Posts Tagged with ‘RIAA’

DRM isn’t so much a product of Web 2.0 as it is its nemesis. Web 2.0 is very much an open space. DRM is very, very closed. That alone should be reason enough to send cumbersome copy protection off to the gallows.
Which Amazon pledges to do. (Pardon the terrible opener and subsequent segway.)
Today in the news: The largest of online retail giants intends to offer only DRM-free music downloads. Big story. Perhaps even more so than Apple’s recent [...]

I'm sure that most people have heard about the brouhaha over at Digg yesterday, but if not, the BBC News has fairly unbiased synopsis of what happened. Mine, I'm sure, will be much less unbiased. The entire Digg community seems pretty proud of themselves today, having shown "The Man" who was boss, and crowing about the news coverage that the stunt has generated.
What really happened, however, was that a mob overtook an online community to suit their own purposes. And [...]

AllOfMP3 hasn’t fooled anyone with its ridiculously low-priced tracks. The site’s operators have claimed repeatedly that middlemen working for the recording industry were remunerated by the sales, despite repeated assertions by members of the RIAA, among other organizations, that they had yet to see any funds from the Russia-based operation. And it would only take an ounce of reason to deduce that no cash had or would ever be transferred from the folks working the store at AllOfMP3 to [...]

From mutual funds to co-ops, there is a large audience for information relating to how socially conscious companies are, and that audience is the target for start-up do the right thing.com, a news aggregator that relates specifically to how well companies do in the area of public perception. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Mickle and Rod Ebrahmi, do the right thing.com allows users to submit articles and then vote on the impact of the news in the article on the [...]

This article started out as a piece about new social networking site Zannel , which launched with its mobile platform on Wednesday. Similar to MySpace, Zannel allows users to share content, but is designed specifically for mobile devices to attract younger users who focus more of their attention on their mobile devices than on their PCs.
As I was reading about the new service, I found a story about Tenth Street Entertainment's indie music label Eleven Seven Music using Zannel for a [...]

Torrents! They’re everywhere! Oh, the horror! Thousands upon thousands of terabytes of copyrighted content transferred by lawless college students bandits devouring ripped DVDs and music albums faster than they can ingest delivery pizza and beer. How does civilization survive?
We don’t know. Magic, maybe. What we do know is that not all the stuff happening as a result of Bram Cohen’s ingenuity is laden with the stamp of the RIAA, MPAA, or both. A relatively new blog on the Web, dubbed [...]

Sorry to pull you away from the reams of torrents out there. We know how much fun downloading those brand spankin’, newly ripped albums can be. And those screeners? So great. Pirate Bay even did the favor of cataloguing the Oscar nominees (and then the winners) for everyone. Wasn’t that a kind thing to do? That site made especially to complement the red carpet doesn’t look too shabby either. More Web 2.0-ish than the old place, don’t you think? Where was [...]