Red Hot Chili Peppers, QOTSA, T.I. Rock For Zune
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| "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all
| know it," UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. "So it's time to
| get paid for it."
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http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003380831
Related:
MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
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| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
Piracy figures are inflated say criminologists
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| A draft report by the Australian Institute of Criminology says
| copyright holders are making up piracy figures in order to sway
| governments to their side.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35580
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| A US court is forcing the Recording Industry of America to explain why
| it charges people it catches pirating $750 a single rather than the 70
| cents they flog them to retailers for.
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| In the case UMG v. Lindor, Judge Trager has allowed Ms Lindor, who the
| RIAA claim is a pirate, to challenge the $750 a track it wants in
| damages.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35669
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