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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Video Protection Alliance (VPA) bills itself as a “fast, secure and convenient way to settle your copyright violations online”. It generously helps “you, the fan, identify copyright violations, pay a nominal settlement fee, and clear your record”.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- If you think I’m spending a lot of time focusing on the Three Strikes farce Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures are trying to foist on gormless governments, you’d be dead right. Because it’s about lot more than music.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Mobiles:- Bitain’s fixed-line ISPs have already told the government the Three Strikes scheme touted by Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson on behalf of the corporate entertainment industry isn’t going to work . Now mobile operators have joined in. Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures, have escalated their anti-consumer, anti-P2P, anti-competition sue ‘em all campaign into a worldwide project under which they’re demanding governments introduce legislation which would turn them into copyright collection agencies, funded by local taxpayers, and ISPs into enforcers, turning in their own customers

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Allison Outhit’s When Two Worlds Collude: Artists and Fans Hug It Out in Exclaim! magazine highlights how things could, and should be, between fans and artists. Among other things, “While criminalizing unauthorized file sharing has created public hatred against the music business, it has also seriously damaged the artists in whose names those initiatives are supposedly launched,� she says, continuing »»» Nice how that works out for the industry: keeping artists and fans at war with each other ensures they’ll never band together against a common foe. That may be about to change.

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Thirty-year music industry veteran Ted Cohen (right) once told a Hong Kong audience music “as a product” was dead. The future of music was service-based, he said, and at the time, “senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective”. That was three years ago but in 2009, “I still believe it’s the future,” he says, and, “we have to embrace it.” In the Music Void , “Over the past three years, free was supposed to be the industry’s big savior, a great value for consumers, a magnet for advertisers,” he says, continuing »»» MySpace Music, Spotify, iMeem and others touted free, on-demand streaming as the ultimate music experience, but it hasn’t exactly played out to anyone’s expectations, so what went wrong

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- In the middle of this  month, I mentioned Bill Hudson , a musician who takes  sharing very seriously. He, “and other like-minded people, collect musical instruments to give to children in America’s still-recovering storm-ravaged Gulf Coast, also working to organise live concerts to help take people’s minds off their troubles,” I said. Bill and his friends Al Coffey and Craig Counts have just returned from their latest Feel Good Tour »»» When ever I am doing a gig, or am at a party, I am always trying to get the word out as to what we are doing collecting instruments.

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “Put simply, the music business is the commercial interface between musicians and fans,” says Allison Outhit in Exclaim! Magazine . But, she states, “when the industry lost control of digital music files on the web, the interface broke down.” It did and now, “Fans are getting music willy-nilly — sometimes without even paying! — while musicians are reaching directly out to fans — sometimes without even charging!”-  Allison observes,  continuing »»» You might think having musicians and fans communicate directly can only result in a promotional paradise, but it actually creates a commercial hell for the industry. If artists and fans find ways to successfully transact between them, then, uh, what’s the rest of the music business for

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Record labels are “pointing to the dramatic rise in music sales in Sweden, just months after the country introduced anti-piracy laws, as evidence of what a similar crackdown in Britain could do to the flagging market,” says the Guardian . Well —-  not really. The newspaper is but one of the means selected by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’IFPI (International Federation of Phornographic Industry) as a vehicle for its latest bullshit release

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “A 16-year Gold Coast kid is promoting the theft of music with his new site Vye Music,” says Undercover.com in Australia. But, “With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net,” says DigitalBeat . “The site pulls search results from other music sites … sites which in turn index hundreds of thousands of sites, blogs and artist pages.” Says Charles on VyeMusic.com , “Vye Music lets you stream full length tracks, share them with your friends and family over social networks, or with a direct link, discover new artists through its similar artists feature, create personal libraries of your favourite tracks, and play them as a list, and even download entire DRM-free music tracks.” Letting users share and download music for free “is what got Napster in trouble for copyright violations back in 2001 and led to the end of that free service,” says DigitalBeat, continuing »»» But Allatt claims that the distinction between his website and Napster is that his site is legal, despite the download availability

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