New Study: ‘Illegal File-Sharing Costs the US $8.7 Billion Annually’
Takes into account losses not only to the owners of intellectual property, but also to US consumers and taxpayers.
We regularly read stories about studies in which economic losses due to music piracy are quantified and then trumpeted before the press and elected representatives in order to paint a dark and gloomy picture of the [...]
SuprNova.org: ‘We’re Back!’
Thanks to the Pirate Bay, the legendary BitTorrent tracker site has returned after an almost 3 years-long absence, and even incorporates BitTorrent client-free downloads!
As I mentioned before for those of you who don’t remember, SuprNova was a Slovenia-based BitTorrent tracker site that was started in late 2002 by Slovenian teen Andrej Preston, aka Sloncek, [...]
Wal-Mart Now Offers DRM-Free MP3s
Prices range from 94 cents for a single 256kbps MP3 track to a little over $9 bucks per album.
The war for dominance of the digital music market continues to heat up with the launch this morning of Wal-Mart’s new online music download store, and as usual, it appears that Wal-Mart is the “low price leader.” [...]
Warner Bros Scans Opening Weekend Audiences for Camcording Pirates
A 60yo guy in black suit and tie sporting night-vision goggles helps take creepy to the next level.
The Consumerist is running an interesting letter from a reader named “Sam” today who writes to retell a creepy incident that occurred at a viewing of Nicole Kidman’s “The Invasion” during its opening weekend at the AMC [...]
gBox to Challenge iTunes Starting Tomorrow
Will offer DRM-free music downloads at a cut rate price of 99cents.
Tomorrow marks the start in what may become a heated battle with iTunes for control of the quickly expanding digital music download market.
It has been announced that in a surprising new twist to Universal’s confrontation with Steve Jobs and iTunes for control [...]
RIAA Begins Round 7 of its Fight Against Campus Piracy
503 "lucky" new students get to start the Fall Semester even deeper in debt.
The RIAA has announced that it has targeted 503 new students in its latest "deterrence program" aimed at eliminating college campus piracy across the country. This brings the approximate number of targeted students to 2,926 and counting thus far.
The pre-litigation [...]
DOH! 1st Pirated Copy of ‘The Simpsons’ Gets Traced to Australia
The first known pirated copy of “The Simpsons Movie” to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home in Australia.
According to Australian authorities said, the first known pirated copy of “The Simpsons” to be uploaded to the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police earlier today.
Police ordered a [...]
Help Needed in Effort to Upload Academic Films to the Internet
“Save a Film” campaign works to digitize and upload academic films to a searchable internet archive in order to preserve and make available to the public.
The mission of The Academic Film Archive of North America is to “acquire, preserve, document, and promote academic film by providing an archive, resource, and [...]
Grooveshark Offers Local Music Artists a Global Audience
Play locally, earn money globally.
Everybody knows that the future of music lies in digital distribution, which offers not only lower costs, but also the ability to reach a global audience like never before.
New and independent artists however, often have a tough time figuring out how to monetize digital distribution aside from MySpace links [...]
UC Berkeley Starts ‘Learn Before You Burn’ Campaign to Fight Campus Piracy
School orientation now includes warning about illegal file-sharing.
As part of their fall semester 2007 orientation this weekend, the thousands of students moving into residence halls at the University of California, Berkeley will learn that if they use campus computer networks to download copyrighted music illegally, they’ll soon find themselves without an internet [...]
