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Big Music w@nts Britanny Chan |
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Having already failed once to nail Brittany Chan through her mother, Candy, the Big Music cartel is now going after Britanny again, this time by herself.
She was 13 when this all started, but she's now 14 and in their latest move, the Big Four are using Matthew E. Krichbaum of Ann Arbour to demand that the US District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan appoint a Guardian ad Litem, in other words, an official legal guardian ---- which she'll definitely need with the venal and unscrupulous labels trying to get her.
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RIAA attacks p2p companies |
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Having spent the last couple of years unsuccessfully trying to terrorize American men, women and children into buying 'product,' The Big Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is now attempting to use similar tactics on the p2p file sharing companies themselves.
The RIAA's owners, EMI (Britain), UMG (France), Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) and WMG (US), claim file sharing is "devastating" them, that the practice is costing them lost sales, and that their sue 'em all campaign is have a significant deterrent effect.
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BBC Plans to Allow Program Downloads |
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The British Broadcasting Corp. is planning to let Web users download its television and radio programs up to a week after they have aired.
BBC Director General Mark Thompson said he hoped the "MyBBCPlayer" service could be active by 2006.
Complete details weren't released, and Thompson did not say whether the BBC would charge users a fee for the downloads or how it would prevent piracy and circulation beyond the week.
The plan is part of the BBC's efforts to move beyond traditional forms of media.
"I accept the premise that if the BBC remains nothing more than a traditional TV and radio broadcaster then we probably won't deserve or get license-fee funding beyond 2016," Thompson said at Edinburgh International Television Festival. "That is very definitely not our plan."
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Lawsuits Cause Shift in File-Swapping Traffic |
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Lawsuits Cause Shift in File-Swapping Traffic
08/29/05 1:16 PM PT
Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff said legitimate download opportunities are essential to lowering levels of piracy taking place via P2P networks. While the music industry finally moved to offer those choices, the movie studios have been slower to get into the digital distribution act.
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Yahoo Japan Starts Free Song Streaming Service |
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Yahoo Japan Starts Free Song Streaming Service to Attract Users
Source: Bloomberg
Yahoo Japan Corp., which operates the country's most-visited Web portal, started an online audio streaming service that lets users listen to full songs for free to attract customers to its music sites.
Tokyo-based Yahoo aims to lure customers to buy CDs from the shopping portal or download music for a fee after they listen to the sample songs, the company said today in a faxed release. Customers can't save the music files onto their computers from the streaming service.
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Virus writers crack potential Windows Vista technology |
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Virus exploits upcoming scripting technology
An Austrian virus writer has published the first proof of concept virus for a new Microsoft scripting technology that at some point could be part of Windows Vista.
The code exploits the Microsoft Command Shell (MSH) technology, codenamed Monad.
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RIAA sues 765 in new attack |
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Using its RIAA as weapon, the Big Four record label cartel has struck again, attacking another 765 men, women and children in its relentless sue ‘em all sales campaign under which it’s trying to prosecute people into buying its over-priced product.
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Survey: File sharers embrace paid-for music download services |
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When one goes by the results of the music market researchers of The Leading Question the music industry could be shooting itself in the foot with its rigid stance against file sharing and the participation in p2p networks. Their survey of 600 "music fans" in the UK found that participants in file-exchange networks spend about four times more money on legal music downloads than the average computer-literate person questioned.
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Fake Tube safety e-mail spreads |
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London Transport and mobile firms are warning people about an e-mail spreading rapidly containing inaccurate safety information.
The message claims that passengers on the London Tube system can contact emergency services via a satellite signal from their mobiles underground.
Mobiles do not work in the London Underground, and satellite signals cannot reach there either.
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Illegal file-sharing inches up as legal downloading triples |
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Source: Silicon.com
Illegal file-sharing is still on the rise - but has failed to match the huge increase in legal digital music.
According to figures from international music industry trade body the IFPI, the number of illegal music files available on file-sharing networks worldwide grew by three per cent in the first half of this year to reach 900 million.
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