Category Archives: MPAA / RIAA / DMCA / YMCA

Antennagate explained

It’s a good thing we have GLORIOUS .. er .. CHINA there to explain this whole Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” thing!

Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!

Recording Industry vs. The People.

Geist: Record industry faces liability over `infringement’ – thestar.com

Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history. His estate, which still owns the copyright in more than 50 [...]

Comcast bought NBC

Bonus picture of Obama on acid

Royalty checks, you mean this guy is a king?

Check out how the music business treats the people who work for it: I mean, we all know that major labels are supposed to be venal masters of hiding money from artists, but they’re also supposed to be good at it, right? This figure wasn’t insulting because it was so small, it was insulting because [...]

Amazon has Mojo Nixon so it doesn’t need no fixin’

Every Mojo Nixon song is available on Amazon.com for FREE!

Wow, it’s great to put your trust in products

Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids’ online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children’s chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered. via The Associated Press: Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats.

Stay classy, Redskins.

Last year, Hill’s real estate sales were hit hard by the housing market crash, and she told the team that she could no longer afford her $5,300-a-year contract for two loge seats behind the end zone. Hill said she asked the Redskins to waive her contract for a year or two. The sales office declined. [...]

Make wooo WOOO woo noises

CD Case Features Built-In Theremin and Artistic Circuitry Now you can buy a CD and make your own music, and that’s pretty cool.

MP3s are now worth $80,000 a piece

Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty – Ars Technica