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Should ISPs Pay for Music?

A scheme that would shift the cost of digital music from users to Internet service providers is gaining international support

Though legal forms of digital distribution of music like iTunes and Rhapsody that charge users to listen to songs are gaining steam, some experts propose a more radical system for collecting revenues: making Internet service providers pay.“There should be a tax on the people who really make money off the free music, which is the computer makers, the CD burner makers, the MP3 player makers, [and] the ISPs,” said Steve Gordon, an entertainment lawyer and author of The Future of the Music Business.

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13352&hed=Should+ISPs+Pay+for+Music%3F&sector=Industries&subsector=EntertainmentAndMedia

Anti-piracy campaign looks at P2P log files for copyright abusers

The US movie industry has found a new method for identifying unauthorised file sharers. For the first time, the Motion Picture Association of America has used P2P operators' own log files to discover who has been swapping films on the Internet. Most of the information came from websites connecting users of BitTorrent software. Many of these sites have been closed down as a result of legal action by the MPAA.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/76802/antipiracy-campaign-looks-at-p2p-log-files-for-copyright-abusers.html

MPAA files lawsuits with data from P2P logs 

Major Hollywood movie studios have filed another round of lawsuits against file sharers it alleges to have distributed copyrighted movies over the Internet. However, this time is different from all over lawsuits. The studios have not been searching through P2P networks for IP addresses, they got the IP addresses from P2P companies own logs. In total, 286 lawsuits were filed against sharers in the United States. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said the logs were from file sharing sites shut down earlier this year.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6774.cfm

P2P is not a Four Letter Word – “P2P Backups” Certainly isn't 

Vembu Technologies, a leading provider of innovative backup and storage solutions, has announced the release of version 1.5 of Vembu StoreGrid, a flexible desktop backup software that simply works with your existing hardware! StoreGrid can enable Peer to Peer, Client-Server, and Remote Online Backups. An innovative concept, Peer-to-Peer backups are the result of applying P2P principles to desktop and laptop backups.

http://www.prleap.com/pr/13532/

iTunes Podcast Directory Comes to Taiwan

Apple Computer Inc yesterday introduced a broadcast feature to its red-hot iPod digital music players in Taiwan, hoping to secure a bigger market among music lovers locally. The feature, Podcast Directory service, is an audio program that users pull off the Internet and download onto digital music players or similar devices for listening to at their leisure.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2005/08/24/2003268988

Sony to launch P2P music swapping network

P2P music swapping networks have risen sharply to popularity, firstly in their illegal manifestations and now in some legal ones. No surprise then that many important industry players want in on the act. Sony BMG has partnered with British digital music outfit Playlouder MSP to make its music catalog available online. Users of the service will be pleased to know that they will be able to freely share licensed music, since a portion of the subscription fee goes to a digital pool which is divided amongst Sony and other artists. Now this sounds much more like a legal file sharing system that can really work. This one actually seems like good news, and a step in the right direction for P2P. 

http://www.techspot.com/news/18500-Sony-to-launch-P2P-music-swapping-network.html

MPAA mines captured p2p logs 

"We are being targeted by logs CONFISCATED from BT sites (such as Lokitorrent) shut down by MPAA / RIAA," says a Reader's Write to our post on the studios' latest attack on Australians.

http://p2pnet.net/story/6031

Mobile phone companies are shifting megabuck  

http://cellular-news.com/story/13851.shtml

Music Royalty Talks Hit Impasse

Negotiations between music copyright holders and online music services have broken down over the issue of how much to pay copyright holders for streamed music. The impasse means copyright holders, such as songwriters and composers, will continue to miss out on royalties for online subscription music services such as Napster and Rhapsody.

http://billboard.blogs.com/billboardpostplay/2005/08/music_royalty_t.html 

Napster boss on life after piracy

In the second of a series of occasional interviews with key players in the entertainment industry, the BBC News website speaks to Brad Duea, president of online music service Napster. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4165868.stm

Downloading 'myths' challenged  

People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4718249.stm

Studios mine P2P logs to sue swappers 

Hollywood studios filed a new round of lawsuits against file swappers on Thursday, for the first time using peer-to-peer companies' own data to track down individuals accused of trading movies online.http://news.com.com/Studios+mine+P2P+logs+to+sue+swappers/2100-1025_3-5843082.html?part=rss&tag=5843082&subj=news

U.K. sponsorship campaigns away from sports events and into live music, hoping to take advantage of a boom in concert attendance and also fuel demand for the high-margin music-based mobile content.

Mobile Phone Cos Tune Into Live Music Sponsorship