Archive for March 24, 2008

Electronic Frontier Foundation

{ March 24, 2008 @ 8:31 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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There’s a group you can join and petition against those big entertainment industries suing P2P services, it’s called EFF or Electronic Frontier Foundation.  This site explains what the group is all about and how they are fighting to promote progress in arts and science.  I don’t know how they are aiming to beat this, but it’s interesting to look through they mission statement and if it intrigues you enough and you feel very strongly about the freedom of downloading music online, join the foundation or sign the petition.  Hopefully, the big time industries don’t use your info from the site to hack in and find a way to sue you for copyright infringement.

Radiohead’s revolutionary act

{ March 24, 2008 @ 1:22 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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In doing research on my paper for the copyright debate, I came across this article about how Radiohead started this precedence of putting their 7th album, In Rainbows, online for a name-your-own-price deal. This dude from Nine Inch Nails did a sort of experiment to see how well his friend’s album would do if it was a pay $5 for a quality recordings or just get it for free. Many more opted for downloading it for free making him upset at the results. Then putting his own recordings up online he made about $750,000 in only three days… probably b/c Nine Inch Nails has a bigger fan base than his friend. But anway, I thought it was interesting that other artists were trying this approach out and finding benefits to it instead of trying to sue all of us P2P users.