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Music Sale Losses Due to Gaming, DVDs, Not P2P
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File-sharing, for years, has been one of the copyright industry’s favourite scape-goat. Lately, British news sources have received a fresh dose of “studies” where the copyright industry through government officials have been saying how file-sharing costs British artists billions thanks to the millions of file-sharers in the UK. While the numbers have since been cast into doubt, one journalist from the Guardian did some research of his own and discovered that while music sales have fallen over the years in Britain, they have likely fallen thanks to growing video game and DVD sales.
New Study States The Obvious: Kids Download A Lot Of Music | Techdirt
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But, the fact is that ignores the real issue: which is that kids today (tomorrow's consumers) are file sharing at a very high rate. A new study, sponsored by UK Music (the UK organization that's looking to get ISPs to put in place some sort of blanket licensing plan) has found that over 60% of kids in the UK admit to file sharing, with 83% of those admitting to doing it regularly, and those surveyed claiming to have downloaded an average of 8,100 tracks.
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While the defenders of the old system want to liken file sharing to a problem like shoplifting, at some point you have to realize it's something entirely different. This isn't a marginal behavior done by "bad kids." This is about as common as can be.
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They.. They sold The Pirate Bay? : worldnews
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To clarify a bit..
TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about.
Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue.
The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to.
All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement.
And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff.
/krs - co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash.
The Mind of Alex » Blog Archive » 8% Of Internet Pirating Video - More Prisons Needed
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Reuters is reporting today that among the French, German, British, and American populations, 8% are pirating online video. Not 8% of 18-28 year old males with laptops, but 8% of all consumers. All the pirates in the house give each other high fives.
Fleet Foxes Thank Piracy For Their Success | TorrentFreak
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“I’ve discovered so much music through that medium. That will be true of any artist my age, absolutely,” Pecknold added. He explained that he is not the only musician to have benefited from ’stealing’ music, as the major labels like to call it. Having access to an unlimited library of music only makes a musician better.
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Indeed, many BitTorrent trackers dedicated to music are populated by thousands of artists, who share their own work and that of others. Most famously, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor was a proud member of the now defunct OiNK tracker.
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Home taping didn’t kill music - Bad Science
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the wrong figures were in the original executive summary, and the press release. They changed them quietly, after the errors were pointed out by a BBC journalist. I can find no public correction.
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I think it’s okay to be confused and disappointed by this. Like I said: as far as I’m concerned, everything from this industry is false, until proven otherwise.
Urheberrecht und Verbrechen - futurezone.ORF.at
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ORF.at: Auf der Website zur Aktion "Ideen sind etwas wert", die von österreichischen Musik- und Filmwirtschaftsverbänden betrieben wird und seit einigen Jahren Schulen Unterrichtsmaterialien zum Thema Urheberrecht anbietet, wird die Sängerin Christina Stürmer mit dem Satz "Illegaler Download ist Diebstahl" zitiert. Wie beurteilen Sie als Richter so eine Aussage?
Schmidbauer: Juristisch gesehen ist das Unsinn. Es wird von der Musikindustrie immer wieder versucht, eine Vervielfältigung eines Musikstückes als illegal zu brandmarken. Letztendlich ist ja der "illegale Download", der meiner Meinung nach nicht illegal ist (siehe Begründung im Aufsatz), nichts anderes als das Aufnehmen vom Radio. Der Download darf allerdings nur zu privaten Zwecken erfolgen und nicht zum Zweck einer neuerlichen Veröffentlichung.
Bei den Tauschbörsen gibt es allerdings das Problem, dass die Musik meist gleichzeitig wieder angeboten wird. Da komme ich in den Bereich, wo es gefährlich wird. Da geht es um die Freigabe des öffentlichen Ordners für Musik im Internet - der Upload ist illegal und nach dem österreichischen bestehenden österreichischen Urheberrecht eindeutig strafbar. Darüber wird auch nicht gestritten.
Ein solcher Vervielfältigungsvorgang kann aber auch dann, wenn er nach dem Gesetz nicht zulässig ist, niemals als Diebstahl angesehen werden, weil nichts weggenommen wird. Ein Diebstahl ist laut Strafgesetz "die Wegnahme einer beweglichen Sache, mit dem Vorsatz, sich zu bereichern". Beim Download von Musik wird niemanden etwas weggenommen, da das kopierte Musikstück ja weiterhin verfügbar ist. Begriffe wie "Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums" oder "Raubkopie" sind psychologische Kunstgriffe, um Tauschbörsennutzer in den Bereich der schweren Kriminalität zu hieven. Im nächsten Satz wird das dann meist noch mit Kinderpornografie und organisiertem Verbrechen in Verbindung gebracht. Auf diesem Niveau kann man nicht mehr diskutieren.
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Es kann nicht sein, dass plötzlich das Urheberrecht über das Strafrecht gestellt wird und Konsumenten kriminalisiert und überwacht werden, nur weil irgendjemand vielleicht irgendetwas kopieren könnte.
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