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The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) wants mobile operators to implement a graduated responses system that would disconnect customers repeatedly accused of illegal file-sharing. The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) continues its efforts to see ensure that citizens face a “three-strikes” graduated response system every time they connect to the Internet, be it via home [...]

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Nominee Elena Kagan has a long history of taking a liberal “fair use” position on copyright debates, and even helped beef up Harvard Law School’s, best known for defending accused file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum.
Now that President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to be a justice on the US Supreme Court is official, it seems Hollywood has [...]

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Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon. Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of the [...]

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Says legal action is not the best first contact with alleged illegal file-sharers, and that it should be “reserved for the most persistent or serious offenders.”
The British Phonographic Industry is speaking out against the mass lawsuit approach of ACS:Law, a UK-based law firm that “specializes in assisting intellectual property rights holders exploit and enforce their [...]

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Panel on P2P turns heated as Patrick Rakow CEO of BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) says Pirate Party’s plan for five year copyright limit would “completely undermine” the ability of content creators to make a living.
Yesterday was day one of the three day In The City music conference in Manchester, England, and [...]

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Says that record label marketing dollars vanish with declining sales, but that even pirates end up at a concert, buy t-shirts, and even albums.
Hip hop megastar 50 Cent appeared on the Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) recently to promote his new book “The 50th Law,” and during the interview he made some interesting points [...]

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Says that piracy is only distribution for financial gain, and that file-sharing is actually a “technological advantage that you can leverage to your own ends.”
Independent music business online expert Andrew Dubber has written an excellent article that dispels some of the myths about piracy and file-sharing. He argues that both, despite what major record labels [...]

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The hearing in the United States over whether or not to allow new exceptions to the DMCA, which involves instances where one could legally circumvent DRM, has once again roared into the spotlight. A representative from the MPAA and the RIAA commented “we reject the view [...] that copyright owners and their licensees are required [...]

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Last album was used to prosecute BitTorrent tracker site so uploads latest album to emphasize its refusal to be used in a war against their fans.
Hip hip group Advance Patrol is fighting back against the music industry’s use of its last album’s availability on Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay as evidence in the [...]

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Does file-sharing help make pop music popular? That debate has been going on for years, but a study appears to have sided with those that believe that file-sharing is helping to feed the popularity of the copyright industries popular signed acts. Of course, it’s less surprising when the source of the study sells online music [...]