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Trading in dead bodies and body parts probably isn't a glamorous profession--some might even view it as ethically squishy and, for many of us, emotionally squeamish. But in our current way of teaching medicine, cadavers are a necessary training resource. They have to be procured from somewhere,...

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Blog posts 2008-01-11

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Three strikes and you lose broadband, net thieves told

Persistent illegal downloaders in France are to have their internet access cut, after a controversial anti-piracy law was endorsed by the French cabinet. Under the rules, which come into effect in January, it will be "three strikes and you're out" for French Web users downloading copyrighted films...

Articles 2008-06-19

The Tables Have Turned: Rock Stars - Not Record Labels - Cashing In On Digital Revolution

Ahead Of World Music Day, IBISWorld Reports On Downloads, Digital Music And The Changing Face Of The Music Industry LOS ANGELES, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- According to IBISWorld, Inc., (http://www.ibisworld.com/), one of the nation's most respected independent publishers of business intelligence research, while many recording artists are...

Articles 2008-06-19

France clamps down on Internet piracy

PARIS AFP — France moved Wednesday to clamp down on Internet piracy with a bill that would set up a new agency to track down cybersurfers who illegally download music, videos and movies from the web. Culture Minister Christine Albanel presented the bill to cabinet, saying it was...

Articles 2008-06-18

U. campus targeted in music piracy

The music industry is tightening its grips on University of Utah students who they believe have pirated songs. Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry, notified the university of its intent to sue individuals who it ...

Articles 2008-05-24

The great British tradition of media piracy

REGULATION PIRATES The swashbuckling plunderers who operate beyond the arm of the regulator can be a force for creative good, argues Matt Mason When a young Irish entrepreneur named Ronan O'Rahilly founded pirate station Radio Caroline in 1964, he also established a great...

Articles 2008-05-19

INTERNET : MEPS OPPOSE CLAMPDOWN ON FILE-SHARERS.

Do not criminalise consumers under the pretext of fighting internet piracy. This is the main message of an own-initiative report adopted by the European Parliament, on 10 April in Brussels, which in particular criticises cutting internet connections, planned in France in particular. ...

Articles 2008-05-13

Pirate capitalism: remix culture goes corporate

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, by Matt Mason, New York: Free Press, 279 pages, $25 IN A WELL-publicized speech two years ago, Disney co-chair Anne Sweeney said,"We understand now that piracy is a business model.... Pirates compete the same way we do--through quality, price,...

Articles 2008-05-01

P2P: if you can't beat it, fix it

Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is the bane of both ISPs trying to keep control of their bandwidth resources and content companies worried about file sharinwg software that enable video and music "piracy" P2P filtering products that use deep packet inspection DPI have been touted as the optimal solution, but as P2P...

Articles 2008-05-01

Nexicon Issues Corporate Update

GetAmnesty expands its reach in motion picture industry; establishes footprint in music industry ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Nexicon (Pink Sheets: NXCN), New Symbol (Pink Sheets: NXCO) a leading supplier of anti-piracy and network security solutions provided the following update from Richard Urrea, CEO: ...

Articles 2008-04-29

Nashville Records Updates TriMark Status, Offers Share Dividend to Shareholders

Nashville Records (PINKSHEETS: NSHV) todayissued an update to its shareholders, with regards to the TriMarkTMtechnology being designed to prevent piracy of illegally downloaded musicand movies. Gene Sibbett, President, stated, "Meetings with prospectiveinvestors have gone well and investors have been impressed not only withthe concept and critical need, but also the...

Articles 2008-04-25

Navajo Nation may outlaw piracy

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Edmund Yazzie was playing in a hard-rock Christian band three years ago when he got a call telling him a company was selling his band's CDs over the Internet and on the Navajo Nation. While such bootlegging is illegal under federal law, it's not...

Articles 2008-04-20

In-Stat Reports Digital Sales Will Account for 40% of Music Purchases by 2012

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Digital sales of music represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from 6% in 2006, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). By 2012, digital music sales will represent an impressive 40% of all music purchased worldwide, the high-tech market research firm says. Factors contributing to this...

Articles 2008-04-09

TalkTalk rejects music industry call for ISPs to police web users

Business News IN BRIEF *Carphone Warehouse's phone and broadband arm, TalkTalk, will today reject the music industry's proposal that internet service providers ISPs turn off illegal downloaders' web access. The government says it will legislate if the music, film and internet access industries cannot establish a solution...

Articles 2008-04-04

Canadian Officials Execute Largest Ever Piracy Raid

Last month, police raided an alleged music piracy operation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, resulting in what Canadian music industry representatives are calling the largest-ever counterfeit bust in Canadian history. According to the Canadian Recording Industry Association, a firm called Audiomaxx was raided by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who...

Articles 2008-04-01

Singing the Digital Blues

A training video designed to help instruct U.S. prosecutors on how to confront music piracy cases was recently leaked to the internet. The video, which was produced by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA in conjunction with the National District Attorneys Association, actually takes a somewhat surprising turn when...

Articles 2008-04-01

EMI cuts Anti-Piracy funding of IFPI.(LEGAL MATTERS)(EMI Group PLC)

- Strategy of Using Lawyers Has Not Worked. - $130m a Year For Lawyers and Too Damn Little for Technology - Will Other Labels Follow & What of the RIAA? Fighting music piracy in the courts has turned...

Articles 2008-03-15

Japan to strip Internet for illegal downloaders: report

TOKYO AFP — Japanese companies plan to cut off the Internet connection of anyone who illegally downloads files in one of the world's toughest measures against online piracy, a report said Saturday. Faced with mounting complaints from the music, movie and video-game industries, four associations representing Japan's Internet...

Articles 2008-03-14

Nashville Records Updates Shareholders, Engages Legal Authorities to Address Unauthorized Shares

Nashville RecordsTM (PINKSHEETS: NSHV)today announced updates to its shareholders regarding business activitiesfocused on 2008. According to Mr. Gene Sibbett, President, the company hasarranged for a formal presentation of their flagship technology "TriMark"to a select group of investors the end of this month. Developed to provideanti-piracy support for both the music...

Articles 2008-03-13

Telcos urged to act on piracy.

SECTORS: Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are looking at how ISPs monitor their networks. Tim Bradshaw Internet service providers ISPs are facing increasing government intervention over how they monitor the types of traffic that run over their networks. Content owners have...

Articles 2008-03-06