‘The idea that you “can’t compete with free” or that free means there’s no business model is a myth.’
Jan
29
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Where a ‘third party copyright holder makes an allegation of copyright infringement to your ISP, and without any due process or adjudication, your ISP disconnects you from the Internet’.
Jan
28
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‘Three-strikes will fail when the results become apparent to those even outside of the artist and fan contingencies. The only question is how much damage will be done … before that failure is complete.’
Jan
28
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‘More than half of the respondents were professional musicians. Any consideration of the results must take this unusual representation into account.’
Jan
27
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‘The iTunes Store is killing the music business. Sure, it provides a legal alternative to theft/copyright infringement, but the economics make no sense.’
Jan
20
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‘EMI won’t let us let you embed our YouTube videos. It’s a decision that bums us out.’
Jan
19
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[You artists are all in the wrong bidniz ;p )
Jan
17
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‘But in the end I believe most of the impetus behind the drive to copyright reformation is about maintaining crumbling monopolies as the world changes around us.’
Jan
16
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‘The precise way I had looked at doing this does not work because I had been listening too much to the language being used about this being a Bill that was about people who downloaded copyrighted material. ‘
Jan
14
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‘Move over, and let those of us who value sustainability, artistic freedom and a conversational relationship with our audience over fame, celebrity and selling-millions-of-records-while-still-losing-money get on with what we do, using the tools that make it possible.’
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14
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28 lawsuits brought across the country from December 2005 through July 2006
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13
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Under an amendment, ‘Google would be free to copy everything — but a publisher blocking search spiders with a robots.txt file would be taken as withholding that right …’