Your rights – Page 3

Links: Dr Dre and Apple, Alan Vega, Dangerous Minds.

16 August, 20169 September, 2018 Esoterica, Industry, Links, Punk, R'n'B, Your rights 0

Dr Dre and Apple’s new headphone jack, reminiscences on Alan Vega (and Bruce Springsteen) and clickbait for aging record nerds.

That Tyson guy? Eh, I could take him.

28 February, 20145 May, 2017 Your rights 0

Liberation Music really don’t like people using their music on YouTube. So when some guy used a recording they owned, they got it taken

Nobody cares about your copyright.

21 May, 20127 May, 2017 mp3, Your rights 11

In the Internet era, copyright laws are just getting tougher. But people really, really don’t give a shit. 61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden fileshare

Napster off, MAFIAAfire on, computers continue to subsume all comers.

2 December, 201110 May, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

The network died years ago, but Napster’s vegetative corpse was finally taken off life support Wednesday. They can’t even make money from the name

ACS Law is definitely not Davenport Lyons. Probably.

10 May, 200910 September, 2016 Your rights 1

Remember Davenport Lyons? Their clients who discovered that it was actually ruinous to get a reputation with paying customers as RIAA-like thugs certainly do.

“DRM-free” as blatant lie.

26 September, 20082 June, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

Customers loathe and despise DRM. What’s a marketer to do? Advertise products as “DRM-free” when they’re nothing of the sort! After Sony and Nokia

Step right up!

13 September, 200812 November, 2016 Industry, Your rights 2

The content industry is addicted to control. We tell them over and over again that DRM is mathematically impossible. There is no such thing

And what you gonna say in private?

27 August, 20086 September, 2016 Your rights 1

The ridiculously widely publicised default judgement against a filesharer has attracted the sort of attention they’d probably rather it hadn’t. Michael Coyle of Lawdit

Woman fined £16,000 in apparently nonexistent court case.

19 August, 20086 September, 2016 Your rights 0

Davenport Lyons, “a leading London law firm,” has put out a press release, which has been run as-is by large chunks of the press,

The deaf watchmaker.

15 August, 2008 Your rights 0

Sorry, EMI — fair use is possible in sound recordings. Even for duplicitous creationist nutters no sane person would want to be associated with.

You don’t own me.

10 August, 2008 Your rights 0

It’s scientifically proven: keeping everything in copyright forever leads to a tragedy of the anticommons. (Despite Cliff Richard’s pleas on behalf of continuing royalties

Just spell my name right.

9 August, 200829 April, 2017 Your rights 2

The general public just refuse to see copying as morally wrong if it’s not for money. But attribution is another matter. (Look at the

Shake the disease.

1 August, 20084 September, 2016 Your rights 1

If you keep doing obnoxious things to lots and lots of people, they may start talking. And then you discover some of them are

Declare the pennies on your eyes.

31 July, 20084 September, 2016 Your rights 0

ACTA is the “everything and a pony” Christmas wish list of the media companies. Everything down to the Internet becomes illegal. Such treaties rely

Fool me six times, shame on my parents.

26 July, 200826 December, 2016 mp3, Your rights 2

Yahoo! Music is shutting down, and its DRM servers with it. All four of you who bought a track there are losing it shortly.

A good heart these days is hard to buy.

25 July, 20081 August, 2008 Your rights 1

The BPI’s latest wheeze is a deal with six large British ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and Sky) to send “hundreds

86 year old great-grandmother hoists the Jolly Roger.

29 June, 200830 April, 2017 Your rights 0

“In short, I turned a 86 year old Marlboro-smoking, Chrysler Sebring Convertable-driving, Pinochle-playing, Maroon-Five listening Great Grandmother into a music pirate. An enthusiastic one

EMI innovates in legal actions.

22 June, 20081 August, 2008 Your rights 0

Specifically, not just going after companies, but trying to personally bankrupt their CEOs — specifically Michael Robertson of MP3Tunes, an MP3 locker service that

Promos are freebies in the US.

12 June, 20081 August, 2008 Your rights 0

Troy Agusto goes to second-hand shops, buys rare promos and sells them on eBay. Universal decided this was a copyright violation. Judge says: Wrong!

EMI: “Quit whining, pirate scum!”

9 November, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, mp3, Your rights 6

Over at El Reg they’ve been running a few pieces lately about responses from record label “customer relations” departments to purchasers who’ve complained about