Abstract According to the RIAA the media industry is suffering heavy losses due to increased copying and file sharing in the last 10 years. Sanity and reason shows there must be something true with that argument. But are the numbers the media companies are providing correct? What can we learn from history? The following links [...]
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[Media] Newspaper Articles About Copying And File Sharing
April 28th, 2010 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
Posted in News, Short Stories 
Tags: .nfo, Abmahnung, Bittorrent, Emule, File Sharing, Filme, illegal, Megaupload, Moviez, Muzaq-Production, Muzic, P2P, Rapid Share, rapidshare, Rar, Torrent, zip 
No Comments »[Muzaq] Former Universal CEO Calls For Culture Flatrate
March 9th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Former CEO of Universal Music Germany Tim Renner has called for a culture flatrate in the german Rolling Stone magazine. Renner said, potential music buyers could be offered unlimited access to the music industry’s repositories for €12,90 (~US$17,50) per month. Furthermore at the address of the music industry he argues: “Instead of fighting with ghosts, [...]
Posted in Muzaq, News Tags: Amazon, Berlin, Buch, Business Model, CEO, Der Tod ist gar nicht so schlimm, File Sharing, Flatrate, Future, Hamburg, illegal, Kinder, Motor.de, Music Industry, P2P, Tim Renner, Universal No Comments »[Muzaq] Artists Sue Major Labels – $6 Bill. Lawsuit
December 9th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Again the irony of reality strikes back on the record labels. According to articles on Toronto Star, Golem.de, TorrentFreak.com canadian record companies have illegaly copied thousands of songs from artists without permission and without sharing the profit with the artists.
Posted in News Tags: Bittorrent, Canada, Canda, Download, File Sharing, Gericht, Kanada, Label, Labels, Lawsuit, Major, Media Industry, P2P, Peer 2 Peer, Peer to Peer, Prozess, Record, Upload, Verfahren No Comments »[News] Pirate Bay Court Hearing Ends
March 3rd, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN With the final speech of the defense the court hearing ended today. The Pirate Bay guys have the public opinion on their side. As expected the defence negated responsibility for copyright infringement and continued to argue that Pirate Bay is basically a search engine, that provides torrent index files. The court is expected to take [...]
Posted in News Tags: Bittorrent, court, Court rule, European Parliament, File Sharing, Index, Media Business, Media Industry, Medienindustrie, P2P, Pirate Bay, Process, Prozess, Torrent No Comments »