Nonsense from Coldplay?

 So lots of people downloaded the free single from Coldplay last week. EMI claimed that the total number of downloads was 4 times the combined sales of the Top 40. Well great. There are always some great stats about how free stuff outperformed paid for content, just ask the IFPI! 
It gets worse. They are offering buy [...]

Dandelionhood

http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/05/cory-doctorow-think-like-dandelion.html

more Kevin Kelly

“The odd thing about free technology is that the “free as in beer” part is actually a distraction. As I have argued elsewhere (see my 2002 New York Times Magazine article on the future of music for example) the great attraction of “free” music is only partially that it does not cost anything. The chief [...]

End of the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, for now

Not enough time to write on this today but WIPO is the UN’s copyright agency and they have been proposing a treaty to deal with signal theft. As with much deal making at the international level negotiations have rendered the treaty unworkable (talk of anti-copyright org.s and some countries peddling their own agendas). The Hollywood [...]

Public shaming of leakers of content

Idolator posted a link to this blog before the writer could even get his first name and shame live. The idea according to the blogger behind the site is to:
…create a little blog to post the names, indelible and set out for all to see, of those people who’ve been given the care of having [...]

Irish ISPs forced to reveal file-sharers identities

There is a brief article on Billboard about how six Irish ISPs have been ordered to reveal teh names anad addresses of P2P file-sharers. It’s a project in itself to follow how caselaw is evolving across Europe with respect to balancing privacy against copyright holders desire for ISPs to reveal user details. Last week we [...]

Premier League sues YouTube

Following their threats to the 101GreatGoals blog last year, the Premier League is suing YouTube for copyright infringement. Blogger Nick at googlecopyright.blogspot.com points out some of the interesting territorial aspects of the case as well as the point that apparently the Premier League is requesting a class action suit, which would mean one case against [...]

Claim your Content

Google, currently in litigation with Viacom over copyrighted content on YouTube, are apparently very close to turning on their filter for copyright content on YouTube. If this works, and the copyright holders do whatever is required on their end, it’ll be interesting to see the impact on the popularity of the site. Obviously one of it’s initial [...]

Viacom demands YouTube remove content (again)

So Viacom have failed to reach a deal with YouTube for the streaming of their content and consequently want an estimated 100,000 streams disabled. That is a substantial amount of infringement going on and as has been reported a filter is still not in place on YouTube. It may be just brinkmanship but content companies [...]

Allofmp3 may have moved to Ukraine

One of the problems with hounding an illegal service is that it may move to an even more inaccesible location. According to P2Pnet allofmp3.com may have done just that and, as well as changing its business model, may have moved to the Ukraine. With services that are servers and links to the internet moving to another location [...]