For more than a decade, the recording industry has been complaining that online copyright infringement is devastating the music industry. And it's true that the revenues of conventional record labels have plunged in recent years. But if you look at the bigger picture, things don't look so grim.
Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise.
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DOJ Request Pushes Sinclair-Allbritton Close Date Into ‘14
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Sinclair is now scheduled to close on its $985 million acquisition of Allbritton in 2014, the time frame pushed back following a "Second Request for information" from the Department of Justice, according to Sinclair and Allbritton.
Justice Scalia uses the Internet. And he thinks you people on it are narcissists.
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In a lengthy interview with New York Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he uses the Internet -- but doesn't seem particularly thrilled by what he sees.
Black Americans find their voice on Twitter forums
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Like most early Twitter users, many young black Americans initially took to microblogging to follow celebrities or send short, quick messages to friends on their phones, but the site has since grown to become an important forum to discuss broad issues around race in America.
Stations Need to Work Harder for Political
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With an increasing number of viable alternatives, local broadcasters need to get more aggressive in wooing political advertisers to continue getting their portion of the total spend.
US phone companies never once challenged NSA data requests
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None of the phone companies that handed over communications metadata in bulk to the National Security Agency ever challenged the agency on its data requests.
FCC chief: Reagan could be proud of ‘Obamaphone’ program
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Acting Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn forcefully defended her agency's phone subsidy program for the poor in a speech.
Senate panel advances media shield bill
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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation to protect journalists from having to cooperate with government investigations but made sure to limit the safeguard to professional news gatherers.
LPTV Coalition: OTA Audience Could Be More Like 100 Million
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In the hours before a hearing on video regulation and the reauthorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition, formed to advocate for LPTV rights in the upcoming spectrum incentive auction, has told House Communications Subcommittee Greg Walden (R-OR) that the universe of people who can still watch free, over-the-air TV is probably more like 81 million to 100 million, rather than the lower estimates based on over-the-air (OTA) only households.