January 15, 2008 – 6:15 pm
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January 8, 2008 – 9:34 pm
Mashable reports that US Internet radio streaming company is shutting down UK access to its site after being unable to get a commercially sensible licensing agreement with the shysters crooks and shakedown artists of the MCPRS/PRS and PPL. This is a rather disappointing follow-on to the US campaign of the RIAA to suppress independent radio […]
August 17, 2007 – 9:57 pm
Geeklawyer spotted this news story about Comcast throttling bittorrent traffic. Geeklawyer does, on occasion, ‘steal‘ films using bittorrent. Really, it’s not like anyone suffers (please, spare me the crap about ‘he would have bought it if it hadn’t been available on p2p’) and he certainly isn’t the only IP/IT lawyer to do so.While many would […]
August 10, 2007 – 11:23 am
617 OpenRightsGroup-Squadron has rolled lots of bouncing anti-DRM bombs and it is definitely looking like cracks are developing. Record companies need to get to high ground.
Geeklawyer was interested to see yet another label talking about issuing DRM free music. Last time it was EMI that released DRM free music in April. Now Universal is looking […]
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Also posted in Digital Rights, p2p
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Tagged apple, bombs, CD, dam, DRM, emi, iTunes, mp3, music, Open Rights Group, p2p, raf, universal
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Geeklawyer really wanted to dislike the new Prince Album since height challenged one went mad in the ’90’s, changed his name to a short Perl script and stubbornly refused to deliver a worthy successor to ‘Little Red Corvette‘.
On the other hand any musician who pisses off music industry retailers record labels and other pompous […]
Yes, gentle reader, get your hanky ready. You thought Geeklawyer brutally dumping Ruthie was a tearjerker? well that was trivial compared to the emotional pain of the music industry. It seems that some idiot carelessly broke their business model. Now it seems that they are strapped for cash. Cocaine is no longer available on-tap in […]
February 6, 2007 – 11:38 pm
DRM free music is a tantalising prospect. Previously this idea was no more than a wet dream to techno-liberals but one which, given the entrenched attitudes impoverished imaginations and mindset of monopolists, was only ever an idle fantasy in the real world.
By Geeklawyer
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Also posted in apple, copyright
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Tagged apple, DRM, EU, ipod, iTunes, microsoft, mp3, music industry, Norway, Sony, technology, WMF, zune
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According to el-reg the RIAA is going after Limewire, the p2p company that provides a premium connection client to the Gnutella network to allow people to share files. That much was already know. Geeklawyer’s interest was piqued by the Register’s contention that a new feature of the RIAA’s complaint that distinguished it from previous litigation […]
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Also posted in copyright, p2p
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Tagged CC, copyright, court, developer, filesharing, Free software, gnutella, Grokster, limewire, litigation, Open Source, p2p, peer to peer, RIAA-MPAA, software, Supreme Court, technology
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As is usually the case, what happens first in the US eventually winds up coming across the Big Pond. So it was with suing filesharers and so it is with the record companies targeting the ISP. the BPI is saying to Bulldog and Tiscali that they should enforce their own T&Cs by cutting off Internet […]
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