Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
So why not just price per track/minute, just like any other bland commodity.
Percentage based royalties are almost universal these days, no matter what commodity you look at.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
True but sad.
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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod - A TED talk from the last few days (might even be yesterday)
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
Rob Reid is a humor author and the founder of the company that created the music subscription service Rhapsody.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
True but sad.
No, true but good. I'd rather have a percentage that adjusts with the price of an item than being reliant on a fixed return. Ask anyone signed to an old fashioned recording deal in the early 1960s how it felt to be on a farthing a record in the mid 1970s.
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Todays granny shows up blunders by Police
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nzlemming, in reply to
I'm not sure there is anything about this case that hasn't been fucked up.
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OT: Mr Wikileaks plans to run for the Aussie Senate. Pirate Party, methinks?
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Big media flex their muscles again...
This time they want Hotfile. Google steps in.
Emboldened by Megaupload shutdown, Hollywood targets Hotfile -
Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer
Chris Dodd, the current head of the MPAA, has a flock of flying monkeys standing by ready to take action against TPB's airships.
Whatever next?.
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I get the notion that the seemingly ardent over-zealotry of the US DOD in this case may ultimately prove to be a string in the defence bow:
Neil MacBride, the US Attorney for the Eastern District Of Virginia, has a message for anyone who lost personal data when his office swooped on the MegaUpload operation in January: “Fuck you, I’m a fucking US Attorney and I can do whatever I fucking like”. Well, I’m paraphrasing slightly, but that’s certainly the sentiment expressed by the official in his latest court submission relating to the Mega saga
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
seemingly ardent over-zealotry of the US DOD
Perhaps you mean DOJ? Although, from what I've read elsewhere there was a fairly substantial portion of MU's traffic and data storage that went to deployed military personnel for videos of their escapades.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Instead of posting geotagged pictures of their shiny new helicopters on Facebook, with predictable results.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Who needs intel when the troops shoot themselves in the foot?
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Meanwhile, in Australia, Hollywood loses final appeal in piracy case
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The criminal charges against Kim Dotcom in the United States may never get to trial, the judge overseeing the case has told the FBI.
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Interesting post on BoingBoing: Brazil's copyright societies indicted for fraud, new law demands efficient, transparent collecting societies
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
Brazil's copyright societies indicted for fraud, new law demands efficient, transparent collecting societies
I think ours are very conscientious these days and transparent in their structure and accounting, but I had reason to query a statement sent from the Hungarian office many years back. The record had gone to number 1 there and the airplay figure was just $10.
I questioned this and was told that most radio didn't report, and - anyway - the singles chart was based on physical sales there, not airplay as it was in much of the world.
The sales figure arrived - for $10. I again questioned it and was told by the record company that the singles chart was airplay based and there was no real market for physical issues.
I still have the plaque for the # 1 but that $20 was all we ever saw.
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nzlemming, in reply to
heheh - Catch-22 alright
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is this how the MegaUpload saga will end?
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of InfringementFederal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recording industry delays in confirming infringement, according to court records obtained by Wired.
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From the herald article this morning
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10825903
Mr Davison asked about the origin of intelligence used to plan the raid, raising a meeting two months earlier attended by officers from Ofcanz, the police legal section, the Crown Law Office, American authorities and the unnamed group.
Taxpayers re funding a mystery group who have input into police raids.
In an open democracy the High Court and the people should be entitled to know.And the mystery group at the Dotcom meeting is...............?
Perhaps representatives from the Office of the First Citizen John Key The First.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Iain Banks had his rock star character in Espedair St receive his Eastern Bloc royalties on a barter basis in the form of bulldozers and the like, which he stored in his deconsecrated church in Glasgow. I'm sure this is based on fact.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
And the mystery group at the Dotcom meeting is
Probably GCSB, being the Government's IT experts. Somewhat excessive, really, but not a secret agency. A bit surprised Davison didn't ask that question.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Probably GCSB, being the Government’s IT experts. Somewhat excessive, really, but not a secret agency. A bit surprised Davison didn’t ask that question.
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