Tag Archives: piracy

July 7, 2008, Author: Conor, 1 Comment

The RIAA wants to punch you in the face

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Here’s videographic proof. > The 100% completion rate on The Future Of Ideas is a very nice touch.

December 20, 2007, Author: Conor, 7 Comments

Shelving the record labels (or, “Where Death Is Most Alive”)

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The music industry is on the rack, growing up the hard way. Their former pets are working the levers. There are people in the world—myself included, of course—who view this process as long overdue, who are pleased to see the turn of the tables, the despot stretched across his own rack. Check out this particular … Continue reading →

December 13, 2007, Author: Conor, 5 Comments

Bonus tracks!

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I love bonus tracks. Seriously, they’re great. And the freaking Japanese get them all. But living in Europe, it means I have access to at least some bonus track-equipped CDs, although they’re rarely the same as what Japan sees. (If that doesn’t encourage online file-sharing, I don’t know what does.) Check out this gem I … Continue reading →

December 4, 2007, Author: Conor, 3 Comments

Oh frabjous day!

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I’ve been talking a lot, both on this blog and off (mostly off, believe it or not), about issues of piracy and how the RIAA and MPAA deserve the horrible, slow death they’re both dying. One of my most recent examples of the utter evil these organizations emanate was the creepy traffic analysis toolkit the … Continue reading →

November 11, 2007, Author: Conor, 2 Comments

Personal piracy OK in Canada

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Just read an article that says Canadian police are now officially looking the other way on copyright infringement for personal use. That’s right, you can download all you want, and the cops won’t come a-knockin’. Turns out that ensuring the cash flow of major corporations just doesn’t contribute to the welfare of society as a … Continue reading →

October 9, 2007, Author: Conor, 1 Comment

Archiving music, cont.

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In the last post, I focused more on the possible benefits of the site Anywhere.FM than on the legal implications of digital music storage. This needs to be discussed separate from the streaming issues I touched on last time. There are certainly lots (103,000,00 hits on Google) of digital music storage websites out there. From … Continue reading →

October 8, 2007, Author: Conor, 1 Comment

Archiving music

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Over the weekend I discovered an interesting site called Anywhere.FM. Obviously capitalizing on the success of Last.fm, judging by the name, these guys are offering the one feature still missing from Last.fm: storage space for a user’s music. Last.fm offers copious streams for quite a good selection of music, but it never did have the … Continue reading →