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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Who Controls Your TV?  Digital Freedom Believes it Should Be You

The Digital Freedom Campaign today warned of a new Hollywood plan to cripple lawful features on hundreds of millions of High Definition Television sets (HDTVs), long after American consumers have purchased and installed them in their homes.  This plan would allow the major studios to dictate which technologies HDTVs must have in order to view their high definition programming...more

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

TuneCore Looks to Monetize Website Traffic for Artists

At the Digital Freedom Campaign, we love TuneCore (totally platonic love, but love nonetheless). If you aren\'t familiar with the company, a short description of their current model, as described by Ars Technica, goes like this:  \"TuneCore is best known for its fee-based distribution system that lets you sell music and videos through iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, and other websites. After paying a small yearly fee, TuneCore customers receive all revenue from sales and retain all rights to their masters. TuneCore is best known for its flat $10 deal to distribute a single to 11 online stores.\"..more

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