Jul 9, 2001 | audio, file_sharing
If you’re looking for a source of online music now that Napster is gone, here’s a good article about the alternatives that have arisen in the last few months. I’ve gotten the best reports about AudioGalaxy and MusicCity, for what it’s worth,...
Jun 15, 2001 | audio, file_sharing
Now that Napster has gone, other services are slowly coming up to speed for file sharing. It’s a slow process – the record companies have successfully created an atmosphere of fear and paranoia. Here’s an article about AudioGalaxy, a new service that...
Jun 10, 2001 | audio, DRM, file_sharing
The conventional wisdom has been that the record companies would target services like Napster with threats and lawsuits, but they would never attack individuals – for practical and PR reasons. Forget it. The copyright police are watching. The new services...
May 22, 2001 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law
There’s a lot to learn about the copyright issues symbolized by the war against Napster. Copyright owners are waging a concerted battle with a single-minded goal: to make your every exposure to copyrighted material into an event that costs you money. In 1998 the...
Apr 10, 2001 | audio, file_sharing, law
My lawyer friends will appreciate this story. Last week jurors in a federal court trial in New York awarded $300,000 to an independent record label for copyright violations – delivered as 145 individual awards, one for each infringed song. The defendant,...
Apr 5, 2001 | audio, DRM, file_sharing
Here’s a good article that explains all the issues about file formats and pricing for downloadable music from the record labels – and concludes that they stand a good chance of getting it completely wrong.
