Comment: Re:Who is receiving the money? (Score 1) 345
So if i set up a mini AM radio station and give out AM radios to all of my wedding guests, the music is suddenly free?
Comment: Re:"If there's dancing, the fees double." (Score 1) 345
And this permit causes them to be taxed?
Comment: Re:When you can't innovate (Score 1) 345
Are you telling me the people playing the music somehow got music for free? How does the music cost you more to make as soon as i play it at a wedding?
Comment: Re:When you can't innovate (Score 1) 345
bq. the music has to be 100% original as covers are 'illegal'.
That's only if the performer hasn't licensed the cover on their own. They guy from One Man Star Wars
Comment: Re:Photographer should say "Go ahead" (Score 1) 664
The DMCA doesn't restrict speech. Your contract with your ISP that you enter in gives the ISP the right to take it down. You've waived your right by signing your contract (in the same that NDAs work). The gov't is not forcing the ISP to take it down, so there is no free speech issue here.
Amanda Palmer raises $1M from fans for her album-> 1
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The music industry will never be the same. Singer Amanda Palmer (@amandapalmer on Twitter), has just raised over $1,000,000 directly from her fans, through Twitter and other social media, to mix, promote, and distribute her new album. Armed only with a Kickstarter page, social media accounts, and a lot of friends, she has just liberated a lot of musicians from the tyranny of having to 'sign' with a big studio. I predict music business historians will be writing about this day for years to come. The "big 4" record companies just got a lot smaller."
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Comment: Re:Venerated as a demi-god (Score 2) 206
It's where your lunch money went .
hawk
Comment: Re:Steve WHO? (Score 3, Funny) 206
Bah.
Including a keyboard, case, and power supply.
computers for sissies that can't handle a soldering iron.
What's next--put a program in rom so you don't hae to key it in???
humbug
Hawk
Comment: Re:Photographer should say "Go ahead" (Score 1) 664
The rest of the DMCA is absolute rubbish, but not the take down provision.
The takedown doesn't provide for any punishment whatsoever. An ISP is free to ignore the takedown notice, but they lose their safe haven against liability if they ignore it and it turns out to be illegal. You are free to choose an ISP that won't preemptively drop your site. She happened to choose an ISP that handles take downs in the manner illustrated in the article.
Candice Schwager stupidly choose an ISP that shuts down sites and then she stupidly took the fight to the internet. epic fail.
Comment: Re:Photographer should say "Go ahead" (Score 1) 664
It's ok to copy movies and TV shows. You just need to threaten the RIAA and MPAA with lawsuits if they issue you a DMCA takedown. It completely works. Candice told me so.