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
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
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
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 …’
Jan
11
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‘ … large corporations charging private citizens tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, for downloading a few songs here and there. And it’s intuitively obvious that it can’t possibly be worth that.’
Jan
6
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The ’same old story with a different name, it’s all about control, and continuing to make money from past work indefinitely.’
Jan
3
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‘Caution! The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the files.’
Dec
31
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Today is the last day of 2009 and it’s time, therefore, for a Top 10 Worst of the Year list. But not this year. There’s only one contender.
Dec
12
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“The music industry has long hit a trifecta of thin value — crappy music, ripped-off artists, and ethically dubious tactics.”
Dec
3
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Customers and fans don’t count. Now let’s see what eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and Google can do …
Nov
21
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Shadow culture secretary doesn’t believe the Digital Economy Bill will get through Parliament before the next elections.
Nov
19
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Most ‘radical copyright proposal ever’ in the name of protecting copyright.
Nov
14
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Not so much a bad headache for the corporate music industry as a major disaster.