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( Mashable ) -- Beginning today, Starbucks customers who use the free Wi-Fi at more than 6,800 U.S. company-operated stores will be greeted with the Starbucks Digital Network (SDN) -- an exclusive content network curated by the company and designed to enhance the customer's in-store experience.
Starbucks Digital Network is here - CNN.com
News Room - Some Facts About Music Piracy - Jun 25, 2003
In the past three years, unit shipments of recorded music have fallen by 26 percent from 1.16 billion units in 1999 to 860 million units in 2002 in the United States (based on units shipped).
This week the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) launched an ad campaign using the slogan “copying is stealing,” attempting to convey the message that digital copying is as serious and criminal as stealing a CD from a record shop or a DVD from a video shop.
Is Music Piracy Stealing?
Opinion As the war over P2P downloading heats up, and the record companies launch the novel marketing technique of suing their customers, I think it is an appropriate time to settle some of the pervasive myths about U.S. copyright law which fuel both sides of the debate, writes Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus columnist and former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit . The current state of the battleground is that the RIAA, having lost a lawsuit against Kazaa, Morpheus and others for copyright infringement, and having won a lawsuit against Verizon, is actively pursuing subpoenas against various ISPs to force them to pony up the names and addresses of the uploaders and downloaders themselves. Several universities have invoked a federal law aimed at preventing the release of student academic records (and significantly narrowed by both the USA-PATRIOT Act and the U.S.
pying is Theft – and other legal myths • The Register
Is Piracy Really Killing the Music Industry?
Various music industry trade groups claim that piracy is killing their industry, and are suing file traders and the sites they use.
The Battle Over Music Piracy - TIME
When Amazon.com announced its plan to open a digital music store to sell MP3s, you had to really work to get excited about it. It's hard to think of a press release that would be less surprising. At this rate, my 3-year-old daughter will be opening a digital music store pretty soon.Okay, sales are down 6 percent over the past two years. Considering the economy, that doesn't seem like such a serious problem. I'd also say that pushing the average price (these figures are net after returns) over $14 a unit probably didn't help any, either.
RIAA's Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy
The big music labels and movie studios have stepped back from the lawsuit business. The MPAA's abortive campaign against individual file-swappers ended years ago, while the RIAA's more widely publicized (and criticized) years-long campaign against P2P swappers ended over a year ago. So why have P2P lawsuits against individuals spiked dramatically in 2010? It's all thanks to the US Copyright Group , a set of lawyers who have turned P2P prosecution into revenue generation in order to "SAVE CINEMA." The model couldn't be simpler: find an indie filmmaker; convince the production company to let you sue individual "John Does" for no charge; send out subpoenas to reveal each Doe's identity; demand that each person pay $1,500 to $2,500 to make the lawsuit go away; set up a website to accept checks and credit cards; split the revenue with the filmmaker.
The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users
A man listens to online music. Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as "monstrous and shocking," a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars. Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as "monstrous and shocking," a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars.
Judge slashes 'monstrous' fine in music piracy case
In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com
(See Corrections and Amplifications item below .) In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, "Let's Go Crazy."
Every year, RIAA’s global partner IFPI publishes a digital music report, which can be best described as a one sided view of the state of digital music consumption.
Music Piracy Not That Bad, Industry Says | CyberLaw Blog
Unlike Apple CEO Steve Jobs , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a public profile on Ping, the iTunes social network. Zuckerberg likely wanted to see what the new social network on the block had to offer. The second person to leave a comment on Zuckerberg's page told him all he needs to know: "nothing to worry about here...
The Ping Problems: Is Apple To Blame, Or The Music Labels?
Former model Ann Kirsten Kennis was surprised to see her face on the front cover of Vampire Weekend ‘s Contra when her teenage daughter brought the album home this year.
Vampire Weekend controversy: More details on the former model who's suing the rockers, plus responses from the photographer and band | The Music Mix | EW.com
In this two-minute anti-piracy video Gilbert Gottfried stands in front of someone in a pirate mask and manages to beat the same joke into the ground more times than the-teenagers-not-watching-it-because-they-don’t-know-who-he-is managed to illegally download the last Hawthorne Heights album.