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At least during capitalism, capitalism seemed to be somehow logic. Someone makes something, and someone else buys it, more makers make more diversity, higher quality, customers, consumers can descide, vigilantism by bad buy! May the best offer win. The nice’n cosy consumer’s world is breaking up. Especially now, as the stuff we buy get’s more and […]
August 24, 2011
Copy right is a complex issue, and is often missused to rather claim unique features / unique selling points against competitors, than to protect intellectual propperty. Samsung and Apple are fighting about the copy right of the iPads and Samsungs tablet the Galaxy Tabs design, about the USP of a flat, rectangle tablet device. Which […]
May 6, 2011
“The Universal Music Group demands that all providers of music downloads like Amazon and iTunes now watermark downloaded songs with identifying characteristics. The metadata of any purchased mp3 file will contain the first part of your e-mail address, date of purchase, album or song identification, in order to track whether the respective file has been […]
April 12, 2011
Hypebot obtained a letter sent out by Amazon to record labels this week pointing out how excellent clients responded to their new cloud music player, which is considered illegal by various rights holders. While offering no stats, Amazon told labels that by “removing the friction associated with managing your personal music files, our launch of […]
February 23, 2011
Redigi a new startup will be opening “the world’s first online marketplace to legally recycle, buy and sell, used digital music files”. On the ReDigi Marketplace, music “owners” can sell those files of digital music they don’t want to listen to any more. The model how exactly ReDigi will identify ownership or navigate the legal […]
February 15, 2011
The future is not available in your territory, as it contains content of WMG and UMG RootMusic is a company from the US, and finalist of the SXSW Accelerator, an event where tec/online services for the music industry are being showcased. ‘A glimpse of the industry’s future’ as SxSW says. No doubt, the music industry […]
January 13, 2011
Yahoo, Digg, Reddit, Fark, TechCrunch and others have been sued for violating US Patent No. 6,370,535. A company called Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC, filed a complaint in a Los Angeles federal court. They say to own a patent titled: ‘System and method for structured news release generation and distribution’, which is running a blog in other words. […]
November 30, 2010
Social networks keep us busy – I wonder how one would evaluate the damage of workers tweeting, writing comments, status updates, and not spending their time on what we’re paid for… Of course we don’t need another additional network, BUT: Remember the great threat of a mass exodus from Facebook several months back? Users are […]
October 27, 2010
Whether it is France, Ireland, USA, content owners increase pressure on ISPs to kick people offline for copyright infringements. The idea behind this is so dumb it hurts, it is like suing General Motors to ensure customers are not allowed to drive any car again, when they had caused an accident while driving a GM […]
August 25, 2011
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