Music piracy - archive for August 2006
Music piracy ('muziekpiraterij' in dutch) is a very complex phenomenon to comprehend. These pages wishes to address all of you who are interested in music piracy in a broad sense. You'll find articles related to music and video piracy (with special attention to articles from Belgium and the Netherlands).
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Het gratis-verhaal van de muziekindustrie
Een Amerikaans bedrijf wil onlinemuziek gratis maken en adverteerders laten betalen voor de platen die u nu nog koopt. Muziekgigant Universal volgt al. Staat de platenindustrie binnenkort op haar kop? Terwijl andere downloadwinkels als iTunes gemiddeld 1 euro per nummer vragen, wil het Amerikaanse bedrijf Spiralfrog muziek gratis weggeven. Alles wat u moet doen, is een korte reclameboodschap uitzitten. (...) Van de vier grote platenfirma's kon Universal alvast worden warmgemaakt. Het bedrijf, dat onder meer Eminem, U2 en Beck op stal heeft, laat vanaf december zijn muziek via de site verdelen. (...) "Je mag echter niet vergeten dat 96 procent van de omzet op dit moment nog uit fysieke verkopen komt"
Date: 2006, August 31 | Source (NL): De Morgen
Experts Criticize RIAA Video Against Piracy
The RIAA is set to distribute an educational video on copyright law and music piracy to colleges around the country. However, experts say that the video is full of inaccurate and misleading statements about the nation's copyright laws.
Date: 2006, August 31 | Source (EN): Fmqb
SpiralFrog and Universal Music Group Partner in Advertising-Supported Legal Music Download Service
New York, August 29, 2006SpiralFrog, the new music download destination, has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, to make UMG's extensive catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog's advertising-supported service. SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the ability to legally download music by many of the world's most popular and award-winning artists. "Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling," said Robin Kent, SpiralFrog's CEO.
Date: 2006, August 29 | Source (EN): Spiralfrog
Universal Music start met gratis online muziek
Universal Music, de grootste muziekmaatschappij ter wereld, zet zijn muziekcatalogus gratis op het net. Vanaf december kan je de Universal-liedjes op de website Spiralfrog.com gratis en legaal downloaden. Reclame-advertenties moeten voor de nodige inkomsten zorgen, meldt het bedrijf dinsdag. Voorlopig zal de service alleen beschikbaar zijn in de Verenigde Staten en Canada. Volgens SpiralFrog is de gratis downloaddienst een sterk wapen in de strijd tegen de muziekpiraterij (...)
Date: 2006, August 29 | Source (NL): De Standaard
Music police step up pirate hunt
The music piracy watchdog is tightening the noose around the thousands of people who illegally upload and download music - and the worst offenders may face criminal charges as early as the end of the year. First in line would be those who offer thousands of songs for uploading, says Mark McCall, director of anti-piracy for the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. "We are primarily aiming at those who are uploading and, as a consequence, we might find those downloading.
Date: 2006, August 28 | Source (EN): New Zealand Herald
Ministers urged to close gap on counterfeit producers
Directors should be made liable for piracy in the workplace, the trade association for the British music industry said on Monday, as it called on the government for tougher action against intellectual property crimes.
Date: 2006, August 28 | Source (EN): Financial Times
CD piracy weighs on music industry
The music industry lost an estimated 165 million pounds in 2005 due to CD piracy, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said on Monday. The trade organisation said the losses amounted to more than the combined legal sales of the top 13 albums in the country last year, namely James Blunt, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Kaiser Chiefs, Gorillaz, Westlife, Now 62, KT Tunstall, Kelly Clarkson, Eminem, Faithless, Katie Melua and Killers.
Date: 2006, August 28 | Source (EN): Reuters
Toshiba gaat met Microsoft concurrent voor iPod lanceren
Microsoft heeft de Japanse elektronica-groep Toshiba uitgekozen als partner om de draagbare mediaspeler "ZUNE" te produceren. Dat raakte vrijdag bekend. Toshiba diende bij de Amerikaanse dienst voor communicatie documenten in waarin het de nodige certificaten aanvraagt om het apparaat op de Amerikaanse markt te brengen. Kopieën van het document werden op de site van de oveheidsdienst geplaatst.
Date: 2006, August 26 | Source (NL): De Standaard
9Sky loses internet music piracy case to R2G
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court has ordered Shanghai-based website 9sky.com to compensate digital music distributor R2G for providing unlicensed internet music streaming and downloading services - reportedly the first successful case of its kind for R2G involving piracy of online music.
Date: 2006, August 25 | Source (EN): Digital Media Asia
2 men plead guilty to music piracy charges
Two men have pleaded guilty to violating copyright laws by posting an album by rock musician Ryan Adams on a Web site before its public release, federal officials said Thursday. One man was from Florida. Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, Fla., obtained and made available for copying portions of "Jacksonville City Nights" by Adams and his band, The Cardinals.
Date: 2006, August 24 | Source (EN): Bradenton Herald
Weird Al takes on music piracy
Weird Al Yankovic has recorded a song against music piracy called "Don't Download This Song." (...) The song shows the parody specialist's knowledge of the digital music space as he name-checks Morpheus, Grokster, Limewire, Kazaa, and the Recording Industry Association of America in the track. The song includes the verse: "You don't want to mess with the RIAA/they'll sue you if you burn that CD-R/it doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl/they'll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are."
Date: 2006, August 22 | Source (EN): Mp3.com
£500,000 haul of fake goods
A dawn blitz on market traders selling pirate DVDs and CDs netted nearly £500,000 worth of fake goods, it emerged today. (...) Some of the films seized have not yet been on released on DVD in the UK and included blockbusters such as Miami Vice, Cars and Monster House. The seizure also included hardcore pornography that should not be on sale in a market.
Date: 2006, August 21 | Source (EN): Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
UPC zet kort geding tegen Brein door
De commotie is begonnen nadat Stichting Brein eerder dit jaar de servers van bittorrent-site Dikkedonder.nl in beslag nam. Op deze servers trof Brein de e-mail- en ip-adressen aan van drie uploaders. Deze gegevens werden naar UPC gestuurd, dat na beschouwing van het bewijs twee klanten identificeerde en in overeenstemming met de wet besloot de naw-gegevens aan Brein te overhandigen, zo stelt de stichting in de verklaring. Het ip-nummer van de derde UPC-abonnee kon door een technische storing niet gecontroleerd worden en het bedrijf vond dat het de naw-gegevens niet kon verstrekken op basis van alleen het e-mailadres. Met het kort geding dat dinsdag diende tracht Brein ook de naw-gegevens van de derde uploader te bemachtigen. De uitspraak volgt op 24 augustus.
Date: 2006, August 17 | Source (NL): Webwereld
Music piracy has gone high tech.
From the dingy units copying cassettes, the action has now shifted to organised IT units, manufacturing top quality CDs and passing them off as originals to consumers, causing the economy losses to the tune of Rs 650 crore (Rs 6.5 billion). (...) One of the biggest illegal CD plant was sealed recently in Delhi which had the capacity to manufacture 60 to 70,000 CDs a day, says D'souza noting the technology is so advanced that a person sitting in his home, armed with a computer and CD writer can churt out good quality 200 CDs per hour.
Date: 2006, August 14 | Source (EN): Rediff
Music pirates cash in on information technology
"Sophisticated technology is now in place for manufacturing pirated CDs. It only speaks for the fact that piracy trade has graduated from the stature of a cottage industry to an IT industry with the difference being that it is making no contribution to India's GDP as opposed to a phenomenal one from the IT industry," says Savio D'Souza, secretary general, Indian Music Industry (IMI).
Date: 2006, August 14 | Source (EN): Hindu News
virgin France keeps profit playing in various formats
Having recently been fined €600,000 for music piracy, Jean-Noël Reinhardt seems an unlikely champion of legal music sales. But as president of Virgin Stores in France, his job is to find a way to make tunes turn a profit. Fierce competition is emerging on many fronts, but he says retail music shops can still thrive by embracing online sales, branching out into other media and staging events with artists. "Music shops need to concentrate on providing cultural offerings and products that cannot be digitized," Reinhardt said. "On the other side, they need to embrace online sales with a high-performance music downloading platform."
Date: 2006, August 13 | Source (EN): International Herald Tribune
Brein daagt UPC om uploaders
UPC gaat toch van enkele grote uploaders die actief waren op Dikkedonder.nl, die Brein wil vervolgen, de namen en adressen geven aan de anti-piraterij-club. Daardoor kan Brein die internetters voor de rechter slepen. UPC-woordvoerder Mark Zellenrath verklaart: 'Wij geven deze gegevens alleen als er zorgvuldig technisch en administratief onderzoek aan vooraf is gegaan. Het mag niet zomaar een vaag vermoeden van Brein zijn. In het geval van enkele uploaders is dat zo. Van die personen gaan wij gegevens aan Brein geven.
Date: 2006, August 11 | Source (NL): Bright
Kibaki calls for joint war against piracy
President Mwai Kibaki yesterday asked the police and the Judiciary to join hands in fighting music piracy. (...) President Kibaki made the remarks during the Kenya Music Festival Concert at State House, Nakuru.
Date: 2006, August 11 | Source (EN): Standard
Software Mines Internet To Identify Music Piracy
Identity Systems will soon roll out software that lets media companies from music to movies search through unstructured text on the Internet to identify piracy. The software called "Unstructured Data Module" applies analytics and algorithms to scan for hidden relationships in streams of digital data. Beyond information found in traditional databases and spreadsheets, the software digs into e-mails, file directory listings, search results for peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, and lists of top downloaded songs on Web sites, a company executive said Wednesday.
Date: 2006, August 09 | Source (EN): Techweb
Kane wil af van piraterij door fans
De Nederlandse band Kane heeft de fans op de officiële website van de band streng toegesproken. Tijdens enkele try-outs, die de afgelopen weken plaatsvonden in Amsterdam, Den Haag en Rotterdam, zouden fans met hun mobiele telefoons en mp3-spelers opnamen hebben gemaakt van nieuwe nummers als 'Scream' en 'I belong to you'. De opnamen zijn op fansites geplaatst en ze zijn te downloaden.
Date: 2006, August 08 | Source (NL): Het Laatste Nieuws
Brein wil adressen van internetgebruikers
De Nederlandse stichting Brein wil afspraken maken met internetproviders over de aanpak van gebruikers van illegale uitwisselingsprogramma's. Als dat niet lukt, volgen mogelijk juridische procedures. Dat meldt directeur Tim Kuik op de website van Brein. Hij vindt dat providers de boot afhouden.
Date: 2006, August 08 | Source (NL): Het Laatste Nieuws
Limewire Sued by Top Music Companies for Piracy
Top music companies are suing the makers of the popular Internet file-sharing program Limewire for copyright infringement. The Recording Industry Association of America, which includes Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI Group Plc, and Warner Music Group Corp. filed the suit in Manhattan federal court. The suit seeks $150,000 in damages for every song "willfully infringed" by New York-based Lime Wire LLC.
Date: 2006, August 05 | Source (EN): International Business Times
Game over in Gent
De grootste Belgische Lan-party, waar gamers het tegen elkaar opnemen, gaat niet door. De angst voor het gerecht doet veel spelfanaten afhaken. Vorig jaar kwamen ze met 1.600 naar Flanders Expo om vier dagen lang te spelen voor de titel van beste Belgische gamer. (...) Waarschijnlijk speelt een andere reden mee: het voorbije jaar is de politie binnengevallen op enkele Lan-party's en werden grote hoeveelheden illegale spelletjes, film- en muziekbestanden in beslag genomen. Want ook dat was een feit: op de party's werden ook illegale bestanden uitgewisseld. ,,Vooral de organisatoren zijn bang geworden'', zegt Perry Van de Wiel, directeur van GameParty.net, de Lan-partysite van de Benelux. ,,Zij worden aansprakelijk gesteld als er illegale software gevonden wordt.'' In Nederland doet Van de Wiel wel voort. ,, We hebben goede afspraken. Bovendien mag hier meer: je mag hier downloaden voor eigen gebruik. In Nederland is er ook geen reden om naar Lan-party te gaan om software uit te wisselen. Je kan dat gewoon thuis doen want hier bestaan geen maandelijkse download-limietenbestaan.''
Date: 2006, August 04 | Source (NL): Nieuwsblad
Werkgevers moeten illegaal uitwisselen op het werk tegengaan
Werkgevers moeten personeel verbieden gebruik te maken van programma's waarmee ze muziek, films en computerspellen illegaal kunnen uitwisselen. Dat stelt de Nederlandse auteursrechtenorganisatie Stichting Brein. (...) Brein heeft 7.500 brochures over piraterij op de werkplek verspreid onder grote bedrijven. Donderdag is de website Hetisuwzaak.nl van start gegaan. Op die campagnesite staat onder meer een waarschuwingsmemo over piraterij die werkgevers naar hun personeel kunnen sturen.
Date: 2006, August 03 | Source (NL): Het Laatste Nieuws
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case
Tammie Marson of Palm Desert, California refused to pay the initial $3,500 demanded by a group of record labels and opted to fight the case in court. Marson and her lawyer Seyamack Kouretchian of Coast Law Group argued that the fact that Marson's computer contained illegal music files downloaded over her internet connection was not proof that she had committed a crime. The record companies – Virgin, Sony BMG, Arista, Universal and Warner Brothers – agreed to dismiss the case and pay their own legal costs. "They don't take these cases to trial, they either settle or dismiss," Kouretchian told OUT-LAW. "It was our position that they could not ever prove that Tammie Marson downloaded this music or that Tammie Marson made it available. (...) The case may set a precedent that undermines scores of other music piracy cases.
Date: 2006, August 03 | Source (EN): Out-law
Piracy suits can get costly
If you're served with a lawsuit alleging digital music piracy, don't ignore it. If you do, it will result in a default judgment. A good defense attorney can help broker a less painful settlement than the recording industry's formula for assessing penalties will yield. Experts advise disabling your file-sharing software and deleting pirated songs, although it may not protect you from future litigation.
Date: 2006, August 02 | Source (EN): Saginaw News