According to Paul Uniacke, the man who runs the Video Ezy and Blockbuster video rental chains in Australia, Hollywood greed “is what’s holding back video-on-demand”, says The Australian. Uniacke “launched a scathing attack on studio executives last week as it emerged his company was unwinding its agreement to supply films to the movie download service [...]

Devilish Presley are London based independent artists who say they’ve only ever been, or ever wanted to be, on one label — November Tenth Records. Their own. They say they’ve released four albums since 2003 and have racked up more 300 gigs in the UK, including a major support tour with punk legends The Damned. [...]

Giant online advertising company Google snapped up ON2 Technologies, the creators of high-quality video compression technology, for  $106.5 million, said p2pnet last August. On2’s technology powers client online and desktop apps including Adobe, Skype, Nokia, Infineon, Sun Microsystems, Mediatek, Sony, Brightcove, and Move Networks, said ReelSEO . “That’s a pretty big list of heavy hitters”. [...]

 “The IIPA has published its usual criticism of Canada, but buried within the submission is a preliminary report that Canada’s business software piracy rate has declined yet again”, blogged Michael Geist recently.  “The report indicates there is a 2% to decline, to 30%, a record low.” However, says Digital Copyright Canada’s Russell McOrmond in a [...]

Moribund Big 4 record company EMI says reports that it’s about sell Britain’s famous Abbey Road Studios aren’t true. This “CAN NOT TAKE PLACE!!!!” – says Nick Williams in the new online petition to Stop the legendary studios becoming luxury flats. Now, “EMI said it had rejected an offer for the building last year and [...]

 Having fallen flat on its face in its attempt to use Australian law to railroad local ISP iiNet, AFACT, Hollywood’s Australian Farcical Approaches to Copyright Transgressions, is now trying to screw the company for out-of-pocket expenses. Or as Computerworld sums it up: “The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) will take Perth-based Internet Service Provider [...]

In Is a2f2a.com dead? “For an artist with a ‘donate’ button and a reason to buy” Robert suggests you check out http://www.amandarheaume.com/blog/loons/index.php. He goes on >>> Loones for Tunes, Amanda Rheaume is trying to tour across Canada and while planning she realized the expense is immense (done it, it’s not cheap to travel across this [...]

 The entertainment cartels are now completely out of control. And that’s official. They do whatever they want, actively backed up by police and other agencies whose salaries are met by taxpayers whom they’re supposed to protect. And government administrations elected by the same people — including Obama’s — either stand by and watch, or are [...]

‘ACTA Internet Chapter Leaks: Renegotiates WIPO, Sets 3 Strikes as Model’ is the full headline to Michael Geist’s latest post on ACTA, the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. “If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like?” – David Fewer, executive director of the University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and [...]

There’s a debate happening on a2f2a.com centering on two items: Is a2f2a.com dead? It isn’t. That was the starting point, but eventually, an attempt was made to compare what’s happening on p2pnet with what’s happening with musicians. But it’s apples and oranges — no relationship. “For those who have been shouting at artists telling them [...]