Ok, this week’s podcast is a bit odd – i recorded it in the middle of the night and I was trying to be quiet so many apologies if I sound like a cross between a late night call-line and a tired bear. Hope you enjoy the stories though!!
Topics covered: three Strikes around the globe, the Pirate Bay sentence could be declared a mistrial, some Comes With Music statistics, the Loi Hadopi (three strikes law) in France finds an enemy in the European Union, Hulu and Music videos, the fall of music sales around the globe.
LINKS FOR THE STORIES
Startup of the week! www.tunesbag.com
Three Strikes Report part 2 – Around the World
New Zealand
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/new-zealand-three-strikes-law-delayed-537427
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/3-strikes-strikes-out-in-nz-as-government-yanks-law.ars
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5966219.ece
http://torrentfreak.com/kiwi-3-strikes-law-081017/
http://freeculturenews.com/2009/04/12/new-zealand-3-strikes-amendment-removed/
Canada
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/Videotron-Wants-Three-Strikes-Law-In-Canada-101109
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3706/125/
http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/idol/2009/04/24/crtc-opens-online-public-consultation-on-bandwidth-throttling/
California
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/rep-howard-berman-calls-for-new-ip-law-using-dodgy-data.ars
South Korea
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/korea-fits-itself-for-a-3-strikes-jackboot.ars
Taiwan
http://billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib20649ac4d6059c2ff7b95023c51cbe6?imw=Y
WEEK’S NEWS
Torrent Freak and the Swedish Torrent Sites Closures
http://tinyurl.com/cz6f46
Torrent Search via Google
http://mashable.com/2009/04/20/google-torrent-search/
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma&ie=UTF-8&q=&sa=Search
Comes with Music might not have a great deal of active users…
http://musically.com/blog/2009/04/21/comes-with-music-has-23000-active-uk-users/
Troubles for the Loi Hadopi in France
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/internet/21net.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Another study claiming pirates buy more music
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/study-pirates-buy-tons-more-music-than-average-folks.ars