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Nov 20 2007

Gene Simmons: ‘Radiohead’s on Crack for Letting Fans Pay What They Want’

Kiss frontman criticizes them for letting fans pay as little or as much as they please for their latest album “In Rainbows,” and says every file-sharer should be sued off the face of the earth.
The always outspoken and always hustling Gene Simmons of Kiss had much to say recently about the state of music, [...]

Nov 20 2007

Round 10: RIAA Targets Another 417 College Students

Campus file-sharers get a pre-litigation “settlement” letter just in time for finals, and this time the Ivy League feels its wrath as well.
The RIAA continues to intimidate the people it once referred to as “some its best customers” with word that it has launched round 10 of its crackdown on campus piracy nationwide.
As [...]

Nov 19 2007

Obama Aide: P2P Throttling Would Be Illegal

Says he supports the notion that ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to favor certain applications or websites over others.
The Democrat’s primary season is producing all kinds of interesting positions and responses to current affairs that many politicians seem reluctant to address.
An aide to Barack Obama(IL) was asked recently to clarify the Senator’s technology policy and [...]

Nov 19 2007

Cox: Yes, We Do Throttle P2P

At least it doesn’t hesitate or try to hide the fact like Comcast, but it still raises troubling questions.
I mentioned a few days ago about how Cox Communications’ subscribers are complaining about inconsistent upload speeds that in some cases rarely come close to established maximum speeds.
Robb Topolski, who was the first to [...]

Nov 16 2007

Warner Music CEO: War Against File-Sharers Was Wrong

Too bad it’s 9 years and billions of dollars too late.
Benjamin Franklin once said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This accurately describes what the music industry has done for more than 8 years so it was surprising to read recently that Warner [...]

Nov 16 2007

Radiohead Rides Again, or A Treatise on the New Media Movement

Recent study reported that “In Rainbows” was paid for by only 38% of downloaders, but do the statistics hold water?.
Curiously, ComScore Inc, the company whose proprietary data collection allows for monitoring of member’s online behaviors enabled their production of this unofficial study, which is in no way supported by or affiliated with the band [...]

Nov 15 2007

Cox Throttling eDonkey Upload Speeds?

Users complaining about “weak and random” upload speeds, though for the time being is apparently limited to certain markets and P2P protocols.
Much has been discussed about how Comcast has been throttling BitTorrent traffic, but now it seems the problem is spreading to other ISPs, which in this case is Cox Communications.
Suspicions customers in [...]

Nov 15 2007

Russian Software Piracy Laws Used to Stifle Free Speech?

Officials have raided the offices of media outlets, political parties and private advocacy groups that have criticized the Kremlin for allegedly using unlicensed software.
The Washington Post is reporting an interesting story about how the Russian govt has finally begun to crackdown on the use of unlicensed software in that country. The only [...]

Nov 14 2007

Enhanced BitTorrent Music Browsing With OiNKPlus

Greasemonkey script for Firefox makes discovering new music, streaming samples, and finding related artists easier than ever.
OiNKPlus was a popular extension to OiNK that for a time seemed destined to befall the same fate as OiNK and become a footnote in history. Luckily for the BitTorrent community Indieana has modified it so that it [...]

Nov 14 2007

Democrats: ‘Colleges Must Stop File-Sharers or Lose Federal Aid’

New bill requires them to both institute technology to stop illegal file-sharing as well as to provide alternatives or risk losing federal aid for all students, even for those who abide by the law.
If anybody thinks that politicians aren’t cut from the same lobbyist-funded cloth then word of a new Democrat-sponsored bill to amend the [...]



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