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Wired News’ Brad King notes that bootleg copies floating around the Internet aren’t putting dent into the box office sales of blockbusters like Spiderman. King attributes it to the theater experience of these films’ massive special effects, and I’d agree. I could see myself downloading Spiderman or Attack of the Clones because I’m lazy and…

LawMeme has a well considered essay on the appearance of new movies, like Spiderman and the new Star Wars, as bootlegs on file sharing networks and pirate VCDs/DVDs. Especially nice is the author’s explication of the “digital copies are more dangerous” myth, by noting that most analog pirates (like a VHS tape bought on the…

The On-line Journalism Review covers three former print publications that decided to go Internet-only, mostly for reasons of cost and the difficulty of maintaining good distribution of an actual paper magazine. One site is LiP, which is a lefty, progressive monthly that I read when it was a print ‘zine out of Chicago, and continue…

Business Week has a nice short interview with everyone’s favorite cheerleader for sensible copyright rules, Lawrence Lessig. No revelations here, though I’m glad to see him explain his logic to the short-attention-span business audience, who are the guys who need to hear it (whether I like that fact or not). I think his final comment…

Appeals Court Orders Revisit of Former Pirates’ LPFM License Rights Back in February the DC Court of Appeals ruled that former radio pirates should be eligible for low-power FM licenses, contrary to FCC rules. Unfortunately, yesterday that court vacated its own ruling, ordering a rehearing of the case. This update comes from Greg Ruggiero, who…

Who’s the Real Pirate? Dave Marsh, of Rock and Rap Confidential, proclaims in this Counterpunch article that the real music pirates are the music industry, citing the fact that most musicians, even those on major labels, can barely make ends meet and lack such luxuries as health insurance.

Marathon Broadcast to Save Internet Radio! Duane Whittingham, producer of the Tom and Darryl Show, e-mailed me this announcement: The RIAA and CARP want the Library of Congress to impose large fees imposed on webcasters, this has been discussed on the various shows on W0KIE and the net. Well now via one of the largest…

Counterpoint on the Washington Post’s Treament of IMC My pal John Anderson — former editor of the Radio/Pirate Radio page at About.com — e-mailed me with some comments on last week’s Washington Post article about IMC journalists covering the A20 protests. Overall, he doesn’t think I’m being critical enough of the Post, and then registers…

The haul from Quimby’s: At yesterday’s underground bookstore outing we picked up several fine publications that I’ll share. The book that instantly made me go “gotta have it,” is Tape Op; The Book About Creative Music Recording, edited by Larry Crane, which is chock full of interesting techniques for the DIY and low-budget/no-budget sound recordist.…

USA Today reports that many ‘net radio stations will have a day of silence this Wednesday in order to protest the outrageous copyright fees being levied on them.