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Why Prince still matters
An outdated '80s pop star to some, he plays more gigs than Madonna and Springsteen put together.
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IP address doesn't ID individuals in piracy lawsuit, judge rules
In recommending a copyright-infringement case be dismissed, judge says an IP address alone was "unlikely" to uniquely identify the true defendant.
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Google Play Starts Offering Movies In Australia
The Google Play brand looked rather pointless when it first rolled out in Australia, since it offered neither movies nor music. Google has now rolled out movie rentals for Australian customers, Rented movies can be watched via your browser, or through dedicated Android phone and tablet apps. New release HD movies are $6.99; new release standard definition titles are $5.99; older library titles …
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Megaupload's Kim Dotcom: Inside the Wild Life and Dramatic Fall of the Nerd Who Burned Hollywood
Daniel Miller, Matthew Belloni He wanted to be the next Steve Jobs (and talked about starring in a reality TV show). But the outrageous ex-hacker and self proclaimed Dr. Evil, who collected yachts and $400,000 supercars as his file sharing website amassed 180 million users, faces 50 years in prison as showbiz braces for the nastiest piracy fight ever. read more
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Digital Notes: A Boss for 'Six Strikes' Copyright Enforcement
The Center for Copyright Information names an executive director and four board members to oversee its "six strikes" plan for controlling online piracy; Bono and the Edge of U2 invest in Dropbox.
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Spinlet Teams With Gracenote and Civolution to Bring Groundbreaking New Music Service to Africa
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — MUSEXPO – Gracenote® and Civolution have teamed with Spinlet to provide a music identification and monitoring platform for Spinlet's new mobile music …
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Hollywood and Wal-Mart: Keeping Their Fingers in the Dike
Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen is understandably exasperated by Hollywood's latest "deal" to preserve copy protection for DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs–even as sales figures suggest they should do exactly the opposite. In a time when the music industry has abandoned copy protection, the movie industry is doubling down—begrudgingly admitting that, yes, you bought that movie on optical …
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Australia’s Biggest Movies Aren’t Available As Streaming Rentals
The launch of movies on Google Play means Australians have a wider range of online movie streaming services to choose from than ever. Sadly, that doesn’t mean our biggest local movies can be easily accessed. The vast majority of our top-grossing local flicks still aren’t available for online viewing to paying customers. Picture by Patrick Riviere/Getty Images The table below shows the …
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The Giving Bass
Anyone who listens to pop music today is familiar with wobbly bass lines, wooshing filter sweeps, epic synth melodies and frenetic, stuttering collages of fractured digital noise. Electronic dance music took the Top 40 by storm in 2011, and four months into 2012 it is showing no signs of letting up.
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Digital disruption hits the flicks
Australian film makers could benefit from the digital distribution disruption which has now reached the movie world. Just as books and music have undergone distribution revolutions, the film industry is now, courtesy of increasingly ubiquitous and faster broadband communications networks, enduring a major shift which is impacting content creation, distribution and the ability to protect …
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Does The Hunger Games Soundtrack Measure Up to the Movie?
Benefiting from the Midas touch of the label "The Hunger Games"—the movie raked in $155 million in its opening weekend for Lionsgate—is the soundtrack, titled The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, which reached number 1 on the album chart this week. In doing so, it beat out Adele's 21, selling 175,000 copies (comparatively, 21 has sold some 8.4 million copies since its release in …
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British ISPs forced to block The Pirate Bay
Britain's High Court has ordered the country's internet service providers to block file-sharing website The Pirate Bay.
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How Hollywood Convinced California's Senate to Pass a Bill Increasing Piracy Damages
Eriq Gardner An obscure case last year challenged the value of damages from piracy. Now, California law on calculating restitution could be on the verge of changing what pirates owe. read more
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