For Megaupload Takedown

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Video, Doj, Anonymous, Mpaa, Anonymous Megaupload, Megaupload, Riaa, Anonymous Hackers, Hackers, Anoymous Hackers, Technology News

The hacktivist group Anonymous launched its "largest attack ever" Thursday, claiming credit for a coordinated takedown of websites managed by the Depa...

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Major SOPA Supporter Sounds Off On SOPA, Then Deletes Tweet

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Sopa Protest, Jonathan Lamy Riaa, Piracy, Jonathan Lamy, Riaa Sopa, Pipa, Internet Censorship, Wikipedia Blackout, Sopa Supporters, Riaa, Sopa, Technology News

The internet filled with snark on Wednesday, as a slew of websites went dark to protest anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Not to be outdone by journali...

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SOPA and PIPA Bills Threaten Job Creation and Innovation

Brett Greene | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Congressional Bills, Internet, Congress, Senate, Television Studios, Movie Studios, Music Industry, Pipa, Sopa, Linkedin, Aol, Zynga, Paypal, Mpaa, Twitter, Discover, Facebook, Mozilla, American Express, Yahoo, Recording Industry Association of America, Visa, Opendns, Motion Picture Association of America, Etsy, Foursquare, Ebay, Wikimedia Foundation, Riaa, Google, Denver News
Brett Greene

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect.

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The Stop Online Piracy Act: Yet Another Stealth Maneuver to Control the Internet

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Blackberry, Patriot Act, Internet, Digital-Millenium-Copyright-Act, Pipa, Mpaa, National Security Agency, Protect IP, Skype, Facebook, Riaa, Net Neutrality, Sopa, Technology News
John W. Whitehead

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons ...

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Zach Carter

Lawmakers Fight Internet Censorship

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Stop Sopa, Sopa Piracy, Ron Wyden, Maria Cantwell, Economy, Darrell Issa, Mpaa, Jobs, Protect IP, Zoe Lofgren, Sopa, Sopa Alternative, Issa, Internet, Tech, Video, Rand Paul, Piracy, Internet Censorship, Mark Warner, Jason Chaffetz, Internet Piracy, Censorship, Riaa, Hollywood, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan cadre of lawmakers proposed a new framework for an anti-piracy bill late Thursday night, hoping to derail leading legislati...

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Why The Major Labels Might Be Right This Time

Jeff Pollack | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Artists, Record Labels, Music, Music Subscription, The Cloud, Illegal Downloads, Google, On Demand, Spotify, Limewire, Amazon, Npr, Apple, Music Sales, Limewire Settlement, Riaa, John McCrea, Arts News
Jeff Pollack

If you're one of those that feels that major labels are the root of all evil, you may want to skip this post altogether because this time I'm sticking...

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RIAA Wins $105M In Limewire Piracy Settlement, But Artists May Not Benefit

Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Music Piracy, Piracy, Torrent, Settlement, last.fm, Limewire Settlement, Pirate, Music Industry, P2p, Pandora, Music, Filesharing, Riaa, Limewire, Arts News

CORRECTION: Information contained in the Torrentfreak article to which this post referred was incorrect. The RIAA has not released a statement specifi...

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LimeWire Settles With Record Labels

AP | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Limewire Suit, Recording Industry Association of America, Limewire Sued, Riaa, Limewire, Limewire Settlement, Technology News

SAN FRANCISCO -- File-sharing software company LimeWire, which shut down last year after being barred from allowing people to share copyright-protecte...

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Moses, Media Piracy and the MPAA

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Limewire Lawsuit, Mpaa, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Chris Dodd Mpaa, Chris Dodd, Riaa, Itunes, Limewire, Media News
Marty Kaplan

Not only is there no evidence that anti-piracy education programs build a stronger "culture of intellectual property." There's also little evidence that enforcement works -- splashy raids haven't reduced piracy.

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5.7 Million Reasons for Duvalier to Return to Haiti

Mark V. Vlasic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark v. Vlasic, Riaa, Switzerland, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali, International Law, Asset Recovery, Swiss Law, Georgetown, Duvalier, Ben Ali, Mark Vlasic, Haiti, Corruption, World News
Mark V. Vlasic

Why would Duvalier, a Haitian living in France, care about a law change in Switzerland? Money -- that's why.

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Attorney Says Client Can't Pay HUGE Fine For Downloading 24 Songs

AP | AMY FORLITI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recording Industry Association of America, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kazaa File Sharing, Jammie Thomas-Rasset Kazaa, File Sharing, Riaa, Jammie Thomas-Rasset File Sharing, Capitol v. Thomas, RIAA Thomas-Rasset, Technology News

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota woman ordered to pay a recording industry trade group $1.5 million for illegally sharing music online doesn't plan to ...

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Advice for Jammie Thomas-Rasset

Rick Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Songwriters Guild of America, Free Culture, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, P2p, File Sharing, Riaa, Technology News
Rick Carnes

The jury in the latest trial of illegal file sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset has awarded the plantiffs, Capitol records et al., an award of 1.5 million do...

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When Copying Is Theft

Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Dirpy, Music Industry, File Sharing, Music, Riaa, Limewire, Technology News
Bevin Carnes

2010-09-29-bike.jpgIf you have a bicycle, and I copy it, we both have a bicycle. Cool, right? There's a catch.

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Those Who Cannot Innovate, Regulate: Old Media's Twisted Logic

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Broadcasters, David M. Ewalt, Newspapers, Joseph Schumpeter, Nab, Riaa, Tags: Gary Shapiro, Motel T., Npr, Congress, Facebook, Boston University, Satellite Radio, Innovation Movement, Cable, Henry Ford, AM Radio, Network Television, Washington Post, Tom Cruise, Cea, FM Radio, Huffington Post, Forbes, Recording Industry Association of American, Consumer Electronics Association, Itunes, Performance Rights Act, Media News
Gary Shapiro

Should we protect old media by hindering market competition? Of course not. But try telling that to the National Association of Broadcasters and the Recording Industry Association of America.

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A Promotion for Progress: Seeking the Third Way for Copyright

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Law, Free Culture, Nancy-Gertner, Intellectual Property, Mpaa, Piracy, Copyright, Copyright Law, Reform, Joel Tenenbaum, Riaa, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

A week ago, the damages award heard around the copyright world came with United States District Court Judge Nancy Gertner's decision to slash the dama...

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LimeWire Loses RIAA Case Over Copyright Infringement

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Record Companies, Internet, Napster, Itunes, Songs, Copyright, File Sharing, Music, Riaa, Limewire, Movies, Technology News

LOS ANGELES — File-sharing software company LimeWire has lost a long-running court battle to the major recording companies. A judge with the U....

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On Being Justin Bieber in the Age of YouTube

Edward Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youtube, Justin Bieber, Music Industry, Riaa, Media News
Edward Lee

Allowing people to freely post videos of cover songs on YouTube -- just as Bieber did -- would be a win-win for the music industry. If the music industry fails to realize this soon, it may well be too late.

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