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DRM is ****, RIAA Says
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| For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of
| millions of honest customers who actually paid for their music. Now, in a
| shocking turnaround, the outfit seems to have come to the realization that
| DRM does more harm than good and has officially declared its death.
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http://torrentfreak.com/drm-is-dead-riaa-says-090719/
Plug pulled on unlimited-download site Zookz
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| That didn't take long. Friday evening I blogged that the government of
| Antigua had issued a terse press release claiming that it had nothing to do
| with unlimited-download site Zookz. The Zookz legal team responded with an
| equally terse note saying that it didn't need the government's approval, and
| that its service was perfectly legal under its interpretation of a recent
| World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10291414-27.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Spotify to take online jukebox to the States
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| Founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs, Spotify provides an online jukebox
| allowing users to listen to a library of more than six million tracks, funded
| either by regular advertising breaks or by a monthly subscription for
| uninterrupted listening. The model has proved phenomenally popular since its
| launch in October and has been hailed as a viable alternative to Apple's
| iTunes.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/19/spotify-launching-in-us
The customer is the scarcity
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| Not all artificial scarcities have been termed illegal as yet: the most
| glaring example is that of “intellectual property rights”, where something is
| made artificially scarce using the power of the state; no other rights depend
| exclusively on state intervention. Strange, that.
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http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/18/the-customer-is-the-scarcity/
How Copyright Can Be Viewed As Anti-Property
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| While I have no doubt that this will upset and anger the folks who believe
| that copyright is absolutely 100% property, it's a rather compelling
| explanation of how copyright isn't just not like property, but in many ways
| is anti-property in that it violates some of the basic tenets of true
| property and true property rights.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090719/0108125588.shtml
"DRM is the future."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
Recent:
Orange Drops DRM From Its Music Store
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| Another nail in the coffin for copy locks - Orange is switching off DRM
| across the two million tracks in its Orange Music Store.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-orange-drops-drm-from-its-music-store/
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