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*Box Office Piracy: Scandal in the High Cs -- movie studios still obsessing about Pirates . . . *
. . .and we don't mean the "of the Caribbean" kind, either.
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A Video Clip Goes Viral. . . *
When a video clip goes "viral," spreading across the Web at lightning speed, it can help rocket its creators to stardom. Alas, the clip can also generate work for corporate lawyers.
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All that you leave behind *
On-line stores and downloading may be the future of music retailing, but don't throw away that CD player yet.
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Apple ditches freebies *
Apple's decision to stop offering free downloads of iMovie and iPhoto is part of a clear shift by the Mac maker to try to recoup more of the dollars it invests in creating software for the Mac.
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Apple to launch music service *
It's time to buy, mix, and burn, according to Apple Computer Inc. The Silicon Valley company that angered the recording industry with its "Rip. Mix. Burn." ad campaign was expected to launch an on-line music service Monday that promises to make it easier for consumers to pay for music downloaded from the Internet.
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Are we surfers or serfs? *
This week's ruling on uploading music was a start, but we must be vigilant if we want to avoid becoming Internet peasants, says technology journalist GEORGE EMERSON.
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BBC to launch on-line archive of shows *
The British Broadcasting Corp. plans to make much of its vast television and radio library, including portions of shows such as Dr. Who and Monty Python's Flying Circus, available for free on the Internet. It's an initiative that the BBC hopes will encourage other public broadcasters to do the same.
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Beatles' company sues over trademark *
The Beatles want to take another bite out of Apple Computer Inc.
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Canadian Court sides with music swappers *
Sure to annoy our American neighbours, the Federal Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that Internet Service Providers can't be forced to turn over identities of suspected music swappers, throwing a roadblock in the path of the recording industry's efforts to crack down on the practice.
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Canadian file-swapping case on hold *
The Canadian Recording Industry Association's bid to force Internet producers to reveal some of the identities of their customers who share music over the Internet is on hold.
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Canadian record companies seek names in piracy battle *
Shaw to fight legal action that would force disclosure of information about customers.
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China cracked down on Hero Pirates *
Hero was the movie that started the crack-down.
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Copyright litigation is threatening innovation *
As unlikely as it sounds, the most important issue in new technology has become copyright law.
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Dastardly Deeds: The Mis-adventures of Captain Copyright *
It's a bird, It's a plane...it's a conveniently censored, holier than thou, flying A-hole!
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Distributors of DVD-copy software sued *
Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox sued a handful of small software companies Wednesday, alleging that their distribution of DVD-copying software violates copyright law.
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Download Wars: Dividing the spoils *
As it seeks ways to sink file-sharing pirates, the music industry might be advised to take a new tack, GUY DIXON writes
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Download Wars: Singing a different tune *
Not all artists share the industry's view that free music is bad, GUY DIXON finds. Some see filesharing boosting sales
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Fight The Patent *
If you own a website that offers any audio/video downloads, you could be sued...
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File-sharing doesn't kill CD sales, study finds *
A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says on-line music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales.
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Hockey theme ready for download *
A recording of the opening and closing theme for Hockey Night in Canada, billed by some as the country's second national anthem, could finally be bought yesterday, decades after it was originally played on air.
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Hollywood studios to sell movies on-line *
The films can't be burned onto a disc for viewing on a DVD player. Still, the move is seen as a step toward full digital distribution of movies over the Internet.
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Hollywood wants pirates' gold *
The Hulk is the latest to turn up first on the Net as Napster-like digital heists threaten movie studios, GAYLE MacDONALD reports
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Internal theft is toughest piracy issue facing record companies *
The music recording industry may have a legitimate beef with copyright pirates, but there's one kind of pirate it doesn't like to mention very often: itself.
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Internet companies legitimize file sharing *
The music industry is giving all it's got to the fight against unauthorized file sharing. But if you can't kill the beast, why not tame it?
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ISPs should name uploaders, lawyers say *
A federal judge heard arguments Friday about why Internet service providers should be forced to hand over the names and addresses of 29 so-called music uploaders to the Canadian recording industry.
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iTunes *
Shop at the iTunes Music Store. . .
Shop at the iTunes Music Store.
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iTunes for Windows — Apple's hidden agenda *
Apple Computer's music software, iTunes, is now available for Windows computers. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced iTunes for Windows last week at a splashy media event that featured video chats with Bono, Dr. Dre and Mick Jagger, and a live performance by Sarah McLachlan.
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Kazaa, iMesh vulnerability termed 'serious' *
Users of file sharing programs such as Kazaa and iMesh are urged to install a security patch after a serious bug was discovered in their underlying network
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Lawsuit threat not slowing file sharing *
Despite the threat of lawsuits from the recording industry, music fans across the country continued to swap songs illegally over the Internet, many taking precautions to remain below the radar.
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Leah McLaren: The secret of indie record store success *
My local independent record store has been doing booming business all summer
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Long live file sharing, death to bland culture *
It's not just because of their lead-footed public relations that I have little interest in mustering sympathy for the Recording Industry Association of America. It's not just because they sued 12-year-old Brianna LaHara for downloading such songs as the theme from Friends and If You're Happy and You Know It.
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Long-shot suit charges RIAA with extortion, racketeering *
It's probably not the first time that record company executives have been likened to Al Capone, but this time a judge might have to agree or disagree.
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Movie studios launch offensive against Internet pirates *
Hollywood studios said Thursday they will file hundreds of lawsuits later this month against individuals who swap pirated copies of movies over the Internet.
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Music companies play Whack-a-Mole *
It hardly matters that Shawn Fanning is has a new music-downloading program. His legal, fee-based file-sharing network is going to be mauled by the very same monster he unleashed when he gave the world Napster.
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Music giant chops prices to combat downloads *
North American record giant Universal Music is slashing prices on its compact discs in a desperate bid to get music fans back into stores and away from downloading music for free on their home computers
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Music industry appeals ruling *
The Canadian Recording Industry Association has filed an appeal of the recent court decision denying CRIA's request for Internet Service Providers to reveal the identities of alleged uploaders of digital music.
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Music industry does not react with one voice *
Executives at the major record labels have always been clear on the matter: File sharing is wrong. Dead wrong. No court decision will ever likely change their minds.
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Music industry fights piracy on two fronts *
Nearly two years after it sued Napster into submission, the recording industry has discovered it's not enough to try to beat Internet music purveyors whose digital distribution techniques allow copyright violations. It also has to join them.
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Music industry gets slick on swapping *
The recording industry is showing fitful evidence of getting its act together in the face of the global explosion of music swapping. While it will never score total victory, the industry will make some gains, and in the process change some things about swapping and possibly, the Internet itself.
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Music industry sues 532 in piracy suits *
New tactic targets downloading John Does.
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Music industry to unveil amnesty offer *
The recording industry is expected to announce as early as next week an amnesty program for people who admit they illegally share music files across the Internet, promising not to sue them in exchange for their admission and pledge to delete the songs off their computers
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Music labels lash out at file-swappers *
The embattled music industry disclosed aggressive plans Wednesday for an unprecedented escalation in its fight against Internet piracy, threatening to sue hundreds of individual computer users who illegally share music files on-line.
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Music swappers in decline *
Use of several Internet file-sharing services declined by several thousand people the week after the music industry threatened to sue on-line music swappers, an Internet tracking firm said Monday.
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Napster's legacy *
We should give thanks to Napster, Kazaa, Limewire and all the other file-sharing services, past and present; they won a huge victory for consumers over the record companies.
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Napster's Shawn Fanning has Snocap-ped vision *
Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture called Snocap that is aimed at turning peer-to-peer networks into dollars for record companies.
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Net song swappers identities' seen as hard to track *
Identifying the alleged song swappers at the centre of the music industry's legal battle with the Internet community may be near impossible, sources say.
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On-line music sales muted *
On-line music sales are expected to be weaker than analysts earlier forecast because of overall sluggishness in the industry and lackluster digital services, according to Jupiter Research.
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Piracy? Judge rejects subpoenas in music-use case *
A federal judge rejected an attempt by the recording industry to uncover the names of Boston College and MIT students suspected of online music piracy.
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Pirated disk sellers cross thin blue line *
Chinese police raid pirated CDs and DVDs -- after years of lax activity, authorities in China begin to crack down on pirates.
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Police raid doubles Swedish download site's popularity *
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days.
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Puretracks chalks up one million downloads *
Just four months after its launch, Canada's Puretracks on-line music service has crossed the one million download mark and is looking to further strengthen its hold on the market by offering pre-paid user cards.
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Push to change piracy laws is unwise *
Not only are Canadian music file-sharers terrified -- so is the Canadian recording industry, which went to court on Monday seeking to force 29 digital music "uploaders" to face the legal music.
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Record industry to target uploaders *
Large-scale file swappers may face litigation, but downloading for personal use not CRIA's main concern.
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Recording Industry Sues 532 Over Swapping *
The recording industry sued 532 people Tuesday, including scores of individuals using computer networks at 21 universities, claiming they were illegally sharing digital music files over the Internet.
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Recording industry sues StreamCast *
The recording industry is suing the company behind the Morpheus music file-sharing service, alleging it illegally copied thousands of copyright songs as part of a venture to broadcast music over the Internet.
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Retailers begin slashing prices for CDs *
Action allied with Universal move hits at downloading...
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Ron Sexsmith opens up *
There are people who write songs and then there are songwriters. Boyish and earnest Ron Sexsmith is one of the latter -- and one of the best in this country -- a songwriter's songwriter.
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Starbucks, HP to Launch In-Store Music Service *
Starbucks Corp. on Friday said it will
launch a new service next week that will allow customers to
create and buy CDs with songs chosen from a digital music
library inside the coffee house.
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Stones tracks now in online catalogue *
Out of "Brown Sugar?" No need to hire a "Beast of Burden" to get it from the store -- it can now be downloaded from the comfort of your living room.
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Sweden considers P2P (peer-to-peer) fee *
Sweden could introduce a charge on all broadband subscriptions to compensate music and film companies for the downloading of their work, while legalizing the downloading of copyright-protected material, justice minister Thomas Bodström has said.
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The rebirth of Napster? *
...it could mean something good for digital music fans, provided Roxio plays its cards right.
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The sound of even half-baked ingenuity *
The music business is always shouting that it's in danger of going extinct. I've decided I'm all for it. Any industry that responds to a technology shift by going to war against its own customers deserves what it gets.
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Trash PCs of repeat music pirates, senator urges *
Illegally download copyright music from the Internet once, or even twice, and you get a warning. Do it a third time, and your computer gets destroyed.
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U.S. court blocks record industry move *
The recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify music downloaders, a federal appeals court said Friday in a major setback to the industry's anti-piracy campaign.
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Verizon turns over names in piracy case *
Verizon Communications Inc. reluctantly surrendered to the music industry on Thursday the names of four Internet subscribers suspected of illegally offering free song downloads, but vowed to keep fighting the law that forced its hand.
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Watching television from afar: Nemdil et alia *
Want to follow your favourite TV channels or news shows while you travel?
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Why I like wireless writing *
Printed paper, as we know, is outdated. Text will be read on screens from now on. Film too is passé: It costs too much and the cameras are too heavy. Digital video is the way to go.
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Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws? *
The acquittal of a Norwegian programmer charged with breaking Hollywood's DVD encryption scheme could lend new urgency to the entertainment industry's efforts to enact tougher global copyright laws.
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Amazon to offer book content *
Amazon.com is pushing an ambitious plan that would create an on-line searchable archive of tens of thousands of nonfiction books, according to reports.
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Black Hat, Lynn Settle with Cisco, ISS *
At the conclusion of the Black Hat Briefings yesterday, embattled security researcher Michael Lynn disclosed the agreement he and the conference made with Cisco Systems and Internet Security Systems concerning his presentation on Cisco software vulnerabilities.
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CausticTruths dot com *
You can promote yourself on caustictruths.com. Music focus.
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Court backs DVD movie makers *
In a closely watched case that pitted free speech against the protection of trade secrets, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that courts may be able to block computer users from posting on the Internet a code for illegally copying DVD movies.
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Creative Wireless Music ****
If you're looking for a way to stream audio alone from your PC to your stereo system and you don't want to have to turn on your TV all the time to see a menu, the Creative Wireless System is a great music player.
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Download Wars: Free loading *
DOWNLOAD WARS: THE AUDIENCE: 15-year-olds think buying music is for suckers. Middle-aged men can't remember the last time they purchased a CD. As the music industry begins its crackdown, GUY DIXON talks to fans who get their fix from their computers. The first in a three-part series
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Edmonton scientist gets $1.6-million for virtual reality work *
Musicians thousands of miles apart could jam in cyberspace and engineers from different continents could analyze designs in virtual reality if a University of Alberta researcher's work pays off.
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File sharing and firewalls *
This week, Trippin asks: "I was reading some of your past articles about the use of KaZaa. I am running a firewall program on my computer called BlackIce. It instantly alerts me when someone has tried to gain access to my computer even when my KaZaa is turned off. Are you aware of this program and is it a good one to have..?
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Freeman to release new film online *
Just two weeks after 10 Items or Less opens in theatres, it will be available for digital download from Clickstar, a company that Morgan Freeman's production company and Intel have founded to bring small movies to those who live far from boutique cinemas.
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Kazaa turns tables on labels *
Turning the tables on record labels, makers of the most popular Internet song-swapping network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement.
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Music industry's big squeeze *
High prices, selective price cuts and Internet piracy are making it tougher for fans who want more than the big hits, GUY DIXON writes.
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New DVD format approved *
Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said Friday that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies' standard for next-generation DVDs.
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Nycfashiongirl takes on recording industry *
Lawyers for a New York woman accused of unlawfully sharing music over the Internet suggested Tuesday the recording industry acted illegally when it investigated her on-line activities and that a search of music files on her computer may have been unconstitutional
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One third of all CDs sold are pirated *
Production of pirated recordings of music increased by 14 per cent last year and now account for a third of all CDs sold around the globe, an industry group reported Thursday.
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Potter spoiler posted on Internet *
It was news to the newspapers, but frankly, we found a downloadable copy online at the end of May. (We won't divulge where, so don't ask!)
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