Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Golden Age of Infinite Music
We all know what the alleged future of music will look like.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Warner Music Pitches Music Tax to Universities: You Pay, We Stop Suing
Back in March, we noted that Warner Music Group had hired Jim Griffin, a music industry guy who has been pushing the concept of a “blanket license” for file sharing. The idea would be to get various ISPs to simply add an additional fee to everyone’s Internet access, have that money go into a pool that the recording industry would be responsible for paying out–and then let people have free reign for file sharing.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Illegal Filesharing: A Suicide Note From the Music Industry
This month’s announcement of a backroom deal between internet service providers and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their Internet connections is just the latest paragraph in the record industry’s long, self-pitying suicide note, and it’s left me wishing they’d just pull the trigger already and [...]
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
RIAA: Piracy Fight More Important Than Net Neutrality Bill
The Telecommunications and Internet subcommittee of the the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing today on H.R. 5353, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008. The bill would establish an official national broadband policy, one that prevents service providers from subjecting lawful content to “unreasonable interference” or “discrimination.” It also calls on the Federal Communications Commission to assess competition in and consumer access to broadband Internet access in light of this policy. The testimony at the hearing, however, suggested that these provisions, and net neutrality in general, mean very different things to different groups. And, as far as the RIAA is concerned, Net neutrality legislation could hamstring the fight against piracy.
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