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25 Aug 09
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
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Economics operates here, as it often does, as a vehicle for unexamined
assumptions. These include assumptions about values, such as that
amount of production matters, while freedom and way of life do not,
and factual assumptions which are mostly false, such as that
copyrights on music supports musicians, or that patents on drugs
support life-saving research.
29 Dec 08
The Costs of Policing Campus Networks :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Campus Computing Project, the largest ongoing study of colleges’ use o
The NPD Group: Decline in U.S. CD Sales Drives Down Overall Music Demand by 2 Percent in Third Quarter of 2008
The NPD Group: Decline in U.S. CD Sales Drives Down Overall Music Demand by 2 Percent in Third Quarter of 2008
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Fifteen percent of Internet users purchased music from online music stores, such as iTunes and AmazonMP3, which is an increase of 2 percentage points over last year and equates to approximately 2.8 million additional music-download customers. Legal music download volumes increased by 29 percent in Q3 with positive numbers seen for all age groups except the 50-and-older segment, which represents a small portion of buyers.
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The number of Internet users sharing music on peer-to-peer (P2P) sites held steady at 14 percent in Q3 2008; however the volume of music shared via P2P sites rose by 23 percent, as P2P users reported downloading more files. Teens purchased 34 percent more paid digital downloads compared with year-ago, however growth in P2P file downloading was acute among 13- to 17-year-olds -- up 46 percent. NPD noted that the practice of sharing files for the purpose of burning to a CD fell 25 percent among teens, which suggests an increased preference for having the files in a digital-only format.
20 Nov 08
Techdirt: RIAA Gets Tennessee Law To Force Universities To Filter Networks For Copyrighted Content
Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy | TorrentFreak
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“Our view is pretty straightforward. We don’t condone or support piracy in any form, and people who choose to pirate content should face the force of the law,”
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