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Default Peer-To-Peer News - The Week In Review - November 5th, 22

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Music Piracy Is Still Alive

Even with free streaming sites, apparently, there is still media to be stolen, as Google takes a YouTube pirating site to court.
Bobby Owsinski

With so much music available for free on the ad-supported tiers of the various streaming services, you’d wonder why anyone would even bother trying to steal it. The same goes for music videos since anyone can access just about anything on YouTube without paying a dime. But if you thought that nobody wants to do that, you’re wrong, and a new lawsuit by the YouTube download site Yout proves that music piracy is alive and well.

Yout helped its users bypass YouTube’s technology in order to illegally download videos. This was something that caught the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) notice, so it demanded that Google delist the site from search results because of the alleged copyright violations.

So Yout decided to initiate a lawsuit, seeking a “declaratory ruling” that it didn’t violate the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and charging that the RIAA defamed the site and wrongfully wanted Google to delist.

A federal judge didn’t see it that way though, and ruled against Yout. Judge Underhill ruled that “Yout’s technology clearly ‘bypasses’ YouTube’s technological measures because it affirmatively acts to ‘modify’ the Request URL (a.k.a. signature value), causing an end user to access content that is otherwise unavailable”.

You think that would be the end of it, but Yout’s attorneys expected the result and plan to appeal, proving that not only can you sue for the right to steal, but also insist you’re the one that’s in the right. This is akin to someone breaking into your house, then suing you because you called the cops.

Yout’s site may be still be online somewhere but you’ll never find it unless you know it’s IP address. All the search engines now point back to YouTube when you do a search.

We haven’t heard the last of this case though, but Yout’s owners better have some deep pockets to take on Google (YouTube’s parent company).

Music piracy has largely decreased over the last 5 years, but reports are that’s it’s actually slowly on the rise again. This case proves that’s a correct assumption.

If you’re really into the legal details, you can read the decision here.

Bobby Owsinski is a producer/engineer, author and coach. He has authored 24 books on recording, music, the music business and social media.

Read more: https://music3point0.com/2022/10/14/...#ixzz7hjVIXTwP
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https://celebrityaccess.com/2022/11/...s-still-alive/





Amazon Music Expands Catalog to 100M Songs for Members
Jonathan Landrum Jr.

Amazon Music is gearing up for a massive content expansion: The streaming giant will offer a full catalog of music with more than 100 million songs for members.

The streaming service told The Associated Press that members will gain hundreds of millions of songs — a huge increase from 2 million — in shuffle mode without any advertisement at no additional costs. It will also include most top podcasts ad-free including Wondery’s catalog of premium shows along with series like “MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories” and Keke Palmer’s new original podcast “Baby, this is Keke Palmer.”

“We can’t wait for members to experience not only a massively expanded catalog of songs, but also the largest selection of ad-free top podcasts anywhere, at no additional cost to their membership,” said Steve Boom, vice president at Amazon Music.

Amazon Music says the decision behind the huge increase came after customers pressed for access to a full catalog of music. Now, members will be able to shuffle play any music artist, album or playlist with the option to upgrade to the Amazon Music Unlimited tier to get on-demand access — which has spatial audio along with songs in HD and Ultra HD.

Members will be able to listen to shows ad-free from major media outlets such as CNN, ESPN, NPR and The New York Times. Other top podcasts on the platform include “Dr. Death,” “SmartLess”, and “Even the Rich.”
https://apnews.com/article/technolog...0386783e8e3ad4





New Hot Job: State High-Speed Internet Network Director
Margaret Harding McGill

States are shoring up expertise in high-speed internet networks by creating or expanding broadband offices to prepare for an influx of infrastructure cash.

Why it matters: Ensuring that more than $40 billion in new funding connects every American to high-speed internet service is a job that's falling to the states — and they need help.

Driving the news: Of all the job openings posted for states' burgeoning broadband offices, the "director" position is the most common vacancy, according to data The Pew Charitable Trusts shared with Axios.

• Directors are often responsible for crafting state broadband plans and overseeing hundreds of millions in funding from multiple state and federal programs.
• The Pew tracker found 15 director-level positions posted, out of about 68 total positions since September 2021. Washington, Colorado, and Maine had the most job postings.

What's happening: The Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program (BEAD), funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law, will provide $42.45 billion to expand high-speed internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs in all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico and U.S. territories.

• The release of these funds will be tied to eligible entities' five-year action plans, initial and final proposals, according to the program's FAQ.

State of play: Before the pandemic, about half of states had a broadband office.

• Now, all 50 states have some sort of program, and many are trying to expand, Anna Read, a senior officer with Pew's broadband access initiative, told Axios.
• "Many of these offices were one or two-person operations prior to the availability of federal funding," Read told Axios. "Many states are hiring now, and growing the size of their offices to manage the federal funding."

Between the lines: States have been able to use federal funding from COVID relief packages to start their broadband offices or add people to them.

• "All of this is sort of growing in anticipation of this big pile of money that's coming from the infrastructure act, that hasn't gone out the door yet," Lynn Follansbee, vice president of strategic initiatives and partnerships for broadband industry trade group USTelecom, told Axios.

Flashback: Many states established broadband offices in response to the creation of the State Broadband Initiative program by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to the Pew report.

• But many of the offices shut down when federal funding stopped flowing, Pew noted.

Zoom in: Louisiana passed a law in 2020 creating its Office of Broadband and Connectivity, and hired the first executive director for broadband development and connectivity last year.

• In about a year, the state dedicated $170 million in funding expected to connect 80,000 locations to internet service via a new program, "Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities" (yes, GUMBO for short), executive director Veneeth Iyengar told Axios.
• Louisiana was the first state to secure federal planning dollars from the infrastructure package, and Iyengar said his three-person office views GUMBO as a pilot for how to spend that money wisely.
• "We hit the ground running," Iyengar told Axios. "We've probably criss-crossed the state three times over. We've met with thousands of people, all to better understand what the situations are for broadband locally."

Zoom out: Some states already had been using state funding for broadband ahead of the pandemic, but with federal dollars flowing, states are trying to make sure they're ready.

• "The whole goal of this program to make sure that every single American has broadband," Follansbee told Axios. "Regardless of whether it's a small number in your state or a big number, you've got to make that happen — and quickly."

What to watch: Applications for initial planning funds were due in August. Recipients of planning funds will have 270 days to create a five-year action plan, which should lay out their "goals and approaches to broadband access, affordability, equity, and adoption," according to the program's FAQ.
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/02/new...dband-director





Music Labels Win $46.7 mln from Internet Provider in Piracy Trial
Blake Brittain

Internet service provider Astound Broadband's Grande Communications Networks LLC must pay a group of music labels $46.7 million after its users pirated over 1,400 copyrighted works, a federal jury in Austin, Texas, decided Thursday.

Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Records and other labels convinced the jury that San Marcos, Texas-based Grande committed willful contributory copyright infringement by failing to act against subscribers who were repeat infringers.

An attorney for Grande did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The labels' attorney Andy Bart of Jenner & Block said in an email that they were "grateful that the jury recognized the critical role that ISPs play in addressing piracy."
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Labels including Universal, Sony and Warner won a $1 billion verdict in a similar lawsuit against Cox Communications in Virginia in 2019. Cox's appeal of that verdict is still pending.

The labels have also sued several other ISPs for allegedly turning a blind eye to user piracy, including Frontier Communications, Charter Communications and RCN Corp.

Grande, which is now part of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners' Princeton, New Jersey-based Astound, was sued by the labels in 2017. The lawsuit said the labels own rights to "the great majority" of recordings sold in the U.S. from some of the most popular musicians of all time, ranging from Michael Jackson to Pink Floyd to Tony Bennett.

According to the complaint, the labels sent Grande notices of "more than one million infringements" by thousands of subscriber accounts that pirated music through BitTorrent software. They accused Grande of failing to act in order to avoid losing revenue from infringing subscribers.

Grande told the court that it was "merely an internet service provider and never induced or encouraged anyone to infringe." It also argued the labels' notices were flawed and that their alleged damages were excessive.

The case is UMG Recordings Inc v. Grande Communications Networks LLC, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, No. 1:17-cv-00365.

For Grande: Richard Brophy of Armstrong Teasdale

For the labels: Andrew Bart of Jenner & Block
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...al-2022-11-03/

















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