Jaron Lanier’s second book makes a radical proposal for altering the economics of data and content online.
An abrupt end to a celebrated event for the publishing industry.
A federal district judge comes down hard on the digital music resale startup.
The Supreme Court established that first sale rights apply to media products manufactured outside the US when brought into the country. What does this decision portend for digital first sale?
Grandstanding against abuse of DMCA 1201 is easy. Making overdue changes to the law, not so much.
The U.S. finally embarks on its own, more laissez-faire style of graduated response.
Media industry people are beginning to realize just how disruptive resale of digital content can be.
Here is an interesting addendum to last week’s story about Mega, the new file storage service from Kim Dotcom of MegaUpload fame. Recall that Mega encrypts files that users store on its servers, with keys that only the users know… unless they publish URLs that contain the keys, like this one. This means that Mega can’t know […]
New academic research finds overwhelming consistency among studies of the economic effects of media piracy.
Is Kim Dotcom trying to compete with DropBox or just evade the DMCA?
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