Friday may mark a significant milestone in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file-sharing, as it is the deadline for exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen to refile her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the record labels. Soon afterwards, discovery will begin, and all sorts of unsavory details about the RIAA’s legal campaign against suspected file-sharers are likely [...]

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Larry Lessig found himself on a panel with Andrew Keen, whose “Cult of the Amateur” excoriates the Internet for breeding sloppiness and errors, so Larry went through a list of the errors Keen made in his book. First off, Keen’s description of Lessig as someone who “laud[s] the appropriation of intellectual property.” Lessig pointed out [...]

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On Tuesday, Amazon.com was granted a patent for Personalized Selection and Display of User-Supplied Content to Enhance Browsing of Electronic Catalogs, which the three inventors note covers authoring and posting pieces of content, referred to as ‘blurbs,’ for viewing and rating by other users. The patent claims cover blurbs generated using a blurb authoring pipeline [...]

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I previously wrote about this story from last week and it seems that the IFPI wants their domain back. Ars Technica has word on what has happened since the initial domain conquest (arrrr). Some excerpts below:
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has taken up a new battle against pirates, but this one is different [...]

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The Pirate Bay scores another victory over the music biz

Rob Mead
15 Oct 2007 07:30 GMT
Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash ‘n’ grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-piracy bodies.
The Pirate Bay has now taken up residence at [...]

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The new Amazon MP3 Store looks like no previous iTunes Store rival. The music is completely DRM-free, encoded at a very respectable 256 kbps, includes a ton of songs from major record labels, and offers terrific software support for Mac OS X.When you purchase singles, you can download them directly via your web browser. When [...]

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ThePirateBay has been digging through the enormous chunk of leaked email from MediaDefender, the sleazy enforcers used by the entertainment industry to fight P2P, and they’ve discovered evidence of illegal sabotage. So they’re suing all the big movie and record comapnies in Sweden:

* Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
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Filed under: Portable Audio
It looks like the long, litigious saga of AllofMP3 is about to take yet another turn, with the company is now promising to resume its music download service following a recent Russian court ruling in its favor. While it apparently isn’t quite ready to get all that specific, the company has posted [...]

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Xeni Jardin:
Drew from Fark just pointed me to this ABC News web article on the Digg user revolt over the AACS numeric key (previous BB post). Drew says,
The article questions why Digg censors spam and porn, but not the HD-DVD key. I think mainstream media is now going to use this as an excuse [...]

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