boogybren - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Fair use!!! (Score 1) 668

by boogybren on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @04:01PM (#21661115) Attached to: RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized

I think Radiohead has proven that the artists can live without the RIAA. With the release of their recent album, they did a "name your own price" to download it, no record label or DRM attached. It is estimated that they made upwards to $10M in doing so!

Although I don't know if the "name your own price" concept would work long term, bands with who already have a name for themselves can profit greatly at this model. It is the new "no name" bands that would struggle IMO.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/estimates-radio.html

Court Upholds Internet Deregulation 235

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 19, 2007 @04:03PM from the getting-dicey-out-here dept.

Internet Voting writes "Big telecom companies seem to have won big with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding FCC's ruling deregulating the Internet. Opponents argued that telecoms could now deny third parties access to their telecommunications lines and eliminating competition. From the story: "In its September 2005 ruling, the FCC relieved telephone companies of decades-old regulations that required them to grant competing Internet service providers 'nondiscriminatory' access to their wirelines in order to reach consumers.""

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