Tag: file sharing
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Spotify no more
Radio Clash has been taken off Spotify for copyright Infringement! Thanks to listener Nick for letting me know, the terse email from Spotify went into my Spam folder. I suspect this is more RIAA/Universal nastiness…I’ve asked Spotify to clarify.
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…
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American study finds file sharers buy 30% more music not less
This study’s findings isn’t new nor the first music sharing study to find this fact out. But still the music industry says the bug eyed monster is file sharing and sues it’s most fervent fans for sharing music which actually leads to more sales, not less. This has been proved also in other digital markets…
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Da Chip – 8Bit Rules The Nation?
And following the 8-bit madness (I was planning a 8-bit show a while back, kind of wished I’d done it now, ahh that’s me, forever behind/in front of the curve, never in sync 🙁 ) on NME they posted about this Daft Punk 8-bit covers collective called Da Chip, and my robotic ears pricked up:…
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OpBlackout: You Should Have Expected Us, Megaupload raided
It seems Anonymous has called for war, and this won’t be pretty. Reason? The US raided and pulled down Megaupload, on foreign soil (New Zealand – where they passed or close to passing ACTA – don’t worry, if the EU or your country passes ACTA they will come for you too). So Anonymous, who has…
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Stop SOPA and such stealth censorship dressed up as a protection racket
I will be supporting Stop SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) & PROTECT IP Act joining the internet blackout and anti-SOPA/PIPA online protests along with many other people from Boing Boing to WordPress (yay!) to Mozilla to Google to the Raging Grannies (yeah!) on the 18th AND the 23rd. And this video (although the guy is…