Tag: licensing
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RIAA Shenanigans – Radio Clash Podcast gets it’s first takedown
So yesterday I woke up to this email: July 20, 2020 Radioclash.comBradler & Krantz GmbH & Co. KG X20-440681595272916 Dear Sir or Madam: I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America,Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whosemember companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately…
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Dear Glenda – the response
Followers of my Twitter and Livejournal will know I wrote to Glenda Jackson, my MP about the stupid ‘3 strikes’ rule that EU (not just UK apparently) are trying to pass with the Digital Economy bill, where if you’re caught 3 times filesharing they can cut off your internet. Thinking ‘I don’t fileshare’ or ‘I…
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1337 License revoked! Licensing vs physical product
As David Jack so succintly points out in I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement the music industry wants it both ways (but not in a porn way – fnar) – to license music but then not uphold those licenses on physical media. Works even better with MPAA and co. and scratched DVDs –…