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Artists: We’re Not Salespeople, We’re Street Performers – Falkvinge on Infopolicy
http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/07/artists-were-not-salespeople-were-street-performers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)
Continue reading...Will Gutenberg laugh last?
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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http://www.roughtype.com/?p=2296
Continue reading...ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police”
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/isp-walks-out-of-piracy-talks-were-not-the-internet-police-121217/
Continue reading...Turn Your FreeNAS Box Into the Ultimate Anonymous Downloading Machine
Saturday, December 15, 2012
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http://lifehacker.com/5967007/turn-your-freenas-box-into-the-ultimate-anonymous-downloading-machine
Continue reading...Musician Mike Doughty Offers Unique Copy Of His New Song, Personalized To Each Buyer, For $543.09
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20121207/10023821309/musician-mike-doughty-offers-unique-copy-his-new-song-personalized-to-each-buyer-54309.shtml The latest offering is somewhere between a business model experiment and performance art (and, honestly, when the two blend together, that’s often a good thing). He’s written a song called “Dogs/Demons” which is not being released on any album or online in any manner. The only way to get it is to pay $543.09 [...]
Continue reading...How Being More Open, Human And Awesome Can Save Anyone Worried About Making Money In Entertainment
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20120210/02273417726/how-being-more-open-human-awesome-can-save-anyone-worried-about-making-money-entertainment.shtml
Continue reading...Music Industry Threatens to Sue UK Pirate Party over Pirate Bay Proxy
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-threatens-to-sue-uk-pirate-party-over-pirate-bay-proxy-121210/
Continue reading...Making Piracy Obsolete Through the Payright System?
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/making-piracy-obsolete-through-the-payright-system/2012/12/05?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: P2pFoundation (P2P Foundation)
Continue reading...Megaupload: Kim Dotcom Drags Spy Agency Into Court
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8044067/Dotcom-wins-defendant-right
Continue reading...Cyber Monday bust: US law enforcement joins in world-wide seizure of 132 domain names
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cyber-monday-bust-us-law-enforcement-joins-world-wide-seizure-132-domain-names
Continue reading...What the Penguin-Random Merger Says About the Future of the Book Business
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/magazine/penguin-random-house-merger.html?_r=0
Continue reading...Outlawed by Amazon DRM
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
Continue reading...Cyberlocker “Oron” Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit
Friday, July 6, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-offered-to-help-prosecute-users-to-settle-34-8m-copyright-suit-120706/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)
Continue reading...IP Monopolism as “Free Enterprise”
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
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http://c4ss.org/content/10688?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: c4ss (Center for a Stateless Society)
Continue reading...Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court
Thursday, June 28, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-search-warrants-ruled-illegal-by-high-court-120628/
Continue reading...Canada Post Files Copyright Lawsuit Over Crowdsourced Postal Code Database
Friday, May 25, 2012
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6415/125/
Continue reading...If Publishers Can’t Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120417/03333118519/if-publishers-cant-cover-their-costs-with-10-ebooks-then-they-deserve-to-go-out-business.shtml
Continue reading...Silent magician Teller files copyright suit over “stolen” shadow trick
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/silent-magician-teller-files-copyright-suit-over-stolen-shadow-trick.ars
Continue reading...Student in US Sued for $600K for Selling Owned Physical Textbooks “Copyright Violation”
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://news.yahoo.com/thai-students-money-making-effort-centre-us-supreme-152203267.html
Continue reading...Kim Dotcom Lashes Out Against “Corrupt” US Government
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-lashes-out-against-corrupt-us-government-120420/
Continue reading...More on DRM and ebooks
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/more-on-drm-and-ebooks.html
Continue reading...Undercover MPAA Agents Expose Alleged Movie Pirates
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/undercover-mpaa-agents-expose-alleged-movie-pirates-120521/
Continue reading...RIAA chief: ISPs to start Policing copyright by July 12
Friday, March 16, 2012
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-12/
Continue reading...India Court Orders SOPA-style Blackout of 100+ Music Sites
Friday, March 16, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-sopa-style-blackout-of-100-music-sites-120316/ Every single ISP in India has been ordered to block 104 sites offering unauthorized music. A total of 387 ISPs must block the sites immediately via DNS and IP address blocking, backed up with Deep Packet Inspection.
Continue reading...Book Publishers/RIAA and Court Orders RapidShare to Filter User Uploads
Friday, March 16, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-rapidshare-to-filter-user-uploads-120315/
Continue reading...Could tiny ebooks really upset the mighty Apple cart?
Thursday, March 15, 2012
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/13/apple_ebooks_cases_cost/
Continue reading...How Cheap Should Books Be?
Thursday, March 15, 2012
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http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/how-cheap-should-books-be/254279/
Continue reading...The Pirate Bay Faces UK ISP Block After High Court Ruling
Friday, February 24, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-faces-uk-isp-block-after-high-court-ruling-120220/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)
Continue reading...Feds Seize $50 Million in Megaupload Assets Claims $500M “Damages”
Friday, February 24, 2012
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/megaupload-superseding-indictment/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Index 3 (Top Stories 2))
Continue reading...Police Raid File-Hosting Site, Arrest Operator and ISP
Friday, February 24, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-file-hosting-site-arrest-operator-and-isp-120221/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)
Continue reading...MP3 Reseller Accuses Capitol Records of Sabotage
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/redigi-sabotage-allegations/
Continue reading...Book Publishers ‘Shut Down’ Library.nu and iFile-it
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/book-publishers-shut-down-library-nu-and-ifile-it-120215/ The book download portal Library.nu and cyberlocker ifile.it appear to have ‘shut down’ voluntarily after a coalition of book publishers managed to get an injunction against the two sites. According to the complaint, the sites offered users access to 400,000 e-books and made more than $11 million in revenue in the process.
Continue reading...You Can’t Copyright Porn
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/you-cant-copyright-porn-bittorrent-defendant-insists-120206/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)
Continue reading...MPAA Sues LimeWire Back From The Dead
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-sues-limewire-back-from-the-dead-120206/
Continue reading...Seized Sports Streaming Site Makes a Blazing Comeback
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/seized-sports-streaming-site-makes-a-blazing-comeback-120203/
Continue reading...600K Member QuickSilverScreen Streaming Links Site Calls It Quits
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/quicksilverscreen-streaming-site-calls-it-quits-120207/
Continue reading...Underground Torrent Pirate Groups Working with Feds to Elimintate Competition
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/reports-feds-bust-imagine-movie-release-group-110913/
Continue reading...Turbobit.net Blocks US Visitors After MegaUpload Shutdown
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/turbobit-net-blocks-us-visitors-after-megaupload-shutdown-120207/
Continue reading...Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-ecosystem-shocked-as-big-players-take-drastic-action-120123/
Continue reading...Must read: Details of Elite Anti-Terror Police Raid of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Home
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/elite-anti-terror-police-went-after-megauploads-kim-dotcom-120207/
Continue reading...The Copyright Cartels Enforcers: The FBI – Global Guerrillas
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/01/the-copyright-cartels-enforcers-the-fbi.html
Continue reading...BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://torrentfreak.com/btjunkie-shuts-down-for-good-120206/
Continue reading...FileTea – Low friction, one-click anonymous file sharing.
Friday, February 3, 2012
https://gitorious.org/filetea#more
Continue reading...DirtyShare – Pure JavaScript Peer to Peer Filesharing
Friday, February 3, 2012
http://gun.io/blog/dirtyshare-pure-javascript-peer-to-peer-p2p-file-sharing-nodejs-socketio/
Continue reading...Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship
Friday, February 3, 2012
https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-industry-calls-for-broad-search-engine-censorship-120127/
Continue reading...Pirate Bay to allow real-object downloads
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
http://www.zdnet.com.au/pirate-bay-to-allow-real-object-downloads-339330303.htm
Continue reading...MegaUpload CEO Mansion Photos
Monday, January 23, 2012
http://cryptome.org/2012-info/megaupload/0051.htm
Continue reading...Feds Takedown MegaUpload
Monday, January 23, 2012
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/apnewsbreak-feds-shut-file-sharing-website-15396093#.Txh4V28V2I4
Continue reading...NinjaVideo.net “Free Movies” founder gets 14 months
Monday, January 23, 2012
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/413022/ninjavideo_net_founder_gets_14_months
Continue reading...Filesonic shits bricks in light of MegaUpload crackdown. Frontpage: “All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled.”
Monday, January 23, 2012
http://www.filesonic.com/
Continue reading...SOPA Opponents May Use the ‘Nuclear Option’
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349540-281/sopa-opponents-may-go-nuclear-and-other-2012-predictions/
Continue reading...The great ebook price swindle
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/23/ebook-price-swindle-publishing
Continue reading...SOPA Will Mean The End of Reddit, Says General Manager
Saturday, December 24, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-will-mean-the-end-of-reddit-says-general-manager-111219/
Continue reading...SOPA Support Sparks GoDaddy Exodus
Friday, December 23, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-support-sparks-godaddy-exodus-111222/
Continue reading...YouTube gives UMG right to block or remove videos it doesn’t own
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars
Continue reading...RIAA and DHS are hives of depraved piracy
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/18/riaa-and-dhs-are-hives-of-depr.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: boingboing/iBag (Boing Boing)
Continue reading...Top Photographer On Why He Doesn’t Care If His Stuff Is Pirated
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
http://thedailyattack.com/2011/12/20/top-photographer-on-why-he-doesnt-care-if-his-stuff-is-pirated/
Continue reading...Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox
Friday, December 16, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/busted-bittorrent-pirates-at-sony-universal-and-fox-111213/
Continue reading...RIAA wants ReDigi out of the business of selling “used” iTunes tracks
Friday, December 2, 2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/riaa-wants-redigi-out-of-the-business-of-selling-used-itunes-tracks.ars
Continue reading...FBI / IFPI Teach How To Bust Private Torrent Sites
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
http://girtabaix.tumblr.com/post/9750841339/fbi-ifpi-teach-how-to-bust-private-torrent-sites
Continue reading...33GB of JSTOR Articles and a Manifesto
Monday, September 5, 2011
http://www.feureau.com/2011/07/33gb-of-jstor-articles-and-manifesto.html
Continue reading...Illegal Downloads of Fox Shows on the Rise
Saturday, August 27, 2011
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/illegal-downloads-of-fox-shows-on-the-rise/
Continue reading...Fake Chinese Apple Stores
Saturday, July 23, 2011
http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/19/chinas-fake-apple-store/
Continue reading...Jailed Foreigners Freed by Somali ‘president’: We Keep the US$3.6 million in Cash, You Can Go Home Now
Monday, June 27, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13918991
Continue reading...Pirate copy: What managers can learn from Somali pirates
Thursday, June 2, 2011
http://www.economist.com/whichmba/somali-pirates
Continue reading...Misuse of 3-D digital lens leaves 2-D movies in the dark
Monday, May 23, 2011
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/05/22/misuse_of_3_d_digital_lens_leaves_2_d_movies_in_the_dark/?page=full …issues with the Sonys are more than mechanical. Opening the projector alone involves security clearances and Internet passwords, “and if you don’t do it right, the machine will shut down on you.’’ The result, in his view, is that often the lens change isn’t made and “audiences are getting shortchanged.’’
Continue reading...Are hawala money channels piracy’s Achilles heel?
Saturday, April 30, 2011
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/are-hawala-money-channels-piracys-achilles-heel
Continue reading...Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/firefox-add-on-undoes-u-s-government-domain-seizures-110414/ The seizure of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government hasn’t been as effective as the entertainment industries had hoped since many of them simply continued their operations under new domains. To make these type of domain transitions go more smoothly, an anonymous group has coded a simple Firefox add-on that automatically redirects [...]
Continue reading...NZ: Three P2P Strikes? Pony Up 11K USD.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
http://www.zdnetasia.com/new-zealand-passes-three-strikes-copyright-law-62208409.htm
Continue reading...Key Music Industry Lawyer now EU Copyright Czar
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/top-music-industry-lawyer-now-eu-copyright-chief.ars
Continue reading...Adobe, Microsoft: The *Crime* of Piracy *IS* The Business Model
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
http://piracy.ssrc.org/adobe-logic/
Continue reading...New Fascist US Copyright Law: Hollywood+Homeland Security = Illegal Streaming a Felony
Thursday, March 17, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20043421-281.html
Continue reading...In a few years all e-books ever released will be downloadable in 5 seconds for free.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20033437-82.html
Continue reading...Piracy is the Future of TV: Commercial TV sucks relative to Illicit Services
Monday, February 28, 2011
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/28/piracy-is-the-future.html
Continue reading...Police Raid PS3 JailBreaker, Graf_Chokolo’s House. In Response Graf Releases “Hypervisor Bible” Info Bomb
Thursday, February 24, 2011
http://psgroove.com/content.php?801-Police-Raid-Graf_Chokolo-s-House-In-Response-Graf-Releases-Hypervisor-Bible&s=97c0d710870821089bac8918d5240bb0
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