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Copyright Town Hall Sham-bolics

Friday, August 28th, 2009

It appears that by design or chance, the big Town Hall meeting on Copyright law in Toronto yesterday was dominated by one side of the debate - that side representing the (mostly foreign-based) commercial music industry, that side seething epithets about "lawbreakers" and "pirates", that side representing a tiny minority ...

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Last.fm and misinformation

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

I need to retract a decision I made based on seemingly false news. Just over a month ago I posted an announcement that Simulacre Media would be removing its entire catalog from the Last.fm service due to the imposition of user fees in countries other than the US, UK, and Germany. ...

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Room Enough For Everyone :: Canada On the Web

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The Tyee is carrying Michael Geist's succinct report about the upcoming hearings at the CRTC over the future of Internet regulation in Canada. Most of these proposals don't make any sense - imposing Canadian content requirements on commercial Canadian websites is dubious at best - how would web content hosts ...

Posted in creative industries, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, freethenet.ca, internet, mobile, net neutrality, P2P, policy, political economy, technology, wi-fi | No Comments »

A Spectre Is Haunting Marillion

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

This? Oh yeah, we already did that. & it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!

Posted in culture & society, file sharing, indie, labels, marketing, music, P2P | 1 Comment »

Torrent Tracking on Open Networks 101

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Today is Northern Voice (I'm presenting tomorrow, but today is the unconference, most of which I hope to catch!), but right now I'm riveted to my laptop (poring over comments about torrent tracking) before I head out to UBC. Really good back n forth over at Nicholas Weaver's Random Thoughts ...

Posted in appropriation, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, law, open source, P2P, policy, SCOT, technology, torrents | No Comments »

The Internet Is Filesharing :: On ISP Levies and Creators’ Rights to Remuneration in Canada

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

I was recently asked by the Songwriters' Association of Canada (SAC) to submit a briefing on why file sharing is inevitable, and why a levy system for ISPs makes sense. (The SAC is in the process of submitting a proposal along these lines to the Canadian government, in light of ...

Posted in appropriation, art, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, internet, law, open source, P2P, policy, social web, technology, theory | 1 Comment »

Tapes and Tapes

Friday, December 14th, 2007

The image above depicts the "A List": tapes that are clearly labelled and known to have original music on them. There are 100 more on the "B List", which are mislabelled but suspected to contain original works (e.g., they were recorded atop prior recordings on the blank tapes, but never ...

Posted in archiving, blogs, culture & society, file sharing, music, personal life, podcast, tapes, technology | 3 Comments »

The Takedown Formerly Known As Prince

Friday, October 26th, 2007

In other news, Prince totally sucks now.

Posted in file sharing, law, music, taste, video, youtube | 1 Comment »

Technical Micropolitics and Musical Amateurs

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I presented at AOIR today as part of a panel on Music and Sound. Here's the PDF of my talk, complete with notes. I did this with an extreme headache, and a growing sense that I need to, as my friend and colleague Flo articulated it the other day, "coccoon" myself ...

Posted in AOIR 8, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, fandom, file sharing, indie, internet, music, online communities, open source, P2P, political economy, SNS, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »

4S, Montreal

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I'm blogging this from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Montréal. We (Roy Bendor, Jack Post, Peter-Paul Verbeek and I) just completed our panel on Bruno Latour ("Translating Latour") and I'm now in a very interesting panel about "Problematizing Technological Appropriation". My first impression is that ...

Posted in 4s, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, music, online communities, P2P, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »