Tag Archives: RIAA

Clarity In the War on Blogs? - Blogger Updates DMCA Complaint Policy

Back in February we covered an interesting situation brewing in the world of music blogging.  At the time, many bloggers were experiencing a complete removal of content from their sites due to DMCA copyright policy without any real insight into what infringements they may have committed.  Clearly this raised many eyebrows, but resulted in very [...]
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Let’s make money, not war.

Part 1: Smart People Read this: “I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube video case study” I assume by this point you have seen my high school classmate’s wedding video that spread from web success to news and talk show success recently. I blogged about how they missed the opportunity to monetize their video but it looks [...]
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The Pirate Bay: Bringing Food to the Victims

Even if you’re not glued to the internet, you’ve probably heard of The Pirate Bay.  Once the 106th most visited site on the internet (the entire internet), the site and its owners have been tangled in legal proceedings since May 2006 when Swedish police raided their offices and seized their servers.  Granted, they were hosting [...]
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The War on Blogs

A few months back I was asked to provide some insight on an emerging trend in the music blogosphere for Modern Acoustic magazine. The piece was focused on the sudden disappearance of blog posts across the web, which was clearly happening on sites that published through the Blogger platform.   Putting two and two together, it [...]
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