Search Results for: RIAA
Google as the Gatekeeper of the Internet
Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist: Cory Doctorow has an interesting piece here on Google’s role as a gatekeeper to the Internet. Google is under increasing pressure to change the way it ranks search results. Earlier in June, Recording Industry Association of America chief executive Cary Sherman told the US Congress that Google should be [...]
Music Sharing ISP Surcharge
Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs: An interesting article about a plan that Big Media is warming up to. It was proposed a long time ago, but immediately dismissed. Griffin’s idea is to collect a fee from internet service providers — something like $5 per user per month — and put it into [...]
Don’t click it, that would be wrong…
This link runs a slooow SQL query on the RIAA’s server. Don’t click it; that would be wrong. Found on reddit.com. I clicked it, just out of curiosity. It pulled a press-releases index page. I don’t know how someone knows it’s slow.
Internet Radio Royalty Rates Announced
Webcast royalty rate decision announced: Is this the death kneel for Internet radio? The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the “per play” rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by [...]
iTunes Assist In Kiddie Porn Bust
Here’s a case where the RIAA might not have a problem with iTunes file sharing feature: Some dirtball in a UM dorm had kiddie porn movies on his computer and was caught when another Cramer Hall resident saw what was shared on his playlist. The up-side is that there are good aspects of file sharing, [...]
Is File Sharing Over?
RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing ‘contained’: Huh. Seriously? […] the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America says unauthorized song swapping has been “contained.” “The problem has not been eliminated,” says association CEO Mitch Bainwol. “But we believe digital downloads have emerged into a growing, thriving business, and file-trading is flat.”
Microsoft Buys Groove
Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks, Combining Talents to Create Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration Products and Services: This is kind of a no-brainer. Micrsoft owned 25% of Groove, and it was only a matter of time until Groove got built into Windows. Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will acquire Groove Networks Inc., a leading provider of [...]
Human Area Network
This is unreal: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is pursuing research and development of an innovative Human Area Networking technology called RedTacton that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body. Let’s see the RIAA monitor [...]
MT3 Opinion
A Line in the Sand: Here’s a good, level-headed opinion on why the Movable Type 3.0 controversy shouldn’t be one. People feel like they have been betrayed… with all this talk of people jumping ship. Half of you would still fall into the free release category! Doesn’t anyone realize what MT will be turning into? [...]
You’re Back on the Hook
Recording industry drops amnesty program for file-sharers: The RIAA has ended their amnesty program that let you off the hook for copyright violations if you turned yourself in. …the trade group explained that it no longer deems the program useful because it considers the public educated or aware enough now to know that they could [...]