http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-drama-prevents-artist-from-sharing-music-on-myspace-091007/

Great little article - I'll copy the gist from Craig Grannell's excellent tech blog Revert to Saved: (http://reverttosaved.com/)


- Edwyn Collins pens and has a hit with A Girl Like You.
- Collins retains copyright and the licensing deal expires.
- Collins tries uploading the track to MySpace.
- MySpace yells NO! and sends Collins to a chilling REEDUCATION page.
- Detective work unearths the fact Warner claims rights to the song that Warner doesn’t have.
- Warner lawyers told to resolve the issue.
- Warner can’t be arsed to resolve the issue.

I though this might interest Massassi / generate some incoherent whining.

I can't say that I'm surprised by any of that.

No, nor can I. Am however surprised by the mere mention of Edwyn Collins though. 90s-tastic.

"Craig Grannell's excellent tech blog Revert to Saved"

Excellent my ***. He thinks Flash shouldn't be on the iPhone because of instability of the mac plugin on OS X. Because, you know, it's not like they didn't rewrite the thing from scratch for ARM CPU and mobile platforms.

Yeah I took a look through his posts for the last month or so, most of them are trash.

Meh, I find him funny.

Maybe I don't get what it's supposed to be, because it does not fit what I think of as a "tech blog."

He's a bloke much like you or I who happens to write programming books, but also articles for a few magazines in the tech/gaming world. He writes for MacFormat and RetroGamer for instance. This is just his ranty blog about stuff in the tech world, and often on how it's covered by the traditional media.

http://reverttosaved.com/2009/10/02/satire-is-dead-when-it-comes-to-iphone-boobies/

For instance, I liked this one. It's not big or clever, but it's quite funny to me.

It's only piracy if it makes a CEO unable to purchase a new yacht!

Yeah, I don't buy this. There's got to be more to the story than that.

I'm willing to bet that each member of these copyright boards has at least one piece of material they've downloaded without permission from the authors/artists. They're all *******s just trying to milk more money.

They didn't. At most the AS JIT (if they JIT AS at all, N/A if it's a bytecode VM) and the actual display blit code. It's not like Flash is hardware accelerated.

TFA quotes someone in the actual industry as saying (paraphrase) "this sort of thing happens all the time" and I'm personally quite inclined to believe him. Mass media companies are not good. They do not have good people working for them.

Viacom's an easy example. In order to promote their own internet streaming service (which is now defunct, IIRC) they sent a few hundred thousand fraudulent DMCA takedown notices to YouTube. One of the videos they claimed copyright over was an Irrlicht tutorial. They really don't care.

EMI's CEO's daughter was caught downloading music a few years ago. He "disciplined" her and told a press conference that the problem has been resolved.
Too bad it doesn't work that way for the children and crippled grandmothers he's sued.