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POPSTrent Reznor: I Steal Music Too Reznor, never one to refrain from speaking his mind, ends up confronting one of the record label "sales guys" at a meet and greet during his stay in Brisbane. He asks them why his CDs and DVDs cost 6,7, and even 8 more dollars then everybody elses. The sales guy says it's "Because your packaging is a lot more expensive." But, apparently Reznor pays for this out of his cut form the CD, so this is a moot argument. "I know how much the packaging costs -- it costs me, not them, it costs me 83 cents more to have a CD with the colour-changing ink on it. I'm taking the hit on that, not them." And I just said "That's the most insulting thing I've heard. I've garnered a core audience that you feel it's OK to rip off? F--- you'. That's also why you don't see any label people here, 'cos I said 'F--- you people. Stay out of my f---ing show. If you wanna come, pay the ticket like anyone else. F--- you guys". They're thieves.
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POPSA Fair(y) Use Tale " In the fun category, Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University has created a video review of copyright principles. You're probably thinking, "How could anyone make a video about a legal concept even mildly entertaining?" But Faden's truly inspired video works on many levels because it consists entirely of extremely short clips (often no more than one word) from a wide variety of animated Disney movies. It's thanks in large part to Disney that copyright - which was designed to encourage creativity by giving the creator control over copying for a limited time - now lasts for the life of the creator plus 75 years, or, for a work of corporate authorship, 95 years. But thanks to the short length of the clips, its non-profit educational nature, and the fact that it would in no way affect the potential market for the copyrighted works, Faden's video undoubtedly falls under fair use."
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POPSFile Sharers Are More Likely to Purchase DVDs and Go to Movie Theaters The result of the study, while going against everything Hollywood is claiming, isn't that surprising, considering the number of previous similar reports. It found that the p2p users went to 34 percent more movies than regular ones, bought 34 percent more DVDs and also rented 24 percent more movies. Could it be that the ones that use file sharing do so precisely because they are more interested in media and entertainment content and, as such, also end up buying more than the average users?
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POPSFederal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 WHOOOA! This has to be protested big time. If this is permitted to happen we are all royally screwed, since the Internet is the Mass Communications structure of this era. The government used to be able to block radio &TV (probably still can and would) but right now it is not possible to close down the loop and voice of the Internet so easily. Unless this happens and we cannot let this happen. EFF is right, this is very dangerous. Hopefully people start organizing now and figuring ways to setup P2P and Mesh systems that can perhaps bypass the normal Internet and circumvent any blocks the government (any government) that is put into place.
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POPSDid You Say "Copyright" ? $ 12,000,000 liability in one day of normal surfing ... Is the concept of "copyright", originally created for physical objects, may be generalized to virtual ones ?
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POPSWii Downloads <a href="http://www.downloads-for-wii.com/"> Wii Downloads, Secure Wii downloads</a>
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POPSTrent Reznor: No Wonder People "Steal" Music I'm not a huge fan of his music, but I'll probably buy a NIN album during my next music binge simply to "give to those who give back." While I don't dl commercial music, I dl more than my share of concerts at places like EZ. Bands that give support to their fans in doing this get some great publicity and play. Hard to understand why so few "artists" understand this.
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POPSTeens pirate MP3s because they have littel to no options to buy legitimately.. Interesting.. I think the biggest blocker to legitimately buying online music is the credit card, as well as the availability of stores and the restrictions they place on what you can do with the music you buy. I mean, for one thing, if you bought a CD< you could rip it to your MP3 player, computer, friend's computer, etc, and nothing will stop you (unless the CD has some copy protection, but Sony learned the hard way that that is a BAD idea). Kids don't have credit cards, and though stores like napster, rhapsody, etc are there and allow subscriptions to download almost any of their almost 1 million tracks to your mp3 player, you still need a valid credit card to buy it.
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POPSMusic Pirates More Likely to Buy Songs Too – Study But that’s only part of the story. Online distribution of music isn’t geared toward album sales, which generate higher profits for the labels, but rather toward individual songs. In other words, industry revenues aren’t falling solely because pirates steal songs, but rather because music fans are buying tracks, not albums.
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