The RIAA Armageddon has begun

http://yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com/

that bus monitor who got mocked by those kids is doing Amanda Palmer numbers
http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?c=home

Countdown until someone stages a sham bully attack for guilt-dollars in 5... 4... 3...

so is the July 12 clampdown still on?
CDs are good on the merch table, esp after shows, for cranked-up impulse buys. Also, they'll long outlive downloads, mysteriously subject to corruption no matter where you store 'em. So, though I'm more likely to say, "Sure, send me the link," even when the pitch is badly written (figure they won't be wasting their postage etc, so no guilt-tripping myself), I have to fgure how many backups will I make of each such promo, and where will I store it. Plus, I spend a lot more time downloading etc than I ever did opening envelopes. Oh well.
July 12, eh?

this starts today?

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISP-Six-Strikes-to-Begin-This-Weekend-120119?nocomment=1

so basically if you spend time on filesharing sites, you'll be given warnings by your ISP? i just downloaded a promo from a publicist on sendspace -- am i in trouble?

my ol' dirty armchair projection, from email response to a friend wondering about what's in it for ISPs:"Do they want to get rid of broadband subscribers?" welll...

There's already at least the possibility of charging subscribers more, justified by the cost of policing. So far, some/most providers, spooked by screaming customers etc, have had to ease the cap (for my DSL, and I guess some other thingies) in place, or keep it hovering gently overhead (no way I'm ever going to even brush ATT's current cap). But this might be a way of motivating me to upgrade--if my rate for this same ol' service is increasing from 42.95 to 60.00 anyway, why not pay say 80.00 and actually get more stuff? Including legit downloads--still paying a bit more if I exceed the cap, but either way guaranteed legit by my provider. Continuing the partition of the Web of course, and hey check our App Store! Provider galaxies of app-wormholes side by side in the Fecesbookeverse, till something bigger and hungrier comes along.

Like with the price of an iPod, why not pay even more (but not too much more)to get even more, when the iPhone comes along? And then--the iPad!

Are you saying 'why not double my internet bill?'

so has this actually come into effect?

it's a mystery.

how disconcerting

i just hope when the feds come, they're these feds.
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/248247.1020.A.jpg

first one to get sued must post letter on ILM.

Ha, Fred Thompson. The irony.

xp

Getting busted by Rebecca and Mary--so worth it!

sleep tight america

(refrains from suggested wordplay)

i used to listen to all the records at my library when i was a kid. they had pretty decent listening stations. i learned all the words to doors songs that way.

― scott seward, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:50 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like that.
my library where i grew up used to loan out paintings as well as records. the paintings were awful.
each record sleeve had a card in it with two circles preprinted, where the scratches could be recorded with a pen. that way the library worker could check if there were any new scratches on the record when i brought it back.
whenever i went to flick through the record sleeves, cozy powell's 'tilt' was always in the rack.

So....is this happening? I did a quick Google search but the results were from before 7/12.

for whatever reason the ISPs seem to have the upper hand here.

in what sense? Standing up for us? Or for The Man?

standing up for "us" - despite the bandwidth shaping, throttling etc. They probably just don't want other industries meddling in their affairs or set the precedent of letting Hollywood (in reality, a current and future competitor) boss them around, even if they couldn't care less about whether their customers get frogmarched for downloading a few Nickelback tracks.

The sticking point in Aus and NZ is that the content industries want the ISPs to pay for all the policing, and the ISPs are (rightly) pushing back. I presume a similar thing will transpire in the US.

Having failed to pass SOPA, they are trying again, and what they have learned from last time is: this time, keep a tighter lid on the details of the bill until after it passes

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/07/trans_pacific_partnership_agreement_tpp_could_radically_alter_intellectual_property_law.html

The only thing that I knew with certainty was that I didn’t know much about what was happening in the TPP negotiations, and therefore I couldn’t offer much in the way of substantive questions and input, which was the point that I wanted to make to the negotiators. Other than “cleared advisors”—primarily industry representatives—no one outside the inner circle knows what is currently being negotiated in TPP. Most members of Congress do not even know what is in TPP. Indeed, the last publicly available text of TPP’s intellectual property chapter is a leaked version dated Feb. 10, 2011. Nonetheless, the goal of the “stakeholder engagement event,” as the TPP “Welcome Stakeholders!” packet explained, was to provide an “open and productive forum.” Yet the public knows more about the aggregate numbers of nuclear warheads the United States and Russia have deployed on intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty than it does about U.S. negotiating positions in TPP. Thus, on “openness,” the TPP negotiators and USTR have failed.

Keep it up guys, it just brings the day we burn your office buildings down with you inside that much closer.

The NASA Curiosity team had to overcome many obstacles to land their robot safely on the surface of the Red Planet. But one obstacle they were probably not expecting to encounter was an accusation of copyright infringement.

The American space agency has been posting videos related to the Curiosity mission on its official YouTube page. But the Motherboard blog noticed that one of the videos had disappeared. In its place was the message "This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."

NASA is a federal agency, and by law, works of the federal government are in the public domain. And in any event, it's hard to see how Scripps could own footage of NASA scientists celebrating Curiosity's successful landing in their own control room. So NASA complained to YouTube, and the video was restored within a few hours.

“We apologize for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view a NASA clip early Monday morning," a Scripps spokesman told Motherboard. "We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly as possible to make the video viewable again, and we’ve adjusted our workflow processes to remedy the situation in future.”

Mistakes happen. But "accidents" like this have become disturbingly common. Last month, an overzealous music publisher took down videos of Barack Obama singing a line from one of its songs (then, as now, YouTube eventually reviewed and reversed the takedown).

A NASA spokesman says that its content gets erroneously taken down about once a month. They've been asking YouTube to fix the problem but "it hasn't helped much." If a prominent federal agency like NASA struggles with unfair takedowns, what hope do the rest of us have of getting YouTube's attention when our videos are taken down?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/as-curiosity-touches-down-on-mars-video-is-taken-down-from-youtube/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-busted-as-a-gift-to-the-united-states-government-120806/

=(

I noticed the green one wasn't working lately. So sad to see it go. RIP

no big deal it'll be back soon

loving the comments on that torrentfreak article

PRIVACY is priceless to me 11 minutes ago
Ukraine is a U$ slave-colony since at least 2004, they just love being slaves obeing worse-than-nazi U$ orders like they loved killing jews for the germans in the 40's.
And also, Russia isn't any better now than it was in 1980, it's even worse.

yeah, fuck that ukraine that is part of the usa and also russia

torrent community entitlement is probably the worst entitlement going atm

obeing

Thought this was some new weird anti-Obama word for a minute.

obeyma

Well!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57521208-93/new-zealand-pm-apologizes-to-kim-dotcom-case-unraveling/

Clearly they did not take any lessons from the Americans by finding a lawyer to tell them spying was legal before doing it, and also not apologizing.

Basically what I'm saying is that they should have just taken Kim Dotcom out with a drone.

LaMonte Young would've wasted him.

"Conrad. Tony Conrad."

*BA-DA-BA-DAAAA-BA-DA-DA*

Wouldn't it just be *BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...*

NZ Herald reporting on this mess is double-plus next level: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10837683

Pir@te B@y has been down for a day or two.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/liveuniverse-owes-music-publishers-66-million-for,86629

chasing that final dollar

''who knew that posting lyrics online was illegal?'' doesn't everybody know lyrics are copywritten?

can't wait 'til rapgenius gets hit tbh

a $6.6 million default judgment on Tuesday for posting the lyrics to 528 songs

That's $12,500 for lyrics to a each song.

Alleged AT&T training doc:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/13/atandt-training-document-piracy/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html?ctp=1

i don't understand the strategy. is it to ramp up annoyances to make it more costly to pirates, without having to go all the way to turning off their service (thus losing customers) or suing them (costing money, taking time)?