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“How I Became A Music Pirate”

The Consumerist with an all-too-common story on the interaction between music fans and the music industry.

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March 22, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

MIT Drops Subscriptions Due to DRM Demands

MIT Libraries have cancelled access to an online database after the publisher demanded that users download a DRM plugin (hat tip – Open Access News).

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March 22, 2007 2 comments News

Whois Policy Reform Advances

The Associated Press reports this week on ICANN developments involving the Whois reform.  The Whois database, which displays domain name registrant information including names, addresses, phone numbers, postal and email addresses, has been the subject of years of debate within ICANN as many in the Internet community have expressed concerns […]

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March 22, 2007 7 comments News

CD Sales and Retail Change

The Wall Street Journal yesterday featured a page one story on the declining CD sales, which have dropped 20 percent in the U.S. this year.  The article discuss peer-to-peer file sharing, but the real focus is the impact of retail changes. With big-box retailers now responsible for 65 percent of […]

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March 22, 2007 3 comments News

McGill Conference on Music, DRM and the Law

McGill University is holding a great one-day conference on the music industry, DRM, and the law on Friday.  I'll be on a panel focused on DRM along with Bruce Lehman, Ann Chaitovitz, and Terry Fisher.  Details here.

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March 21, 2007 2 comments News