There’s a lot of money in trying for a few hundred quid out of home Internet users. Well, sometimes.
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Category: Your rights
I fought the law, and I won.
Links: Blockchain BitTorrent, Kim Dotcom movie, my Blockchain book interview.
Bram Cohen, Kim Dotcom and David Gerard. Only blockchains bind them.
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Warner does a deal with YouTube. The record industry is outraged!
Warner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the obvious deal with a fantastic and essential publicity outlet.
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Links: Audible now DRM-free, the Great Vinyl Scam, no pirate website blocks in Mexico.
It’s not like people want the (literal) tons of old editions of these records on vinyl.
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Links: uTorrent, bogus RightsCorp DMCA notices, International 8-Track Day.
Ignoring the previous National 8-Track Day, of course.
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Musical user interfaces, copyright companies being themselves, the worst of Rolling Stone.
You need to see the ideas for music software interfaces.
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Links: Portuguese DRM bypass law, majors and streaming money, personal desktop torrent search.
Some fun with DRM, BitTorrent and the legal streaming money never reaching the artists anyway.
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Links: The history of records, copyright troll woes, Chuck Berry in space, the other Top 40 charts.
“My mum had a record of Winston Churchill speeches that played at 16⅔rpm. As we never owned a record player with that speed, I only ever heard the Pinky & Perky version played at 33.”
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Links: Cogent overblocking again; 3800 pirate sites blocked in UK; blockchain!
Pirates and blockchains. Arrr.
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Legal links: copyright trolls’ comeuppance, the iTunes Terms and Conditions Graphic Novel.
Copyright troll lawyers getting hung out to dry certainly counts as a happy ending.
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Links: VPN survey, a generated music startup, Metal Machine Music for Lou’s 75th.
“My week beats your year.” — Lou Reed
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Links: The public domain in comic form, Max Martin, Raspberry Pi tube sound.
And why you shouldn’t flush sodium metal down the toilet.
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Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.
“First he put the bomb under the ramp instead of the truck, and the other truck was the one with most of the stuff inside.”
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Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.
Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.
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Industry links: Facebook, video, Cogent Pirate Bay block, CMJ charts dead, DistroKid retrospective.
The usual cavalcade of brilliance and competence.
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Internet backbone Cogent blocks Pirate Bay; network admins concerned by fallout.
Cogent has blocked the Pirate Bay, in a particularly hamfisted manner prone to collateral damage.
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Links: pop star tech gurus, Denuvo hacks itself, don’t play DRMed content in a Tor browser.
And some notes on yesterday’s ridiculously popular post.
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Links: Buy from Bandcamp on Friday, why Hollywood is(n’t) doomed, US pirate warning scheme fails.
GREAT DEALS ON NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP, ONE DAY ONLY
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Links: AirPod woes, MegaUpload 2.0 delayed by dodginess, classic anti-piracy ads.
“Sorry but there has been an expected hiccup. Will tell you all about it later today. Let this play out and give me some time to update you.”
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Movie links: Netflix kills DVDs, more copyright trolls, 32% of US adults watch pirated films.
Bad! Bad troll! Bad!
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Links: Ticketmaster, digital property, not liking music, the biggest UK debut album of 2016.
Every nun needs a Synthi.
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Links: AdNauseam blocked, Facebook video takedowns, hi-res Tidal, a wrist vibrator subwoofer.
Seriously, $199 for a vibrator for your wrist.
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High seas: ISP warnings don’t work, Facebook content ID, more suits against copyright trolls.
News for freelance consumers of the preservation of culture.
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From the high seas: Pirate Bay in Australia, DDOS attacks, Kickass Torrents revived, monetising piracy.
Yo ho ho and three megabytes of hot RAM.
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Links: Prenda Law copyright scam too far, Internet advertising is trash, SoundButt.
Prenda Law are finally arrested, Internet advertising is a scam at all levels (and you can help!) and careful when posting.
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Links: Bandcamp for New Zealand charts, EFF versus the music industry, the productivity of silence.
The important thing is to wear a fetching Skullcandy hat like the one up there.
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DRM links: Denuvo removed, Super Mario locked, 4K Netflix for almost nobody, GOG, EFF.
News from the world of “you thought you bought the thing we sold you? Think again, pirate scum!“
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Links: Jon Langford and the Sisters of Mercy, J. G. Ballard’s house, your headphones are listening.
Jon Langford’s time as a part-time g*th, J. G. Ballard’s house is for sale again and your headphones can be used to spy on you.
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What the death of What.CD fails to mean for all of humanity.
There’s a lot to be said in favour of massive copyright violation in the interests of cultural preservation, but “fixed targets are stable and sustainable in a world including the record companies” is not any of it.
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Links: China’s top music site, 808 The Documentary, Shazam is listening.
Douban.com, a movie about a drum machine, software that grabs your microphone.
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