Q&A: Movie downloading
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History repeats itself: Movie
downloading mirrors early music
downloading
History repeats itself: Movie
downloading mirrors early music
downloading
09/24/2004 03:39 PMInternetRetailer.com Sep 24 2004 7:45PM GMT
MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy
plague
MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy
plague
07/09/2004 01:30 PMThe Motion Picture Association of America Inc. (MPAA) warned against a
"growing global epidemic" of movie piracy over the Internet this week,
citing a survey of Internet users in which nearly one in four
respondents had illegally downloaded a movie online. The study,
conducted by online research company
OTX, queried 3,600 Net users in
eight countries, and was cited by the MPAA as the harbinger of the
tough times the industry faces ahead in grappling with online piracy.
Shock therapy not used in movie
downloading study - official
Shock therapy not used in movie
downloading study - official
07/12/2004 07:24 PMMPAA cooks the books
Shock therapy unot/u used in movie
downloading study - official
Shock therapy unot/u used in movie
downloading study - official
07/12/2004 08:54 PMThe Register Jul 13 2004 0:24AM GMT
Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience
Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience
03/22/2005 05:03 PMYesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were
whini
ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting
their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize
that going to the movies is a
social experience. It's not just
about the content (though, that is important), but the overall
experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go --
even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap
DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to
entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that
story pointed to an article in China noting that
this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done.
After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made
going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience,
putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved
the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made
some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away
from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in
Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.
Downloading Again
Downloading Again
05/03/2004 01:17 AMA survey has found online music downloading is on the rise again.
Also: the most popular movies, TV shows, books and software.
Downloading goes upscale
Downloading goes upscale
11/06/2003 01:26 PMChicago Tribune Nov 6 2003 12:54PM ET
Music Downloading Down
Music Downloading Down
01/05/2004 05:39 PMCBS News Jan 5 2004 3:44PM ET
Why the Decline in Downloading?
Why the Decline in Downloading?
01/07/2004 05:18 PMThe Pew Internet Project's report on online file swapping doesn't tell
the whole story.
Downloading death
Downloading death
05/13/2004 06:18 PMMillions will watch Nicholas Berg's tragic murder online not for
prurient reasons or to gain insight into evil. They will watch because
of the overwhelming urge to be in the know.
Downloading for Democracy
Downloading for Democracy
07/19/2004 04:56 AMPeer-to-peer networks aren't just for trading music and movies. A law
student, frustrated by government secrecy and possible conflicts of
interest, launches a website that uses P2P networks to distribute
telling government documents. By Kim Zetter.
Downloading TV Shows
Downloading TV Shows
08/15/2004 11:15 PMLet's say I have a meeting on Monday nights during the time that
Fox's awesome guilty pleasure, "North Shore," is on. I
don't have a VCR anymore, so I can't tape it. And I don't have a Tivo either. What am I to do?
Well, I can download the show. There are any number of P2P clients
out there with which you can get a perfect, full-screen, letterboxed,
high-definition, stereo-sound copy of any TV show. An hour-long show
will download in anywhere from one to a few hours, depending on the
time of day. It's very practical to download a show you missed.
So, let's say I download and watch "North Shore." Have I broken
any laws? It's not like I stole anything — I'm a paying cable
TV subscriber and I have the cancelled checks to prove it. I could
have watched the show for free if I was home during the time it aired.
Additionally, if I had a VCR, I could have taped it and gotten the
same effect — watching the same show at a different time.
This is called "time shifting." There was a Supreme Court decision back in 1979 about the VCR in
which the Court ruled that taping a show and watching it later was
legal — the user was simply "shifting the time" in which he or
she watched the show. Here's a note from the Museum of Broadcast
Communication:
Handing down its decision in October 1979, the U.S.
District Court ruled in favor of Sony, stating that taping off air for
entertainment or time shifting constituted fair use; that copying an
entire program also qualified as fair use; that set manufacturers
could profit from the sale of VCRs; and that the plaintiffs did not
prove that any of the above practices constituted economic harm to the
motion picture industry.
(The term "time shifting," incidentally, is where The Shifted Librarian
draws its name.)
The only way I can see that someone got short-changed is that I
didn't watch any commercials (on most posted versions, they've been
edited out). So, this is a drag for the advertisers, but here's the
thing: I don't watch commercials anyway. I'm a quick-draw on the
remote when a commercial comes on. I channel surf until they're over.
Or I get up and go to the bathroom,or get something to drink, or
finally listen to what my little girl has been deperately trying to
tell me since the last commercial. Additionally, if I taped the show
with a VCR, I'd fast-forward through the commercials.
I think the content type matters. I very much put TV shows in a
different league than downloading a movie for which I would normally
have to buy a ticket, or music for which I'd have to buy a CD. I pay
for cable, so in my mind, I'm entitled to watch the show whenever I
want.
I also draw a distinction between distributing a show and receiving
a distribution. I'm perfectly entitled to receive a distribution
— that's what I do whenever I watch TV. However, you have to be
careful with your P2P client because there's a good chance you could
be distributing it as well, especially if you use a BitTorrent client or
have it in a shared folder for something like Kazaa.
If you proactively distribute the show — make it available to
others who may not be cable TV subscribers in a position to watch it
for free on TV — then you may be guilty of something.
At the risk of sounding combative, who are the TV stations to
decide when I have to physically plant myself in front of the TV? I
put up with cable rate increases every year, so I'll watch the show
whenever I please, thank you very much.
The bottom line, in my mind, is that I pay for cable TV. I'm just
not home when the show I want to watch is aired. Am I
over-simplifying this? Am I just trying to rationalize something?
I'm torn.
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Downloading IE 6.0 SP1 Instead of
Installing
Downloading IE 6.0 SP1 Instead of
Installing
08/10/2004 02:07 PMError In Downloading
Error In Downloading
11/14/2003 09:47 PMRecord, tech industries battle to make music pay off. By Russ Britt
and Steve Gelsi (CBS MarketWatch via MyAppleMenu)
Downloading Xcode
Downloading Xcode
04/28/2004 08:09 PMTrials and tribulations.
Yo, MTV's Downloading!
Yo, MTV's Downloading!
05/10/2004 02:40 PMMTV and MusicNet plan to offer tunes for the downloading masses.
Downloading isn't killing music
Downloading isn't killing music
07/22/2004 11:43 AMSuw Charman has written an excellent article for the Guardian on my
pal Koleman Strumpf's empirical, quantitative research on the effect
of downloading on record sales (he concluded that it doesn't really
have one), and the music industry's content-free bluster in reply.
"We consider it a very flawed study," says Matt Phillips, a BPI
spokesperson. Both the BPI and the International Federation for the
Phonographic Industries (IFPI) have criticised the study for including
the Christmas period when people are buying CDs as gifts.
"It's very straightforward to address these kinds of criticisms," says
Strumpf. "We got rid of the Christmas season and just looked at the
first half of our data. We still find the same effect."...
"Over the period 1999 to 2003, DVD prices fell by 25% and the price of
players fell in the US from over $1,000 to almost nothing," says
Strumpf. "At the same time, CD prices went up by 10%. Combined DVD and
VHS tape sales went up by 500m, while CD sales fell by 200m, so a
possible explanation is that people were spending on DVDs instead of
CDs."
L
ink
(
Thanks, Suw!)
Is Downloading TV Shows Legal?
Is Downloading TV Shows Legal?
08/11/2004 02:35 AMSalon is running a piece on how many people are
sharing and downloading TV shows using tools like
BitTorrent, some going a bit further than the original
broadcat
ching concept to create applications, like Buttress designed
specifically as an RSS aggregator for BitTorrented TV shows. The
article delves into one interesting issue that not too many people
have discussed: is downloading a publicly broadcasted TV show illegal?
As the article notes, it would be very difficult to show any kind of
"harm" from such a download. Obviously, sharing premium content shows
is a different issue, but what if someone already subscribes to the
premium station in question? The real issue is that the TV industry
suddenly has less control. There is also the fact that with the way
BitTorrent works, anyone downloading a show is also automatically
uploading a show -- but, again, this is a situation where the
entertainment industry appears to be shooting themselves in the foot.
For years, they've tried to come up with systems for TV-on-demand, and
here's a way that users have figured out how to do it for them. The
people downloading TV shows via BitTorrent are
watching more
TV, which should be good for the industry. Unfortunately, the
industry still only thinks in terms of how much they control, rather
than how much they can serve the needs of their viewers. It's amazing
that the industry is so good at missing every opportunity that seems
to come its way. Unfortunately, the industry also seems to view
intellectual property law as a way of protecting business models,
rather than protecting content. That they can't see a new opportunity
staring them in the face speaks volumes about the sorts of "business"
minds running the entertainment industry.
silicon.com - Been downloading and now
the FBI want a word?
silicon.com - Been downloading and now
the FBI want a word?
01/16/2004 10:59 AMhttp://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39117714,00.htm
Ben' caught Stealin'.....
So, you've been tinkering on Kazaa, treated yourself to Christina
Aguilera's latest tune and now there's an email from the FBI saying
they've got some evidence on you and they'll see you in court. Should
you be worried? Yes – but not for the reasons you might think. The
email is a piece of malware from a virus writer looking to mess with
your machine.
Canada says P2P downloading legal
Canada says P2P downloading legal
12/12/2003 03:05 PMIn the same ruling, Canadian copyright regulators also impose a $25
fee on iPod-like MP3 players and say that uploading is prohibited.
Hacking, downloading and bad web design
Hacking, downloading and bad web design
07/20/2004 08:02 AMLetters Very 21st century offences
People don't think they should be sued
for downloading
People don't think they should be sued
for downloading
06/30/2004 07:48 AMStole that headline from Techdirt there is no other way to say it.
Actually I can think of another headline but it would probably get my
syndication pulled from some other sites.
Honestly though do you think the majority of people are going to
say it's ok for the RIAA to Extort thousands of dollars of cash. They
use a mob like tactic you pay us or we are taking you to court. Geez
who has the resources to fight there hoard of Lawyers.
Techdirt has a great write up and link to the original article. [Techdirt
]
Counterpoint: Downloading Isn?t Stealing
Counterpoint: Downloading Isn?t Stealing
01/08/2004 08:50 PMThe New York Times Upfront asked me to contribute a short piece to a
point/counterpoint they were having on download.?
Downloading Squeezes The Art Of The
Album
Downloading Squeezes The Art Of The
Album
12/05/2003 05:31 AMThe album, music's dominant creative framework for the past 40 years,
is dying under the wheels of an accelerating revolution. By Edna
Gundersen (USA Today via MyAppleMenu)
Downloading digital music
Downloading digital music
12/24/2004 01:12 PM2004 in review Majors and minors, players and
platforms, lawsuits and licences
Downloading music gets more expensive
Downloading music gets more expensive
04/09/2004 04:08 PMDownloading music gets more expensive .. price inflation .. Raise
prices ..
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Internet downloading dilemma
Internet downloading dilemma
05/23/2004 09:24 AMVariety May 23 2004 1:24PM GMT
O'Reilly: Downloading Uniquely
O'Reilly: Downloading Uniquely
12/06/2002 10:02 AMDownloading your hotmail inbox
Downloading your hotmail inbox
12/02/2003 12:40 AMAdrian just pointed me to a fantastic tool: Gotmail, a utility to
download mail from Hotmail accounts. It's a command line utitlity,
written in Perl and making use of the curl binary, which can connect
to Hotmail over the web and grab any new emails, saving them locally
as an mbox file and deleting them from the Hotmail server.
Naturally, anything like this is completely dependent on Hotmail's
design staying the same and maintaining the tool is a constant arms
race. At the moment, Hotmail is ahead - a recent upgrade to the
Hotmail design (some time in the last few days) has rendered Gotmail
useless. A call for help on the Gotmail mailing list from the lead
developer makes particularly interesting reading. He's looking for
developers and users who can help with the debugging effort required
to get the tool working again, but the last paragraph of the email
really caught my attention:
Developers: If you have some Python proficiency, and would like to
assist in developing the next generation of Gotmail (development
name: gotfemail), email me off-list. I have some pretty ambitious
plans for this project, and depending on how much is actually
implemented, Hotmail breakages should be either self-fixing or very
simple to fix. I've done some work on making a generic library for
this sort of job (so the fetchyahoo people and others might be
interested), and some preliminary work on embedding the Javascript
interpreter from the Mozilla project.
A self-fixing screen scraper sounds like one heck of an interesting
project, and I can't complain about the choice of development language
either ;) If you're a Python hacker looking for a new project this
could be well worth checking out.
Downloading files down sharply: new
study
Downloading files down sharply: new
study
01/06/2004 01:02 PM
Americans are downloading fewer files from the
internet, according to a new
report from the Pew
Internet and American Life Project .
The study, conducted with
comScore Media Metrix , found that the number of people downloading files has dropped by nearly one half.
The number of peer-to-peer file-sharing applications running on
computers has declined as well.
A new nationwide phone survey of 1,358 Internet users from November
18-December 14 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed
that the percentage of music file downloaders had fallen to 14% (about
18 million users) from 29% (about 35 million) when the Project last
reported on downloading from a survey conducted during March 12-19 and
April 29-May 20. On an average day during the spring survey, 4% of
Internet users said they downloaded files. In the November-December
survey just 1% said they were downloading files on any given day
during the survey period.
The recording industry's subpoena
campaign played a role in the decisions. Conversely, legitimate
downloading services have seen increased usage, such as iTunes and college-linked
Napster 2.0 . Additionally, alternative filesharing applications may be on the rise.
Microsoft: scan for spyware before
downloading SP2
Microsoft: scan for spyware before
downloading SP2
09/05/2004 09:38 AMDirect and Related
Links for 'Microsoft: scan for spyware before downloading SP2'
Installed spyware can lead to computer freezes Network World staff,
Network World Microsoft last week warned Windows XP users to scour
their systems for spyware before downloading Service Pack 2. An
Associated Press report quoted Microsoft executives saying some
spyware could cause computers to freeze upon installation. Spyware,
which typically attaches to downloaded software such as file-sharing
programs, tracks behavior, triggers popup ads and can otherwise cause
computer problems. Programs such as Ad-Aware and SpySweeper…
Downloading lawsuits' cost getting
higher
Downloading lawsuits' cost getting
higher
12/19/2003 09:57 PMBoston Globe Dec 19 2003 9:23PM ET
Downloading Lawsuits' Cost Getting
Higher
Downloading Lawsuits' Cost Getting
Higher
12/19/2003 09:57 PMSan Jose Mercury News Dec 19 2003 9:40PM ET
Guide to Downloading Patent Copies
Guide to Downloading Patent Copies
03/19/2005 02:27 AM
Guide to Downloading Patent Copies
WinXP SP2: stop moaning and get
downloading
WinXP SP2: stop moaning and get
downloading
08/12/2004 05:46 AMOpinion Real progress for Redmond
Actually, I has any succceeded in
downloading a Midi file to
Actually, I has any succceeded in
downloading a Midi file to
08/22/2004 11:17 PMTechTree Aug 23 2004 2:48AM GMT
Downloading Music Encouraging CD
Purchasing
Downloading Music Encouraging CD
Purchasing
01/02/2004 03:42 PMA NY Times reporter has written up his experience in trying to get one
of his sons to
stop using Kazaa and start using iTunes or
Rhapsody. He admits that it's really pricey for limited
selections, but feels more comfortable about it. He's also surprised
that in letting his son download music, he now wants to
buy more
CDs. Despite the music industry claiming that no one would ever
want to buy CDs if they could download music (especially teenagers!),
the reporter's son wants the CDs because they come with liner notes
and lyrics that make it worthwhile. Again, this is an example of the
industry missing an opportunity. People (including myself) like to
own the actual CDs if it provides us with additional value. At the
same time, downloading music can help people figure out what CDs they
want to buy.
Aaron Swartz - Downloading Isn’t
Stealing
Aaron Swartz - Downloading Isn’t
Stealing
01/10/2004 07:21 AMNew York Times was too chicken to publish it but the Author isn't
[Aaron Swartz]...
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Canada: Downloading music is legal
12/15/2003 05:59 AMZDNet UK Dec 15 2003 4:52AM ET
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