Pirate Bay Judge Deemed Unbiased: Retrial Denied
The Swedish Court of Appeals has determined that Judges can’t be called biased simply because they support the law.
The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict – Guilty
Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000.
April Fools Gags
We’re sure to see the obligatory gags from all our favorite companies trying a bit to hard to be cool today, but I’m not exactly getting any sideache’s yet, or “lizzing” for you 30-Rock faithful.
Pirate Bay Trial Witness: File-Sharing Not Bad For Music Business
[via ars] What happens when a professor who believes that file-sharing has been beneficial to the music industry takes the witness stand in The Pirate Bay trial, then learns that prosecutors have been talking to his boss about the quality of his research? Fireworks—and flowers. The Pirate Bay trial settled into something (sort of) approaching [...]
Ruckus: When “Free Music” Can’t Compete With Free Music
[via ars] The Ruckus music service shut down over the weekend, raising the question of whether universities are done offering sponsored legal download services to students. The music industry, struggling to find workable business models for the digital age, apparently can’t even give its product away. Ad-supported services like SpiralFrog have generated what can only [...]
95% of Music Downloads are Illegal: IFPI
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) recently released a report concluding that despite initiatives by the music industry, 95% of music downloads continue to be illegal. The IFPI, considered by some to be the global version of the RIAA, says that 40 billion songs were illegally downloaded in 2008. Those songs don’t necessarily [...]
Music Industry Should Embrace Illegal File Sharing
It doesn’t look like illegal file sharing is going anywhere, so what should the new music distribution model look like? Here are a few lessons learned from Radiohead’s “pay what you want” experiment with In Rainbows.
