The recording industry began filing lawsuits against file-traders. Monday 261 suits were filed. “On average, the music traders had made over 1,000 music files available to others on P2P networks like Kazaa. The most egregious offender sued had shared over 3,000 files.”
Tag: 09.08.03
A File-Trading Amnesty You Should Resist
“Should you take the RIAA up on its amnesty offer? Maybe not. The “Clean Slate” program promises that the RIAA won’t pursue legal action against P2P pirates who send in a notarized affidavit declaring that they’ve wiped all copyright-infringing materials from their disk drives and who vow not to file-share again. But lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco say there are multiple reasons to sit tight for now, rather than rush to sign and deliver what amounts to an admission of guilt.”
The Real Bach. Really. No, We Mean it
“We’ve seen more releases of Mozart, Beethoven, and beyond with original instruments. In the process we hear scholarship go right and we hear it go wrong. Sometimes, we hear it go nuts. After all, research can take us only so far. We can’t really know what music sounded like before recordings arrived, and the historical data is vague and contradictory. The older the music, the more uncertainty.”
“The Return” Wins Venice
“Intense Russian father-and-son drama ‘The Return’ won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for best picture yesterday, bringing little relief to first-time director Andrey Zvyagintsev who was still shaken by the death of the 15-year-old star of the movie.”