Why DMCA’s Notice & Takedown Already Has 1st Amendment Problems, Plus RIAA/MPAA Want To Make It Worse

The notice-and-takedown portion of the DMCA has ended it's second comment period, and has shown itself to be maneuvering around a high standard set by the Supreme Court regarding expressive. Continue reading

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How Long Until Google And EFF File Amicus Briefs In Aurous Lawsuit?

After major labels recently filed suit against the unlicensed music download and streaming service Aurous, (which is being referred to as the "PopcornTime of music") history is suggesting that the. Continue reading

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How Music Consumer Research Has Changed


By Kyle Bylin, author of Promised Land: Youth Culture, Disruptive Startups, and the Social Music Revolution. Studying people’s music buying habits used to be simple. You handed a person a. Continue reading

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Madonna Goes BitTorrent With #secretprojectrevolution And Soon So Can You

Madonna's got a BitTorrent bundle coming September 24 featuring a new film plus she just did a Reddit AMAA to set things off. It's all part of the launch of. Continue reading

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The Real Reason SOPA Didn’t Pass: Marketing

Last Wednesday, several major websites (Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress) blacked out to protest SOPA and PIPA. These two controversial bills were proposed to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property. Continue reading

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