This is a little screenshot from the TOS of the VPN service Private Tunnel:
Why can I not fight against the feeling that these uses are the main reason for many many copyleftists to use services such as Private Tunnel and OpenVPN?
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YouTube and Music Publishers Reach Ad Accord – NYTimes.com
So contrary to what all the freeloaders were screaming across the internet, it took quite a while for YouTube in the US to finally also reach an agreement there.
There’s hope after all that Google may start recognizing copyright instead of just mooching off of the traffic created by all the creative people out there.
Neue GfK-Studie: 73 Prozent der Filesharer kaufen keinerlei Musik | Musikmarkt
Die Barmherzigen “Fans” sind also doch nicht so ehrlich wie man gerne hätte. Das würde mich ja auch wundern, weil die Zahlen lügen nicht. Nie.
Neue GfK-Studie: 73 Prozent der Filesharer kaufen keinerlei Musik | Musikmarkt.
Fear Not, Unemployed Girl Kittens Sticking It To The Man! The Internet Community Has Your Back
Finally, somebody makes real sense of the inner workings of the internet, interest groups and public opinion on the internet.
I long had this feeling but being the composer and not the journalist, I just couldn’t find the form, format or words and I thank Paul Carr for writing it:
A bleak outlook
Someone left the following comment on this article that sounds a little too much like a conspiracy and would be Apples certain death.
The article:
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/23162-apples-icloud-could-be-the-biggest-copyright-trap-in-history
The comment:
Beware the (i)Cloud!
Give it a few years and the cpu will be abolished …all that will be in your box-o-tricks is a gpu to process the image. All the software from your OS, spreadsheet/word type and games will be in the cloud and you will be paying THEM to use it …upfront and monthly. Your information will become their information and you will be paying monthly to rent it back. No connection? Not paid your subscription? Tough…adios! You’ve ceased to exsist mate! More to the point, without payment and/or the squeaky clean credit certified means to pay ….you won’t ever have exsisted!
When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression
And that is the reason, why we need to move to systems like Diaspora. And also away from Google.
I don’t want to sound paranoid, but there’s just not enough balance here.
When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression: Jillian C. York – Bloomberg.
The roast of Facebook
On looking back
I read this in an article about journalism but it applies just as well to music, film and any other media whose business model is severly threatened by the internet:
The only way to find the future is to experiment, and negativity is not productive. If you don’t have the answer yourself, you are free to take your pessimism, hush it, and go sit with the folks in the corner sobbing over their VHS tapes and broken records. To entrepreneurs, I say: More power to you!
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