Within a month of its launch at Ball State University, 6,421 students went online to download music from the Ruckus server. However, some students are abusing the system by stripping ...
Chico Bongalar is a tubby twenty-something guy - real name Grant - and he likes making videos. At the moment Chico is the No 1 attraction on Trouble Homegrown, the ...
CRIA is currently leading a coalition that includes Apple, Bell, Rogers, and Napster in opposing an application for a new tariff for online downloads (I briefly posted on Graham Henderson's ...
A report from the British Academy, launched on 18 September, expresses fears that the copyright system may in important respects be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas ...
The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things cheaply, quickly, and with as ...
Move over RIAA and MPAA, when it comes to callous and cold-blooded lawsuits the Embroidery Software Protection Coalition (ESPC) has taken lawsuits to the next level. Who would've ever thought ...
Universities - USC especially - are at a crossroads: Do they exist to promote scholarship, or do they exist to protect the business models of entertainment companies at any cost?
As ...
A few weeks ago I proclaimed that Allofmp3.com would give up it's current business model by September 1st. Turns out I was wrong - for now, at least. But things ...
A new law on copyrights, which came into effect in Finland at the beginning of the year, has done little to cut down illegal downloading of music. Only just over ...
I'm spending the year at the University of Southern California on a Fulbright chair. Yesterday, some of my students forwarded me a memo sent to them by USC Deputy Chief ...
Terry McBride has an idea. Another idea. A good – no, a great idea. McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group, is sitting in his Vancouver, British Columbia, office with his ...
Hong Kong – On August 15, following a call from an employee of the Taoyuan Venice Theater in Taoyuan, a suburb of Taipei, Taoyuan County Police officers, accompanied by Motion ...
A Cape Girardeau man is one of the targets of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America this week for copyright infringement.
Shernet Showers is one of more than ...
Two men have pleaded guilty to violating copyright laws by posting an album by rock musician Ryan Adams on a Web site before its public release, federal officials said Thursday.
Robert ...
Not long ago Weird Al let it be known that the very record industry that says it is out to search and destroy file sharing so artists like him would ...
Can video fingerprinting and watermarking technology stop copyright violators?
YouTube visitors upload 65,000 videos every day and download 100 million of them. Since all those videos have to come from somewhere, ...
CULVER CITY, CA – According to a press release from California-based technology company Audible Magic Corp (AMC), the “first Los Angeles-area municipality to offer the public a free all-access wireless ...
Hearings that could dramatically alter the way labels and publishers share online music revenue in Canada begin September 6.
The proceedings, before the Copyright Board of Canada in Ottawa, will mark ...
While people often accuse us of "promoting piracy," nothing could be further from the truth. As we've said repeatedly over the years, we don't condone piracy -- but think that ...
A new study from the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg takes a look at consumer attitudes towards the copying of CDs and DVDs, finding that the majority of those surveyed ...
