Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The IFPI, the RIAA of the UK, has convinced a judge to have Httpshare.com -- a torrent tracking site -- shut down.
The site is located in Israel, and doesn't appear to be breaking any Israeli laws. Like many other sites, this site is simply a torrent search engine and ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In early 2007, Paula Abdul appeared on the "Good Day LA" show and seemed to be a bit tipsy. Her and Fox explained her behavior as "technical difficulties", but many people felt otherwise.
As the buzz was beginning to die down from the incident, Fox decided to send a DMCA takedown ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Pirate Bay is well-known for their BitTorrent tracking and is a very popular place for people to share music, movies, software, etc.
In May of 2006, The Pirate Bay's Stockhole were raided and their servers were seized. The MPAA considered it a major victory and made sure everyone knew about ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
"The Grey Album" was released by DJ Danger Mouse in 2004. It used samples from the Beatles' "White Album" and Jay-Z's "Black Album", and became quite a hit.
EMI, who own the rights to most of the Beatles' music sent a cease-and-desist letter both to Danger Mouse and to stores that ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
AllofMP3 is a music store operating out of Russia that (illegally) sells MP3 files for pennies each.
They're already quite popular, but the people trying to stop them only make them bigger. In particular, US trade representative Susan Schwab has been very outspoken against them.
This recenly led an Allofmp3 spokesman to ...
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