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Record Companies Win Music Sharing Trial: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

The recording industry won a key fight Thursday against illegal music downloading when a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay 222,000 for sharing copyrighted music online.

It's about to get real now folks...

source: biz.yahoo.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:58 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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RIAA anti-P2P campaign a real money pit, according to testimony

The RIAA's four-year-old lawsuit campaign is costing the music industry millions of dollars and is a big money-loser for the record labels.

How expensive are those lawyers?

source: arstechnica.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:21 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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An Album That Costs What You Want It To - News - Readers' Comments - New York Times Blog

The members of Radiohead, the respected British rock act, said that the band would sell its new album, at least initially, exclusively as a digital download and allow fans to decide how much to pay for it, if anything.

Violinists on the subway have been trying this for decades...

source: news.blogs.nytimes.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:41 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Web Host Industry News | Demonoid Blocks Canadian Users

After reports of downtime last week, popular torrent tracking site Demonoid (demonoid.com) was back online this week, though it appears to be blocking Canadian users from accessing the site.

Finally, something to make the U.S. sound like a more appealing home than Canada...

source: www.thewhir.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:55 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Mininova.org Servers and Traffic: 2006 vs 2007 | TorrentFreak

Mininova.org has experienced some massive growth over the past year. The number of visitors went up from less than a million per day to 3 million, and to keep everything running smoothly the server park nearly tripled from 7 to 19 servers.

They grow up so fast...

source: torrentfreak.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:01 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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News Corp Calls Out Google on Piracy

News Corp. COO Peter Chernin thinks Google “could do a better job” of preventing pirated video from appearing on YouTube according to statements the executive made to the Financial Times.

Who put the "Kick Me" sign on Google's back?

source: mashable.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:25 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Take me out to the ballgame, then watermark it

Now, in an effort to know exactly how game footage is being used by television stations around the world, Major League Baseball has signed a deal with watermarking and monitoring firm Teletrax to keep an eye on the 2007 postseason.

A home run... for the lawyers.

source: arstechnica.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:34 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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NBC Exec Heats Up Battle Against Piracy

CEO Jeff Zucker has made quite a statement regarding the issue of piracy today. As do all industry execs, Zucker wants piracy to stop. And for Zucker, a full-fledged, all-out war sounds like the best route to take.

They can take our lives, but they can never take our copyright!

source: mashable.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:51 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Apple's Not 'Bricking' Hacked IPhones for Revenge

But, beautiful as it is, the iPhone isn't finished -- its OS is a hack, rushed out to meet Jobs' demanding product deadlines. Last week's update brought the iPhone closer to perfection, but it still isn't fully baked.

So I nearly spent 600 on something that wasn't even finished? Man Apple is starting to stink...

source: www.wired.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:02 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Crackdown on File-Sharers Trading in Gay Porn | TorrentFreak

After being a relative safe-haven for file-sharers, the sharing of porn is becoming the latest target for increased legal action.

The court transcripts are going to be very amusing here...

source: torrentfreak.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:04 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Virtually Blind - Virtual Law | Legal Issues That Impact Virtual Worlds » Blog Archive » Boot Design Copyright Accusation in Second Life Highlights Linden Lab DMCA Policy

n most, if not all jurisdictions, you can’t copyright real-world clothing designs (via Expert Business Source). This is because articles of clothing (like teapots, hammers, and tires) are considered “useful articles.”

Pass the headache medicine...

source: virtuallyblind.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:22 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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News: EA upsets games companies with The Simpsons - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

EA's forthcoming The Simpsons game parodies 30 years of videogaming and gaming IPs, but there are games companies that have refused to see the funny side of things.

Does no one have a sense of humor anymore?

source: www.computerandvideogames.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:37 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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It's 'Wish Upon a Star' vs. 'Family Guy' - CNN.com

But the song's owner is irate about what it calls an unseemly spoof of the familiar tune, saying the dreamy classic was twisted into an anti-Semitic ballad and widely distributed as part of a comedy television program.

There went my career as a shock parody artist...

source: www.cnn.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:44 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers

For almost the first time in my life, I’m at a loss for words. I don’t know how to respond. I don’t know which of 500,000 possible jokes to make. Help me, readers. Should I be flattered? Should I be calling a lawyer?

Only in copyright law can you find a story like this...

source: scottaaronson.com | posted on: October 6th, 2007 07:10:54 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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