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23 Jun 2009 18:15
9/24 They're only threatening in Norway but they already mean business in Ireland: the Irish Recorded Music Association is suing two ISPs for not interfering with what their customers are doing and since they refuse to disconnect people the industry suspects of filesharing.
Is is election time in Germany - and the music industry has found some new friends - the conservatives. If blocking websites instead of shutting them down and prosecuting their operators wasn't enough, and if adding violent games to that block list still wasn't enough, here's the last straw: three strikes. Never mind that that part has been ruled unconstitutional in France and never mind that the EU parliament repeatedly voted overwhelmingly against a framework that would allow such legislation - we want to cut those dirty pirates off. Then there's only the matter of pressuring the highest court into submission so they don't dare to rule the same way like their French counterpart..
9/23 So the music industry has apparently discovered a new business model: if selling ringtones for outrageous prices (you're not allowed to sample your own CDs after all you dirty pirate) wasn't enough, now they claim that your ringtone is a public performance and you should be paying extra for it.
When it comes to piracy, the industry likes to say copyright infringement equals theft - even though the law clearly makes a difference. But then when it comes to reselling those things that are like stolen CDs, suddenly online and offline become two very different animals. Can they make up their minds already?
9/22 BDSup2Sub 3.9.4 contains a workaround for interleaved VobSub streams and adds tooltips for most GUI items.
The latest beta of neuron2's nVidia accelerated decoder tools now honors pulldown flags and fixes bugs in random access of MPEG program streams and TS streams.
BD Rebuilder 0.23.02 fixes a problem that could cause oversizing, uses the latest x264 build and contains some other minor fixes and corrections.
MakeMKV 1.4.4 supports multiangle Blu-ray discs, fixes MKV compatibility issues and improves handling of complex mpls files.
Once again, it's not the obvious suspects to make the first move in trying to abuse invasive government data collection for their own use - in Austria, it's not the music industry that demands access to the data gathered under the EU snooping directive, it's the Association of Austrian Newspapers. Wait a tick.. actually the music industry did come first.
6/21 In the wake of a record verdict for the music industry, at least some artists get that this whole thing has been blown way out of proportions.
Meanwhile, at Growlaw, they ask what if today's copyright law existed way back - how many of the world's literary masterpieces still have been written?
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