The Worm Turns

(Click here for article.) Apple patent for technology that turns off iPhones being used to video live concerts. Apple doing this to "prove" to record companies that they (Apple) are good citizens intent on stamping out intellectual property theft, thus enhancing Apple's ability, vis-à-vis Google, Amazon, etc., to get better licensing terms from record labels, publishers, etc.

Vindication

June 6, 2011: IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE, YESTERDAY, APPLE CHANGED THE FUTURE OF MUSIC; IT'S CALLED iCLOUD

We told you it was NOT going to be a monthly subscription service

March 29, 2011: And Now... The Amazon Music Cloud

THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT…

Wired Magazine Says The Age of Music Theft Over!!! (Click here to read article.)

So finally, the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the industry-destroying DMCA are replaced (still applicable, but supplanted in fact) by a better methodology to stop online intellectual property theft. Hey pirates, the party's almost over!! Read up and weep.

The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About the FCC's Recent Attempt to Take Control of the Internet/Net Neutrality: "Internet providers are required to pass only legal content."!!! (Source.) As much as we disagree conceptually with the idea of so-called "net neutrality," (and with the FCC's having any dominion in the first place over the internet), we do welcome the position of the current administration with regard to the protection of intellectual property. This is all going in our direction!!

Good news readers!! When we began research for this website, and for months afterwards, we felt a sense of anger and frustration at the wholesale theft of our intellectual property and the destruction of our industry. We started this site to foster awareness of that theft and destruction and to fight back.

But lo and behold, the more research we did, the more we realized that forces were in motion that were going to solve the problem. And as always, it's money that is the driving force (and we happen to think that is a good thing). Ever hear the expression "content is king"? It means that without intellectual property, there is no product to sell on TV or the movies or music or these days, on the internet.

The beginning of the end of music theft is at hand. Read This!!!

WE TOLD YOU SO!!! Homeland Security Shuts Down Torrent Sites.

Click here for more - more internet pirate site shutdowns coming!!

For the longest time (the last decade or so), it was in the best interest of internet companies like Yahoo or Google or the internet service providers (Comcast, AT&T, Cox, etc.) to be a portal for "file sharing" (aka stealing). It created search volume and internet traffic that generated revenue for these companies. (Notice now (click here) that Google wants in on the music business. Once they have a dog in this hunt, will it really make sense for them to serve up search results that link to a bunch of websites trafficking in stolen songs that will compete with Google's brand new "digital locker" music business?)

Even Apple, while in the business of selling content through iTunes, welcomed, nay—encouraged—wholesale intellectual property theft in order to sell their iPods. Why else create a device that can hold 40,000 songs? Who can actually afford to buy 40,000 songs (that's about the price of a Lexus!!)?. By eschewing "DRM" (digital rights management for the layman, various encryption processes designed to block file sharing), Apple ensured that illegal file sharing would take place which paved the way for them to dominate the market for digital music playing devices. (We don't really blame Apple. They were just taking the path of least resistance and in the end—as you will see—paved the way for music recording revenues in particular to explode in the near future).

But now, the table is set; the pieces are in place, the battleground is drawn, and the war to monetize content is about to begin. Google is in negotiations with the movie makers to obtain content in order to to launch pay-per-view over its Youtube site (source). Apple is building a billion dollar server farm in North Carolina and last year, purchased a streaming music internet company called LaLa. Apple promptly shut LaLa down and there has been a lot of foolish speculation that Apple is going to get into the monthly subscription-based streaming business. (Click here for source info and further discussion of Apple's actions and plans.)

What Apple is actually going to do (in our humble opinion) is ask you if you want to save your library of intellectual property (that you bought from them) on their server farm (called a "Cloud" in internet parlance these days). In the future, when fast wireless internet is ubiquitous enough and wireless bandwidth is sufficient, Apple will do away with the downloading capability of iTunes (and iBooks, incidentally) and you will merely be buying a license when you make a purchase over iTunes. That license will "put" a copy of what you bought in your "digital locker" in the Apple Cloud and you will be able to play that song or movie on any device, anywhere, and time—iPhone, iPod, computer, iPad, or your Apple-connected TV for life.

Once Google and Apple become this invested in selling content, the rest of the main internet companies like AT&T, Comcast, Microsoft, etc., are going to want in on the action and the fastest road to that is to shut down all the stealing (which as we have documented exhaustively here can currently be effected).

We estimate that once stealing stops, music industry recording revenues will about quadruple!! It may seem like we are in our darkest hours, but the darkness does have to come before the dawn, so hang in there and keep creating!!

Intel Installs Anti-Piracy at the Chip Level!!

To all those leftard tech heads that argue there is no technical solution to piracy, read this!!