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Comment Re:3-Strike Law coming soon... (Score 1) 619

by photomonkey on Friday December 19, 2008 @03:04PM (#26175737) Attached to: RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers

Suddenly show up, my ass.

We have two companies in town offering cable broadband. I STILL can't choose who I want to use.

As for DSL choices, it's the phone company or some other company I know nothing about.

Submission + - Did "Pirates" help save the 'Biz from pira

Submitted by photomonkey on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @01:36AM

photomonkey writes: CNN.com reports that Pirates: World's End took in $142M, setting the record for a Memorial Day Weekend premiere. Hollywood's take on the weekend is reported as more than $265M, up $18M from the last Memorial Day Weekend record set in 2004.

Sales thus far into the year are at $3.6B, up 6.4% over last year's.

In the same article, an industry analyst estimates that the summer gross could reach an unprecedented $4B.

Does this mean the end of the MPAA's cries of woe over 'piracy on the intertubes'?

Submission + - Google ReDesigns Homepage

Submitted by

* * Beatles-Beatles

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @01:18AM

* * Beatles-Beatles writes: "http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_DECO RATIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Sprucing up its famously plain Web site, Google Inc. is offering a new option that plants its Internet search box in panoramic settings that change with the time of day and the outside weather."

Submission + - Internet Radio to be killed by the RIAA

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday March 19, 2007 @05:22PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Just got this in the mail from Tim Westergren, Pandora's CEO: "I'm writing today to ask for your help. We've had a disastrous turn of events recently for internet radio: Following an intensive lobbying effort on the part of the RIAA, an arbitration committee in Washington DC has just dramatically increased the fees internet radio sites must pay to the record labels — tripling fees and adding enormous retroactive payments! Left unchanged by Congress, this will kill all internet radio sites, including Pandora. Tomorrow afternoon there is an important U.S. Senate hearing on the future of internet radio."

This issue has started to get blog coverage: http://gigaom.com/2007/03/05/webcaster-royalty-rat es-go-up/ and http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007 /03/the_vast_potent.html

If you live in the US, please contact your local Congressman now!

Please note that I have no Pandora affiliation except as a very happy user."

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