Internet - Sentes que os downloads vieram prejudicar a industria musical?

[Sanguessuga]

fodasse

[Venøm]

Crime é o que esses filhos da puta estão a fazer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-so ... e-16544335

Já foi um Extraditado.

'Piracy' student Richard O'Dwyer loses extradition case

Mr O'Dwyer's mother criticised the UK's extradition treaty with the US

A Sheffield student can be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a judge has ruled.

Richard O'Dwyer, 23, set up the TVShack website which US authorities say hosts links to pirated copyrighted films and television programmes.

The Sheffield Hallam University student lost his case in a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

If found guilty in a US court he could face up to five years in jail.

Mr O'Dwyer's lawyer, Ben Cooper, indicated during the hearing that he would appeal against the ruling.

Mr Cooper said the website did not store copyright material itself and merely directed users to other sites, making it similar to Google.

He also argued that his client, who would be the first British citizen to be extradited for such an offence, was being used as a "guinea pig" for copyright law in the US.

But District Judge Quentin Purdy ruled the extradition could go ahead.

Mr O'Dwyer's mother, Julia O'Dwyer, from Chesterfield, has described the moves by US authorities as "beyond belief" and described Britain's extradition treaty with the United States as "rotten".

Speaking before the hearing, Mr O'Dwyer said he was "surprised" when police officers from the UK and America seized equipment at his home in South Yorkshire in November 2010.

However, no criminal charges followed from the UK authorities.

The case was brought by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which claims that the TVShack.net website earned "over $230,000 in advertising revenue" before US authorities obtained a warrant and seized the domain name in June 2010.

Que vergonha. Isto é uma violação dos vossos direitos. Não se iludam!

[Brutal Thrasher]

Se isso tudo for abaixo bem podem dizer adeus à internet...

[Venøm]

Isto é uma nova erra do terror. Basicamente como estão em crise, querem lucrar de forma animalesca de qualquer maneira e feitio nem que seja de forma completamente ilegal.

O FBI e as grandes corporações americanas estão acima da LEI. É uma vergonha.

[Venøm]

MediaFire CEO: Unlike Megaupload, our business model isn’t built on piracy

Already, two well-known file-sharing services, Uploaded.to and Filesonic have disabled several features of their sites this weekend because of the Megaupload scandal. Others are sure to follow.

But Derek Labian, CEO of popular cloud-based file-hosting site MediaFire, told VentureBeat in an interview today that he isn’t too concerned about the government going after his company because, unlike Megaupload, MediaFire doesn’t incentivize piracy.

“We don’t have a business built on copyright infringement.” Labain said. “Like many other cloud-based sharing services like Box.net and Dropbox, we’re a legitimate business targeting professionals.”

When it comes to Megaupload, Labian described Kim Dotcom and his organization as “shady” and said the $175 million in revenues the company made should give people pause. He noted that Megaupload’s structure gave users monetary rewards for uploading pirated content. Users of the service could upload without a cap but users who want to download a large file (or download it faster) would have to pay for it. Those who uploaded the best files would be given free account upgrades or even cash.

“Megaupload was making a ridiculous amount of money with a ridiculously bad service,” Labian said. “We frankly don’t see ourselves in the same space.”

A little more background on MediaFire: The privately funded company out of Woodlands, Tex. was founded in 2006 and has steadily offered better ways to host and share large files. Because it offers an incredibly easy to way to share 200MB files for free with other people, the company has attracted employees at 86 percent of the Fortune 500 for sending files that are too large for e-mail. It offers unlimited downloads and file storage, and if you want to upload larger files with long-term storage, you can pay $9 a month for a Pro account or $49 a month for a Business account.

But the company’s free file-sharing solution can also be used easily for sharing copyrighted files, especially music, with friends, relatives or anyone on the web. A Google search for a song name, an artist name and “MediaFire,” for example, will likely bring you to a copy of that file that can easily be downloaded from a MediaFire page.

When asked about the Googling issue, Labian said that MediaFire is a “private service” and the only reason Google indexes a MediaFire page is when it has been shared by a user on a third-party site. He said MediaFire isn’t at fault for this and said Google should look into the issue.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/22/media ... el-piracy/

Falta o Filesmelt fazer o seu dpoimento.

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

Mas que revolução! Começo a pensar que a única forma de encontrar um fim amigável para tudo isto é a definição de Copyright e todas as leis associadas a ela serem inteiramente revistas.

[Venøm]

Pensavam que a SOPA e a PIPA eram coisas más? Vejam só o que vem aí para nós:

Just as the SOPA and PIPA debate winds down in the US, the European Union is later this week set to work on ratifying a global intellectual property enforcement treaty: the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

European countries, including Ireland, will later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting ACTA.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ostensibly the agreement deals primarily with counterfeit physical goods, such as medicine.
However, it will in actual fact have broader scope and in particular will deal with new tools targeting "internet distribution and information technology."
Last week, hundreds of major websites in the US - including Wikipedia, WordPress, Boing Boing, Craigslist and Reddit - protested the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill and its sister Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Millions of web users took to social media to join the protests.
The protests, which included petitions and letters to politicians, succeeded in swaying the White House and members of the US Senate to withdraw support for the controversial bills.
One of the reasons ACTA is arousing suspicion and concern is so little is actually known about it.
According to the EFF, it contains several features that raise concerns for consumers' privacy and civil liberties, as well as legitimate commerce, innovation and the free flow of information.
ACTA, it argues, also limits developing countries' ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and levels of economic development.
Why is ACTA so mysterious?

The EFF said: "ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialised countries outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms, such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation and the World Trade Organisation.
“Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed, no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations," the EFF warns.
Few countries that are about to ratify the agreement, including Ireland, have provided information to the public about the ACTA negotiations.
A document seen by the EFF, a sort of discussion paper, reveals that rightsholders are asking for new legal regimes to "encourage ISPs to co-operate with rights holders in the removal of infringing material." In Ireland, the Government is within days about to pass a statutory instrument that may give rights holders, such as music labels and movie studios, the right to seek injunctions against ISPs concerning illegal downloading on their networks.
The EFF says that rights holder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by ISPs and three strikes-style graduated response practices.
The EFF warns that the kind of filtering methods ACTA may usher in may include deep packet inspection of citizens' internet communications, raising considerable concerns for civil liberties, privacy rights and internet innovation.

Fonte: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-medi ... europe-is/




Mais info: http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post/162 ... cta-is-the

[Venøm]

Parece também que os gajos do MegaUpload estão a voltar com um serviço novo:

There's another gigantic wrinkle in the MegaUpload drama. Not only is MegaUpload fighting tooth-and-nail against Universal Music Group, but they're now planning the launch of a cloud-based music locker, download store, and do-it-yourself artist service. It's called MegaBox, and it's already up in beta with listed partners 7digital, Gracenote, Rovi, and Amazon MP3.

Actually, this is technically a relaunch of an earlier concept, and a perfect re-stab at major label opponents. "UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak this week.
In other words, another entry into the very crowded DIY space. But there's a lot more to this story. Instead of charging artists, Schmitz wants to pay artists - even for free downloads. "We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."
And there could be more mega-artist deals ahead, of the will.i.am variety. "You can expect several Megabox announcements next year including exclusive deals with artists who are eager to depart from outdated business models."

The rest looks like a combination platter of cloud-based music storage, download sales, and discovery, though the elements may still be coming together. In a test-drive this morning, we also found lots of major label content, but only managed to stream 30-second clips (we'll leave that discussion to the various armies of lawyers...)
MegaUpload has the capital to do this, but they are also pushing some emotional capital as well. That is, a stark juxtoposition between them and traditional media interests, ie major labels like UMG. "These guys think an iPad is a facial treatment, the internet is the devil, and wired phones are still hip," Schmitz blasted. "They are in denial about the new realities and opportunities. They don't understand that the rip-off days are over. Artists are more educated than ever about how they are getting ripped off and how the big labels only look after themselves."

SOURCE: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permali ... 21airvinyl

[onedayless]

onedayless, fonte?

Roubei por aí, não sei...

Por mim aquele avião que caiu no pentágono podia muito bem ter caido em cima deles

Não caiu nenhum avião no pentágono...

E se estão todos chateados com esta cena toda, para a próxima vez que forem ao macdonalds, levem esta shirt:



E grande filha da putice a esse puto!

Isto é uma nova erra do terror. Basicamente como estão em crise, querem lucrar de forma animalesca de qualquer maneira e feitio nem que seja de forma completamente ilegal.

O FBI e as grandes corporações americanas estão acima da LEI. É uma vergonha.

Não sei se pode andar sempre a recorrer da decisão e tal, mas caso não saibam esse miúdo se for mesmo extraditado, será julgado por um acto cometido em Inglaterra e que não é ilegal no seu país. O que é isto?

[Vaargseth [RIP 2012/04/25]]

Facto: Um avião caiu no pentágono.
Outro facto: A HQ da Megaupload não era/é nos US, pelo que sei, é na Holanda ou assim, portanto o FBI e o Department of Justice não tinham jurisdição.
O problema como explica o video da ACTA é que um simples quote com a bibliografia/webografia devidamente apresentada passa a ser crime...

Bom... como disse um gajo no Yutubas... "vemo-nos na prisão".

[onedayless]

Não, não caiu, a não ser q fosse um avião de papel. Mas isso são conversas para outros sítios.

[Vaargseth [RIP 2012/04/25]]

Não, não caiu, a não ser q fosse um avião de papel. Mas isso são conversas para outros sítios.

Meio minuto de pesquisa não custa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77

[onedayless]

Então pesquisa 10

[Zyklon]

Não sei se já alguem pensou mas quem tem conta premium nesses sites como fica?
Não é o meu caso, mas alguns valores não são propriamente baixos e nem todos os usam para a pratica da coisa da pirataria.
Ouvi hoje de manha na TSF "o site de pirataria Megaupload"...tipo são usados para filmes e musica mas não só, até mesmo algumas editoras os usam para mandar obras para a Impressa, pirataria é um gajo comprar um cd numa FNAC a 21 euros, pirataria é um gajo ouvir historias que os musicos perdem com isto quando na realidade quem mais perde são as Universais, as EMIs, as Warner´s que os continuam a chular.

A terminarem estes sites o unico mal que vejo e a menor divulgação que as coisas vão comecar a ter basta ver o que se tem passado no Tube onde até um simples clip de musica leva logo em cima se não tiver ou for anunciado pela editora..
Se é este o caminho que querem que o sigam, mas talvez fosse mais facil cobrarem uma taxa aos servidores que são os grandes responsaveis pelo estado das coisas.

Mais e se um artista quiser disponibilizar gratuitamente um trabalho na net como será é preso por partilha tambem?

O Jon Stewart é que a sabe toda:

[Brunhu]

Bonito vai ser ver os CDs a ficarem caros como o caralho!!

Queres compras, não queres não ouves que te fodes!!