The RIAA Armageddon has begun

Wouldn't it just be *BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...*

NZ Herald reporting on this mess is double-plus next level: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10837683

Pir@te B@y has been down for a day or two.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/liveuniverse-owes-music-publishers-66-million-for,86629

chasing that final dollar

''who knew that posting lyrics online was illegal?'' doesn't everybody know lyrics are copywritten?

can't wait 'til rapgenius gets hit tbh

a $6.6 million default judgment on Tuesday for posting the lyrics to 528 songs

That's $12,500 for lyrics to a each song.

Alleged AT&T training doc:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/13/atandt-training-document-piracy/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html?ctp=1

i don't understand the strategy. is it to ramp up annoyances to make it more costly to pirates, without having to go all the way to turning off their service (thus losing customers) or suing them (costing money, taking time)?

i figure they think a large percentage of casual pirates will be scared straight just by getting a warning

just dont use public trackrse

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A9y1x4vCYAADw4K.png

how do u copyright a man's dream

You buy the dream's IPR.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/emi-strikes-deal-with-martin-luther-king-jr-estate/

go king you got keep it up lav ya

got something in my mediafire account saying my own EP is copyrighted and cannot be shared. sent them an angry email. :|

they're just trying to protect you from yourself.

Lol!

so they say there was a copyright claim on one of my tracks by an electro-house act called Kinky Board, who I'd never even heard of. the track in question didn't even use any samples of any sort, just soft-synths and copyright-free drum patches, so I have no idea why they're even bothering me with this shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Q-g0e1HNM

Mediafire links have been going down a lot lately. Is anything up with that?

They're now the #1 service to monitor, I guess? Closest thing to a MU replacement?

mediafire's been got to. most links i've looked at recently is down and provides you with a link to purchase the same or similar files from amazon.com et al. this is particularly frustrating with out-of-print albums, where they'll like, link to a greatest hits album where you can find one song from the oop album.

Yeah, I also had an unreleased album by an obscure artist who never got a release date and an old mixtape, both early-mid 2000s era that I was hosting and were taken down too, but I didn't contest them. I don't see who it profits to take those down, though. It's not like anyone was making money off of either in the first place.

They still haven't gotten back to me about my protest of innocence over my own track tho.

The funny thing is I had way more egregious bending of copyrights on the account that didn't get flagged, DJ mixes, remixes of popular songs released on major labels, but instead some track that didn't use anyone else's material at all gets flagged. I can't make sense of it.

ok, they resolved this issue and the file's no longer flagged

good to hear!

Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the Internet to end government surveillance

https://rt.com/usa/news/kim-dotcom-interview-mega-673/

man they REALLY crushed these sites didn't they. I haven't been able to find anything on mediafire, rapidshare etc for months now. oh well. it was never meant to last anyway. back to waiting years to find used vinyl copies of old stuff, I guess.

Gordon Lightfoot's first album "Lightfoot!" for ex.

I think there are other reasons that might not be available.

?

so much old country, folk, bluegrass stuff that was never officially released digitally is what I'm really missing

just found Lightfoot! within a few minutes. it's tougher, but you can still find stuff.

where

I have oink invites if you need one.

i'm insulted that you went searching for some prime early Gord cuts without consulting your old buddy profgbs first

soulseek, homie.

what? (.cd)

I hate soulseek, not installing a P2P app on my work laptop sorry

I'm crossposting my post from the Spotify thread since this issue concerns all digital delivery modes and is RIAArmageddon to the max:

So it turns out I'm not crazy, my ears weren't playing tricks on me, and there is a reason just about all spotify tracks (and emusic and amazon downloads etc) originating from UMG labels sound weird and fluttery. It's not, as I presumed, a defect in the codec they used to digitise their holdings; rather, it's a deliberately introduced, ostensibly 'inaudible' sonic watermark. Even the flacs you can buy of UMG material from sites like Passionato have it. The only way to get a good-sounding file of a UMG track is to... yes... buy it from UMG's own webstore. Where they only offer a scant sliver of their material anyway.

Mystery was unraveled here:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=89818

And neatly summarized here:

http://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark

So yeah do not ever pay money for a digital file of anything on Island, Motown, ECM, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Def Jam, Blue Note, Impulse, the list goes on and on and on. And if yr listening to it on Spotify, yes it sounds fucked up on purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Music_Group_labels

(This all belongs just as much on the RIAA Armageddon thread I suppose, since the watermarks are supposed to be a way for the label to know what digital vendor an illegally shared file was originally bought from).

― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that really is crazy

xp Yeah that is absolutely crazy...maybe not so many people care about sound quality anymore but the optics of a company sabotaging their digital catalogue, if it becomes common knowledge, could scupper the uptake of legal downloading.

The problem here is that the UMG watermark degrades the audio to about the equivalent of a 96 kbit MP3.

yikes

wtf

god digital distro sucks so hard

if you want to really hear it big time listen to any solo piano recording.

the sad part of this is that we're finally at a stage were -- and i know ppl make fun of neil young and his PONO project -- but 24bit digital audio sounds really fucking great and hard drive space is so cheap now and broadband is so prevalent that we could be living in a pretty amazing age of easy hi-fi digital music, good DACs are really coming down in price