by Jason Wilk on December 19, 2008
- It’s official, the RIAA is tired of suing illegal downloaders. The organization that has been patrolling the industry for the last 5 years now wants to put the ISP’s in charge, because they couldn’t make a difference. The WSJ reports:
The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003. Critics say the legal offensive ultimately did little to stem the tide of illegally downloaded music. And it created a public-relations disaster for the industry, whose lawsuits targeted, among others, several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl.
- The RIAA will now provide the ISPs with information (IP addresses) identifying accounts suspected of sharing music illegally. The ISPs wil then ask the owners of those accounts to stop. After the third request, the suspected infringer might lose his or her Internet connection (TC). This is the most viable option. People know their chances of being sued over illegally downloading music are about the same as being struck by lightning. Scaring people with cutting off their internet connection is much easier and ISP’s can take on many people at once. This may stop some people from downloading so much, but the frenzy will still continue.
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by Jason Wilk on October 27, 2008
- 8Tracks is another online music playlist builder that users can share with eachother, follow playlist updates (twitterish), and it’s legal?
- For the time being they have been permitted to operate as a small online radio station, thus giving them a discount on the royalty fees, getting the RIAA off their back…..for now
- 8Tracks joins recently shut down MuxTape along with OpenTape, FavTape and Grooveshark in the embeddable, sharable, emailable music playlist space.
- Will anyone besides MySpace survive the legal playlist scene?
TechCrunch
by Jason Wilk on October 27, 2008
- Project Playlist, is both a search engine and a playlist generator.
- Search for music that’s located on third party websites and then create playlists which can be embedded anywhere.
- They’ve had 822 million page views from 9.3 million uniques in September, which is an increase from last year’s 446 million and 5 million.
- Hmmm. Think we just wrote about a similar service about 30min ago regarding Muxtape, Grooveshark and OpenTape. Wonder who will get called by the RIAA frist (Muxtape already had to shut down last month)
TC
by Jason Wilk on October 26, 2008
- This week Grooveshark launched embeddable playlist widgets (pictured left) for users to post to over thirty different sites including MySpace, Blogs, etc.
- You can also email the digital mixtape to a friend or yourself in a one song format (pictured right) or as many as 2000.
- Very interesting to see another startup enter into the mixtape scene, as we have seen Muxtape shut down by the RIAA and OpenTape, FavTape, and Tumbltape copycats.
- In the past year, Groovershark has grown from 15K uniques a month to now 110K. How long before they will start showing up on the RIAA’s radar?
by Jason Wilk on September 30, 2008
- Mark Cuban has been telling Comcast they need to eliminate P2P sharing and put a cap on broadband usage.
- Wednesday they will start the capping, charging users stiff prices if they break the 250GB data usage.
- Their claim is 5% of users account for 40-80% of total data.
- 51% of people say they would jump to another carrier if a download cap were forced on them.
- Om Malik has been vocal in saying this will stunt innovation and today’s large data consumers are the average user of tomorrow.
Will heavy data users that break the cap, be more prone to be fed to the RIAA?
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