His Amsterdam servers seized, a 24-year-old Englishman was arrested for operating the music piracy website OiNK. This is just the latest example of international cooperation between law enforcement authorities to crack down on pirate sites. For now, that’s like trying to empty the ocean using a bucket with a hole in it. All it does [...]
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Andy Greenberg has an article in Forbes that cites intellectual property (IP) experts whining about the peer-to-peer (p2p) piracy of Radiohead’s latest album. Because Radiohead let fans name their own price, but pirates still downloaded the music on bittorrent instead, the mistaken assumption is that the piracy hurt the distribution model used by Radiohead.
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Beginning October 10th, you can download Radiohead’s latest album (”In Rainbows”) and pay what you want for it.
The U.K. band is testing the waters in the right direction for breaking the stranglehold the record labels have on music distribution. Consider this a thumb in the eye of RIAA and the entertainment industry music piracy hypocrites [...]
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