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• U.S. Households Viewing Broadband Video Doubles: ABI [promomagazine.com]
• Calls for 100Mbps broadband likely to go unheard... this year [arstechnica.com]
• FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Revives Class A Must Carry [multichannel.com]
• Vint Cerf pushes IPv6; warns of Internet meltdown (again) [theinquirer.net]
• Breaking up telecom companies is hard to do [cbc.ca]
• BT withdraws Wi-Fi access to The Cloud [theregister.co.uk]
• The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Ownership [techdirt.com]
• Swedes back-peddle on snooping laws [theinquirer.net]

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Sammer

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Class A Must Carry

Class A Must-Carry is a very good idea. Of course the cable networks (some owned by cable companies) don't want more competition. Now they really seem to be upset that the FCC has figured out a way (allowing Class A stations to apply for full power status) that is fully within the law and would undoubtedly help the OTA digital transition.
permalink · 2008-09-26 20:55:58 · Reply to this

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The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Own

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Basically, the record labels are using a protection racket system: give us some equity, or we'll shut you down.
I believe that is illegal. we should sue them.
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permalink · 2008-09-27 00:56:59 · Reply to this
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Re: The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Own

said by uid1307457 See Profile :

quote:
Basically, the record labels are using a protection racket system: give us some equity, or we'll shut you down.
I believe that is illegal. we should sue them.
If the mafia was doing this, it would be considered racketeering-and be prosecuted under the RICO statues.

But, since the RIAA is doing it, it's okay-after all they regularly BRIBE Congress and law enforcement.
permalink · 2008-09-27 03:46:52 · Print · Reply to this
Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ		 the RIAA is more powerful then Al Capone was during the 1930s when he could buy feds with booze and cash.
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permalink · 2008-09-27 10:40:12 · Reply to this
EPS

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Hingham, MA		 Bah, it's just spin. The RIAA member companies own the rights to the music, they can put what restrictions on it they want.
permalink · 2008-09-27 16:25:29 · Reply to this
Kearnstd
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Re: The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Own

maybe so but if they ignore certain business models like they did the Internet for so long, they are destine for total failure. them ignoring digital media for as long as they did is why they have so much trouble with online piracy.
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permalink · 2008-09-27 17:39:10 · Reply to this
EPS

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Re: The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Own

But they're not ignoring new business models- they want to make sure they control the new business models like they do the old and can make enough money off of them to partially recover from declining CD sales- it's actually a very smart move on the RIAA's part.
permalink · 2008-09-27 19:15:36 · Reply to this
vinnie97

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Re: The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Own

Enough of that sympathy for the devil.
permalink · 2008-09-29 03:37:57 · Reply to this
Kearnstd
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 the problem is they want too much control, in the CD and earlier era i could play that music on any device as long as it could play that said media type.

in the digital download era the perfect utopia for the RIAA is one in which you would have to purchase a copy for each device. it would be like your DVDs being registered to your living room player and the refusing to run in the Minivan when on a trip.
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permalink · 2008-09-28 22:40:47 · Reply to this
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