Connecting dmusic with Qui Tam Team
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document.write('Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:34:14 EST
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document.write('Qui Tam Team needs your lyrics! We are going to post relevant songs in our blog, on our website, and the world wide web.');
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RIAA in pickle over Jammie Thomas ruling
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document.write('Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:29:41 EST
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document.write('On Friday, Michael Davis, chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, made what some legal experts say is an unprecedented move involving statutory damages in a copyright case, when he reduced the jury-awarded amount by 97 percent. Davis called the $1.9 million amount \"monstrous and shocking,\" changing the damages to $54,000, which he said was still \"significant and harsh.\" ~~~Hey, if she keeps taking them to court, maybe she\'ll get them down to $10 bucks, or maybe they\'ll even end up paying her to make it all go away :)~~~');
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Music downloads giving way to streaming services?
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document.write('Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:26:08 EST
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document.write('Apple remains the world\'s dominant digital music retailer, but it\'s a distinction that might be of decreasing significance as the digital market transforms from a model based on a la carte downloads to one of streaming access.');
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RIAA tells FCC: ISPs need to be copyright cops
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document.write('Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:17:13 EST
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document.write('~~~What a Double Standard the riaa enjoys..when they\'re the ones being sued, they\'re Foreign Corporations, and excempt, but when it comes to YOUR American isps they feel they can set (encourage, nudge nudge, the rules for them)~~~ \"The FCC should not only avoid rules prohibiting ISPs from blocking illegal file trading, but it should actively encourage ISPs to do so, \" the RIAA said.');
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Maybe the RIAA did conspire to fix prices
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document.write('Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:13:39 EST
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document.write('Duh, ya think????? ~~~~Did the United States\' major record labels, as early as 2001, conspire to establish a system for the distribution and sale of digital music that would have seen subscribers paying up to $240 per year for the right to download up to two songs per artist per month, even then at a retail price indexed at the wholesale cost of $0.70 per song, with restrictive and unwanted DRM schemes attached?~~~~');
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AUSSIES GET READY TO PUT THE LOCKDOWN ON CERTAIN WEB CONTENT
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document.write('Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:45:29 EST
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document.write('Wow...and you thought the ARIA was bad. Now the Aussies are going to start locking citizens out of logging onto certain sites and accessing certain content, ala the Great FireWall of China.');
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MySpace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid
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document.write('Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:41:57 EST
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document.write('MySpace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid. What else is new.');
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Canadian Recording Industry Faces $6 B Lawsuit
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document.write('Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:05:07 EST
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document.write('The CRIA members were hit with the lawsuit in October 2008, after artists decided to turn to the courts following decades of frustration with the rampant infringement. The claims arise from a longstanding practice of the recording industry in Canada, described in the lawsuit as \"exploit now, pay later if at all.\" It involves the use of works that are often included in compilation CDs (ie. the top dance tracks of 2009) or live recordings. The record labels create, press, distribute, and sell the CDs, but do not obtain the necessary copyright licences. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4596/135/');
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YAHOO alleges Copyright Infringement against CRYPTOME.org
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document.write('Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:05:03 EST
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document.write('John Young runs Cryptome.org and posts various documents he thinks should be of interest/concern to his audience. Well, Yahoo is not happy with one of his posts, and you can read the interchange between him and someone writing him in Yahoo\'s behalf.');
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Record Company Executive Arrested
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document.write('Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:23:37 EST
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document.write('Twitter has grown exponentially in the last few years, with it now being a highly used way for news and announcements to spread. However, this got a bit out of hand when a record company executive for Justin Bieber was arrested, after not telling fans at a mall to leave. ~~~~For NOT posting on Twitter??? So is this civil disobedience? Or an attack on personal freedom? What say the folks here?~~~~~~');
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