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| Posted by vampirechronicles on Jun 30 2009, 10:12 AM
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 BBC News File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been sold to a Swedish gaming company. Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site from its founders. Once it has taken control, GGF said it would start paying copyright fees for the movies, music and games linked to via the site. In April, The Pirate Bay owners were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement, fined 30m kronor and were sentenced to one year in jail. New owner The four men behind the site, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, said they planned to appeal against the sentence. Read Here
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| Posted by Project-Buckfast on Jun 22 2009, 11:05 AM
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Source: BBC News The Top 40 is facing a shake-up as chart bosses consider incorporating songs from music streaming sites.Offering free, legal access to millions of tunes, online jukebox services like We7 and Spotify have taken off in 2009. Users can listen to tracks without paying to own them, as they have had to with vinyl, tapes, CDs and downloads. The Official UK Charts Company said it was "bound to" include streaming and subscription services at some point, but not for at least another year. Because listeners do not pay per track - if at all - those plays would be likely to carry less weight than normal sales. That would be a big departure from the way the the official singles chart has been compiled since it was launched in 1952. It has always been based purely on sales, with each individual purchase - whatever the format - treated equally. But the streaming and subscription services may soon become too popular to ignore. Spotify offers streamed songs for free with adverts, or without ads for a £9.99 monthly fee. It registered one million UK users in April - just two months after its public launch. We7, which goes down the free, ad-funded route, is expected to pass the million mark in the coming days. Services like Napster, HMV and Nokia give customers access to unlimited tracks for a monthly fee and Virgin Media has just announced a similar offering, with BSkyB expected to follow suit. Read More
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| Posted by Lion7718 on Jun 20 2009, 04:36 PM
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 Source: TorrentFreakThe two million dollar fine handed out to Jammie Thomas by a Minnesota jury this week hasn’t done the music industry’s image much good. While lawyers and high level managers at the major labels cracked open the Champagne, artists such as Moby and Radiohead shook their heads in shame at what the music world has become. Earlier this week the case of Jammie Thomas versus the RIAA went up for re-trial before a new jury. She was found guilty of sharing 24 songs using Kazaa and ordered to pay $80,000 per infringement, which all mounted to a total of $1.92 million in fines. High ranking people at the record labels soon declared victory claiming that justice had been served. However, many of the artists to which the record label executives owe their well paid salaries are disgusted by the outcome of the case and the witch-hunt on their fans. One of the artists that has shared his disappointment at the disproportionate fines is the American musician Moby. “Argh. what utter nonsense,” he writes on his website. “This is how the record companies want to protect themselves? Suing suburban moms for listening to music? Charging $80,000 per song?” he questions. “I don’t know, but ‘it’s better to be feared than respected’ doesn’t seem like such a sustainable business model when it comes to consumer choice. How about a new model of ‘it’s better to be loved for helping artists make good records and giving consumers great records at reasonable prices’?” Moby is right that the sue and scare tactics of the RIAA are not the ideal business model in the long run. However, thus far they have made millions from all the settled cases alone. In recent years over 30,000 people have allegedly settled with the RIAA for an average of $3500 dollars. This means that the RIAA have raked in more than 10 million dollars without even having to go to court. Full Story
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| Posted by FreakinWeasel on Jun 18 2009, 10:26 PM
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Source: AP/Yahoo News By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 12 mins ago MINNEAPOLIS – A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry. A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded recording companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song. Thomas-Rasset's second trial actually turned out worse for her. When a different federal jury heard her case in 2007, it hit Thomas-Rasset with a $222,000 judgment. The new trial was ordered after the judge in the case decided he had erred in giving jury instructions. Thomas-Rasset sat glumly with her chin in hand as she heard the jury's finding of willful infringement, which increased the potential penalty. She raised her eyebrows in surprise when the jury's penalty of $80,000 per song was read. Outside the courtroom, she called the $1.92 million figure "kind of ridiculous" but expressed resignation over the decision. "There's no way they're ever going to get that," said Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four from the central Minnesota city of Brainerd. "I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now." Her attorney, Kiwi Camara, said he was surprised by the size of the judgment. He said it suggested that jurors didn't believe Thomas-Rasset's denials of illegal file-sharing, and that they were angry with her. Camara said he and his client hadn't decided whether to appeal or pursue the Recording Industry Association of America's settlement overtures. Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the RIAA, said the industry remains willing to settle. She refused to name a figure, but acknowledged Thomas-Rasset had been given the chance to settle for $3,000 to $5,000 earlier in the case. "Since Day One we have been willing to settle this case and we remain willing to do so," Duckworth said. In closing arguments earlier Thursday, attorneys for both sides disputed what the evidence showed. Read the rest Here.
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